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The New York Times ‘A Nightmare Every Day’: Inside an Overwhelmed Funeral Home LOS ANGELES — The chapel at Continental Funeral Home was once a place where the living remembered the dead. Now the pews, chairs and furniture have been pushed aside to make room, and the dead far outnumber the living. On a Thursday afternoon last month in Continental’s chapel in East Los Angeles, across the street from a 7-Eleven, there were four bodies in cardboard boxes. And two bodies in open coffins,… Source link

Google search for ‘coronavirus’. Getty Images # How Did People Search Google For Covid And Coronavirus In 2020? As Covid-19 spread in 2020, people googled for information on Coronavirus and the disease and pandemic it caused. Which were the most popular search terms associated with the virus? We can study that using Google’s Trends tool. Google Trends lets you “Explore what the world is searching” via infographics showing the relative popularity of… Source link

The Telegraph On which mode of transport are you most likely to catch Covid? If you’re hoping to travel (either abroad or domestically) this summer, you may be pondering the best way to actually get to your holiday destination of choice. Transport safety has always been a big question, but since the pandemic, a new element has been added to this – what risk of infection do you expose yourself to aboard each one? While there hasn’t been a definitive answer to the question, it is possible… Source link

For the past two years, people who Google the term “cost of Green New Deal” have seen at the top of their results a price tag of $93 trillion.  This figure comes from something called the American Action Forum (AAF), which is described by sites like Wikipedia and FactCheck as “center-right” or “conservative.” In Google search results, the “featured snippet” up top about the Green New Deal references Wikipedia and says AAF estimates the cost at $600,000 per household…. Source link

The private suits follow the government ones for a simple reason: Regulators have distinct advantages when it comes to obtaining evidence. Federal and state investigators can collect internal documents and interview executives before filing a suit. As a result, their complaints are filled with insider knowledge about the companies. Private individuals can seek that kind of evidence only after they file lawsuits. If the government cases succeed against Google or Facebook at trial, the win is… Source link

TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Could Rack up Triple-Digit Gains, Say Analysts Is a pause to the stock market’s continued surge finally in the cards? The talk has turned to rising interest rates and the specter of inflation against the backdrop of growth powered by Covid fiscal stimulus. However, strategists say there’s no need to get alarmist just yet. According to Goldman Sachs equity strategist, Ryan Hammond, the stock market bull may stick with us for a while. Hammond notes that interest… Source link

FILE — In this Jan. 8, 2021 file photo California Gov. Gavin Newsom outlines his 2021-2022 state budget proposal during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. On Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 Newsom and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Tempore Toni Atkins announced a proposal that would extend pandemic eviction protections through the end of June and pay up to 80% of some tenants’ unpaid rent. The proposal must still be approved by the state Legislature. (AP Photo/Rich… Source link

The battle between amateur investors and the financial establishment has transfixed Wall Street and Washington this week around GameStop (GME), which has seen its stock price swing wildly and had trading of its stock restricted by online brokerage Robinhood. Other than Robinhood itself, perhaps the one thing less popular in Washington this week has been short sellers and the hedge funds that usually employ them, which had, until recently, been making money by betting against the struggling… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Penny Stocks That Could See Outsized Gains Well, it’s official. Joe Biden is now President, and he’ll be backed – at least for the short term – by Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress. Wall Street is taking the measure of the new Administration, and sees, among its first moves, a boost in fiscal stimulus that is likely to goose consumer spending, bump corporate profits, and provide general economic support in the first half of 2021. Covering the… Source link

After last week’s chaos in the U.S. Capitol, Ben & Jerry’s issued a statement, that called the violence a “riot to uphold white supremacy.” “We must dismantle white supremacy and we have to understand that this is a white problem,” Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream co-founder Ben Cohen told Yahoo Finance. “This is not a Black problem. This is a problem of us.” Cohen and co-founder Jerry Greenfield said white people need to “take responsibility” to change the country that treats… Source link