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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Start your day with our new, bite-sized podcasts, Vox Quick Hits</strong> -
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Vox Quick Hits cover the big, important topics in news, politics, and pop culture in just a fraction of the time.
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2020 took one look at my podcast listening habits, laughed maniacally, and tore them to shreds. My commute disappeared, along with my gym membership and planned travel. I no longer had time to kill while making my way to an appointment, friend’s place, bar, restaurant, or movie theater.
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More critically, my brain started to short-circuit in March, fried from the deluge of news and stress and the blurring boundary between work and home life. I rarely had the mental capacity, let alone the time, for a 30- or 60-minute podcast. Listening started to feel more like a chore than a respite, which was a problem. And I’m willing to bet you’ve felt the same way.
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Luckily for me (and you, if this made you think “same”), Vox now has something to help with this exact problem: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vox-quick-hits/id1549029999">Vox Quick Hits.</a>
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Vox Quick Hits isn’t a traditional podcast, but rather a <em>playlist</em><strong> </strong>where you can hear a mix of short episodes from Vox podcasts you know and love, plus some brand-new series. You’ll get the concise yet deep explanations you need on everything from Biden’s first 100 days in office to the best Netflix binge-watch.
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Episodes are 10 minutes or less — perfect for squeezing into those random pockets of free time in your day. Three new episodes arrive in the Vox Quick Hits playlist each morning<em>, Monday through Friday. <em>(</em>Except for Tuesdays, which will typically have two new episodes.)</em>
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Your interests vary, so the types and topics of podcasts in your day-to-day lineup will too. But episodes will always arrive in this order:
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First, the most important news story of the day from <em>Today, Explained</em>.
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And the last episode will either cover pop culture or consumerism ...
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... or recommend your next book or binge-watch.
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You can find Vox Quick Hits and <a href="https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/VMP3393546001?selected=VMP1125172927">subscribe in all the usual podcast places</a>. If you’re more of a smart-speaker person, you can find us on Google Nest and Home speakers, too. Just say: “Hey/Okay, YOU KNOW WHO, play the Vox Quick Hits podcast.”)
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Want more bite-sized content from Vox? <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode-daily-podcast"><em>Recode Daily</em></a>, hosted by senior reporter Teddy Schleifer, focuses on the most important Silicon Valley people, businesses, and stories that are influencing the rest of the world. Hear a new episode each day, always 10 minutes or less, wherever you listen to podcasts — including<strong> </strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reset/id1479107698">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL3Jlc2V0">Google Podcasts</a>, and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4UymEg74pIuiiLZTROIx4w?si=ECmLERE4QVK14VdsytEVDw">Spotify</a>.
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May your brain feel less fried and more informed in 2021.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The best $1 I ever spent: A Venmo payment to my ex</strong> -
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After I cut off communication, there was still one compartmentalized way for us to talk.
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It was the end of August when I decided to Venmo my ex. We hadn’t spoken in weeks, and we hadn’t had a real conversation in months. It had been weeks because I blocked him on every platform I could. It had been months because most of our prior communication was one-sided and dripping with vitriol.
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Today, though, I had a request. I needed him to return the internet router, which lived with him at my old apartment. He was moving, and if the router wasn’t returned, I’d be charged $13 a month for the rest of my life. I was just settling into a freedom from his constant pings and was reluctant to reach out — but my sanity in exchange for monthly payments forever seemed steep. Instead, I opened Venmo and sent $1, coupled with a request to “plz plz” return the router to Optimum. He did.
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It was March when we broke up, a drawn-out process that lasted weeks and lives in my mind now as this dark, muddy thing. Mostly what I remember is it being cold, then warm. It was cold when I read his messages and then kicked the table and sliced my shin and cried and then went for a run. I laid in the park until the sun had set and both the grass and I had frosted over.
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The day I moved out it was warm, and sweat beaded on my neck and face as I carried my things from the U-Haul to my new apartment. I didn’t realize it then, but it was the first day of spring.
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It’s impossible to talk about my breakup without talking about the pandemic. New York got bad early but it worked out for me because no one could tell I was crying underneath sunglasses and a face mask. As the rest of the city ordered latex gloves and sanitized their groceries, I tried to scrub the past from my present. I sliced our joint credit card with sewing scissors. I stopped sharing my location and deleted messages. I asked him, told him, begged him to stop texting me. He didn’t.
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I learned early on that my romantic relationships do not easily translate to friendships. I don’t like mess, and I struggle to compartmentalize. I cannot let a person I once loved seep into the pockets of my new life, the ones I have thoughtfully carved out and filled with things that bring me comfort. It’s a practice in forgetting, and once you emerge from the blurriness of survival mode, the space that once fit this person so perfectly has shrunk. We weren’t meant to inhabit spaces so small.
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My ex, on the other hand, did everything he could to keep that space from closing. Instead of giving me time and distance, he sent daily reminders of his existence. It started with a restrained kindness — a photo he’d taken of me walking down the street, smiling and lighting a cigarette; a message saying he missed me; a job opening he thought I’d be good for. Then he was vindictive and petty. He told me he was doing great. Fantastic! Thriving without me. Sometimes he questioned if we had made the right decision in breaking up. I was frantic and weak from these constant pinpricks.
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Be gentle with yourself, friends and family told me when I shamefully admitted how much I had been drinking, how little I had been reading. Like gentleness and indulgence are the same.
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Many months in and right on schedule, his texts turned mean, and then they got meaner — the ugliest words anyone has ever sent me by way of little grey bubbles. I could barely reckon with the fact that this person had loved me, that my mom had given him her grandmother’s engagement ring. I tried to make sense of his words. An expression of anger was ultimately an expression of love, of caring, of falling apart, that’s what people told me. But meanness has never been a language I speak easily, and I was tired of interpreting. If there were any hope of salvaging even a cordial relationship, his last few texts sewed that space tightly shut.
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Blocking him across nearly every mode of communication felt like long-overdue liberation, and a feat for me, someone who doesn’t like absolutes. I was thorough in the job, too. I blocked him on Instagram and Twitter, and I banished his email addresses. I blocked his phone number from my phone and then a half-hearted apology slithered onto my laptop so I blocked him there too. A digital upheaval with only one tie left unsevered. <em> </em>
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When I tell someone that I only communicate with my ex on Venmo they usually laugh, because it’s actually very funny. I look at my feed and see tropical drink emojis and friends paying each other alongside inside jokes. It’s not a place for begrudging exes, but here we are.
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A few months after I instigated our new means of communication, he adopted the tactic. I received an unexpected alert one day in which he informed me that my health insurance would be expiring. For this information, he offered a dollar.
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Over the course of three years, my boyfriend and I had had many Venmo exchanges. Settling up on groceries, reimbursing for margaritas, paying half the rent. We turned to the app early in our breakup as well. He paid me for the furniture he sold, the table and credenza I had bought and assembled. But this was different — a step back, a renegotiation.
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It’s not something I often strive to do, flatten someone into two dimensions so they fit snugly into a single app. But moving our relationship to a place that’s almost entirely transactional has tidied a messy breakup. Our new relationship thrives on Venmo, mostly because we barely speak. We are kind (I used a double “plz”), doling out dollars like olive branches. He respects my boundaries, boundaries bolstered by Venmo’s capabilities and limitations, and in turn, has access to me in case of emergency.
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With one payment of a single dollar, I drew a line that I have yet to move and he has yet to cross. My reward is some much-needed quiet.
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Since March, like many others, my days have become slower, quieter. I stand in my kitchen each morning, waiting for coffee to brew, as my neighbor lets three petite dogs into his front yard. I’ve watched the tree outside my bedroom window transform from a bare wisp, to a lush green giant, to a weeping, fiery thing, and back again. Some things have to stay the same in order for us to realize how much others change. I don’t know when it happened, but my life got bright again.
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I have two cats. We used to share them but now they’re mine. Lately, Coconut, who’s always been skittish and independent, cuddles with me every night and every morning. For a moment I think of sending a payment to tell my ex about this new development; no one else would appreciate it in quite the same way. But I stop myself, feeling silly. I don’t want to make a mess.
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<a href="https://www.rachelellison.net/"><em>Rachel Ellison</em></a><em> is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and HuffPost. </em>
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A transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. | Image Point FR/NIH/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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There’s some good news for those who’ve already been infected with the coronavirus.
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For the <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/">nearly 100 million</a> people around the world who’ve been <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19">infected with the coronavirus</a>, new science offers some comfort: Reinfections appear to be rare, and you may be protected from Covid-19 for at least five months.
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The <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.13.21249642v1">study</a>, the largest of its kind, followed more than 20,000 health workers in the UK, regularly testing them for infection and antibodies. Between June and November, the researchers — from <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/past-covid-19-infection-provides-some-immunity-but-people-may-still-carry-and-transmit-virus">Public Health England</a> (PHE) — found 44 potential reinfections out of the 6,614 participants who had tested positive for antibodies or had a previous positive PCR or antibody test when they joined the study. Meanwhile, of the 14,000-plus people who had tested negative for the virus at the start of the study, there were 409 new infections.
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Only two of the 44 potential reinfections were designated “probable” and the rest were considered “possible,” “based on the amount of confirmatory evidence available,” the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/past-covid-19-infection-provides-some-immunity-but-people-may-still-carry-and-transmit-virus">health agency</a>. Fifteen people — or 34 percent — had symptoms.
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So if all 44 reinfections are real, that translates to an 83 percent lower risk of reinfection compared to health workers who never had the virus. If only two are confirmed, that rate of protection goes up to 99 percent. Either way, it suggests natural immunity might provide a similar level of <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/929ef3cd-8611-49b2-9f23-918dc3470166">protection as the approved Covid-19 vaccines</a>.
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But as with the vaccines, it’s not yet clear how long immunity after an infection lasts. Antibodies may fade after five months or last much longer, something the researchers behind the ongoing study, which will run for a total of 12 months, plan to investigate.
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“This [new] study does provide some comfort that naturally acquired antibodies are pretty effective in preventing reinfections,” <a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/akiko_iwasaki/">Akiko Iwasaki</a>, an immunobiologist at Yale University, told Vox. The findings also square with another paper on health workers, published in the <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034545"><em>New England Journal of Medicine</em></a> in December: Researchers found people who had Covid-19 antibodies were better protected from the virus for six months than people who did not.
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That said, Iwasaki said, “You can also interpret these data to mean that protection against reinfection is not complete — especially for people who had Covid during the first wave, say in March-April 2020.”
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People who had the virus may still be able to pass it on if reinfected
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The good news for individuals who have had Covid-19 also comes with a warning about the risk they can still pose to other people. While antibodies might protect against a second case of Covid-19 in most people, “early evidence from the next stage of the study suggests that some of these individuals carry high levels of virus and could continue to transmit the virus to others,” <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/past-covid-19-infection-provides-some-immunity-but-people-may-still-carry-and-transmit-virus">PHE</a> warned in their press release.
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“We now know that most of those who have had the virus, and developed antibodies, are protected from reinfection, but this is not total,” Susan Hopkins, a senior medical adviser at PHE and the study lead, said in a statement, “and we do not yet know how long protection lasts.”
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In other words, even if you’ve had Covid-19, while you’re unlikely to get really sick again anytime soon, you should still consider yourself a potential risk of spreading it to others if you catch the virus again and may be asymptomatic. That means continuing to take precautions — like <a href="https://www.vox.com/22220301/covid-spread-new-strain-variants-safe-grocery-store-n95-masks-vaccine">mask-wearing and social distancing</a>, Iwasaki added. And it’s one reason why immunologists have said people who’ve already been infected with the virus should <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22179683/covid-19-vaccine-effective-people-had-coronavirus">still plan to get the vaccine</a> when their turn comes.
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So there’s still a lot more to learn about immunity after Covid-19: How will the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22213033/covid-19-mutation-variant-vaccine-uk-south-africa">new coronavirus variants</a> of concern affect it? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdZmrfWRo0">Lab data from South Africa</a>, where the 501Y.V2 variant has been spreading, suggest it might be able to escape antibodies produced by prior infections in some people.
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Who is most likely to have a strong immune response? We do have <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/01/06/science.abf4063">some evidence</a> that different individuals mount different antibody responses after Covid-19 infections, but the PHE researchers found no statistically significant difference in rates of protection between people who reported symptoms and those who did not. It’s also possible factors like gender and <a href="https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/3/20-4543_article">disease severity</a> influence the strength of a person’s immune response.
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For now, though, the research suggests that survivors of the virus might just help us get to herd immunity faster — if their immunity lasts long enough. But given the virus has only been known to humans for a little over a year, it may take a while to authoritatively answer the question.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Historic moment: Pawar on India's win in Test against Australia</strong> - NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday congratulated the Indian cricket team for its "fabulous" victory against Australia in the fourth and final Test matc</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Olympic champion charged in weightlifting doping case</strong> - Weightlifting's widespread doping and corruption issues were exposed one year ago by German broadcaster ARD.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Learnt a lesson from the series, never ever underestimate India: Langer</strong> - “It’s gonna hurt us big time. India deserved full credit. They have been outstanding but we have learnt lessons from it,” Australia head coach Justin Langer said</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Nothing surpasses this, after 36 all out, this is unreal: Shastri</strong> - Shastri also said that the just-concluded series was the toughest tour ever for him.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>BCCI announces ₹5 crore bonus for triumphant Indian team</strong> - The BCCI on January 19 announced a ₹5 crore bonus for the Indian cricket team after the Ajinkya Rahane-led side won the fourth and final Test against</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>CBI recovers ₹2.04 crore cash hidden in South Delhi hotel in railway officials bribery case</strong> - The agency had arrested Chief Administrative Officer MS Chauhan of NFR and other senior officials in the case involving a bribe amount of ₹1 crore</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Yamuna: Supreme Courts asks Centre, Haryana to make submissions</strong> - Both blame Delhi for pollution levels in the river</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Providing official secret info to journalist ‘criminal act’: Rahul Gandhi on purported Arnab chats</strong> - “Giving official secret information to a journalist is a criminal act, both on the part of the person who accepted it and on the part of the person who gave it,” he said.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 more than double number of active cases: Health Ministry</strong> - Daily new cases touched a new low on Jan. 19 with 10,064 daily new infections being added to the national tally after seven months</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Indian military personnel for Moscow soon for S-400 training</strong> - India prepares to receive first batch of the long-range air defence system by year-end</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Italy PM Conte faces crucial Senate vote to stay in power</strong> - The vote in Italy's upper house was triggered by a row over EU funds to tackle Covid.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ONA: Vegan restaurant becomes first in France to get Michelin star</strong> - ONA in the south-west is the first eatery serving plant-based food to win a prestigious Michelin star.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Alexei Navalny: Poisoned Putin critic Navalny to be kept in custody</strong> - It follows his dramatic return to Russia, five months after a nerve agent attack almost killed him.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Olivier Duhamel: French incest allegations prompt victims to speak out</strong> - A sex abuse case involving a well-known intellectual sparked a deluge of testimonies by victims of abuse.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Italy smoking: Want to light up in Milan? Not any more, you can't</strong> - Smoking within 10m (30ft) of others is no longer allowed in parks, play areas, bus and tram stops.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Hitman III review: Let’s call it Hitman 2.5 and be fine with it</strong> - This sequel's lack of ambition will likely reinforce your murderous bias. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1735723">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wi-Fi 6E arrives at CES 2021</strong> - We roundup the Wi-FI 6E routers, with Asus' model is launching as soon as this month. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1735460">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Parler seems to be sliding back onto the Internet, but not onto mobile</strong> - Parler is following a path laid for it by the likes of Gab and 8chan. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1735762">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Report: This year’s iPhones may have in-screen Touch ID</strong> - Also, the charging port might be retired. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1735817">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Scientists surprised to find that electric eels sometimes hunt in packs</strong> - Discovery raises fresh questions about how the eels communicate. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1735608">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><strong>Translated from German, I hope this works: What’s 3x3?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OB1KENOB"> /u/OB1KENOB </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/l0b9sm/translated_from_german_i_hope_this_works_whats_3x3/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/l0b9sm/translated_from_german_i_hope_this_works_whats_3x3/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>Queen Elizabeth and Dolly Parton die on the same day and they both go before an Angel to find out if they'll be admitted to Heaven</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Unfortunately, there's only one space left that day, so the Angel must decide which of them gets in.
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The Angel asks Dolly if there's some particular reason why she should go to Heaven.
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Dolly takes off her top and says, 'Look at these, they're the most perfect breasts God ever created, and I'm sure it will please God to be able to see them every day, for eternity.'
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The Angel thanks Dolly, and asks Her Majesty the same question. The Queen takes a bottle of Perrier out of her purse, drinks it down. Then, pees into a toilet and pulls the lever.
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The Angel says, 'OK, your Majesty, you may go in.'
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Dolly is outraged and asks, 'What was that all about?
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I show you two of God's own perfect creations and you turn me down. She pees into a toilet and she gets in!
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'Sorry, Dolly,' says the Angel, 'but even in Heaven, A Royal Flush beats a Pair. no matter how big they are.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Almighty_Egg"> /u/Almighty_Egg </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/l034rt/queen_elizabeth_and_dolly_parton_die_on_the_same/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/l034rt/queen_elizabeth_and_dolly_parton_die_on_the_same/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>A Jew, a Muslim, and a Jehovah's Witness were driving through the countryside when their car broke down.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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The only house in the vicinity was an old farmhouse, so they decided to stay there for the night.
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"I'm so sorry," said the farmer. "The bed in the guest room only has room for two people." So he volunteered the Jew to sleep in the barn.
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Five minutes later, the farmer heard a knock on the door. He opened the door, and there was the Jew.
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"What are you doing here?" asked the farmer.
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"I'm afraid I cannot sleep in the barn because there is a pig in the barn, and my religion considers pigs to be unclean animals."
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"Very well," said the farmer. "You can sleep in the guest room." And he volunteered the Muslim to sleep in the barn.
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Five minutes later, the farmer heard a knock on the door. He opened the door, and there was the Muslim.
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"What are you doing here?" asked the farmer.
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"I'm afraid I cannot sleep in the barn because there is a pig in the barn, and my religion considers pigs to be unclean animals."
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"Very well," said the farmer. "You can sleep in the guest room." And he volunteered the Jehovah's Witness to sleep in the barn.
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Five minutes later, the farmer heard a knock on the door. He opened the door, and there was the pig.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wimpykidfan37"> /u/wimpykidfan37 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/l07kq5/a_jew_a_muslim_and_a_jehovahs_witness_were/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/l07kq5/a_jew_a_muslim_and_a_jehovahs_witness_were/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>Why did the Proud Boy check on his sad friend?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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To make sure his friend was feeling... alt-right.
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Feel free to downvote me to reddit hell...
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/T-Rex_Mullens"> /u/T-Rex_Mullens </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/kzxnwp/why_did_the_proud_boy_check_on_his_sad_friend/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/kzxnwp/why_did_the_proud_boy_check_on_his_sad_friend/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>3 brothers enter the hospital room of their dying parents who have lived a long life of exploring and treasure hunting.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Their parents greet them, and tell them of the last adventure they were unable to complete. “There’s a cave down in South America, deep in the jungles of Brazil. Go there and find the treasure we have been searching for the last 20 years. We know the three of you will find it.”
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The brothers leave to prepare for their journey, their hearts heavy from their parents passing, but set with vindictive courage determined to find this mysterious cave.
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3 years later the brothers are hopeless, having found no evidence of such a cave in the Brazilian jungles. They make it back to their parents house eventually... where they find a little glass bottle on top of the fridge, with a scroll rolled up inside.
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The first brother uncorks the bottle and gets the scroll out, starting to unroll it. <em>crinkle crinkle</em> The paper is very brittle.
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On it reveals a clear path through Brazil to where this mysterious cave might be. They only wish they knew about this treasure map 3 years ago... but alas, their journey begins.
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Finally, within the Brazilian forests they arrive at the steps of a vine-encased stairway surrounded by foliage. There is no sign or anything, but this is where their parents’ treasure map led them to.
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The brothers take each other by hand and begin to descend. After what seems like 1,000 steps they finally reach a dim torch-lit room with three doors. One door has a fire symbol. One door has a water symbol. And the last door has a question mark.
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Bewildered by these symbols the first brother decides to take one for the team and enters the fire door. It slams behind him as he descends another 1,000 stairs. Finally reaching the bottom he finds red Rubies scattered about the floor in piles he could never have imagined! He begins gathering rubies into sacks he brought and once he picks up the last ruby.. he notices a fireball start to form in the corner of the room. So he lifts his sacks in an adrenaline-fueled rush and bee-lines it for the door, 1,000 stairs up. He just barely makes it out, slamming the door on the fireball behind him.
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His brothers are impressed by his riches that he gathered! While also afraid that the fire door housed a killer fireball. But the second brother can’t be outdone by the first.
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He makes his way down the stairs of the water symbol door. Making it to the bottom of the steps he finds sapphires scattered everywhere and begins to gather them up. He picks up the last sapphire and water immediately begins seeping in from all corners of the room... In a rushed panic he picks up his sacks of sapphires and trudges through the water, barely making it up the stairs and closing the door before the water level rose enough to kill him and his brothers.
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The third brother is now wildly impressed with his first two brothers’ riches! And also terrified to open this third door and see what evils may linger behind a question mark symbol.
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He gathers up some courage and enters. This time there are only 10 steps. He finds rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds galore! There are so many treasures he fills up 4, 5, 6 enormous sacks of gems and.. nothing happens. He picks up his treasures and barely manages to make it up those 10 steps with all the extra weight.
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His brothers are ASTOUNDED. How did you get all that treasure?! Why did nothing attack YOU?!
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Nevertheless, the boys returned home with their respective treasures, feeling fulfilled by completing their parents goal.
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The first brother celebrates by buying a nice house on a lake in Texas, getting all sorts of fun toys and things to play with considering his newfound fortune. Years go by, and one day there is a gas leak in his kitchen. As he leans in to examine the issue, a fireball explodes in his face and kills him in a fiery death.
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The very same day years later, the second brother was out enjoying a margarita on the beach, in front of his new beach mansion. Those sapphires really paid off for him to live a stress free life! That is until a tsunami forms faster than ever and engulfs the beach, claiming the second brother’s life before he or his margarita knew it.
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Now the third brother hears about the tragic deaths of his brothers.. and recalls the fire door, and the water door which relate to his brothers’ deaths. Since he doesn’t know what to expect he begins to prepare for the worst. As he had saved his jewels and not lived an extravagant lifestyle the past few years, he had plenty of wealth to invest in a castle with a drawbridge and an alligator moat. An entire team of armed guards was set up for 24 hour lookout and protection.
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Weeks go by and there is no cause for any alarm. Until one day where he gets a dispatch on his Walkie-talkie, “Psshhhhk- hello sir, you may want to have a look at this.. uh, I’m not sure how else to describe it. We have identified a.. floating coffin? It seems to be headed in our direction at a steady pace.. just ominously floating.”
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The brother immediately heads to the lookout tower to get a glimpse through binoculars. And then he sees it. The floating coffin has a big question mark on the front of it.. floating directly towards him 1,000 meters away. He immediately recognizes this as the question mark on the door where he found his treasures.
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In a panic, he yells into his walkie talkie, “Psshhhk- ATTENTION ALL GUARDS, DO NOT LET THAT THING INTO THIS CASTLE. OPEN FIRE, RAISE THE DRAWBRIDGE! DO ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO DO TO PROTECT ME!!”
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He then makes his way to the deepest, most secluded portion of his castle, ending up in a guest bathroom underground where he was holed up waiting for his fate to arrive.
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His guards radio in as he starts to hear rumbling and crashing upstairs above him.
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“Psshhhk- SIR! Sir.. we can’t stop it. Our bullets just bounce off of it! It just floated over the moat and crashed through our drawbridge!! It is coming for you.. we can———“ and the walkie falls silent.
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In a panic the brother starts to look for anything he might be able to use to defend himself... he really is at a disadvantage in this guest bathroom as all he can find is an old rusty razor and a bottle of NyQuil. He thinks just maybe he could try and slice at it with the razor and maybe use the bottle of NyQuil as a projectile.
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Soon enough, he hears the coffin crashing through the outer door, and CRASH the bathroom door shatters into pieces as the big question mark fills his view. Quickly, he throws the bottle of NyQuil and lunges at the coffin with the razor in hand... but he swings at nothing.. the coffin had vanished into thin air as soon as the NyQuil made contact.
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And that’s when he realized.. NyQuil stops the coffin.
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