??Vaccine Program Gets Needed Shot-in-the-Arm ??Dems Hold Tough on Covid Aid Checks For All ??GameStop Moves Higher Again ??Apple's iCar
U.S. Covid Cases: 26 million+, 450,000+ Deaths
Vaccine Program Gets Shot-in-the-Arm
More Americans have now been vaccinated for COVID-19, than have been infected with the illness. Close to 30 million people in the U.S. have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, surpassing the 27 million coronavirus cases since the onset of the pandemic. The Biden administration says it will begin shipping vaccines directly to pharmacies next week.
Brandon Daniels, Exiger President of Global Markets tells Fox Business Network this is the shot- in-the-arm the vaccine program needs:
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Covid Aid
President Joe Biden tells House Democrats that backing anything less than $1,400 covid-aid stimulus checks for each person would mean starting his presidency with a broken promise. It comes as Republicans try to cut that payment by about a third.
Covid School Days
Federal health calling for returning children to the nation’s classrooms as soon as possible, saying in-person instruction can be carried out safely as long as mask-wearing and social distancing are maintained. But teachers unions are standing in the way in big cities, refusing to return to schools.
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Housing's Perfect Covid Storm
Home sales surging to their high-est level in 14 years, fu-eled by low in-terest rates and a pan-demic that sent buy-ers scrambling for more spa-cious homes to ac-com-mo-date home offices.
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iCar
Apple is close to finalizing a deal with Hyundai-Kia to manufacture an Apple-branded autonomous electric vehicle at the Kia assembly plant in West Point, Georgia.
The so-called “iCar,” which is being developed by a team at Apple, is tentatively scheduled to go into production in 2024, though people familiar with the talks between Apple and Hyundai-Kia say the eventual rollout could be pushed back.
Reddit & Weep
Major Stock averages higher as the Reddit RollerCoaster climbs again. GameStop swung higher after shares have cratered more than 70% this week. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with top financial regulators as the GameStop stock craze continues to rile Wall Street and Washington and prompt calls for greater financial oversight.
Too Little, Too Late
House Democrats vote today on whether to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of committee assignments. Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican refused to punish Greene for spreading false and bigoted conspiracy theories and endorsing political violence against Democrats, condemning the Georgia freshman’s previous comments but declining to take away her posts on influential congressional committees.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell appears to have finally found his conscious. After sitting by idly for years as the GOP became the party defined by its promotion of lies and conspiracy theories, McConnell is saying enough. On Monday evening, as Marjorie Taylor Green's incendiary remarks continued to dominate headlines, McConnell released a blistering statement. It was aimed not only at Greene, but at resolving the information crisis afflicting the Republican Party and entire country.
"Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country," McConnell said in a statement. "Somebody who's suggested that no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.'s airplane is not living in reality. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party," said McConnell. But where was he the last four years?
Meantime, House Democrats made their case to convict former president Donald Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in a sweeping impeachment brief filed with the Senate that accused Trump of whipping his supporters into a “frenzy” and described him as “singularly responsible” for the mayhem that ensued.
In the brief, the nine House impeachment managers argue that Trump is not protected by the First Amendment’s freedom of speech provision, which was never intended, they wrote, to allow a president to “provoke lawless action if he loses at the polls.”
All About Jobs
The first jobs report of Joe Biden's presidency will arrive Tomorrow, and it could influence the conversation about the various stimulus proposals floating around Washington.
Terror Alert
A national terrorism warning has been issued. The Department of Homeland Security says violent domestic extremists could attack in the coming weeks, emboldened by the riot at the U.S. Capitol. The alert is the department’s first in about a year.
FIRED FOR RIOTING
A num-ber of com-pa-nies have fired em-ployees for being at the Capitol Riots af-ter see-ing them in pho-tos and videos posted to so-cial me-dia.
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Fumble: Advertisers Bow Out of Covid Super Sunday
Only 22,000 people will be permitted to attend the game, and TV advertisers are bowing out, as the Super Bowl matchup is set with Tampa Bay hosting the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.
Budweiser is foregoing its annual Super Bowl commercial slot for the first time in 37 years, joining Coke, Hyundai and Pepsi in skipping this year's Super Bowl broadcast amid the financial uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also out is Olay-Avocados From Mexico, Little Caesars and Ford.
Impeachment Trial
Donald Trump's office announced that David Schoen and Bruce Castor will now head the legal team for his second impeachment trial, a day after five members of his defense left and his team effectively collapsed, two weeks before the scheduled start.
Trump left Washington for Florida a couple hours before the inauguration, the first President in modern history not to attend his successors inaugural. Appropriately enough “Y-M-C-A” by the Village People played at the departure rally (huh???).
Giuliani Sued for $1.3B
Dominion has filed a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani Giuliani led former President Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election and spread what the company says is a baseless conspiracy theory that Dominion's voting machines flipped votes from Trump to Joe Biden.
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Pope Support Same-Sex Civil Unions
Pope Paul says he supports same-sex civil unions.
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Banks Make Billions on PPP as SmallBiz Fail
Banks made $18 billion in fees for processing small business Paycheck Protection Program relief loans during the pandemic as over 110,000 small businesses across the country were forced to shut down permanently because of coronavirus restrictions.
Giserman Group Client, Attorney Avrohom Gefen, of Vishnick McGovern Milizio, on the News 12 Network across NY, NJ and on FacebookLive on how your business can reopen safely, legally and stay healthy.
?? Sorry Charlie: TunaGate
Subway describes its tuna sandwich as “freshly baked bread” layered with “flaked tuna blended with creamy mayo then topped with your choice of crisp, fresh veggies.” It’s a description designed to activate the saliva glands — and separate you from your money.
It’s also fiction, at least partially, according to a recent lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges the ingredient billed as “tuna” for the chain’s sandwiches and wraps contains absolutely no tuna. A representative of Subway said the claims are without merit. Not only is its tuna the real deal, the company says, but it’s wild-caught, too.
Playboy Buys Sexual Wellness Co., Going Public
Playboy is nearing a deal to acquire the parent company of sexual wellness chain Lovers. Lovers operates online as well as across 41 stores in five U.S. states, selling a sexual wellness and health goods including lingerie and intimacy products. Upon closing of the deal, Playboy will become a publicly traded company again, having been taken private in 2011 in a $207 million deal led by its late founder, Hugh Hefner.