Taylor Swift gave fans yet another surprise album, “Evermore” – and they didn’t wait to share their thoughts and reactions on social media.

      

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Watchdogs claim the plastics industry has capitalized on the pandemic by saying its products as necessary for public health.

      

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the president-elect and vice president-elect, were named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

      

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The dismissal of top AI researcher vocal about Google’s diversity failures has drawn new attention to treatment of Black employees, especially women.

      

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More than 2,000 of you have written to us in the past two weeks. Among what you’ve asked the most: Will Americans be required to get vaccinated?

      

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If I went home for Thanksgiving, I could have made my mom or stepdad really sick. In reality, there’s a chance I could’ve killed her.

      

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In communities where mask-wearing has become a political inflection point, the toll of the virus has surpassed the dark spring in America’s cities.

      

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A February conference in Boston can be linked to up to 300K global cases, study says. New Hampshire House Speaker Dick Hinch dies. Latest COVID news.

      

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Despite Trump’s refusal to accept Joe Biden’s election win, the Electoral College will vote Monday, possibly sealing the president’s electoral fate.

      

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Former Florida coronavirus data chief Rebekah Jones hit back on Thursday against state police claims that bodycam footage shows officers acted appropriately when they raided her home.

      

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