Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Millions poised to lose benefits A lag would be consequential for millions of Americans poised to lose their benefits the last weekend in December, when temporary programs enacted by the CARES Act will expire. Federal eviction protections also end after December. A bipartisan group of moderate
Month: December 2020
Taken from the December 2020 issue of Physics World. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app.
Literary translation’s 2020 story is one of abundance and adaptation. Like most books published this year, dozens of new translations were published during a global pandemic. Events quickly moved from bookstores to Zoom. Writers and translators adapted, participating in virtual book tours, online conversations, Facebook live readings, and even virtual literary festivals. We gathered online
Focus Features continues its steady rollout of movies into 2021 with the release of Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut drama Land on Feb. 12, 2021, just in time for Oscar qualifications which have a cutoff date of Feb. 28. Land is scheduled on a weekend when the following movies are currently expected to open: 20th Century Studio’s The King’s
Under the new 10-year agreement, the Space Enterprise Consortium, known as SpEC, is projected to award up to $12 billion worth of projects. WASHINGTON — NSTXL, a company that helps commercial businesses compete for government contracts, has been selected to manage the U.S. Space Force’s Space Enterprise Consortium for the next 10 years. Based in
Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most awaited games of 2020, and it turns out it’s also one of the most overhyped games of 2020, which is a fitting way to cap off the year. The first major title from Polish developer CD Projekt Red since the award-winning 2015 action RPG The Witcher 3: Wild
WASHINGTON – The Electoral College is voting Monday to cement President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election. The ballots are being cast throughout the day by individual electors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and they mirror their state’s popular vote. As of 11:30 a.m. ET,
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our
New sneakers, a MacBook, a Peloton — you can pay for almost anything in installments these days. Like the layaway plans of old, but now called point-of-sale loans, “buy now, pay later” lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments without interest or fees, even using a debit card, which can make even the
Kendall Jenner is the latest Kardashian-Jenner to give Instagram a view of her completed Christmas decorations. The model posted a shot on the grid of her lit-up living room, featuring stockings, garland, and a tree. Jenner opted for classic white lights and red stockings: very traditional Christmas decor for her $8.5M Beverly Hills mansion. This
Casting actors for video game movie adaptations can be tricky. You can get someone who looks the part but can’t act. Even if they can act, they might not be in the kind of almost superhuman shape that most video game characters display at all times. 1995’s Mortal Kombat movie lucked out in getting Robin
RuPaul’s Drag Race will return to VH1 in 2021 with the biggest twist to date. VH1 today unveiled a game-changing twist from the upcoming season of the Emmy award-winning series, premiering Friday, January 1 at 8PM ET/PT. “For the first time in Drag Race “herstory” queens will enter the werk room to discover an explosive
Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! Remember 2019, when quarantine was only a word you heard in sci-fi movies? When getting out of bed in the morning wasn’t an activity that caused burn
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla hasn’t received his company’s Covid-19 vaccine shot yet, saying Monday he and other executives will not “cut the line” as U.S. officials kick off a massive effort to distribute the vaccine across the country. The vaccine, which Pfizer developed in partnership with Germany-based BioNTech, is the first approved for emergency use
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE U.S. stock futures moved higher in overnight trading on Sunday as markets indicated a rebound from a losing week. Investors are weighing updates on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout as well as the coronavirus stimulus stalemate in Washington. Dow futures rose 180 points. S&P
Bleecker Street’s Wild Mountain Thyme and RLJE Films’ Archenemy are the latest films to throw their hats into the specialty box office space. As we all know, for the past nine months, box office numbers have been stagnant to non-existent because of the pandemic. That said, it’s the same story for these two titles — but
WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a new spacecraft for satellite radio company SiriusXM Dec. 13 as the company nears the end of a record-setting year. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:30 p.m. Eastern. SpaceX scrubbed a previous launch attempt two days
Twitter said on Saturday it had “inadvertently” limited engagements for a brief period on US President Donald Trump’s tweets with “disputed” labels but later reversed its action. Some users on the social media platform had noticed earlier on Saturday that the ability to like, re-tweet or reply to Trump’s tweets with a “disputed” label was not
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