#NY courts plan to clear COVID-induced backlog of cases

#NY courts plan to clear COVID-induced backlog of cases

“#NY courts plan to clear COVID-induced backlog of cases” The state’s top judge wants to reduce a huge, pandemic-related backlog of criminal cases across the city — leading cops to fear that cut-rate justice will embolden criminals, The Post has learned. The unprecedented plan would bring to the Big Apple a concept known as the…

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#Will Joe Biden take on our alarming China problem?

#Will Joe Biden take on our alarming China problem?

“#Will Joe Biden take on our alarming China problem?” America has a China problem. And so do the Democrats and President-elect Joe Biden. While everyone worried about the Kremlin the past several years, Beijing ran wild. And it still is. Will the Biden administration do anything about it? Or will it be OK with Chinese…

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#One last disaster in 2020: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

#One last disaster in 2020: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’

“#One last disaster in 2020: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’” It’s the single question that haunts all Americans as they turn the page on a dreadful year: Why is “Wonder Woman 1984” so bad? Why did this eagerly anticipated follow-up to the delightful 1917 “Wonder Woman” — starring the same stunning Gal Gadot and ­directed by the…

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#Albany’s planning more pain for New York in 2021

#Albany’s planning more pain for New York in 2021

“#Albany’s planning more pain for New York in 2021” Fasten your seatbelts for the new year, New York: With Democrats now boasting veto-proof supermajorities in both the Assembly and the state Senate, and several Democratic Socialists joining the ranks, the left is emboldened — and that spells big trouble. “We recognize the mandate we’ve been…

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#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture

#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture

“#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture” In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe noted that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale-distribution-center warehouse.” Anecdotally speaking, this still seems to be the case in East…

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#Ex-Viacom shareholders can sue Shari Redstone over ViacomCBS merger

#Ex-Viacom shareholders can sue Shari Redstone over ViacomCBS merger

“#Ex-Viacom shareholders can sue Shari Redstone over ViacomCBS merger” A Delaware judge ruled this week that former Viacom shareholders may pursue a lawsuit accusing Shari Redstone of engineering a “patently unfair” merger that created ViacomCBS so she could become a media magnate like her late father, Sumner Redstone. Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court said…

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#Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 amid COVID, political pressures

#Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 amid COVID, political pressures

“#Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 amid COVID, political pressures” Drugmakers including Pfizer, Sanofi, and GlaxoSmithKline plan to raise US prices on more than 300 drugs in the United States on Jan. 1, according to drugmakers and data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors. The hikes come as drugmakers are reeling from effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which…

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