Poverty in America, Negro Leagues Recognized & Bitcoin Hits Record- Thursday, December 17th, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, December 17th, 2020!
We're talking about:
- a historic rise in American poverty
- a deal in Congress that could help turn things around
- a new lawsuit accusing Google and Facebook of an illegal deal
- long overdue recognition for the Negro Leagues
- Bitcoin breaking an all-time record
- why people all over the world are celebrating a music legend from 250 years ago
All that and more in around 10 minutes...
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Sources:
Vials Have Extra Doses: NY Times, Reuters, FOX News, Politico
Health Experts Urge More Caution: CNBC, CBS News, CNN
More COVID Hospitalization Records: WaPo, LA Times, COVID Tracking
U.S. Poverty Rate Jumps: WaPo, Forbes, Full Report
Congress Finalizing Relief Deal: Politico, CNBC, AP
Election Fraud Senate Hearing: WSJ, AP, USA Today, ABC News, CBS News
MLB Adding Negro Leagues to Official Records: WaPo, Reuters, AP, MLB
10 States Sue Google: WSJ, WaPo, Reuters, Wired
Bitcoin Breaks Above 20,000: CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Bitcoin Explained
HBO Max Coming to Roku: Axios, The Verge, Engadget, Roku
Celebrating Beethoven's 250th Birthday: NY Times, NPR, WaPo, Engadget, Carnegie Hall
Thing to Know Thursday: What's a Nor'Easter: NY Times, NWS, HowStuffWorks, Weather Channel
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday, December 17th. |
| 0:02.0 | What to know about a historic rise in American poverty |
| 0:04.8 | and a deal in Congress that could help turn things around. |
| 0:07.6 | Also a new lawsuit accusing Google and Facebook |
| 0:10.2 | of an illegal deal. |
| 0:11.6 | Plus, long overdue recognition for the Negro leagues. |
| 0:14.5 | Bit coin broke an all-time record |
| 0:16.6 | and why people all over the world are celebrating a music legend from 250 years ago. |
| 0:21.5 | Welcome, welcome to the next. 150 years ago. Welcome to The Newsworthy. |
| 0:25.0 | All the day's news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:28.0 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:31.0 | Thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:35.0 | COVID-19 vaccines are reaching even more Americans this week than originally thought. |
| 0:42.8 | That's because when some pharmacists opened up the boxes of the newly authorized Pfizer |
| 0:46.9 | shots, they realized they got more doses than promised, so the nation's supply could grow |
| 0:51.8 | by millions of doses. |
| 0:53.0 | The FDA is in touch with Pfizer about exactly why they were not counted correctly, |
| 0:57.0 | but in the meantime the federal health agency told health care workers to go ahead and use those extra shots |
| 1:02.0 | and that there's no safety |
| 1:03.7 | concern and remember federal officials also secure doses of other vaccines that |
| 1:08.2 | they expect will get emergency authorization that includes the Moderna vaccine |
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