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California has America's best COVID numbers. Michigan has the worst. Which way is the U.S. heading?

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Andrew Romano
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After enduring a steep, nationwide surge over the holidays — followed by a decline in cases that was just as steep and just as widespread — America has entered a strange new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

How strange? Just look at the wildly uneven outbreaks unfolding right now in California, Florida and Michigan.

Nationally, the pace of vaccinations continues to accelerate, with an average of 3 million doses being administered every day. Yet the spread of variants such as B.1.1.7 — a strain that’s more contagious and deadly than earlier versions of the virus — is accelerating too. As a result, cases have started to level off or even inch

A room with a view: the Twitter account that spent a year staring into people’s homes

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Morwenna Ferrier
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With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton’s “Zoom room” is nicer than most. So when Room Rater – a Twitter account which scores the video conference backgrounds of high-profile figures – gave it nine out of 10 last spring, Clinton took her disappointment to social media: “I’ll keep striving for that highest, hardest glass ceiling, the elusive 10/10,” she tweeted at the account.

Judging the backgrounds on video calls has been the armchair sport of the past year. Room Rater just happened to screengrab these moments. As we doomscrolled through bleak statistics online, it was cheering to see shots of Meryl Streep’s sterile shelves or the copies

Europe's COVID vaccine fiasco continues

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Melissa Rossi
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BARCELONA — Just when it appeared as if Europe’s much-criticized COVID vaccination rollout might finally be getting on track, new cases of the virus have skyrocketed, curfews and lockdowns have been reinstated and questions about the safety of some vaccines have led to an atmosphere of restive uncertainty across the continent.

Andrew Hussey, a history professor in Paris — where schools are closed, a 7 p.m. curfew is in effect and new cases of COVID last week were exceeding 40,000 a day — told Yahoo News that the vaccine rollout has been pitiful. A month ago, his doctor contacted the 57-year-old saying that, due to underlying health issues, he’d been

Springtime Tea Party To-Go with Graham’s RoyalTea

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Denise Sakaki
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Nostalgic for childhood playtime memories? Watching Colin Firth play Mr. Darcy for the hundredth time?

Graham’s RoyalTea in Bothell is the boutique of High Tea dreams, offering a selection of savory finger sandwiches, bite-sized sweets, fresh fruit and scones with Devonshire cream and jam, and several teas ($21.99 for each “setting” boxed and prepared for pickup). Make it a proper “Royal Tea” with optional Champagne or wine. Graham’s also offers a Kid’s Tea Party To-go ($17.99 each), with a choice of hot cocoa instead of tea. The adorable shop is located at 10035 Main St.

Eastside Eateries Get Sweet New Wheels

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Denise Sakaki
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Here are a couple of places that have gone mobile with a food truck in addition to their brick-and-mortar locations.

Twisted Cuban Café & Bar

Those craving authentic Cuban food have been going to Twisted Cuban Café & Bar in Woodinville for years, not only for its popular Cuban sandwich, but also for the traditional specialty dishes that owner Julio Ortiz makes, courtesy of his beloved mother’s recipes. Find them on Instagram at @twistedcubancafe.

Bai Tong on Wheels

A 30-year veteran of the restaurant scene, Bai Tong is now on the road to bring Thai food comforts to multiple Eastside locations (Bellevue and Kirkland lately, but check

Sip & Savor: Beer Pairings and Gin-Free Mocktails

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Maria Leuzinger
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Six-Course Dinner with Beer Pairings

Stop by Skål Beer Hall on Sunday, April 11, for a six-course dinner from Métier Brewing. Skål Beer Hall will be featuring a wide range of beer styles from Métier. Each of the five courses includes an individually paired 5-8oz beer pour. The menu for the evening includes Gougères with Apple Dijon Jam paired with Scotch Ale, Halibut Provencal paired with Rye IPA, Créme Brûlée paired with Belgian Golden, and more. Customers will have the opportunity to speak with the Métier team in a cozy fire-side evening. Click here for more information and to order your tickets. 

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How US Capitol attack surveillance methods could be used against protesters

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Hannah Harris Green
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Over the past months, federal law enforcement has used a wide variety of surveillance technologies to track down rioters who participated in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol building – demonstrating rising surveillance across the nation.

Recent news coverage of the riot has largely focused on facial recognition – and how private citizens and local law enforcement officials have conducted their own facial recognition investigations in an attempt to assist the FBI with the help of social media. But charging documents reveal that the FBI has relied on a variety of other technologies, including license plate readers, police

Ximen Acquires NSR Royalty over 15,000 HA and 3800 HA additional Mineral Claims – Greenwood Historic – Mining Camp

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 7, 2021 / Ximen Mining Corp. (TSXV:XIM)(FRA:1XMA)(OTCQB:XXMMF) (the “Company” or “Ximen”) is pleased to announce that it recently acquired a royalty covering 15,116 hectares of mineral properties in the Greenwood mining Camp in southern British Columbia.

Map areas subject to Dayton-Sidley NSR, new claims acquired, and claims owned and operated by Ximen Mining Corp.

Ximen continues to add to its inventory of mineral assets in southern BC. The most recent acquisition is a 2.5% Net Smelter Royalty (NSR) on 51 claims covering 15,116 hectares on mineral properties referred to as the Sidley Gold – Dayton Copper Properties. The Sidley Gold – Dayton Copper Properties are

Biden: All U.S. adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccination on April 19

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Alexander Nazaryan
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WASHINGTON — In what has become something of a pattern, President Biden announced Tuesday that he has surpassed his own relatively modest pandemic-related promise, in this case that all American adults would be eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine by May 1.

Speaking from the White House, the president said that states needed to achieve full eligibility by April 19. By that date, he said, “every adult in every state — every adult in this country — is eligible to get to the line to get a COVID vaccination.” He had previously said that 90 percent of Americans would be eligible by April 19, with the final 10 percent becoming

80+ Super-Quick Dinners That Are So Much Better Than Takeout

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The Daily Beast

Horrific: D.C. Sniper Boasts of Post-Shooting Sex ‘High’ With Accomplice in New Doc

VicefexpIn I, Sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo speaks at length about the 2002 reign of terror he and partner John Allen Muhammad carried out in the Washington, D.C., area, resulting in ten deaths. Yet despite using audio clips from his phone calls as narration, Vice’s eight-part docuseries (premiering May 10) is most notable for putting its prime emphasis on the pair’s innocent victims, and the countless friends, family members and loved ones left to cope with unthinkable tragedy. To its admirable credit, it’s a true-crime affair that seeks to understand its “monsters” while simultaneously recognizing—and highlighting—the

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