Taylor Swift’s ‘folklore’ is Officially the No. 1 Album of 2020
Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album, folklore, made the No. 1 spot on Rolling Stone‘s Year-End Top 200 Albums Chart. Swift’s album raked in nearly 2.3 million album-equivalent units last year. folklore beat out Lil Baby’s sophomore album, My Turn. It came in second with 2.1 million album-equivalent-units, according to Yahoo News. folklore was a surprise album that dropped …
Pro-Trump Mob Breaches Capitol Building
Protesters carrying a mix of Confederate and American flags besieged the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, with four dying in the melee, according to NBC News. The rioters were protesting the certification of the electoral college, sealing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Congressional lawmakers were barricaded in the Capitol as Trump supporters broke glass and rammed …
Warnock and Ossoff Win Senate Races in Georgia
Democrat Raphael Warnock beat incumbent Republican Kelly Loeffler to make history, becoming the first ever Black senator from Georgia, according to CNN. Democrat Jon Ossoff also defeated incumbent Republican David Perdue. Ossoff is the first Jewish senator to represent Georgia. “Tonight, we proved that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything …
Georgia Runoff Election Attracts Crowds as Trump Aims to Ruffle Feathers
Despite President Trump’s claims on Twitter this morning that ballot machines were “not working” in Georgia, today’s Senate runoff elections are “running smoothly,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said, according to WXIA-TV. Voters there reportedly had to resort to temporarily using paper ballots early this morning due to a programming error that involved some …
Discovery Plus Debuts to Amazon Fire TV and Roku
Discovery Plus goes live today for the first time nationwide, according to Variety. As part of its launch, the streaming service will be available on many platforms, including Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Google devices, and Apple TV. Verizon is providing 12 months free of Discovery Plus to many of its customers, according to Deadline. Android, …
Google Employees Announce Plans to Unionize
In light of ongoing disagreements with executives at Google, more than 200 Google workers have joined forces to form a union, according to CNBC. The new Alphabet Workers Union is designed for all workers and contractors of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, according to The Verge. “This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google …
Boston Dynamics Robots Dance the Year Away
2020 was a wild year, to say the least, and there’s no better way to close it out than a video of the robots from Boston Dynamics — Atlas, Handle, and Spot the dog — performing a choreographed routine to “Do You Love Me?” by The Contours. Back in 2018, the company posted a video …
Half of States Nationwide Set to Raise Minimum Wage in 2021
About half of states across the country will raise their minimum wages next year. The minimum wage is going up to $15 an hour on Friday in all those states except for five — Florida, Virginia, Connecticut, Nevada and Oregon, according to CNBC. President-elect Joe Biden has also expressed an interest in raising the federal minimum …
New York Officials Green Light Eviction Moratorium
As New York faces high unemployment rates as a result of the pandemic, state officials just passed an eviction moratorium to aid residents that will last through the spring, according to NPR. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the law late yesterday and it is set to expire on May 1. “When the Covid-19 pandemic …
Winter Storm Hits the Midwest in Time for Christmas
It looks as if it will be a white Christmas with a vengeance in the Midwest thanks to a major snowstorm and blizzard conditions that have blanketed the region, according to CNN. The storm is headed to the Northeast next, but it’s expected to turn into heavy rain there. However, since snow is also melting …