December 2020

Tyrese Gibson and wife Samantha file for Divorce

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Actor and singer Tyrese Gibson has announced that he and his wife Samantha have split after four years. Gibson shared the news on his verified Instagram account Tuesday. In a caption on a photo showing Gibson kissing his wife on the cheek he wrote that the couple had “decided to

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Reggie Elliott, funeral transporter, writes on the side of a box before depositing the remains of a Covid-19 victim at Maryland Cremation Services in Millersville, Maryland on December 24, 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. - The United States surpassed 18 million reported Covid-19 cases on Monday, figures from Johns Hopkins University showed, as the virus surges nationwide. When it comes to vaccination priority, long-term care residents and health workers are at the front of the line. Maryland crematorium owner Dorota Marshall hopes that her workers going to do pickups and regularly entering hospitals, hospices, nursing homes and residences, get the vaccine in the next round. Marshall says "We visit homes where people recently died from Covid or family members are positive, so absolutely I think we are front line workers." (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

US hits record for daily Covid-19 deaths. Winter will be ‘awful’ before we see ‘some light,’ expert says

By Christina Maxouris, CNN The US set two more devastating Covid-19 records as it counted down the hours to the end of what has been a calamitous year for the nation. On Tuesday, it recorded more than 3,700 new deaths linked to the virus, a chilling new high. The US also reported the most Covid-19

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Group of Alabama protesters place fake body bags on courthouse lawn to push for removal of Confederate flag and monument

By Alaa Elassar, CNN For months, a group of protesters in Alabama has been fighting for the removal of a Confederate flag and a Confederate monument that sit in front of the Marshall County Courthouse in Albertville. Last week, protest organizer Unique Morgan Dunston stepped up the group’s demonstration efforts by adding a visual display

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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One. As he prepares to exit the White House, President Donald Trump is rewarding some supporters and like-minded allies with the perks and prestige that come with serving on federal advisory boards and commissions. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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Trump signs coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law after lengthy delay

By Kevin Liptak, Kate Bennett, Tami Luhby, Kaitlan Collins, Jason Hoffman, Phil Mattingly and Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Donald Trump signed the massive $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law Sunday night, averting a government shutdown that was set to begin on Tuesday, and extending billions of dollars in coronavirus aid to

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Co-founder and chair of the First Love foundation, Aerold Bentley loads crates packed with goods for distribution.

How the pandemic brought a rising tide of hunger to Europe

By Harry Clarke-Ezzidio, CNN Life wasn’t easy for Patricia, even before the pandemic hit. She struggled with mental health issues after fleeing an abusive relationship, moving herself and her children into an east London flat with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. For the past few years, Patricia held down a job as

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Covered in dust, Ugandan musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine, defied police roadblocks to stop him from entering towns in eastern Uganda and promised to walk to the nearest town, near Kayunga on December 1, 2020. - Bobi Wine is concluding his campaign rallies all over the country in preparation for the upcoming 2021 elections, where he will be challenging Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power for 35 years. (Photo by Sumy Sadurni / AFP) (Photo by SUMY SADURNI/AFP via Getty Images)

Uganda’s Bobi Wine says his bodyguard was ‘deliberately’ run over and killed

By Jonny Hallam, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Sarah Dean, CNN Ugandan presidential opposition candidate Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was run over and killed Sunday by a military police truck, while taking a journalist to the hospital. “I regret to announce the murder of my security team member Francis Senteza Kalibala aka Frank. He

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Hip-hop singer John ‘Ecstasy’ Fletcher from ’80s hip-hop group Whodini diesĀ at 56

By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN John “Ecstasy” Fletcher, founder of the 1980s hip-hop group Whodini, died Wednesday at 56, according to a statement released by his family. In the statement confirming his death, daughter Jonnelle Fletcher called him “a most endeared, generous, and sincere soul.” “John ‘Ecstasy’ Fletcher was a beloved man, the life partner to

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The film, Joseph, aligns with the ā€˜Year of Returnā€™ (2019) and the ā€˜Decade of Returnā€™ (2020-2030) currently being expressed by African leaders and global influencers as people search for answers in the present by looking to clues from the past. It is the winner of the 2020 ā€œBest Diaspora Narrative Featureā€ award at the Africa Movie Academy Awards. It has been endorsed and supported by the Governments of Ghana, Jamaica and Barbados and included in the Ghana Tourism Authority's ā€œYear Of Return."
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Joseph Acquired by Urban Home Entertainment for Video-On-Demand Distribution Worldwide

Ā Soulidifly Productions, a film company with a mission to produce meaningful, uplifting stories that are entertaining and beautifully told, has partnered with TRIAL X FIRE, LLC, the distribution branch of Urban Home Entertainment, to release Joseph to audiences everywhere on video-on-demand starting December 24, 2020, on Amazon Prime and Vimeo. “Joseph will bring viewers a

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TikTok is giving 10 colleges $10 million to boost minorities in health care

The video social network website made the announcement Wednesday, saying that each school would receive $1 million to support both undergraduate and graduate scholarships for students pursuing careers in medicine, public health or other health-related fields. The ten schools benefiting are Xavier University of Louisiana, Tougaloo College, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina A&T University,

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