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The resolution of a decade’s-long court case brought by a Virginia property owner required White’s Ferry, the historic Potomac River crossing in Poolesville, Maryland, to stop using its traditional landing across the river. As a result, the ferry operator announced its closure via a Facebook post at 10 a.m., December 28, 2020. For over two centuries, the ferry has docked on the Virginia side of the river. A Virginia court ruled the ferry could no longer dock on the opposite shore at White’s Ferry Road in Loudoun County. In fact, the judge, Stephen E. Sincavage of the Loudoun County Circuit...

April 17, 2019 was an important date for India’s Jalesh Cruises. It was the first time passengers set foot onboard the recently purchased Karnika for a cruise from Mumbai. Less than a year later, the cruise line is out of business and the ship sold for scrap. COVID-19 is to blame, but sources tell Porthole Cruise that the cruise line’s financial issues were obvious onboard long prior to the pandemic. Jalesh Cruises was one of six cruise operators that was forced to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving behind lost opportunity and a number of outstanding debts owed...

The coronavirus pandemic is taking its toll on families, but getting outside—and getting through it together—is more important than ever Editor’s Note: This has been a tough year for everyone. And while we’ve collectively experienced many of the same events, the changes, challenges, and often outright hardships everyone has endured remain deeply personal. We asked six contributors to look back on 2020 and reflect on how the events of this year shaped their lives, in ways both big and small. We will be publishing one essay each day through the end of the year, on topics ranging from subtle differences...

The Treasury Department and other federal agencies did not reveal specific timelines for when stimulus checks, small business aid, and unemployment benefits would be released, and it’s unclear how much Trump’s decision to drag out the process has impacted their work.

Loughlin was released from the federal lockup in Dublin, California, where she had been serving her sentence for her role in the college admissions bribery scheme, the federal Bureau of Prisons said. Her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, is serving his five-month sentence at a prison in Lompoc near Santa Barbara, California.

New policy reflects a change from the state's controversial Nov. 3 election process. Counties in Georgia will be allowed to begin tallying absentee and mail-in ballots prior to the Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections, according to a spokesperson from the Georgia Secretary of State's office. This policy reflects a change from the controversial Nov. 3 election process. Counties will be permitted to begin their ballot count two weeks ahead of the election, and will be required to start their count by Dec. 30. The goal of the policy is faster election results on Jan. 5. In November, the Georgia vote...

Nick McGlashan, a 7th generation fisherman who starred in "Deadliest Catch," has died ... TMZ has learned. The Medical Examiner and family tell TMZ ... Nick passed away Sunday in Nashville. The cause of death has not been determined. Nick appeared on the show for years ... from 2013 - 2020, in 78 episodes. Nick's family has a storied tale of the sea. His great uncle worked on the first boat in the U.S. crab industry. Two of his aunts were crabbers ... one of who was lost at sea after the boat sank. As for Nick ... he started...

The mass die-off of thousands of songbirds in south-western US was caused by long-term starvation, made worse by unseasonably cold weather probably linked to the climate crisis, scientists have said. Flycatchers, swallows and warblers were among the migratory birds “falling out of the sky” in September, with carcasses found in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Arizona and Nebraska. A USGS National Wildlife Health Center necropsy has found 80% of specimens showed typical signs of starvation. Muscles controlling the birds’ wings were severely shrunken, blood was found in their intestinal tract and they had kidney failure as well as an overall loss...

It would be problematic that Jon Ossoff took money from China and al-Jazeera under any circumstances. The al-Jazeera issue speaks for itself; how can we trust a politician to run the war on terror if he is indebted to the people who defend terrorists like bin Laden? The China issue, however, is far worse. We have seen, in recent months, the extent to which China has bought off the Democrats and Never Trumpers. General Mattis has financial ties to China. Joe and Hunter Biden, as the Hunter Biden emails show, are owned by China. Eric Swalwell was sleeping with and...

A black bear attacked a woman and her two dogs in Collier County on Christmas Eve morning. Kathleen Boyle said Friday that her two dogs, one ironically named Bear, and her other pup, Robin, helped save her from a bear they ran into on their morning walk in the Fiddler’s Creek community. “It wasn’t until probably 11:30, 12 o’clock that I stopped shaking,” Boyle said. “Because it was that trauma, ‘I can’t believe this just happened.’” Boyle’s two Westies are show dogs, but they didn’t worry about manners when a bear approached them and their owner. “So here you’ve got...

Some COVID-19 survivors claim the virus has wreaked havoc on their sense of scent — leaving them smelling “disgusting” odors such as fish and burnt toast. Dr. Nirmal Kumar, an ear, nose and throat surgeon in the UK, said the “very strange” phenomenon among recovered virus patients is known as parosmia, Sky News reported. “This morning I saw two patients with parosmia. One said they could smell fish in place of any other scent, and the other can smell burning when there is no smoke around,” Kumar said. Kumar said he’s observed strange symptom at an “increased incidence in young...

Get Sufficient Packing MaterialsIt is expedient to get enough packing materials and supplies when planning to move from San Francisco and other bay areas during a pandemic. Also, it is wise to try not to use just disposable plates and other plastic containers when moving to reduce the chances of getting it contaminated by the weather.Check the State’s Pandemic StatusEven with a moving permit, it is also wise to consider the nature of the environment you will be visiting, especially when you are moving by land.Book Movers on TimeA lot of people have been disappointed severally because of late booking.Why...

Saudi Arabia's terrorism court has sentenced Loujain al-Hathloul, the activist who led the push to allow Saudi women to drive, to nearly six years in prison. Hathloul's case has drawn widespread scrutiny since her arrest in the spring of 2018. As it punished Hathloul, the Specialized Criminal Court suspended nearly three years of her sentence — and because Hathloul has already spent well over two years in prison, she could be released in less than three months, according to her sister, Lina al-Hathloul. Discussing the verdict on Twitter, she adds that both sides of the case could appeal Monday's ruling....

Supermarkets in England are to be barred from displaying unhealthy food and drinks at checkouts or using them in buy one, get one free offers, as part of a proposed government crackdown on obesity. The planned restrictions were praised by health campaigners as a “bold first step” in Downing Street’s promised campaign against obesity. The checkout restrictions will apply to other sales-boosting locations such as the entrances to stores or at the end of aisles. Similar rules will apply for websites, banning sales links to unhealthy foods on places such as homepages, or at checkout or payment pages. Restaurants will...

CLAIM: The campaign of Georgia Democrat Senate candidate Raphael Warnock released an ad Saturday claiming Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) campaigned this month with a known white supremacist. VERDICT: False. Chester Doles, who has extensive ties to white supremacy in his background, was among many individuals who took photos with Loeffler during a campaign stop in Dawsonville, Georgia, on December 11, but Loeffler was not “campaigning with” Doles, and there is no evidence to suggest Loeffler knew who Doles was as she was posing for photos.

t's one of the most elegant and environmentally responsible ways to prepare your morning cup of coffee, but if you're regularly using a French press, you could be doing serious damage to your body in the long run, according to a study published in The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. "Unfiltered coffee contains substances which increase blood cholesterol," explains study author Dag Thelle, a senior professor in the public health and community medicine department of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. "Using a filter removes these and makes heart attacks and premature death less likely."

VIDEOYouTube completely ignores criticism by the very people that made it a success. Its video creators. The "You" in YouTube. So what might make them take notice that their current practices are very destructive to creativity and the free flow of information? Perhaps a one-day strike in which the YouTube creators decline to upload videos while everyone refuses to view YouTube for that one strike day.

A woman described as a “far-left” journalist and three other activists are charged in the August firebombings of multiple police cars. The alleged arson attacks took place during Black Lives Matter protests in Little Rock, Arkansas. Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Arkansas charged KUAR Public Radio journalist Renea Baek Goddard, 22, and three others in connection to the firebombings of multiple police vehicles in August, according to information obtained from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The others charged include Brittany Dawn Jeffrey, 31; Emily Nowlin, 27; and Aline Espinosa-Villegas, 24 — all residents...

Monday, December 28, 2020, 8:30 a.m. CST The majority of services have been restored in Nashville following Friday’s explosion. Our mobility network is now operating normally, nearly all home internet and video customers have been restored and our business customers are back online. As a reminder, we are waiving data overage charges for customers in 1166 zip codes across states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois and Missouri from December 27 to December 31. As of late Sunday evening, adequate power is available on most floors of the building. We continue to manage power needs to prevent overloading the...

It’s a cold day in hell when leftist CNN concedes that President Donald Trump actually “won” anything. But a recent CNN story was literally headlined, “How Trump won the economic message battle.” CNN Politics Senior Writer Harry Enten wrote that “Although judging a president's economic performance can be difficult because there's only so much he can control, Americans at large, and voters specifically, seemed to agree with Trump.” More shockingly, Enten admitted that “If the economy were the only thing that mattered, [Trump] probably would have won reelection.” Wow, seems like that’s why the liberal media-at-large were so intent on...