November - 2020

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Microsoft Teams Beats Zoom and Google Meet With Meetings That Can Last 24-Hours

Kaila (powkailove) Hall

Nov 29, 2020

Microsoft Teams Beats Zoom and Google Meet With Meetings That Can Last 24-Hours

Microsoft Meetings announced new features that will start soon. On November 30, the best-based version of Microsoft Teams will stop working with IE 11. Though almost everyone uses Google Chrome, people still use Internet Explorer 11 till this day. According to Express, the Windows 10 makers announced this big Microsoft Teams change earlier this year, and it appears to all be part of a push to move Internet Explorer 11 users onto Edge. Along with losing Microsoft Teams on IE11

NFL Orders Teams To Shut Down All in Person Activities On Monday and Tuesday

Nov 28, 2020

NFL Orders Teams To Shut Down All in Person Activities On Monday and Tuesday

The NFL has issued a shutdown of all team facilities in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 amongst staff and players. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sent the memo late Friday night, NFL Network's Tom Pelissero tweeted the page-long memo which stated in-person meetings are prohibited on Monday and Tuesday and must be held virtually. Tom Pelissero Tweeted: “The NFL informed clubs all in-person team activities will be prohibited this coming Monday and Tuesday — a mitigation me

Walt Disney Expected To Lay Off 4,000 More Employees

Nov 28, 2020

Walt Disney Expected To Lay Off 4,000 More Employees

The Walt Disney Co. has announced plans to lay off 4,000 more employees due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement came by way of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this week. The company revealed 32,000 employees at the parks, experiences and products division will be terminated in the first half of fiscal year 2021. This is not the beginning of Walt Disney’s mass firings, back in September nearly 28,00 theme park workers were termina

KenTheMan On The Success of Her Hit Songs ‘He Be Like,’ ‘IDGAF’ and Her Journey

Truth (@truth_bn)

Nov 27, 2020

KenTheMan On The Success of Her Hit Songs ‘He Be Like,’ ‘IDGAF’ and Her Journey

Houston, Texas rapper KenTheMan is next up. Well, some might say she’s already there. This H-Town lyricist is taking over radio waves across the nation with two of her most popular songs from her project “4 da 304’s”. The songs that have 2020 ending on a high note for this artist are “He Be Like” and “IDGAF” which are songs for people who want to feel a sense of empowerment when it comes to dating. KenTheMan commands both of these records with her distinct voice and raw lyric

70 Year Old Teacher Comes Out Of Retirement Only to Die From COVID Complications

Nov 25, 2020

70 Year Old Teacher Comes Out Of Retirement Only to Die From COVID Complications

After 35-years in the field, Iris Meda retired from nursing in January. Two months later, the coronavirus pandemic devastated the nation in unprecedented fashion. Iris felt that it was her duty to come out of retirement to train the future nurses, who would be on the frontlines of this virus. Meda would teach the basics at Collin College in Dallas. From the very beginning, healthcare officials stressed the vulnerability that the elderly have to this virus. Senior citizens wer

Thieves Steal Thousands of Dollars Worth of Donated Toys For Children In Need

Nov 25, 2020

Thieves Steal Thousands of Dollars Worth of Donated Toys For Children In Need

The San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program is one of the largest and oldest programs of its kind, the program has been in operation since 1949. They distribute about 200,000 toys to an estimated 40,000 disadvantaged children each year. This year however, thieves have set out to ruin the Christmas spirit - after thousands of dollars worth of donated toys appear to have gone missing. Sally Casazza of the San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program arrived at a shipping container whe

Nebraskan Neanderthal Shoots Up a Sonic Drive-In: Leaving Two Dead And Two Critically Injured

Deandre Yard (DeandreNYC(

Nov 23, 2020

Nebraskan Neanderthal Shoots Up a Sonic Drive-In: Leaving Two Dead And Two Critically Injured

A sonic Drive-in became the site of a fatal shooting in Nebraska late Saturday night. The suspect, 23-year old Roberto Carlos Silva Jr. of Omaha was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree arson. Here’s how the devastating events unfold. Silva was arrested on Wednesday for identity theft at the same Sonic restaurant. He allegedly used the Sonic app to order $57 worth of hamburgers and corn dogs, according to the World-Herald. Police seized

Yusef Salaam Is Releasing a Memoir About His Wrongful Imprisonment

Deandre Yard (DeandreNYC(

Nov 23, 2020

Yusef Salaam Is Releasing a Memoir About His Wrongful Imprisonment

One of the five teens who were wrongfully imprisoned in the highly publicized 1989 “Central Park jogger” case, is penning a memoir scheduled to be released in the Spring. Dr. Yusef Salaam's new memoir is titled “Better, Not Bitter: Living On Purpose in The Pursuit of Racial Justice.” The publisher, ‘Grand Central Publishing’ describes Dr. Salaam’s memoir as a “candid and poignant look at the life of an American citizen, born and raised in Harlem, New York who was accused and

Michigan sheriff's court deputy fired after posting racist Kamala Harris watermelon carving

Deandre Yard (DeandreNYC(

Nov 21, 2020

Michigan sheriff's court deputy fired after posting racist Kamala Harris watermelon carving

Michigan sheriff's court deputy fired after posting racist Kamala Harris watermelon carving Madame Vice President-Elect already has racist Americans in distress. A part-time court deputy with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office just lost her job, after feeling compelled to share her racist Halloween pumpkin display. The photo uploaded on social media showed Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Mike Pence pumpkin carvings and a Kamala Harris carving in a watermelon. The ex-employee w

Florida Officials Want Residents To Eat Pythons

Deandre Yard (DeandreNYC(

Nov 21, 2020

Florida Officials Want Residents To Eat Pythons

Florida Officials Want Residents To Eat Snakes In an effort to cull its Burmese python population, Florida officials want residents to start eating them. The idea is being closely evaluated by the state’s wildlife conservation commission and department of health. They are looking into the levels of Mercury in pythons and from there they will explore the possibility of issuing advisories on safely eating the Everglades scourge. Last year, Florida governor Ron DeSantis declared

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