
By BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3w5PT11



Fox News got exercised about the president taking cues on Thursday – but there’s nothing wrong with being prepared
Joe Biden’s first press conference has caused some strong reactions from the conservative side of the aisle after he was caught … reading notes.
On Thursday night, Fox News dedicated considerable time covering just how long Biden took to hold his first press conference – 49 days!
Continue reading...Set in a cursed apartment building, Sky’s sinewy horror series has promise amid its random carnival of disgust
It’s dark, and rain pours down thickly, as wan teenager Juri (Tristan Göbel) and his ursine father Jaschek (Charly Hübner) arrive at the tower block they’ll soon regret calling home, in the opening scene of the German chiller Hausen (Sky Atlantic). Prepare for horror of the dripping, oozing, inky kind, set in a cursed building where the taps seem to be watching you, the condensation on the windows has a threatening aura and mould is a supporting character. It’s grim, grimy, cobwebbed and dank. Very dank.
Jaschek is the flats’ new caretaker, tasked immediately with fixing a heating system clogged with tar that seems to choose which way it flows. That leaves Juri to wander the corridors, stumbling across creepy Shining-like children and cackling vagrants who act as if they know something. We, however, know little for an episode and a half, as Hausen very slowly builds an atmosphere designed to bring on the night-time heebie jeebies.
Continue reading...Biden pledges 200m jabs in his first 100 days; Brazil records more than 100,000 new daily cases; Mexico death toll passes 100,000
Hello and welcome to our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, with me, Alison Rourke.
Before we kick off, here’s a summary of the main news so far:
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