Tweets Of The Day

Today's top coronavirus headlines:
💉 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine appears effective against mutation in new variants
🇺🇸 U.S. endures pandemic's deadliest day
🇮🇩 Indonesia Islamic council to rule on whether vaccine is halalhttps://t.co/AIkIfb2qKQ pic.twitter.com/FTTcZIwSBY

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 8, 2021

The United States topped 4,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus for the first time. That breaks a record set just the day before. The surge is being seen in a number of Sun Belt states, where spikes of the virus were seen over the summer. https://t.co/l2trq5mpyv

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 8, 2021

#UPDATE Under-fire European officials step up vaccine push by @marcburleigh https://t.co/JAWTkjifmg

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 8, 2021

Wall Street scaled new highs on Friday bolstered by President-elect Joe Biden's comment that his economic package will be in the trillions of dollars and investors looked past the first decline in U.S. hiring in eight months

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— Reuters (@Reuters) January 9, 2021

At least the ACLU managed to say this, a mild condemnation of the censorship today:

“It should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions.”

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 9, 2021

Kim Jong-un pledges to expand North Korea's nuclear arsenal https://t.co/lGfkvvdI7V

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 9, 2021

Canada and other nations whose citizens died in Iran's downing of a Ukrainian jetliner one year ago call on Tehran to come clean about the tragedy and "deliver justice" for the victims' families https://t.co/cRGjUe0Atz pic.twitter.com/JK33gmXuhS

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 9, 2021

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