Today's top coronavirus headlines:
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 8, 2021
💉 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
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 https://t.co/ukSd9n8E38 pic.twitter.com/x6IVI8eJ4a
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 9, 2021
At least the ACLU managed to say this, a mild condemnation of the censorship today:
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 9, 2021
“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.”
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
