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Tyler Durden
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According to KrebsonSecurity, the IRS announced that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log into irs.gov will be through ID.me. Founded by former Army Rangers in 2010, the McLean-based company has evolved to providing online ID verification services which several states are using to help reduce unemployment and pandemic-assistance fraud. The company claims to have 64 million users. Some 27 states already use ID.me to screen for identity thieves applying for benefits in someone else’s name, and now the IRS is joining them. The service requires applicants to supply a great deal more information than typically requested for online verification schemes, such as scans
New York Post,
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Carl Campanile *
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A recent surge in fatalities combined with staffing shortages due to Omicron have created a backlog at the city Medical Examiner’s office that is having a ripple effect at local hospitals, The Post has learned. Hospitals are scrambling to cope with the recent surge in COVID-19 fatalities across the city—with some shifting their dead patients between facilities as the ME’s office has been overrun, sources said. “The whole hospital system is at capacity with patients and, of course, that includes the morgues,” one person familiar with the situation said.(Snip)A hospital official also said the Medical Examiner’s Office was “slammed” because it doesn’t have enough staffers
New York Post,
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Samantha Ibrahim
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M&M’s are getting a sweet makeover in 2022. The chocolate candies that melt in your mouth and not in your hand are giving fans a new way to love their favorite treat. Mars, Incorporated announced Thursday that they will be redesigning their M&M’s mascots—the array of rainbow-colored talking chocolate balls.(Snip)“We took a deep look at our characters, both inside and out, and have evolved their look, personalities and backstories to be more representative of today’s society,” a brand representative said. “As the world changes, so do we.” The designs will soon be integrated into the company’s branding and marketing.
Washington Times,
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Sean Salai
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The cartoon mascots who sell M&Ms in television commercials will now dress and act in more gender-neutral ways, the 80-year-old candymaker announced Thursday. Jane Hwang, global vice president for M&Ms at parent company Mars, told AdWeek it’s time to minimize traditional gender stereotypes in future marketing campaigns for the chocolate candies that feature the characters.(Snip)Meanwhile, the three male M&M characters will act in less traditionally masculine ways: AdWeek reported that Red will be less bossy, and Orange will “acknowledge and embrace his anxiety.”(Snip)She said the company will also stop attaching prefixes to the characters’ names, like “Mr. Blue” or “Ms. Brown,”
Washington Times,
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Tom Howell Jr.
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Regulations issued by President Biden during his first year in office will cost $201 billion and add 131 million hours in annual paperwork, far exceeding the first-year outcomes of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, according to an analysis released Thursday. The American Action Forum, a center-right policy institute that has tracked regulatory costs since 2005, said a vehicle emissions rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency was by far the most costly rule, at $180 billion. It nudged Mr. Biden’s total regulatory costs to three times that of Mr. Obama’s first-year total of $65 billion and 40 times that of Mr. Trump, who made cutting red tape
New York Post,
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Tamar Lapin
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Emily Crane
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A Thai model who was savagely beaten at a Manhattan subway stop two months ago slammed authorities on Thursday for failing to prevent straphanger Michelle Go from becoming the latest fatal subway-shove victim. Bew Jirajariyawetch, 23, was brutalized and robbed of her purse at the 34th Street-Herald Square station on Nov. 22 when a stranger put her in a chokehold in the middle of the deserted platform. Weeks after surviving her own assault, the young woman told The Post she was devastated to learn Go had been killed in a Saturday attack at the Times Square station. “I am so sad. I was lucky and she was not,”
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jennifer Smith
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Brian Marks
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Bob Saget's widow Kelly Rizzo said he had no health concerns and was feeling 'great' when he died suddenly on January 9. Speaking in her first set of TV interviews since the actor's death, Rizzo, 42, sobbed and described him as the 'best man' she has ever known. The pair were about to celebrate their third wedding anniversary when he died in a hotel room in Orlando earlier this month. It's unclear what caused the 65-year-old's death. Rizzo told Good Morning America's TJ Holmes that Saget was healthy. 'All I'll point to is that last post of his where he said he felt 26,' she said,
New York Daily News,
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Brittany Kriegstein *
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The heartbroken mother of an 11-month-old Bronx girl shot in the face by a gunman’s stray bullet wept Thursday after spending the night sitting by her daughter’s hospital bed. “She’s stable. She will be ok,” Miraide Gomez, her voice quaking, told the Daily News as she entered the family’s apartment building. “(I’m) going to leave it to God.” A moment later, the 32-year-old mom went into an aunt’s apartment and began sobbing, no longer able to hold back the pain and pressure of the last 18 hours. Gomez was seated in a car with baby Catherine about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday when a gunman fired off
New York Post,
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Lee Brown
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Samuel Chamberlain
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Vice President Kamala Harris insisted Thursday morning that the US was prepared to levy “serious and severe costs” against Russia should its president, Vladimir Putin, order an invasion of Ukraine—hours after President Biden suggested during a White House news conference that a “minor incursion” would be met with a less robust response. Harris was dispatched to NBC’s “Today” show to clean up after her boss, who initially vowed Wednesday that Moscow “will be held accountable” in the event of an invasion, but then suggested that the severity of the consequences “depends on what it does.”(Snip)Harris began her answer by boasting that she starts every morning reading
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
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Katelyn Caralle
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In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack.
Shortly after the ruling on Wednesday evening, the January 6 select committee said that they already started to receive records previously 'hidden' from them by Trump.(Snip)'The Select Committee has already begun to receive records that the former President had hoped to keep hidden & we look forward to additional productions regarding this important information,' it added.(Snip)They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with Jan. 6 from the files of former chief of staff
KING-TV [Seattle, WA],
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Brady Wakayama
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Seattle—A long-time Seattle business owner is sounding off after he said his business has been "hit" by crime seven times in the past three months alone. This past weekend, Jay Ashberg, the owner of Seattle Shirt Company, said there were back-to-back burglaries at his store. The Seattle Shirt Company is located on the corner of First Avenue and Pike Street. Ashberg is still in shock of how far he believes Seattle has fallen. "This city is unrecognizable to what it was even five years ago, between the homeless and the lack of police, the whole defund the police, decriminalize, it doesn't work," Ashberg said.
KHOU-TV [Houston, TX],
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Charlie Haldeman
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Houston—The 17-year-old accused of shooting his girlfriend 22 times as she walked her dog was released from jail on bond on Wednesday, court records show. A judge set bail at $250,000 in the case of Frank DeLeon. He's due back in court later Wednesday. According to police, Diamond Alvarez and DeLeon were in a romantic relationship, but Alvarez had recently learned that DeLeon was romantically involved with someone else.(Snip)The two met at a park near Alvarez's home on Jan.11. That's when DeLeon shot Alvarez 22 times, mostly in the back, according to prosecutors. DeLeon was taken into custody Monday.
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The Stasi protects its own. This is news?