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An illustration photo taken on January 25, 2021 shows the application Clubhouse on a smartphone in Berlin, after Thuringia's state premier Bodo Ramelow admitted on the chat app to playing Candy Crush on his phone during online pandemic response meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. - Bodo Ramelow, head of the eastern Thuringia state, made the confession during what he thought was a closed meeting on the invitation-only audio chatroom app Clubhouse at the weekend. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Criminal hackers are now going after phone lines, too

One way or another, most phone calls these days involve the internet. Cybersecurity experts say that makes us vulnerable in ways we might not realize.

Budtenders at The Green Cross cannabis dispensary help customers in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. As about 7 million people in the San Francisco Bay Area are under shelter-in-place orders, only allowed to leave their homes for crucial needs in an attempt to slow virus spread, marijuana stores remain open and are being considered "essential services." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

San Francisco moves to delay its cannabis business tax to give legal dealers a boost

Supporters of the ordinance said the cannabis industry is experiencing a drop-off in business following a boom early in the COVID-19 pandemic and that a tax hike would result in higher prices.

Omicron variant threatens global supply chain as the holidays approach

As China remains conservative with the virus, some of its ports are overloaded and understaffed.

BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 27: Women practice a dance routine in front of a large countdown screen showing 100 days before the opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Olympic Park on October 27, 2021 in Beijing, China. The Games are set to open on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Citing humanitarian abuses, U.S. will stage a diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

The White House cited the "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity" in the Xinjiang region of China. U.S. athletes will compete in the Olympics.

Astronaut Candidate Class of 2021. Photo Date: December 3, 2021. Location: JSC Mall. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

NASA names 2021 astronaut candidates as it plans for moon missions

The group of would-be astronauts includes four women and reflects a broad stretch of America, from Alaska to Puerto Rico.

Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born novelist and emeritus professor who lives in the UK, poses for photographs with his 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature medal after being presented it by the Ambassador of Sweden Mikaela Kumlin Granit in a ceremony at the Swedish Ambassador's Residence in London, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. The 2021 Nobel Prize ceremonies are being reined in and scaled-down for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the laureates receiving their Nobel Prize medals and diplomas in their home countries. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

No black-tie dinner with the Swedish king for this year's Nobel Prize winners

Instead, most of the laureates are receiving their awards in their home countries because the pandemic has disrupted the ceremonies yet again.

No black-tie dinner with the Swedish king for this year's Nobel Prize winners

Instead, most of the laureates are receiving their awards in their home countries because the pandemic has disrupted the ceremonies yet again.

Will PA lawmakers live up to their redistricting transparency promises? Doubt is creeping in

Last week, a month after lawmakers introduced the tool, not a single constituent map was shown on the website.

The meaning of 'It's a Wonderful Life' resonates even more in challenging times

"As you get older, it means more to you in different ways, because you're going through different things in your life and so it grows old with us."

Activists rally in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, California on November 3, 2021, calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics due to concerns over China's human rights record. - Activists lobbied Olympic broadcasters, including NBC, BBC, CBC and Sky to "immediately cancel broadcasting deals" to televise the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics or "face risk of being complicit in the Chinese Communist Party's severe and worsening human rights abuses". (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Uyghur organizations applaud the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics

U.S. athletes are still expected to compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics, despite the diplomatic boycott from the Biden administration.

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