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The 59th. Inauguration Will Go Down in History

Biden signs executive orders on stimulus checks, food stamps and minimum wage

______U.S. President fist bumps newly sworn-in Vice President Kamala

President Biden signed two executive orders on Friday, one of which would increase federal food By: TERRY HUGHEY assistance and streamline the delivery of stimulus checks, as the president attempts to stabilize the economy without congressional assistance amid The 59th inauguration of a United States Purdue University Fort Wayne Assistant History the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. president will go down in the history books. Professor Jeff Malanson said it’s sometimes hard Many traditions aren’t happening, and to decipher if we’re actually seeing a historical "We have to act now," Mr. Biden said in remarks possibly a new tradition will be started. moment, because we’re living it. before he signed the orders. "We cannot, will not, let people go hungry." There was no giant parade, inaugural balls However, Malanson believes a series of events led are being held virtually, and many locations to this inauguration to be historic. He said the Mr. Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion relief plan around the Capitol are closed to the public. pandemic, the actual election itself, and the riots at to Congress, but it is unclear whether it will Guests were socially distanced, as the the Capitol all culminated into making it a historic garner enough Republican support to pass on a inauguration happened during the middle of day. bipartisan basis. Until Congress is able to pass a pandemic. another relief bill, Mr. Biden's actions are But how will it be remembered in years to come? intended as stopgap measures to stabilize the Another notable difference is President economy. was not in attendance. “We don’t yet know how all of this is going to

President Trump left the White House resolve itself. That’s the other big thing that we all Some Republicans have questioned whether there Wednesday morning before any of the events kind of struggle with is we think of the current is still a need for a second, larger relief bill after started. moment as being historically significant, but we Congress passed a $900 billion bill in December. don’t necessarily know what that significance is But in his remarks on Friday, Mr. Biden said that The Associated Press does report the going to be… every textbook is going to talk about the most recent relief bill was just a "down president left a note for President-elect Joe COVID-19 and the election of 2020, and the payment." Biden. That will be a tradition that still insurrection on January 6th. And you know, stands. Trump is the only president to be impeached twice. "We need more action, and we need to move fast," Mr. Biden said. "We're in a national With President Trump’s departure, it will be We know that these will be historically significant emergency. We need to act like we're in a national the first time since 1869 we will not see an moments, but the kind of story that’s told about emergency. So we've got to move with everything image of an outgoing and incoming president them, I think is yet to be kind of concluded,” said at the same time. Malanson. we've got." The country saw another first when Kamala Despite all of this being historical, Malanson said In the first order, Mr. Biden asks the U.S. Harris was sworn-in as vice president. She is the biggest takeaway is what’s to come. I think it’s Department of Agriculture to allow states to the first female and woman of color to hold going to be change. I think the Biden increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance the office. Administration has really gone out of its way to Program (SNAP) benefits — commonly known as emphasize change from the last four years. food stamps — by 15%. Congress recently passed Another tradition that still happened is a $1 trillion relief bill that boosted the maximum former presidents attended. Former And even to emphasize some points of change from SNAP benefit by 15%, but that did not help the presidents , George W. Bush the prior Obama Administration. So I think really 40% of SNAP recipients who were already at the and Bill Clinton witnessed President Biden in the current moment, the big thing is going to be maximum benefit. Mr. Biden's order tells the take the oath of office. Vice President Mike change. I think the other big call that we’re going to USDA to "consider issuing new guidance that Pence also attended. see from President Biden is a call for unity. He’s been making that pitch for a long time now. would allow states to increase SNAP emergency A new tradition that will possibly start is allotments for those who need it most," according newly inaugurated President Joe Biden and I think he mentions it in his inaugural address. to a fact sheet provided by the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to And I think he’s going to try and make the good which would mean that an additional 12 million Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath faith effort to see that move forward. As a society people get enhanced benefits. at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. we’ve become way too fractured.”

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Covid-19: U.S. Virus Cases Fall as Variants Spread

By: TERRY HUGHEY

In recent days, coronavirus cases have been dropping steadily across the United States, with hospitalizations falling in concert. But health officials are growing increasingly concerned that quickly circulating variants of the virus could cause new surges of cases faster than the country is managing to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.

Public health experts likened the situation to a race between vaccination and the virus’s new variants — and the winner will determine whether the United States is approaching a turning point in its battle against the coronavirus, now entering a second year.

“We’re definitely on a downward slope, but I’m worried that the new variants will throw us a curveball in late February or March,” said Caitlin M. Rivers, a public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Nationwide, new coronavirus cases have fallen 21% in the last two weeks, according to a Times database, and some experts have suggested this could mark the start of a shifting course after nearly four months of ever-worsening case totals.

This week, the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which puts out a predictive model that is widely used for planning, including by some government agencies, released a projection saying new cases in the United States would decline steadily from now on.

“We’ve been saying since summer that we thought we’d see a peak in January, and I think that, at the national level, we’re around the peak,” said Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the institute. Still, Murray cautioned that variants of the virus could “totally change the story.” Health officials warned that they have little foresight into what the rest of the winter and spring will bring. President Joe Biden’s new administration has vowed to impose speed and order to what has been a slow, bumpy rollout of vaccinations, in which some 15 million people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. But it is not clear how many vaccines will be available in cities across the country in the coming weeks. The public should still wear masks, officials say, avoid large gatherings and sign up to be vaccinated as soon as they are eligible.

Some experts, looking abroad at how new viral variants sent cases surging in Britain, Ireland, South Africa and northern Brazil, said the United States could merely be in a lull before a new spike begins. Even after an epidemic’s peak, it remains dangerous: Sometimes just as many people are infected after the peak as were before.

“I think the next three months could be the worst part of the pandemic,” said Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. “I hope I’m dead wrong.”

Nicolas A. Menzies, one of several scientists running the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which tracks levels of herd immunity, said he felt it was “more probable than not” that infections would climb again.

It is important to spot regions where variant strains are turning up, he said, since they would be the most likely to have early surges. Thus far, the variant that has been prevalent in Britain and a new variant have been found most often in Southern California and Florida, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases are slowly declining in both regions. But it’s “still too early to tell,” he said.

As the Biden administration Thursday announced a “full-scale wartime effort” to combat the virus, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said the nation’s outbreak “looks like it might actually be plateauing in the sense of turning around,” but he cautioned that the country remained in a dire situation.

Thirty-seven states are seeing sustained reductions in cases, with only one reporting significant increases. Arizona and California, which reached disastrous new case records in recent weeks, have reported noticeable drops over the past several days. Around some Midwestern cities that drove surges of infections in the early fall, case numbers have fallen 50% or more from their peaks.

Still, the country continues to average nearly 190,000 new cases each day, more than any point of the pandemic before December. Deaths from the coronavirus are still extraordinarily high, with more than 4,300 deaths announced Wednesday, the second-highest daily total of the pandemic. And in some places, there has been no progress at all.

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th The 59 . inauguration will go down in history interview with Jerry Seinfeld, who took King to task for not knowing that he, not the network, (continued) ended his famous sitcom, "Seinfeld," after a

highly rated nine-year run.

"I thought it was pretty well documented," Seinfeld answered. "Isn’t this CNN?"

King later admitted he should have known that a show that boasted a viewership of around 75 million for its finale wouldn't have been canceled.

It wasn't all fluff, though: On Nov. 9, 1993, King used his show to host a debate between Vice President Al Gore and billionaire businessman Ross Perot on the proposed North American

Free Trade Agreement that helped tip public support for the treaty. As for what will be memorable about the “If anyone asked me what are my inauguration, that will be subjective. Here are greatest career achievements in life, Born to Jewish immigrant parents on Nov. 19, some memorable moments of past one is the creation of CNN, and the 1933, Lawrence Harvey Zeiger took his New inaugurations: other is hiring Larry King," he said in a York accent and delivery with him to Miami, statement, adding that waking up to where he started his on-air career as a disc • John F. Kennedy’s quote, 1961, “Ask not the news of his passing “felt like a jockey in 1957 after changing his last name to what your country can do for you, but punch to the gut.” King. what you can do for your country.” • Franklin D. Roosevelt’s quote, 1933, “Let Over a nearly 60-year career that Over the next decade, the fledgling journalist me assert my firm belief that the only spanned radio, cable television and the would hone his interviewing style in Florida, thing we have to fear is fear itself.” , the Brooklyn, New York, first with a live show broadcast from a • Maya Angelou’s poem, On the Pulse of native estimated that he conducted restaurant and later as a columnist for the Morning, Bill Clinton’s 1993 more than 50,000 interviews — not Miami Herald. inauguration one of which he prepared for in • Aretha Franklin’s performance, Barack advance. Obama’s 2009 inauguration *** In December 1971, his promising career in Miami derailed with an arrest on a grand ______But that off-the-cuff style, along with larceny charge over $5,000 he allegedly owed a his raspy baritone delivery and financier. That led to a six-year exile during LARRY KING, TELEVISION AND RAIDO trademark suspenders, made "Larry which King did publicity for a racetrack in JOURNALISM ROYALTY DIES AT 87 King Live" a popular prime-time draw Louisiana. on CNN from 1985 through 2010.

It was a run that helped build the cable But King eventually returned to Miami and to a news network into a major presence in microphone. In 1978, "The Larry King Show" American living rooms. became a nationally syndicated staple in 28 cities. Within five years, it would be broadcast "I'm not confrontational, I'm not there in 118 cities. to hammer the guests. … I ask good questions, I listen to the answers, I Larry King: ‘I never realized I’d miss it that follow up," King told The Young Turks much’ in a 2014 interview. "I would have Larry King, the radio and television personality been uncomfortable pointing my finger King also went national in his side gig as a whose breezy and conversational interviews with at the president of the United States." celebrities and world leaders made him a newspaper columnist, debuting his USA Today broadcasting icon for nearly half a century, has column in 1982. However, King would say in 2019 that died, his TV production company Ora Media after being personally familiar with said in a statement Saturday. He was 87. Three years later, on June 3, 1985, "Larry King then-President Donald Trump for Live" premiered on CNN, beginning the 25-year years, "This Donald is not the Donald I run that would make him an even bigger The statement said he had been receiving knew." treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los household name. At the time, the cable news Angeles. network was still struggling to fill airtime, and Even though he wouldn't meticulously it would be decades before competition from prepare for interviews like the famed It did not specify the cause of death, but King MSNBC and Fox News forced more dynamic television journalist Barbara Walters, programming choices. was recently hospitalized with Covid-19 and had the rich and famous clearly were endured health problems for many years, comfortable answering his questions. including a near-fatal stroke in 2019 and The actor Marlon Brando, a legendary By the time he ended his run-on CNN, "Larry diabetes. recluse, gave a rare interview to King King Live" was entrenched in the Guinness in 1994 because he said the host was Book of World Records as the longest-running "Whether he was interviewing a U.S. president, "unexploitative.” show with the same host in the same time slot. foreign leader, celebrity, scandal-ridden personage or an everyman, Larry liked to ask "There was a sense that his interviews That retirement proved short-lived. In 2012, short direct and uncomplicated questions," the were like conversations that could be King launched a new show — "Larry King Now" statement added. had over a plate of meatloaf," Robert — with the web-based Ora TV. The next year, Thompson, director of the Bleier another King-hosted show, "Politicking," Paying tribute to King in a statement, CNN Center for Television and Popular debuted on the Russian TV network RT. President Jeff Zucker said the "scrappy young Culture at Syracuse Univers said. "I thought I could leave," King told the man from Brooklyn had a history-making "TODAY" show in 2013. career" due to "his generosity of spirit that drew Larry King: 'I never had an agenda' on the world to him." my show. That type of approach Funeral announcements would be made in due occasionally became a recipe for co course. CNN founder Ted Turner said in a tweet that the disaster — such as the 2007 "world has lost a true broadcasting legend." PAGE 4

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Woman, 63, beaten, robbed, and carjacked remains in hospital after suspect arrested in Port St. Lucie

He was tracked down in Port St. Lucie Wednesday night and booked into jail Thursday morning, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

Ouveryney was feeding some stray cats in a parking lot behind a McDonalds in the 3000 block of West Oakland Park Boulevard when investigators said Romano hit her in the face and head before stealing her purse and green Mazda 3.

The car was later found abandoned at 3101 W. “The severity of the attack left her with Broward Blvd. in Lauderhill. numerous facial, nasal, and optic fractures,” said pet rescue activist Deanna Camacho, who helped set up the account. Ouveryney was taken to Broward Health “She is currently on a morphine drip to BY: CHERYL M. HUGHEY Medical Center to be treated for her injuries. help with the excruciating pain.” She is well known in the pet rescue community for providing food and care to feral cats in Ouveryney is a housekeeper who has no Oakland Park and Margate. medical coverage.

A GoFundMe account has been set up to pay for “She will have expensive medical bills and Maria Salete Ouveryney needs surgery on her the care she needs. will need home care,” Camacho said. “She face after being brutally beaten while feeding will not be able to work for an extended some feral cats in Oakland Park. Ouveryney was scheduled to undergo surgery period of time.” Saturday. Antonino Santo Romano, 28, is facing charges Broward Sheriff’s detectives worked with of attempted felony murder and carjacking A GoFundMe account has been set up to pay for the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office to find without a firearm or weapon for the attack that the care she needs. Ouveryney was scheduled to and arrest Romano, who is expected to be happened about 7 p.m. Jan. 17, records show. undergo surgery Saturday. extradited back to Broward.

Florida Man Accused of Being in Capitol Camargo's arrest and charges stem from the Jan. 6 riot Riot Arrested at Biden Inauguration at the Capitol. Authorities said in a criminal complaint that in one picture posted on social media he was holding a metal piece from an unknown structure from the Capitol with the caption, "got some memorabilia, did it myself."

A video showed Camargo "at one of the doorways to the U.S. Capitol Building, using his mobile phone to videotape his struggle with the U.S. Capitol Police over opening a door to the U.S. Capitol Building," the complaint states.

He had also posted a message on Facebook apologizing

______to family and friends for his actions at the Capitol.

Federal authorities were alerted to the social media A Florida man accused of participating in the riot at the U.S. posts by a former classmate and social media friend, Capitol earlier this month was arrested Wednesday at the according to the complaint. inauguration of President Joe Biden, the Justice Department said. Camargo allegedly admitted he was at the Capitol during an interview with detectives. But "shortly after Samuel Camargo, 26, was taken into custody after law the interview began, Camargo became uncooperative, enforcement in Florida attempted to arrest him on Tuesday at questioning your affiant’s loyalty to the constitution, his home in Broward County, Florida, but learned he was not and advised the interviewing agent he had no there. Investigators found him the following day in information to provide," the complaint said. Washington, D.C. He also told detectives that he knew charges were He faces charges of civil disorder, knowingly entering or pending against him but decided to attend the remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful inauguration instead of turning himself in, it states. authority, knowingly engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in any restricted building or grounds, and violent An attorney for Camargo did not immediately return a entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. request for comment on Saturday.

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TOM BRADY, AARON RODGERS' representative. Clouding up the possible great The Packers haven’t allowed more than RECENT CONFERENCE TITLE GAME performance Sunday is a streak of one- 20 points since Dec. 13 and only allowed touchdown games with the Patriots narrowly 30 or more points four times. APPEARANCES TELL DIFFERENT getting to the next level. STORIES Brady has four touchdown passes, five interceptions and 1,265 passing yards in his last four conference title appearances.

The last time he lost in this instance came in the 2015 season when he faced off against a historic Denver Broncos defense. He was sacked four times and the Broncos won 20-16.

Rodgers will have to try and give his defense a boost, though his NFC Championship games haven’t resulted in wins for the most part. The last time he won in the NFC title BY: TERRY HUGHEY game was during the 2010 season against the Chicago Bears. He was picked off twice and didn’t throw a touchdown pass. Between Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, conference championships are a tale of In four career NFC title games, Rodgers has different stories. In his last conference title game appearance, six touchdown passes, seven interceptions

Brady was 30-for-46 with 348 passing yards, a and 1,035 passing yards. Rodgers was 31-for- Brady had ample success in the AFC touchdown pass and two interceptions against 39 with 326 passing yards, two touchdown Championship with the New England Patriots the Kansas City Chiefs. New England won in passes, two picks and three sacks in a blowout year-after-year, helping the team get to the next overtime. loss to the San Francisco 49ers. level even while his performances weren’t statistically imposing. In the end, the wins make up for the Both sides of the ball for the Packers will performances and the rings tell the entire need to do better than that to get to the Super Rodgers has only won an NFC Championship story. Going up against the Green Bay Packers Bowl. once though he’s been there a total of four isn’t going to be easy. times. Rodgers floundered in the Packers' matchup Green Bay was 13th in points allowed and 9th with the Buccaneers earlier in the season. He The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback will be in yards allowed during the 2020 season on was 16-for-35 with 160 passing yards and two looking to get to the Super Bowl for the 10th their way to 13 wins. interceptions. Brady didn't play great either time in his career and first time as an NFC

WOMAN DROVE AROUND WITH BODY OF MISSING MAN FOR OVER A WEEK

They were also seen Saturday, Jan. 9 at a house party and left together.

Deputies received an anonymous tip Jan. 19 that the silver BMW was at a home on Dickens Avenue and Aspen, the sheriff's office said. Sanchez was approached by deputies while doing yardwork and asked her if she knew why they were there. She said yes and asked if it was about the "missing guy."

Deputies noticed there were flies around in the trunk area and immediately smelled a "strong pungent odor" that grew stronger the closer they got, according to the sheriff's office. After receiving Sanchez's permission, they opened the trunk and discovered Swanigan's body.

Sanchez was immediately put in handcuffs.

She admitted to detectives that she was at a party with Swanigan on Jan. 9, but denied being involved in his death, the sheriff's office said. Sanchez told A 37-year-old woman is behind bars in connection to detectives Swanigan had sexually abused her after they left the party and when the death of a missing man. she escaped him, he was still alive.

Andrea Sanchez, of Sebastian, is facing charges of A couple days later, she went back to where her BMW was and drove home, abusing a dead human body. according to the sheriff's office. She drove around with Swanigan's body in the trunk for 10 days. Witnesses said they saw John Swanigan at Smith's Grocery Store in Gifford and was picked up by Sanchez Sanchez is currently being held on a $50,000 bond. in an older silver BMW, according to the Indian River County Sheriff's Office. PAGE 6