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With the Super Bowl getting close the KC Chiefs have two players that were put on the Covid list Monday. Daniel Kilgore was placed on the list for being in close contact. Demarcus Robinson was also put on the list from getting his hair cut and the barber testing positive. Both plan to practice on Friday keeping their tests negative and to be ready for the game Sunday.

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The Kansas City Chiefs put two players on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Monday ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

According to ESPN's Adam Schefter , the AFC champions placed center Daniel Kilgore and wide receiver Demarcus Robinson on the list because of close contact concerns.

NFL.com's Tom Pelissero, citing sources, reported Tuesday morning that "A barber who recently cut the hair of two Chiefs players received a positive test result for COVID-19 on Sunday." Pelissero added:
"Neither Robinson nor Kilgore has tested positive and all parties were masked during the encounters, lowering the chance of transmission, sources say. But given the duration and proximity, both were deemed high-risk close contacts of the barber and had to be placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Sources say the barber tested negative five consecutive days before he was allowed to enter the Chiefs' facility -- including a Saturday PCR test that came back negative Sunday. The barber took an additional rapid test as a precaution before entering the facility Sunday, but the results were delayed briefly because of a line of friends and family also getting tested. He was wearing double PPE and was still cutting Kilgore's hair -- the first in a line of players waiting for haircuts -- when the positive result came back. The barber was immediately removed; in a follow-up interview with NFL officials, the barber said he'd also cut Robinson's hair the previous day away from the facility."
Robinson said he has continued to test negative and plans on practicing after he finishes protocol Friday:

"Hopefully he's out there with us," Patrick Mahomes told reporters when discussing Robinson. "But we've had guys step up all year."

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid told reporters the team found out about the COVID-19 concerns on Sunday, saying "they'll work through it."

While Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce are Mahomes' two go-to options in the passing attack, Robinson is part of the group of secondary playmakers alongside Mecole Hardman and Sammy Watkins.

He finished the season with 45 catches for 466 yards and three touchdowns but has only one catch for 14 yards in two playoff games. The lack of production in the postseason contests is somewhat surprising considering Watkins has not played yet in the playoffs, although Hill and Kelce are the only Chiefs players with more than 62 receiving yards.

As long as that pair is healthy and on the field, Kansas City shouldn't lose much in terms of its overall explosiveness.

Watkins, who Monday, may be back for the Super Bowl as well and could slide into Robinson's spot if the latter cannot play.

As for Kilgore, he was primarily a reserve offensive lineman this season but appeared in seven games with four starts.

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Daniel Kilgore, Demarcus Robinson Put on COVID-19 List by Chiefs

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Brett Duke/Associated Press The Kansas City Chiefs put two players on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Monday ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter , the AFC champions placed center Daniel Kilgore and wide receiver Demarcus Robinson on the list because of close contact concerns.

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Lebron James gets heckled by fans.

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The Atlanta Hawks are investigating an incident in which four fans sitting courtside allegedly used obscenities when heckling LeBron James during Monday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Chris Kirschner and Jovan Buha of The Athletic spoke to team CEO Steve Koonin, who said it's unclear how long the investigation will take.

"I do not know how long this will take," Koonin said. "It's the first time I've experienced something like this. There's a protocol. The NBA has a code of conduct (placard) on every chair in the building. This is an NBA matter that obviously we're involved in. There are NBA security people at every game at every arena in the country."

Juliana Carlos, one of the fans ejected from the arena, took to Instagram on Monday night to share her side of the story. She said James and her husband, Chris Carlos, exchanged words and she got involved when LeBron became disrespectful.

Speaking to reporters after the game, James said he didn't believe the fans should have been ejected:
"Oh, well my guy tonight, I don't want to say he went overboard, but he went a little bit out of bounds. Too close to comfort for me. And I said my piece, and we could've moved on. But I think it was so close to the officials, I think the official heard it as well, what he had said, and it kind of got blown out of proportion. It's just like sometimes on the floor when two guys get into a scuffle or get into a little jostling, the refs kind of come in and try to break it up really fast, and it looks like it's bigger than what it really is. That's what it pretty much was tonight. But the difference is we're on the court, and we're not having any alcoholic beverages. "So they might've had some alcoholic beverages on the side, so it made them feel a little tougher than what they really are, I would say."
The Hawks are one of 10 teams currently allowing fans into arenas. Fans are required to wear masks at the games, and Koonin said fans who sit courtside are required to test negative for COVID-19 at the arena before the game. Carlos was seen pulling down her mask to yell at James during the incident.

Koonin said the Hawks do not plan on changing their current policy to allow fans into the arena. He said he does not see the "correlation" between allowing fans to attend games and the incident.

Past Instagram posts show Chris Carlos insulting James, and his wife said he has a "problem" with the Lakers star for some undisclosed reason.

Lakers coach Frank Vogel said he expects the NBA to be part of the Hawks' investigation

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Hawks Investigating Juliana Carlos, Fans Allegedly Cursing at LeBron James

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John Bazemore/Associated Press The Atlanta Hawks are investigating an incident in which four fans sitting courtside allegedly used obscenities when heckling LeBron James during Monday night's game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Chris Kirschner and Jovan Buha of The Athletic spoke to team CEO Steve Koonin, who said it's unclear how long the investigation will take.

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Democrats are filing for Trump's impeachment on the grounds that he went against the constitution, by "singularly being responsible" for enticing the raid at the capitol.

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Democrats' impeachment filing: Trump 'threatened the constitutional system'

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The House impeachment managers argue former President Donald Trump should be convicted for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol last month and barred from holding future office, charging that his actions "threatened the constitutional system that protects the fundamental freedoms we cherish."

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Portugal is battling with Covid-19 and vaccines have been given out to people at the most risk.

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The pressure appears to be getting to Portugal's government after almost two weeks at the top of the world rankings of daily new COVID-19 cases and deaths by size of population

LISBON, Portugal -- The pressure appears to be getting to Portugal's government after almost two weeks at the top of the world rankings of daily new COVID-19 cases and deaths by size of population.

Recent flubs include mixed government messages on mask types and online teaching, regular pandemic news conferences discontinued without explanation, scant official information on what foreign help is coming and scandals over queue-jumping for vaccines. Then there's the recent disarray in parliament over which lawmakers will get the jab early, as well as a health chief's sharp retort that finding fault with government pandemic planning is "criminal."

Those episodes have combined to put the Portuguese government politically on the ropes in recent days, just as the country takes stock of last month's devastating pandemic surge.

In January, Portugal recorded more than 5,000 death - close to half of its official pandemic total so far. Over the month, hospitalizations grew by 136% and patients in intenstive care units by 78%, pushing the public health system close to collapse.

Hopes rose Tuesday that the surge's peak may have passed, as the number of new daily cases fell for a fourth straight day. The 5,540 cases were roughly half the number reported on Tuesday last week. The intense pressure on Portuguese hospitals is unlikely to ease soon, however, because of a time-lag between new cases and hospitalizations.

Amid criticism that it has been caught flat-footed, the government has accepted help from Germany. On Wednesday, 26 German army medics, including eight doctors, nursing staff and a hygiene team along with medical equipment, are due in Lisbon to help out at hospitals.

But the Portuguese public found out about that from a detailed statement by German authorities. The Portuguese government was less than forthcoming about German help, only briefly confirming the news several hours later.

Requiring foreign help is a sensitive political issue for Portugal, recalling a 78-billion-euro ($94 billion) international bailout the country needed in 2011 amid Europe's financial crisis. That was viewed as a national embarrassment.

The Socialist government is already smarting from accusations it was slow to react in the January surge. A fast-spreading variant first identified in southeast England in December quickly spread in Portugal in the wake of a four-day easing of restrictions over Christmas, but U.K. flights were banned only on Jan. 23.

Authorities, meanwhile, have vowed to crack down on cases of alleged queue-jumping for vaccines, with almost a dozen cases involving low-level regional officials under official investigation. In the latest case Tuesday, the mother of the head of a social care institution in northern Portugal, and the institution's seamstress, received the inoculation last month under allegedly questionable circumstances.

Vaccines have so far been given only to residents and staff of elderly care homes where there is no outbreak, frontline health workers and security forces. The health ministry says 70,000 people have received both doses of the vaccine and 270,000 have had the first dose.

From Wednesday, the vaccination program is being expanded to some 900,000 people who are more than 80 years old or are over 50 with underlying health problems.

Health Minister Marta Temido says Portugal ranks seventh in the European Union for the number of people vaccinated in relation to population.

Temido admitted last week that the current level of stress on the public health system "was never even imaginable in hospitals' disaster preparedness."

But she told public broadcaster RTP that questioning whether the government was guilty of poor planning is "criminal for those people who each day, across (government) services, makes a huge effort to get things ready."

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Robinhood restricted purchases for Game Stop and AMC after people on Reddit were messing?? with wall street. Sparks controversy all over the internet.

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Exclusive: Elizabeth Warren wants answers on Robinhood's ties to large hedge funds

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Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from Robinhood co-CEO Vlad Tenev over potential conflicts of interest caused by the free trading app's relationship with large hedge funds and other financial players.

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Kevin Mccarthy is going to meet Taylor Greene next week

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will meet with controversial freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene next week, his spokesperson told CNN on Friday.

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In the Super Bowl this year the NFL will be honoring health care workers by giving health care workers 7,500 free seats. Most will come from the Tampa Bay area, but each one of the 32 teams will be able to select health care workers from their community.

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From tickets to honorary titles, the NFL is celebrating tireless health workers.

Quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes won't be the only stars of Super Bowl LV.

The health care workers who have been working tirelessly to keep the COVID-19 virus at bay will be honored during the first Super Bowl game ever played during a pandemic.

Here is how the NFL is putting a spotlight on health care workers.

NFL giving 7,500 free seats to health care workers

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has invited 7,500 health care workers to attend the game, the NFL announced last month.

Only 22,000 of the nearly 66,000 seats at Raymond James Stadium, home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, will be available for fans.

Most will come from hospitals and health care systems in the Tampa and central Florida area, but all 32 NFL teams will also select health care workers from their communities, according to the NFL.

All of the health care workers who will attend will have received both doses of the vaccine.

In addition to the tickets, a gameday experience will be held for the health care workers, the NFL said.

"These dedicated health care workers continue to put their own lives at risk to serve others, and we owe them our ongoing gratitude," Goodell said in a statement.

Miley Cyrus to perform in pre-game party for health care workers

The NFL is hosting the #TikTokTailgate, a pregame event for the health care workers in attendance, which will be headlined by pop star Miley Cyrus.

Cyrus confirmed the news in several Instagram posts.

"I can't wait to put on a show for the NFL's honored guests before the game.... Health care workers from Tampa and around the country!" she wrote Jan. 24.

Only health care workers will be in attendance, but the event will be live-streamed, according to the NFL.

The event will also include special gusts, surprise musical performances and gameday cooking segments, according to CBS, which is broadcasting the Super Bowl this year.

Local nurse named honorary Super Bowl captain

Suzie Dorner, a nurse manager at Tampa General Hospital, will not only be cheering for her hometown football team but will be honored on the field as well.

Dorner, who has been named as one of the three honorary Super Bowl captains, has been working in Tampa for more than eight years and has "worked selflessly, as all nurses do, to prioritize others and work endless hours" throughout the pandemic, according to the NFL. She lost two grandparents to COVID-19 as well.

Dorner was "speechless" upon hearing the news, she told Derrick Brooks, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and chair of the Tampa Bay Super Bowl LV host committee.

The pandemic has been "really mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting" for all health care workers, Dorner said.

"To be honored at the Super Bowl makes everything that we've all been through this year, it makes it a little bit more tolerable and something to celebrate everything that we've been through, the good and the bad things," she is seen telling Brooks in a YouTube video posted by the NFL.

The honorary captains -- Dorner, a Los Angeles educator, and a Marine Corps veteran from Pittsburgh -- will take part in the coin toss ceremony before kickoff Sunday.

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How the NFL will honor health care workers at Super Bowl LV

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From tickets to honorary titles, the NFL is celebrating tireless health workers. Quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes won't be the only stars of Super Bowl LV. The health care workers who have been working tirelessly to keep the COVID-19 virus at bay will be honored during the first Super Bowl game ever played during a pandemic.

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The military of Myanmar has overthrown Aung San Suu Kyi and the rest of the government. The leaders have been placed under house arrest.

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The military leaders in charge of Myanmar have executed four democracy activists whom it had accused of committing "terror acts".

The UN has condemned the executions as "depraved".

They are the latest measures the regime has taken to suppress opposition since it seized power in February 2021.

Who is running the country?

General Min Aung Hlaing - commander-in-chief of the Tatmadaw, or military, is in charge.

He and his junta (group of military leaders) took charge after ousting the elected, civilian government.

He declared a state of emergency but has promised a "free and fair" election in the future.

Min Aung Hlaing is the leader of the coup

Since then, Gen Hlaing has received international condemnation and sanctions for the military's alleged role in the suppression of human rights and attacks on ethnic minorities.

A human rights group, the Assistance Association of Political Prisoners (AAPP), says the regime's security forces has killed more than 2,100 people since the coup.

The junta has also imposed several prison sentences on former prime minster Aung San Suu Kyi.

Who are the people the regime has executed?

Four male activists were executed following secret trials. They were accused of helping insurgents to fight Myanmar's army.

Among them were democracy campaigner Kyaw Min Yu, better known as Ko Jimmy, and former lawmaker and hip-hop artist Phyo Zeya Thaw,

Prominent pro-democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, or Ko Jimmy (pictured here in 2012), was one of the four executed

Amnesty International has called it "another example of Myanmar's atrocious human rights record." It says there are 100 other people awaiting execution, having been sentenced for similar offences.

How else has the junta responded to democracy activists?

After last year's coup, opposition activists formed the Campaign for Civil Disobedience (CDM) and has been organising strikes and mass protests.

The military has responded with live fire, water cannons and rubber bullets.

Local militias calling themselves People's Defence Forces, or PDFs, have attacked military convoys and assassinated officials.

Protesters armed with rudimentary weapons take cover from the police in a demonstration in March, 2021

The government has carried out violent reprisals, including the torture and killing of 40 civilians in Sagaing district.

Why did the junta jail Aung San Suu Kyi?

Aung San Suu Kyi became world-famous in the 1990s for campaigning to restore democracy. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1991.

In 2015, she led the National League for Democracy (NLD) to victory in Myanmar's first openly-contested election in 25 years.

However, the military ousted her in the February 2021 coup and put her under house arrest.

The generals had backed the opposition party, which demanded a re-run of the vote claiming widespread fraud. However, the election commission said there was no evidence to support this claim.

In April 2022, the 76-year-old Ms Suu Kyi was sentenced to five years in jail on corruption charges, in a secret trial.

She had already been sentenced to six years in jail for violating the country's official secrets act, possessing illegal walkie-talkies and publishing information that may "cause fear or alarm".

Myanmar coup: How did we get here?

She still faces 10 other corruption charges, each carrying a maximum penalty of 15 years.

How has the international community responded to the junta's rule?

The United Nations has warned of a deepening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar, with "an intensification of violence and a rapid rise in poverty".

The US, UK and European Union have imposed sanctions on military officials.

Where is Myanmar?

Myanmar, previously known as Burma, is in South East Asia. It neighbours Thailand, Laos, Bangladesh, China and India.

It has a population of about 54 million, most of whom are Burmese speakers. The biggest city is Yangon (Rangoon), but the capital is Nay Pyi Taw.

The country gained independence from Britain in 1948. It was ruled by the armed forces from 1962 until 2011, when a new government began ushering in a return to civilian rule.

The ruling military changed the name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989 and "Myanmar" has been increasingly used since then.

The main religion is Buddhism. There are many ethnic groups in the country, including Rohingya Muslims.

Thousands of Rohingya were killed and more than 700,000 fled to Bangladesh following an army crackdown in 2017.

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Myanmar: Who are the rulers who have executed democracy campaigners?

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The military regime in Myanmar is ruthlessly suppressing opposition groups following its 2021 coup.

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Two FBI agents were shot and killed and 3 are in critical condition after a shootout in Sunrise Florida.

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Mcdonald's becomes first major fast-food chain in the United States to provide paid time off for employees to get the COVID vaccine.

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Safety is on the menu at McDonald's.

The Golden Arches plans to give four hours of paid time off to employees of corporate-owned restaurants to receive the coronavirus vaccine. A spokesperson for the chain confirmed the incentive to Fox News on Tuesday, adding that U.S. corporate employees are also eligible for the PTO.

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"Vaccination is essential in the fight against the pandemic, and we are actively encouraging McDonald's employees to take this important step. We will provide four hours of paid time to crew at McDonald's corporate-owned US restaurants and to US corporate employees who receive the vaccine," Tiffanie Boyd, US Chief People Officer for McDonald's USA, said in a statement.

"Ensuring widespread availability and access to the vaccine will require extraordinary partnerships between businesses, governments and community and health organizations, and we're engaging with government officials and our partners to understand where McDonald's can further support this work."

While McDonald's doesn't plan to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for its staff, the company is encouraging inoculation and connecting employees to trusted third-party experts for further information about the vaccine during this time.

According to the Chicago Tribune, about 5% of Mickey D's 14,000 restaurants in the U.S. are corporate-owned, while the rest are managed by franchises. McDonald's is the first major fast-food chain to incentivize vaccination for its workers. Other companies within the restaurant and food spaces have announced similar initiatives, including Darden Restaurants (the owners of Olive Garden and Longhorn Steakhouse, among others), Trader Joe's and Aldi.
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Safety is on the menu at McDonald's. The Golden Arches plans to give four hours of paid time off to employees of corporate-owned restaurants to receive the coronavirus vaccine. A spokesperson for the chain confirmed the incentive to Fox News on Tuesday, adding that U.S. corporate employees are also eligible for the PTO.

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Covid called for a virtual ceremony for groundhog day. Punxsuawtney Pill the famous groundhog saw didn't see his shadow calling for 6 more weeks of winter.

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Due to the pandemic, this year's event went completely virtual.

Punxsutawney Phil, Pennsylvania's most famous groundhog, awoke this morning to see his shadow which means that -- according to legend -- there will be six more weeks of winter.

This year, however, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the pomp and circumstance all went virtual meaning that the thousands of revelers who gather every Feb. 2 in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to see whether or not the famous groundhog sees his shadow or not were not there in person to celebrate.

Instead, people were able to log on and listen to winter- and spring-inspired Spotify playlists while also learning how to make Wigle Whiskey cocktails and at-home crafts, including the official cookie of Groundhog Day, according to the Associated Press.

Legend has it that if he sees his shadow then winter will continue for another six weeks but if Punxsutawney Phil does not see his shadow spring will come early.

"Whether you're hoping for six more weeks of winter fun or an early spring, we could all use some extra happiness this year," said Pennsylvania Tourism Office department spokesperson Carrie Lepore in a release.

Phil's actual prediction takes place ahead of time in a place called Gobbler's Knob, a small hill just outside of the town, and has done so each year since 1887. 2021 marks the 135th time the event has occurred, according to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office.

Phil's predictions have been fairly even over the past six years from 2015 to 2020 with the groundhog predicting a longer winter three times and an early spring three times. But overall, dating back to 1887, according to the Associated Press, Phil has predicted six more weeks of winter more than 100 times making this year's prognostication a return to normal after last year's prediction of an early spring.

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Hanson Robotics is mass producing robot to add people during covid. They are here to be somewhat of a comfort robot

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Robot Army: Caring Technology Enters Mass Production to Fight Pandemic

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Social robots have often been promoted as a way to give the sick and the elderly the support they lack. Now a Hong Kong robotics company wants to create an army of caring robots to provide comfort, solace, and healthcare to people isolated during the coronavirus pandemic.