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• ’90 Day Fiancé’ Spoilers: Jihoon Lee’s GoFundMe To Fund Deavan Clegg Legal Battle Getting Big Donations!

  ’90 Day Fiancé’ spoilers find that Jihoon Lee and Deavan Clegg were a couple on the show that really had a rough go in their relationship. The couple really didn’t see eye to eye on many things and Jihoon actually lied to her about his new job and how he would start to work more to support their growing family.Read Full StorySpoilers90 Day FiancéSouth KoreaCelebritiesGoFundMeFundraisingInstagramDaily Soap DishTVRockerJihoon LeeDeavan CleggChild Abuse AllegationsAmanda Grayce CrosbyDie HardDatingTaeyangLee Child

• ’90 Day Fiancé’ Spoilers: Julia Trubkina and Korean man

  ’90 Day Fiancé’ spoilers find that every once in a while, a cast member of the show will really surprise us and one of those is Julia Trubkina. She and her fiancé, Brandon Gibbs, have shown us what true young love looks like. Julia is very upset that she has to share a home with his parents and that means she can’t share a room with him.Read Full StorySpoilers90 Day FiancéTv SeriesTrue LoveTough LoveTelevision NewsSouth KoreanTikTokInstagramTLCDaily Soap DishTVRockerJulia TrubkinaBrandon JuliaKorean Man

• LA County COVID Numbers Down Again on Monday; Has Latest Surge Peaked?

  Hospitalizations, deaths and new cases related to COVID are all down on Monday, for the second day in a row. However, it’s too early too know whether this is an indication the latest surge has peaked or whether there was merely a reporting delay due to the MLK holiday weekend.Read Full StoryCovidPublic HealthLos Angeles CountySouth LaLa LaCounty OfficialsLA CountyICUCarthayMarchDeathsAll-time HighCOVID HospitalizationsCounty Health OfficialsWilshire Boulevard

• Why Chelsea Houska Says Teen Mom Made Her ‘Sick’

  Teen Mom 2 star Chelsea Houska said she was “sick” after watching her scenes with Aubree. Rumors had long swirled that Aubree was the reason Chelsea was quitting Teen Mom, with the South Dakota native essentially confirming it during her segments on the reunion special with hosts Dr. Drew Pinsky and Nessa Diab.Read Full StorySouth DakotaCelebritiesStarHealth SleepMTVChelsea & ColeInstagram ATeen Mom 2AubreeRumorsChelsea DeBoerReality TVPuberty InfrontCole DeBoerBracesChelsea HouskaDrew PinskyNessa DiabAdam LindAdam

• Iggy Azalea Doesn't Disappoint With Her #BussItChallenge

  I'm sure plenty of people probably would've lost their minds throughout the pandemic if it weren't for TikTok. The platform became one of the biggest in social media and the viral challenges it produced have spilled into other platforms like Instagram and Twitter. Beyond that, it's also been an incredibly useful tool for artists to get their music to spread quickly. Often times, it's songs that have been out for a while that end up gaining traction months down the line.Read Full StoryCelebritiesInstagramHit RecordTwitter Inc.TikTokSouth AsianAustralianDone-up SwagThingsArtistsSocial MediaErica BanksGaining Traction MonthsDallasPeopleIggy Azalea

• Denzer Platinum Realty Offering Vacant Pristine South Melbourne Beach Oceanfront Property

  BREVARD COUNTY• MELBOURNE BEACH, FLORIDA – Don’t miss a once in a lifetime opportunity to own vacant pristine, oceanfront property in South Melbourne Beach, Florida, as Jesse Piccolo of DEZER PLATINUM REALTY is offering five totally unique, large beachside lots for sale. For more information, call Jesse Piccolo at 386-338-2929.Read Full StoryState LandBrevard CountyDEZER PLATINUM REALTYSpace Coast Daily 'sSouth Melbourne BeachLocationAcre LotPreserve LandSaleBREVARD COUNTYJesse PiccoloGiles MaloneLive Video

• GCC’s annual Food Drop will bring food boxes to over 6,000 families this Saturday

  ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. – Granger Community Church in Granger and Elkhart is hosting its annual Food Drop for families in need, and both church campuses are looking for volunteers to help distribute boxes of food. This Saturday, January 23, volunteers will be meeting in the parking lots of the...Read Full StoryLocal FoodFood PantriesFood DriveFood TrucksVolunteersCommunityHomeless SheltersFood DropGCCGranger Community ChurchSouth Bend :Food BoxesKitchenMethodist ChurchST. JOSEPH COUNTY

• Family of Black doctor who delivered Kamala Harris reflects on his legacy

  OAKLAND, Calif. - As Kamala Harris gets ready to make history as the country’s first female, Black and South Asian vice president, her story is resonating with a Bay Area family whose connection to Harris started in the 1960s. Wendy Driver-Guinn and her brother Brad Driver spoke with KTVU’s Cristina...Read Full StoryDoctor WhoHerrickKtvuPoliticsFamily HistoryBlack HistoryLegacyKTVUKaiser HospitalHoward University DecadesLyckberg PharmacyCowell HospitalCal BerkeleyTang CenterBlack And SouthKamala HarrisAlta BatesShyamala Gopalan Harris

• More than 60% of all US Covid-19 cases were reported since Election Day. Now experts warn a variant could further fuel spread

  The stunning numbers follow brutal surges in the past months -- during which the US saw hundreds of thousands of new cases daily, while Covid-19 hospitalization and death numbers reached all-time highs. And just about a year since the first Covid-19 case was reported in the US, the country's death toll is fast approaching 400,000 -- more than the number of Americans who died in World War I, the Vietnam War and the Korean War combined and nearly as many Americans who died in World War II. Currently, more than 123,800 Americans are hospitalized with the virus, according to the COVID Tracking Project.While that number may be down from its January 6 peak of 132,476, hospitals and health care workers across the country are still under tremendous pressure. In Georgia, one hospital official told CNN affiliate WSB they were so full they had to treat patients in hallways and ambulances.In Texas, the city of Laredo has run out of ICU beds and sent an emergency message to residents urging them to stay home, city spokeswoman Noraida Negron said. Over the weekend, the city had to send multiple patients to hospitals in other areas to accommodate the surge."We had no beds whatsoever," Negron added.There's good reason to keep your guard upAnd while new cases across the country have also been trending down since hitting a peak last week, experts urge Americans not to let their guard down yet.For one, even with the apparent improvement, the country still averaged about 207,000 new cases daily in the past seven days. "The virus has established itself in the human population and it's not going anywhere," infectious disease expert Amesh Adalja told CNN. "We're going to see a lot of transmission until we cross the threshold for herd immunity."But also, the Covid-19 variant first identified in the UK is spreading across the US and experts have warned that while it does not appear to be more deadly, it is more easily transmittable and will lead to even more infections. More than 120 cases of the variant have been identified across 20 states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the agency warned last week a model trajectory of the variant in the US "exhibits rapid growth in early 2021." "In some ways, it's much worse that it is more contagious because it will infect many, many more people and unfortunately probably will end up killing more people," Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told CNN Monday night. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday said the variant is the biggest challenge facing the city. "Our health care leadership here in New York City, they say we are racing against time to vaccinate the maximum people before that UK variant spreads like wildfire," he told CNN. 9 states have administered more than half of their vaccine dosesAcross the US, more than 12 million people have received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and more than 31 million doses have been distributed, according to CDC data. The ratio of doses administered to doses delivered sits at roughly 39% -- but the metric varies wildly across different states. About nine states, and Washington, DC, have administered more than 50% of the vaccine doses that were distributed, according to CDC data. Those are Colorado, Connecticut, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and West Virginia. Two states have administered less than 25% of their doses: Alabama and Georgia. How other states are trying to ramp up vaccinationsTo boost their numbers, parts of the country are working to find ways to ramp up vaccinations.In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers was at the opening of a new Covid-19 vaccination site Monday at the Prevea Health/University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Kress Events Center.Tommy Thompson, president of the University of Wisconsin System, says more vaccination sites will be opening up soon, with the goal of opening sites on all 26 campuses in the system.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced the state was launching a vaccine pilot program and will partner with local health and school districts to target certain populations."These sites will initially serve adults 65 years of age or older, as well as prekindergarten through grade 12 educators, school staff, and child care workers," a news release from the governor's office said. "The community vaccination pilot program will be the foundation for mass vaccination clinics in Minnesota communities once the federal government increases vaccine supply."In California, all Los Angeles County residents 65 and older will be eligible to receive the vaccine later this week, under a new executive order signed by Board of Supervisors Chair Hilda Solis. That comes just days after health officials in the county said they did not have enough supply to begin vaccinating that age group, after the state expanded eligibility. "If we are to ever get out of this dark winter, it is critical that we make headway vaccinating people 65 years of age and older as soon as possible -- in line with Governor Gavin Newsom's recommendations," Solis said in a statement. In Florida, 40,000 people are overdue for their second doseMeanwhile in Florida, more than 40,000 people who received their first vaccine dose are overdue for their second shot, according to the latest report from the state's health department. "Overdue" individuals are defined as "those who have received their first dose and have passed the recommended time frame to receive their second dose."It's unclear why the residents are overdue.Both vaccines that have been authorized for the US market are a two-dose series. The second dose should be administered 21 days after the first dose for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and 28 days after for the Moderna vaccine.The data comes as Dr. Anthony Fauci highlighted the importance of sticking with both full doses of the vaccine in the appropriate time frame.Speaking at the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave Monday, Fauci said that an experiment evaluating different dosing regimens was recently carried out in people ages 18 to 55. The results showed that when a half dose was given followed by a booster half dose, the level of antibodies produced was comparable to that of someone given two full doses. "However, that is not clinical proof that they are equally comparable in protecting you," he said. "Bottom line, stick with full dose, followed by full dose."CNN's Amanda Watts, Ashley Killough, Naomi Thomas, Michael Nedelman, Lauren Mascarenhas, Gregory Lemos, Deidre McPhillips and Jacqueline Howard contributed to this report. Washington , DcCovid-19PfizerSouth DakotaHealth OfficialsData TransmissionEmergency WorkersVaccine DosesGovernment OfficialsAmericansCNNWSBFuelMass Vaccination ClinicsCDC DataAshish JhaBill De BlasioTony EversTommy ThompsonTim WalzHilda SolisAnthony FauciGavin Newsom

• Los Angeles lifts air-quality limits for cremations amid a backlog of bodies caused by COVID-19

  A California air quality agency has temporarily suspended limits on how many bodies can be cremated amid a lack of storage space for those who died from the novel coronavirus. The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) issued an emergency order on Sunday that temporarily suspends permit requirements for crematoriums for at least the next 10 days in Los Angeles County.Read Full StoryCremationsCovid-19Air Pollution DeathsAgency OfficialsHealth OfficialsPublic OfficialsCounty OfficialsSouth Coast AQMDThe National GuardKTLAICUFox News 'EmergencyHospitalsCalifornia

• After seeing floods, Indonesian leader visits quake zone

  MAMUJU, Indonesia (AP) — Relief workers worked to clear up rubble of collapsed buildings Tuesday on an Indonesian island where a deadly earthquake left thousands of people homeless.The 6.2 magnitude earthquake Friday that killed at least 84 people was one of multiple recent disasters in Indonesia.President Joko Widodo, who visited a flood-hit area on Borneo island on Monday, visited the quake-hit areas of West Sulawesi province Tuesday to reassure people the government’s response is reaching those who are struggling.He pledged to rebuild government buildings that collapsed and to help people rebuild their damaged houses with aid of up to 50 million rupiah ($3,560) as he toured the hard-hit city of Mamuju, a city of nearly 300,000 people and the provincial capital.“We hope with the assistance by the central government can hasten recovery of collapsed houses and economy,” he said in a speech after visiting survivors being housed in shelters on a soccer field. “The government services should be returned to normal,” he said.The National Search and Rescue Agency counted at least 30,000 survivors who have moved to shelters in Mamuju and its neighboring district of Majene in West Sulawesi, as the government and aid agencies pooled efforts to meet the survival needs of shaken communities.Four days after the disaster, the streets of Mamuju were still covered in debris and most people have slept outdoors, fearful their homes would crumble if strong aftershocks come. Sniffer dogs were being used to search for bodies and possible survivors.The president had traveled Monday to flood-affected areas in South Kalimantan province on Borneo, the island known for rainforests and orangutans where floods since last week have inundated several regions. The floods killed several villagers and forced tens thousands of people to flee their homes. Floods also reported in many other provinces in the vast archipelago nation.Widodo said rainfall caused the floods in South Kalimantan, but environmentalists blame deforestation by mining, palm oil and agricultural industries.The quake and flood disasters follow a deadly landslide in West Java on Jan. 9 that left 40 people buried in tons of mud. On the same day, a Sriwijaya Air jet nosedived into the Java Sea, killing all 62 people on board.Indonesia also last week began vaccinating health workers with a COVID-19 vaccine in a campaign that aims to immunize two-thirds of the population in the world’s fourth most populous country. It has confirmed more than 917,000 infections and 26,000 deaths from the pandemic, the most in Southeast Asia.And on Saturday, Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on Indonesia’s most densely populated island of Java, spewed hot clouds as far away as 4.5 kilometers (nearly 3 miles). The eruption caused panic but no casualties. Indonesia, home to more than 260 million people, is lined with seismic faults and is frequently hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. Annual monsoon flooding also causes problems, and its transit infrastructure is often weak and stretched beyond its capacity.____Karmini reported from Jakarta.EarthquakesCasualtiesVolcanoExtreme WeatherIndonesia EarthquakeFloodsDisaster AreasDisaster ReliefJakartaIndonesianMAMUJUAPMamujuSriwijaya AirSouth Kalimantan ProvinceJoko Widodo