COVID in L.A.: They’re Running Out of Pine for Coffins

By Jason McGahan

Overloaded ICUs are feeding overloaded funeral homes, where things are somehow even crazier than ever seemed possible.

By Matt Wilstein

The late-night shows have been wall-to-wall Trump for more than four years. Will they be able to move on and... mock Joe Biden?

By Alaina Demopoulos

Pierre Cardin, who died at the age of 98, will be known forever as both a fashion visionary and branding master who faced down sneering, and showed designers new ways to sell.

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By Clive Irving

U.S. airlines are ready to put the jets back in the air. Europe’s regulator (and Sully Sullenberger) wants more fixes. And the FAA is still trying to gag whistleblowers.

By Ana Lucia Murillo

Fired police officer Adam Coy claimed Andre Hill was holding a gun but his colleague has provided a different version of events.

By Will Sommer

Trump’s former national security adviser is going all in on QAnon, selling QAnon T-shirts and launching a QAnon news site

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By Tom Sykes

Meghan and Harry’s debut podcast on Spotify wasn’t revelatory. But when they brought Archie to the mic it all changed, as their son wished the world a very cute, “Happy new year.”

By Wayne Curtis

The spirits, cocktails bars, and liquor-adjacent activities that helped make 2020 more bearable for our columnist.

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Meanwhile, President Trump is on the golf course.

 TERRIFYING 

Sarah Simental, who had no underlying health conditions, died just three days after she went to the hospital with a headache, sore throat and body aches.

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 TIME TO LOG OFF 

Hilaria Baldwin, born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, grew up in Massachusetts—but until this week, she had purported to be from Spain.

 COVID MURDER MYSTERY 

John Liquori may have also had COVID on the day he killed his wife, a local shop owner who had successfully pivoted to selling face masks.

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