Special News: December 2020

Show HN: 02Books – An open source web app to teach kids to read
4 by Hulless_Barley | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I wanted to share a project that I've been working on designed to help young kids go from reading single words to reading whole books. My husband and I started spending a lot of time teaching our 5-year-old (Alex) to read because our school district is exclusively doing remote learning and I was skeptical that he could learn to read over Zoom. We used flashcards (which Alex found boring) and then combined them into sentences (which Alex found interesting). But the sentence approach requires a lot of arranging pieces of paper and remembering which words you are working on. So I developed 02books for my family and decided to share. You can use it (no account required!) here: https://02books.app/ Github: https://ift.tt/37FO2Wp Thanks for letting me share - this my first real open source project! Regards, Sofya

An elementary school principal in Ohio was suspended for 10 days after airing inflammatory claims on Facebook about George Floyd and COVID-19

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A white supremacist who has advocated for legalizing child porn was arrested and charged with kidnapping a 12-year-old girl he met online

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The CEO of a voting-systems company says politicians around the world are worried that Trump's conspiracy theories will be used to undermine their own elections

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Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison has moved to Lanai, the Hawaiian island he's spent half a billion dollars developing. Here's how Ellison bought 98% of the island and turned it into a sustainability experiment.

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Trump Claims Credit for Vaccines. Some of His Backers Don't Want to Take Them.

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Kuwait's key reformer, son of late emir, dies at 72

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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines should be safe for most Americans, but 5 groups may want to wait for more data before getting shots

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Pfizer said it had millions of doses of vaccine sitting in a warehouse because the federal government hadn't told it where to send them

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Nicola Sturgeon bans travel between Scotland and rest of UK to try to stop new Covid strain

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EXPLAINER: Iran, despite sanctions, has routes to vaccines

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A politician tweeted a list showing how much the EU has agreed to pay for the leading vaccines, confirming rumors of Moderna's sky-high price

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Mitch McConnell announced he will get a COVID-19 vaccine 'in the coming days,' as it is announced that Congress will be receiving a shipment of the vaccine

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The feds insist there's enough vaccine for all states after some officials questioned why the government cut back their shipments

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Over 70 people test positive for COVID-19 at a nursing home in Belgium after a visit from a man dressed up as Santa Claus

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UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says a new coronavirus strain may be spreading faster than the original, but scientists aren't so sure

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'They chose to subvert the Constitution': Pelosi slams House Republicans who backed Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn election results

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Belarusian opposition leader to meet EU leaders amid drive for 'people's embassies'

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Covid: First round of US vaccinations to begin on Monday

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CNN's Jake Tapper thanks Trump for 'exposing' Republicans who supported Texas' 'un-democratic, un-American, mendacious joke of a lawsuit'

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Proud Boy Leader Says He Was Invited to White House. White House Says It Was Actually a Public Xmas Tour.

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Wall Street Journal op-ed telling Jill Biden to drop her 'Dr' title condemned as 'patronizing drivel.' Even the WSJ higher education reporter was disgusted.

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Saturday 12 December 2020

Chemical weapons watchdog criticizes Syria over 19 issues

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Covid: Australian vaccine abandoned over false HIV response

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The Backstory: Will the COVID-19 vaccine be required? Any side effects? Will I have to pay for it? Answers to your most-asked questions.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court shows divisions as it hears Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn state's election

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Pfizer's vaccine authorization means 2.9 million high-risk people will get the shot within days - the first step in a 9-month path to normalcy

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'Our bad': A Florida newspaper apologized for its endorsement of congressional candidate who supported Texas' lawsuit to overturn election results

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Biden: Cabinet picks from Obama era mean 'bold new thinking'

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New questions emerge about GOP Senator David Perdue's financial dealings

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Biden has tapped Obama-era security chief Susan Rice for a top domestic job, as some Democrats are resentful that his old allies are scooping up top jobs

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Senate sends Trump defense bill he has vowed to veto

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Ted Cruz says Senate will likely blockade Biden's nominations based on debunked election fraud allegations

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Friday 11 December 2020

Iran summons Turkish ambassador over Erdogan remarks in Baku

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End of the road for Donald Trump? US Supreme Court rejects lawsuit that tried to overturn election

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuses Republicans of defunding the police by refusing to send aid to state and local governments

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Republicans are signaling they won't support the $908 billion bipartisan stimulus plan, leaving Democrats concerned the parties won't be able to compromise

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Dianne Feinstein forgets conversations and gets upset with her staff for not briefing her on a topic shortly after they do, new report says

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