The Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is expected to draw to a close Wednesday as the lawmakers who made up the jury will vote on whether to acquit the US President on two articles of impeachment. When will the vote happen? The Senate is scheduled to vote at 4 p.m. ET , though
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Viola Davis and Showtime are pairing up to put a focus on First Ladies. The premium cable network has ordered one-hour drama “First Ladies” from Viola Davis’ JuVee Productions that would star the Oscar winner as former first lady Michelle Obama. The focus of the first season, which will “peel back the curtain on the
Continue Reading The Oscar race is viewed as more wide-open than usual, thanks in part to the absence of a completely dominant frontrunner, as well as hurdles that some key contenders would have to overcome in history-making fashion. With the entertainment industry at a crossroads, whichever movie walks away with the Academy Award — selections are always
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President Donald Trump wasn’t the only one to deliver a State of the Union address on Tuesday. “Pose” star Billy Porter gave his second LGBTQ State of the Union for Logo TV hours before Trump addressed Congress and the nation, and his presidency was a large part of Porter’s speech. “Last year, I told you
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Click here for updates on this story Scranton (WNEP) — A woman from Scranton has spent her entire life celebrating her dozens of nieces and nephews birthdays and planning New Year’s Eve parties. At 109 years old, she is not slowing down. “You lived a good life?” Irene’s nephew Paul asked. “Oh yeah,” Irene agreed.
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As the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread beyond China, federal public health officials in the US are taking a rare step: issuing a mandatory quarantine — the first one in more than 50 years. “The goal here is to slow the entry of this virus into the United States,” says Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of
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At least 38 people, many of them rescuers, have been killed and dozens are feared trapped after two avalanches near Turkey’s eastern border with Iran, authorities say. More than 100 rescue workers had been sent to Van province in eastern Turkey to try and reach two people believed to be still buried after an avalanche
Continue Reading If you are starting a new job this year, or just want to update your tax information with your employer, some of the paperwork is going to look different. A lot different. The IRS has introduced a that must be used by all employers in 2020 to better accommodate recent changes to the tax law.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lee’s Summit (WDAF) — Christmas might be over, but for one Lee’s Summit family, it’s Chiefsmas, and 7-year old Cayden Thompson got his wish. His emotional reaction to the team’s comeback and big win during Super Bowl LIV is now being viewed all around the world. “It was
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The Kansas City Chiefs‘ championship parade route had a little more activity than was planned for Wednesday morning. A car led police on a brief chase on the route in downtown Kansas City more than three hours before the parade kicked off. The chase ended when a police car nudged the fleeing vehicle in a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Monroe County (WNEP) — A community field that sits right next to a jail in the Poconos was vandalized over the weekend. It happened at Monroe County Recreational Fields in Hamilton Township, near Saylorsburg. The damage to bathrooms and a storage building included vents kicked in, gaping holes
Continue Reading Stars that have companions aren’t always friendly to them, as evidenced by a stellar confrontation witnessed by astronomers. They studied the binary star system, HD101584, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile to find out what happened. They discovered that the stars violently lashed out at each other. And it makes for
Continue Reading An ultramassive monster galaxy dating back to the early days of the universe lived fast and died young, astronomers say in a new study. The galaxy, XMM-2599, existed 12 billion years ago. It rapidly formed a bunch of stars and died, according to data and measurements astronomers took using the W. M. Keck Observatory’s Multi-Object
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It may sound like a gruesome detail from a dystopian movie, but a team of scientists believe yarn grown from human skin could soon be used to stitch up surgical patients and repair organs. The researchers say their “human textile,” which they developed from skin cells, can be used for knitting, sewing and even crochet,
Continue Reading Tennis’ grand slam circuit switches its focus to Paris following the Australian Open, but Roland Garros will have a different look for this year. The French Open is one of the most historic competitions in the world, but the clay court venue has been brought bang up to date with the addition of a retractable
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal Wednesday in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested civic norms and fed the tumultuous 2020 race for the White House. With Chief Justice John Roberts presiding, senators sworn to do
Continue Reading The US trade deficit shrank for the first time in six years in 2019 as President Donald Trump continued to ramp up his trade war with China. The deficit in goods and services narrowed by 1.7% to $616.8 billion last year, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Trump has pledged to narrow the deficit and bring
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Omaha (WOWT) — An Iowa teenager moved to Omaha for difficult reasons, to deal with a debilitating disease. Alaina and Julie Spaulding are hoping members of their new community will come together and show her the healing power of love. “I listen to Arianna Grande, Selena Gomez, Taylor
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(CNN) — Se espera que el tercer juicio de destitución en el Senado de un presidente en funciones en la historia de Estados Unidos finalice el 5 de febrero con una votación que absuelva a Donald Trump. El Senado votará sobre el veredicto por dos cargos de juicio político: abuso de poder y obstrucción del
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The PGA Tour Series-China is moving its global qualifying tournament from China to Indonesia due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, according a tour news release. “We felt this change was the best course of action considering what’s happening in China right now,” said Greg Carlson, the executive director of the tour’s China series. The tournament,
Continue Reading First it was Bella Hadid and now Robert Pattinson is the one. Last year the British newspaper Daily Mail named Hadid “the most beautiful woman in the world” and the paper is now declaring that Pattinson is “the most handsome man in the world.” The Daily Mail makes this determination via cosmetic surgeon Dr. Julian
Continue Reading Fred Guttenberg, the father of a victim in the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, was escorted from President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night while the President defended the Second Amendment. Guttenberg, who had attended the State of the Union as a guest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told CNN that
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The old cliché that a picture is worth 1,000 words really undersells two iconic photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: One from Tuesday’s State of the Union speech by President Donald Trump, the other from the same speech a year ago. Each photo will be remembered long after Trump’s specific words from the speeches are
Continue Reading All travelers arriving from mainland China will face a “compulsory” 14-day quarantine on reaching Hong Kong, as the number of deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus spiked again in China. The city’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who has been under intense public pressure to stop anyone crossing into Hong Kong from mainland China, said the legislation
Continue Reading(CNN) — Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat facing an uphill reelection battle in 2020, said Wednesday morning he will vote to convict President Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment. Jones was one of a handful of senators whose vote was still in question on the verdict of Trump’s impeachment trial, which will come
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In last night’s State of the Union address, the President took credit for a strong US economy, claiming he had reversed failed economic policies of the Obama administration and sparked a new era of prosperity. “If we hadn’t reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration, the world would not now be witnessing this
Continue Reading President Donald Trump talked about a lot of things in his State of the Union address and painted an inspiring picture of the United States under his leadership. Here are 13 big things he left out: Climate change — Trump did mention that he wants the US to plant more trees, but he didn’t mention
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Portland (KPTV) — The Catlin Gabel scandal is growing. Five women, who are former students of the school, have filed four lawsuits, saying they were abused by school staff. The new lawsuits are civil cases, not criminal cases, so FOX 12 is not naming the people listed in
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Almance County (WGHP) — A paramedic lost his daughter in a fire at his own home near Elon, according to Fire Chief Edward Lipscomb Jr. and the Altamahaw-Ossipee Fire Department At about 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, A-O Fire Department responded to a house fire on Burch Bridge Road, the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Houma (WGNO) — State Police investigators have arrested a former Houma Police Officer for stealing money from a department expense account. Investigators say that in October of 2019, the Houma Police Department requested that State Police conduct an investigation into missing money from an expense account within the
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