Despite hopes of widespread vaccinations this year, experts warned the start of 2021 would be a very rough time in this pandemic. It turns out the first two weeks have been abysmal. The United States just shattered its all-time records for the most Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths reported in one day: — On January
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The first confirmation hearing for a crucial position in the Biden administration has been postponed from Friday until Tuesday of next week. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence postponed Friday’s confirmation hearing for President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be the next director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, the committee’s leadership said in a statement Thursday
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In a last-minute bid to persuade President Donald Trump to pardon Julian Assange, Wikileaks has reached out to several high-profile reporters asking for help in its efforts to rescue its founder from potential life in prison. The messages sent to reporters over Twitter direct message said that Assange’s partner, Stella Moris, had directed Wikileaks to
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Click here for updates on this story BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (KFSM) — One man is dead after Bentonville officers shot him when he allegedly charged at them with a kitchen knife during a domestic disturbance. Early Sunday (Jan. 10) morning, just before 3:30 a.m., Bentonville Police received a report of a domestic disturbance happening at a
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(CNN Español) — El presidente de México Andrés Manuel López Obrador fijó su postura respecto a la exoneración, por parte de la Fiscalía General de la República, a Salvador Cienfuegos, exsecretario de Defensa durante el mandato del expresidente Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018). El mandatario mexicano dijo que no hay elementos para juzgar a Cienfuegos, pero
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Canada got a one-two punch Friday as public health officials said vaccine deliveries would be delayed and its Covid-19 measures still aren’t working to control a resurging virus. “We have to buckle down, this is our best way through in the coming weeks of winter,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a news conference Friday
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Mid-Michigan, USA (WNEM) — A mid-Michigan businessman has pleaded guilty to dumping untreated waste into Flint’s sewer system. Robert Massey, president, and owner of Oil Chem, Inc., pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Water Act. The charge stems from illegal discharges of landfill leachate, totaling more than 47
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One is dropping in on the White House phone operators, addressing troops at bases across the country, paying a visit to national guardsmen in place for the inauguration and speaking by phone with his successor. The other is holed up inside, silenced on social media, resisting entreaties to deliver a farewell address and refusing to
Continue Reading The executive hired to help boost Walmart’s e-commerce business to compete with Amazon is leaving the company. Marc Lore, who joined the company in 2016 after selling his online startup Jet.com to Walmart, is retiring at the end of January, the company announced Friday. Lore, the chief executive of Walmart’s US e-commerce arm, initially led
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It’s folly to examine why some things go viral on the internet, and by doing so one risks discounting the beauty of the simplest answer: They just do. Nothing makes sense. Roll with it. Or at least, that’s the easiest thing to tell yourself when “The Wellerman,” a 19th Century whaling song, has been knocking
Continue Reading Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson painted a scathing picture of his old boss President Donald Trump as someone who made uninformed decisions that were not based in reality — a stark contrast to Trump’s top diplomat Mike Pompeo, who is heaping praise on the outgoing President in his final days in office. “His understanding
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NEW BRITAIN, CT (WFSB) — A Connecticut wildlife rehab center is struggling to survive because of the COVID-19 crises. When wildlife animals find themselves in trouble, New Britain’s Claws N Paws Rehabilitation Center is there to help. “Our wildlife do not have a voice. They have no one
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to send the House’s impeachment article to the Senate next week, according to a source familiar with her thinking, which will kickstart the beginning of the trial, though Pelosi would not say publicly Friday when she will do so. Pelosi’s decision on when to formally transmit the impeachment resolution
Continue Reading The US has counted more Covid-19 deaths these last two weeks than any other 14-day stretch of the pandemic. And at this rate, the nation’s overall coronavirus death toll may hit 400,000 before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on Wednesday. The country reported more than 42,800 Covid-19 deaths during the first 14 days of
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A pheasant took flight from the White House Thursday afternoon. Toted by Debbie Meadows, wife of White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the taxidermy bird was moved out of Meadows’ West Wing office, among other boxes and souvenirs from his time in the administration, and placed into the trunk of a waiting SUV. With
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — República Dominicana informó este viernes que detectó el primer caso de covid-19 con la variante de Reino Unido. Según informó el Gabinete de Salud que encabeza la vicepresidenta del país, Raquel Peña, se trata de una mujer dominicana que llegó en un vuelo desde Londres a fines de diciembre. El comunicado oficial detalló que
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EL PASO, Texas — University Medical Center said Friday it had just received 5,000 new doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine that it planned to distribute soon at a new mega-site being set up at the El Paso County Coliseum. “We received 5,000 doses, they have arrived. We will again be opening registration,” said UMC
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday announced that retired Lt. General Russel Honoré will lead a review of the “security infrastructure” of Capitol Hill, following a violent riot that left five people dead earlier this month. “To protect our Democracy, we must now subject the security of the U.S. Capitol Complex to rigorous scrutiny,” Pelosi
Continue Reading Now that Covid-19 vaccination efforts are ramping up, local health officials are on the hunt for locations that can quickly be converted into vaccination clinics, and malls across the country, battered by declines in in-person shopping, are starting to play a role. Mall operators are sitting on plenty of abandoned retail space that might be
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story OZAUKEE COUNTY, Wisconsin (WDJT) — As essential workers at restaurants and other local businesses struggle to make ends meet, workers in Ozaukee County say someone is stealing their tips. Java Dock employees in Port Washington say a man on Thursday, Jan. 14, walked in and stole the money
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — The Nashville Public Library will suspend curbside service and computer reservations at their main location on Sunday, due to a planned protest at the capitol building. The protest, called the “Tennessee Freedom Event,” is connected to a call for rallies at every state capitol
Continue Reading Bumble, the company best known for its female-centered dating app, is getting ready for its big date with Wall Street. The company filed paperwork on Friday for an initial public offering, potentially setting it up for a Wall Street debut at a time when dating apps have become lifelines for single people during the pandemic.
Continue Reading Wells Fargo is still being haunted by its history of ripping off customers. More than four years after the Wells Fargo fake-accounts scandal erupted, the bank reported Friday another $321 million of quarterly losses tied to customer refunds. That brings Wells Fargo’s 2020 total for what it calls customer “remediation” to a staggering $2.2 billion.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story AVIS, Pennsylvania (WNEP) — Smoke billowed out of a building on West Central Avenue in Avis. Firefighters said the father and son who rented an upstairs apartment made it out safely, as did the building owner who runs an antique shop downstairs. Verna Bilbay lives across the street.
Continue Reading Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night TV hosts got a second chance to make fun of an impeachment of President Donald Trump. The pair opened their shows with jokes about the second impeachment, which has never before happened in US history: “It was a day of reckoning in Washington today as the House of
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Federal Police in Brazil have arrested golfer Angel Cabrera on an Interpol red notice for alleged crimes committed in Argentina. In a statement by Federal Police in Rio de Janeiro, an unnamed 51-year-old Argentine was arrested Friday. A Rio de Janeiro Federal Police official who doesn’t want to be identified confirmed to CNN that the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story YORK, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — On Jan. 12, the York County Sheriff’s Office, along with the United States Marshal Service and West Manchester Police Department arrested William R. Taylor, 60, of York on multiple felony charges including rape, two counts of indecent assault, and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, or
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WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Mike Pence has called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris to offer his congratulations and assistance with her transition into office. That’s according to two people who weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the private conversation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Pence’s call comes less than a week before President-elect Joe Biden
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Los Angeles County, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in California, is running out of space to store the bodies of Covid-19 victims and officials are working to create more capacity. About 900 bodies are currently being held at the Los Angeles Medical Examiner Coroner’s Office, which usually has a capacity of 500, according to
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UPDATE, Feb. 4: El Paso police said Thursday a fugitive who was shot and wounded after nearly striking an officer with his car last month has been arrested and booked into jail following his release from the hospital. Authorities for the first time identified him as 32–year old Alejandro Fernandez. Police said Fernandez was being
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