The weekly tallies of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States have never been higher, and state officials are warning of more alarming patterns following the holiday season. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the state was seeing a “real and significant increase in cases and our positivity rate from people’s gatherings around the holiday.”
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Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said Saturday he thinks President Donald Trump “committed impeachable offenses,” but said he is not certain attempting to remove the President from office with just a few days left in his term is the right course of action. “I do think the President committed impeachable offenses,” Toomey told Fox
Continue Reading White House officials pressured a top Georgia federal prosecutor to resign ahead of the state’s high stakes Senate runoff elections because President Donald Trump was upset he wasn’t pursuing Trump’s baseless allegations of widespread election fraud strongly enough, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Saturday that
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President Donald Trump is considering having Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz defend him if he faces another impeachment trial, two sources familiar with the matter said. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment next week if Trump doesn’t resign, and Trump is beginning to mull who would represent
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Nota del editor: este artículo contiene imágenes y descripciones de grupos extremistas y sus creencias. (CNN) — Banderas, letreros y símbolos de grupos racistas, supremacistas blancos y extremistas se exhibieron junto con pancartas de Trump 2020 y banderas estadounidenses en los disturbios del miércoles en el Capitolio de EE.UU. Las imágenes cuentan parte de la
Continue Reading President Donald Trump announced Friday that he won’t attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20. If he follows through, he’ll become only the fourth president to boycott his successor’s regularly scheduled inauguration and the first in more than 150 years to do so. Two other presidents missed their successors’ regularly scheduled swearings-in, Martin Van
Continue Reading Members of Congress will be getting increased security while traveling through airports in the aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol Wednesday and as several senators have been harassed at airports, according to a notice sent to lawmakers Saturday. The US Capitol Police and Sergeant at Arms’ office said they will coordinate with other
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The woman who was caught on video falsely accusing the 14-year-old son of a popular Black musician of cell phone theft has been charged with two counts of attempted assault, New York police said. Miya Ponsetto, 22, of Piru, California, also faces attempted robbery and grand larceny charges as well as a charge of acting
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The NFL playoffs are here. Beginning Saturday, 14 teams will face off for the honor of playing in the much-anticipated Super Bowl LV, scheduled for February 7. With games being played during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the season has been anything but typical. Now, though, we’ve reached the postseason. Here’s what you should know going
Continue Reading Derrick Evans, the West Virginia state lawmaker who was allegedly among the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, resigned Saturday. “I hereby resign as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, effective immediately,” he wrote in a brief letter addressed to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice. “I take full responsibility for
Continue Reading An Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun two blocks from the US Capitol building on Wednesday for hours before authorities ever noticed, according to federal prosecutors. Another man allegedly showed up in the nation’s capital with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds
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It took President Donald Trump years and tens of thousands of tweets to build up 88.7 million followers on Twitter. It took a single moment Friday to lose them forever. He may yet be impeached for a second time, an historical stain on an already tainted legacy, but the loss of his Twitter handle may
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — Autoridades de salud de El Salvador están tras la pista de 58 pasajeros y la tripulación que el jueves viajaron en un vuelo de la aerolínea Spirit Airlines desde Houston, Texas, hacia San Salvador, debido a que una persona a bordo tenía una prueba positiva de PCR por covid-19. La irregularidad fue
Continue Reading The Democratic National Committee is on the precipice of a dramatic change, shifting its role from oppositional force challenging Donald Trump at every turn to a political megaphone for a Democrat-dominated Washington. And the man multiple top Democrats say is expected to become the next chair of the party — Jaime Harrison, the former South
Continue Reading Firefighters in Florida this week helped rescue a bald eagle with a fishing hook stuck in its beak and the attached line wrapped around its wing and beak. Firefighters at Pasco County Fire Rescue Station 21 on Thursday were greeted by two children holding the injured bald eagle and seeking help, according to the station’s
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Deutsche Bank entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors who allege the bank violated anti-bribery laws while doing business abroad. The bank has agreed to pay more than $100 million in penalties, prosecutors announced Friday. The German bank entered into the agreement with Brooklyn federal prosecutors remotely. The criminal complaint charges the bank
Continue Reading (CNN) — Se teme que un avión de Sriwijaya Air que transportaba a 62 personas a bordo se haya estrellado poco después de despegar de Yakarta, según el Jefe del Comité Nacional de Seguridad del Transporte de Indonesia, Suryanto Cahyono. El vuelo 182 de Sriwijaya Air desde Yakarta a Pontianak, en Borneo indonesio, perdió contacto
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Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington, DC, last summer found themselves facing a massive show of force: military helicopters hovering over the city, National Guard troops patrolling the streets and tear gas filling the air. When a mob of President Trump’s supporters broke into the US Capitol on Wednesday, they were confronted by a far
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Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOV) — A man and a woman were shot and killed in Spanish Lake Friday night. Officers with the St. Louis County Police Department found a man and a woman shot in the 11000 block of Lilac Avenue just before 7:30 p.m. The woman was
Continue Reading The police officer who died after a mob of President Trump’s supporters invaded the US Capitol on Wednesday was a New Jersey native who had served in the National Guard. Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick died Thursday night “due to injuries sustained while on-duty,” Capitol Police said in a statement. He was one of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CHEROKEE, N.C. (WLOS) — When you first walk into Indian Ink Studio, you instantly see there are a lot of options. Under the roof of what was at one time only a tattoo studio, now houses a retail space, barber’s chair, tanning bed, hair styling and cosmetic tattooing.
Continue Reading Republican US Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois issued an apology Friday after invoking Adolf Hitler during a speech earlier in the week — comments that have been widely condemned and have some Illinois Democrats calling for her resignation. “I sincerely apologize for any harm my words caused,” the freshman congresswoman said in a statement Friday.
Continue Reading Six House Republicans were captured on video refusing masks offered by a colleague during the US Capitol insurrection on Wednesday. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Delaware Democrat, was shown approaching the group of colleagues and offering blue surgical masks. The video, shot from inside a safe room where the lawmakers gathered during the chaos, was
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NORTHUMBERLAND, PA (WNEP) — Joe Diblin was a familiar face on Newswatch 16 throughout the years. The Air Force veteran from Northumberland enjoyed sharing his memories of World War II, both good and bad. Diblin died this week from complications with COVID-19 at the age of 103. “Joe
Continue Reading The Los Angeles Clippers found out just how hot Stephen Curry can be after allowing the Golden State Warriors to come from a 22-point deficit. It’s not like NBA fans have not seen this kind of performance from Curry before, but Friday night felt like the Warriors star was on another level. Curry hit 9
Continue Reading Pope Francis said in a recent interview that the violence that broke out at the United States Capitol building on Wednesday “must be condemned.” “Violence is always like this,” the Pope said in comments to Italy’s Canale 5 channel that CNN translated to English, adding that that there are violent outbreaks in every country’s history
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso police and Crime Stoppers are asking for the public’s help in finding a thief who burglarized a west El Paso business and stole dozens of cell phones. The incident happened on Saturday, Jan. 2, at about 5:10 a.m. A man approached the Metro By T-Mobile store located along the
Continue Reading As images and social media posts of Wednesday’s insurrection at the US Capitol circulate online, some of those who were present are being identified, and some have lost or left their jobs because of it. A man wearing his Maryland company’s ID is terminated Navistar, a direct marketing company in Maryland, announced that an employee
Continue Reading President Donald Trump last month urged the chief investigator for the Georgia secretary of state’s office to “find the fraud” in the 2020 presidential election, telling the individual that they would be a “national hero,” according to a source with knowledge of the call. The phone call, which was first reported by The Washington Post,
Continue Reading Aaron Rodgers is showing his charitable side by throwing $500,000 to the Barstool Fund, a non-profit organization helping small businesses struggling in the pandemic. Barstool President Dave Portnoy hosted the Green Bay Packers’ quarterback on an Instagram live Friday not knowing what Rodgers wanted to discuss. But shortly into the conversation, Rodgers made his intentions
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