Acting US Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said Wednesday that the agency had taken action ahead of the January 6 riot based on intelligence that extremists planned to participate in the preceding rally and planned to be armed, but that the intelligence failed to predict the scope of the attack, which would ultimately overwhelm officers
Continue Reading Sen. Lisa Murkowski expressed concerns on Wednesday about the social media history of President Joe Biden’s nominee to be budget director, the latest warning sign for the White House since the Alaska Republican could seal Neera Tanden’s fate. “It seems that in this world we’ve kind of gotten numb to derogatory tweets,” Murkowski told reporters
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Personal Birth date: August 8, 1953 Birth place: Mobile, Alabama Birth name: Lloyd James Austin III Father: Lloyd James Austin Jr., postal worker Mother: Aletia Taylor Austin, homemaker Marriage: Charlene Denise (Banner) Austin (early 1980s-present) Children: Reginald Hill (stepson);
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While on a journey to study the sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured an incredible new view of Venus. The mission, which launched in 2018, is intended to study the sun and reveal some of its mysteries. Over the course of seven years, the probe will travel through the sun’s atmosphere and come closer
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(CNN Español) –– La Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos señaló que el desconocimiento del Estado de Nicaragua de su responsabilidad en las múltiples violaciones de derechos humanos cometidas desde el inicio de las protestas antigubernamentales en 2018 «ha perpetuado la impunidad y ha fomentado la repetición de dichas
Continue Reading The world held its breath awaiting news of Tiger Woods’ condition after the golf legend suffered serious injuries Tuesday in a rollover crash near Los Angeles. Woods, 45, was awake and responsive after a lengthy surgery at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, according to a statement early Wednesday on his Twitter account. Here’s what we know
Continue Reading Only days before a dramatic engine failure on a United Airlines flight, federal regulators had met about requiring more frequent inspections of the same type of engine, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. The Federal Aviation Administration review board meeting late last week, which has not been previously reported, is in line with
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott, speaking Wednesday evening in a rare statewide televised address, sought to reassure Texans that the state was moving aggressively to get to the bottom of the power grid failure that left millions of them in the cold and dark last week. “Tragic does not even begin to describe” the suffering
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Click here for updates on this story JONESBORO, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — The family of Imani Bell has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against several Elite Scholars Academy employees, attorney Justin D. Miller announced Wednesday. The 16-year-old Elite Scholars Academy basketball player died of heat stroke in August 2019 when she collapsed while taking
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ATLANTA, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — A bill aimed at preventing Georgia city and county governments from making deep cuts in the budgets of their local police agencies passed in the Georgia House of Representatives on Wednesday. Sponsored by state Rep. Houston Gaines, R-Athens, the bill would limit
Continue Reading Arizona lawmakers are debating a new set of voting bills — including one that would allow lawmakers to review election results “if needed” and would grant the legislature the power to pick the state’s presidential electors — as Republican lawmakers around the country work to change election laws in the wake of the 2020 election.
Continue Reading More than three years after former senior US intelligence officer Marc Polymeropoulos suffered a mysterious attack in Moscow that changed his life forever, he finally has a diagnosis: a traumatic brain injury, sleep insomnia, and anxiety. The determination from Walter Reed Medical Center this month comes after he spent years fighting to get specialized medical
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Over the last year, the worldwide web has started to look less worldwide. Europe is floating regulation that could impose temporary bans on US tech companies that violate its laws. The United States was on the verge of banning TikTok and WeChat, though the new Biden administration is rethinking that move. India, which did ban
Continue Reading Few things have changed less during the course of this century than this nation’s fleet of postal delivery vehicles. The squat, box-like van (OK, let’s just call them what they are–ugly) have a steering wheel on the right to make it easier for drivers to reach out and put mail in curbside mail boxes. They
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story HENDERSON COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Fifth graders at Dana Elementary Schools are crafting “surprise care kits.” The students decided to take on this activity to show their appreciation for what the school nurses have done since last March to keep the county’s schools safe. The kids said
Continue Reading Fry’s Electronics suddenly closed all of its stores overnight, ending a nearly four-decade run in business. The company, which had 31 stores across nine US states, said in a statement on its website that it “made the difficult decision to shut down its operations and close its business permanently” because of changing consumer shopping habits
Continue Reading President Joe Biden wants his administration to identify and fix potential cracks in supply chains that could cause shortages of critical items like chips inside cars, minerals in flat-screen televisions, batteries in electric vehicles and ingredients in life-saving medicines. The President directed his team in an executive order on Wednesday to conduct a review to
Continue Reading (CNN) — Científicos que trabajan para el Pentágono han probado con éxito un panel solar del tamaño de una caja de pizza en el espacio, diseñado como un prototipo de un sistema futuro para enviar electricidad desde el espacio a cualquier punto de la Tierra. El panel, conocido como Módulo de Antena de Radiofrecuencia Fotovoltaica
Continue Reading The Manhattan district attorney’s office has subpoenaed financial records related to Steve Bannon’s crowd-funding border-wall effort, signaling that its criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist is advancing, according to people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors sent the subpoenas after Trump pardoned Bannon in late January for federal conspiracy crimes tied to the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story FLORISSANT, Missouri (KMOV) — A Florissant man has been charged for hiding a camera in his foster son’s room. Matthew Phillips, 52, of Florissant, is charged with invasion of privacy and tampering with physical evidence. According to the Florissant Police Department, a hidden camera was found inside the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Harmony, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — Like many kids, Sydney Ring started playing basketball at a young age. But unlike most, she did so with just one hand. A congenital birth defect left Ring without an appendage below her left wrist. “This has been her life, this is the only
Continue Reading US track and field athlete Grant Holloway just broke the world record for the indoor 60-meter hurdles. Holloway, 23, set the record Wednesday in Madrid during the indoor track and field World Championships by running the race in 7.29 seconds. In his last race two weeks ago in Lievin, France, Holloway was just .02 off
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House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced policing legislation named in honor of George Floyd, whose death in police custody last year sparked nationwide calls to address police misconduct and racial injustice. The bill — titled the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 — has provisions to overhaul qualified immunity for law enforcement, prohibitions on
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Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Joe Manchin, a key moderate Democrat from West Virginia, announced Wednesday that he will vote to confirm Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden’s pick to be Interior secretary. The announcement is a boost to the nomination and follows Haaland’s two days of testimony during confirmation hearings before the committee. “I
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Hatfield Township, Pennsylvania (KYW) — A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after he stabbed his younger siblings multiple times at an elementary school playground Monday afternoon, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office. The Lansdale teen has been arrested and charged in the stabbing.
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New York (WCBS) — Police are trying to find a man who allegedly tried to pull down a woman’s pants on a Manhattan subway platform Saturday. The incident happened around 10 a.m. on the northbound N/Q/R/W platform inside the 14th Street-Union Square subway station. Police are trying to
Continue Reading TJ Maxx has taken a hit from the pandemic with fewer people visiting stores and picking up clothing. But the discount giant is betting that customers will re-emerge once they get the Covid-19 vaccine and “revenge” shop to make up for the lost year. TJX, the owner of discount chains TJ Maxx and Marshalls, said
Continue Reading A pair of glasses belonging to a man who was fatally struck by South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was found in the Republican official’s car by detectives investigating the September crash, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, a revelation that led the state’s governor to call for his resignation. Ravnsborg struck and killed 55-year-old Joseph
Continue Reading (CNN) — Tiger Woods tenía planes este martes de continuar filmando con las cadenas GolfTV y Golf Digest, según un comunicado de Golf Digest publicado en Twitter. Ambos canales pertenecen a Discovery. «Tiger tiene una larga asociación con Discovery desarrollando contenido exclusivo para GOLFTV y Golf Digest», dice el comunicado publicado el martes por Golf
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SANTA FE,New Mexico — New Mexico on Wednesday revised its color-coded risk system by adding a new color that will signify when counties can ease even more pandemic-related restrictions. The red-yellow-green system now includes turquoise. Counties can reach that category by meeting certain health criteria for four consecutive weeks. State officials said that will allow for expanded
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