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One of the white men charged in the shooting death of unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery called his former boss — the Georgia prosecutor later accused of botching the case — asking her for help from the crime scene, according to reports. Audio played in court Friday allegedly showed Gregory McMichael, a former investigator for...
A federal judge in New York ruled Saturday that Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf assumed his position unlawfully, a determination that invalidated Wolf’s suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields young people from deportation. “DHS failed to follow the order of succession as it was lawfully designated,” US...
Conservatives accused the media of turning a blind eye to violent attacks against Trump supporters at Saturday’s “MAGA Million March” in Washington, DC. “The President’s supporters have a right to peacefully rally supporting POTUS just like his opponents have that same right,” New York Rep. Lee Zeldin said on Twitter Saturday night. “The physical assaults....
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
"They didn't allow Republicans in those key places to observe the mail vote. That makes the mail vote completely invalid," he told Maria Bartiromo.
A bird in the hand is worth $1.9 million in the bank. That’s the sky-high sum that a prized Belgian racing pigeon named New Kim fetched at auction on Sunday, setting a new world record. Two Chinese bidders, operating under the pseudonyms Hitman and Super Duper, battled for the bird as the two-week auction wound...
Germany is cheering its homebound couch potatoes for helping fight against the coronavirus pandemic — by doing “absolutely nothing.” The federal government hailed all lazy medi-taters in an online video titled “#special heroes – Together against corona,” Deutsche Welle reported. The short clip features an elderly man recalling his “service” to the nation when he...
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- New Mexico leaders react to inauguration of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris (Category: USA, New Mexico)
Former President Barack Obama has ruled out taking on any formal position in President-elect Joe Biden’s administration — quipping that wife Michelle would leave him. “I will help him in any ways that I can. But now, you know, I’m not planning to suddenly work on the White House staff or something,” Obama told anchor...
Peru's interim president stepped down on Sunday.
At least two dozen veterans at a state-owned long-term nursing care facility in Kentucky have died of coronavirus since an outbreak began there last month.
'We have proof that I can’t disclose yet,' he said Sunday as he aired dark conspiracy theories.
'COVID proved Dr. King right,' Cuomo said Sunday at Riverside Church in Manhattan.
Shayla Angeline Boniello who is a transgender woman has received a life sentence for the killing of a toddler who was her boyfriend’s granddaughter
An arthritis drug may cut deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients by about two thirds among those suffering from moderate or severe cases of the virus, according to a new study. Called baricitinib, and marketed under the brand name Olumiant, the medication has been touted by its British company as a possible game changer in the...
Travelers in Australia were greeted when their plane landed Sunday with the news that they must either quarantine for two weeks — or return home after the rules changed mid-flight. The Qantas plane arrived Sunday at Perth Airport from Adelaide in Southern Australia, which was the subject of new travel restrictions announced while passengers were...
California police officers responded Saturday night a boxing event in a Sacramento warehouse and wound up fatally shooting a suspect who allegedly pointed a gun at a group of people inside.
Michael Knapinski, 45, "died" at the Harborview Medical Center’s ER after being airlifted from Mount Rainier National Park on Nov. 8.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday threatened to sue the Trump administration if it moves ahead with its COVID-19 vaccine-distribution plan, which he called discriminatory — and has New York at the back of the line in terms of states getting it first. “I tell you today, if the Trump administration does not change this plan...
Despite painstaking efforts to keep election sites safe, some poll workers who came in contact with voters on Election Day have tested positive for the coronavirus, including more than two dozen in Missouri and cases in New York, Iowa, Indiana and Virginia. The infections cannot be tied definitively to polling places. Because COVID-19 is spreading...
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that it’s important for tackling the pandemic for the White House’s COVID-19 task force to begin working with President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team. “Of course, it would be better if we could start working with them,” Fauci told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” The Director of...
- David Shapiro: Finding laughs between groans as election goes overtime (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that it will still be necessary to social distance, wear masks and take other COVID-19 precautions after a vaccine becomes available to Americans. “I would recommend to people to not to abandon all public health measures just because you’ve been vaccinated,” Fauci told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on “State of...
A San Antonio boy who will turn 5 years old this month has been left an orphan after the coronavirus claimed both his parents within 100 days of each other, according to a report. “He misses his mom since he was a mama’s boy,” his grandmother, Rozie Salinas, told NBC News on Saturday about Raiden...
Hurricane Iota could be a Category 4 storm by the time it hits Central America as early as Monday night.
"There’s no good way to say, ‘My mom was murdered 10 years ago,’” director Madison Hamburg told the Daily News, noting his new docuseries “is a way to get past that headline.”
R&B artist Jeremih, whose debut single, “Birthday Sex,” peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard chart in 2009, has reportedly been hospitalized after contracting coronavirus.
Amid the alarming spike in coronavirus cases nationwide, US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said the one symptom that can help people differentiate between COVID-19 and the flu is the loss of taste and smell, according to a report. “If you get that symptom, then you need to be reaching out to your health provider...
President Trump on Sunday acknowledged that President-elect Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential race -- but chalked up the outcome to the election being "rigged."
The Sunday statement appeared to mark a shift in Trump's tone even as he clung to baseless claims of election fraud.
The relatively peaceful Million MAGA March, which drew tens of thousands of people, in Washington, D.C., turned ugly Saturday night as Trump supporters clashed with counter-protesters.
A 51-year-old Illinois woman has given birth to her own granddaughter. Julie Loving agreed this year to be the “gestational mother” for her daughter, who could not carry a pregnancy herself — and on Nov. 2, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Good Morning America reported. “My mom was an absolute rockstar through...
Ten people were killed and 10 others wounded — seven critically — when a blaze broke out at a public hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Romania Saturday. The fire spread through the intensive care ward designed for coronavirus patients at Piatra Neamt Regional Emergency Hospital, according to local Emergency Situations Inspectorate spokesperson Irina Popa....
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