The son of a retired New York City family court judge is on trial for allegedly threatening the lives of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Prosecutors showed a jury in Brooklyn federal court messages and social media videos in which Brendan Hunt, 37, makes threats against the
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Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying to force Americans to eat far less red meat. “Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030. They want to limit us to about four pounds a
Continue ReadingA Fox News anchor admitted on air on Monday that his show was inaccurate when it claimed on Friday that President Joe Biden is trying to require Americans to sharply reduce their consumption of red meat. John Roberts, co-host of the afternoon show “America Reports,” made the Monday concession after CNN and other media outlets
Continue ReadingUS officials say Covid-19 vaccines are our way out of the pandemic. But the US faces a stubborn challenge — vaccine hesitancy — which could prevent some communities from reaching widespread protection levels and suppressing the spread of the virus. Providing strong incentives to get a shot could help, some experts say. “Many Americans want
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Princess Diana’s wedding dress will go on public display at Kensington Palace after her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, agreed to loan the item. Diana wore the famous dress — which boasted a 25-foot train, the longest in royal history — at her 1981 wedding to Prince Charles at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
Continue ReadingTesla just posted record quarterly profits, with one measure of earnings passing the $1 billion mark for the first time. But in order to justify its sky-high stock price, the automaker will need to overcome a growing list of challenges. What’s happening: A global chip shortage is snarling production, while the business environment in China,
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India is in crisis. Hospitals have run out of supplies, family members are desperately driving from clinic to clinic in search of a spare bed for their loved ones, and mass cremations are a daily occurrence, as hundreds of thousands more people are infected with Covid-19 each day. The country has reported more than 17.6
Continue ReadingMontana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a 20-week abortion ban and two other anti-abortion bills into law on Monday, adding to the slew of such measures advanced by Republican state lawmakers as the Biden administration seeks to unwind restrictions on the procedure. “Today we’re taking action to protect the most vulnerable amongst us, the unborn —
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — The novel coronavirus has been well documented in cats big and small across the world, and now a U.K. study shows evidence of human-to-cat transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in two cases. The two cats were from different households and suffered different severities of the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) — New research from the United Kingdom suggests shift workers are associated with higher likelihoods of COVID-19 hospitalization compared to people with more traditional working hours. Using data from more than 280,000 participants in the U.K. Biobank study, hospital episode statistics and U.K. health
Continue ReadingThe White House is reconsidering raising the number of refugees allowed into the US to about 62,500, its original goal, The Washington Post reported Monday. The move comes after the White House publicly shifted the figure several times as it tries to negotiate a balance between pleasing immigrant advocacy groups and being mindful of the
Continue ReadingAmanda Saucedo did everything the natural parenting blogs she read told her to do before she brought her newborn son Ben into her bed to co-sleep in October 2014. “I was a single mom of two kids, so I took sleep any way I could get it,” said Saucedo, who was 27 at the time.
Continue ReadingOn one side of the Dallas Convention Center earlier this month, hundreds of teens gathered for a high school volleyball tournament, complete with coaches, spectators and corporate sponsors. The sounds of their cheering were muffled but audible on the other side of the building, in a temporary shelter for hundreds of other children — all
Continue ReadingRB Leipzig’s Julian Nagelsmann will take over from Hansi Flick as Bayern Munich’s head coach next season after signing a five-year contract, the Bundesliga champion announced on Tuesday. The 33-year-old Nagelsmann will move to Bayern on July 1 and has agreed a deal running through until June 30, 2026. Flick is to leave Bayern at
Continue ReadingTwo months after his effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour ran into the Senate parliamentarian buzz saw, President Joe Biden is set to use his executive powers to hike the pay of hundreds of thousands of federal contract workers. The President is expected to issue an executive order on Tuesday
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(CNN) — En febrero, parecÃa que India habÃa controlado el covid-19, y los casos diarios cayeron casi un 90% desde el pico de la primera ola el año pasado. Ahora, el paÃs está experimentando el peor brote del mundo. Los casos diarios han aumentado continuamente durante los últimos 10 dÃas; el lunes, India reportó 352.991
Continue Reading Noor Kayas fled the refugee camp without telling anyone at home. At sea the next morning, the teenager used a satellite phone to call her mother, Gule Jaan, 43, to say she was heading for Malaysia on a small wooden boat, packed with 87 Rohingya refugees, including 65 women and girls. Some were fleeing what
Continue Reading Human Rights Watch has accused the Israeli government of committing crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians in a new report Tuesday, eliciting an angry response from Israeli officials. In its 213-page report, the United States-based advocacy group says the term apartheid has generally been used in a “descriptive or comparative” sense in relation to
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN) — La mayor flotilla naval reunida por Reino Unido en los últimos años zarpará en mayo en un viaje de un mes a través del PacÃfico, dijo el lunes el Ministerio de Defensa británico. «Cuando nuestro grupo de ataque de portaaviones (CSG, por sus siglas en inglés) zarpe el próximo mes, enarbolará
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With polls showing that about half of Republicans are unenthusiastic about getting a Covid-19 vaccine, some of former President Donald Trump’s advisers are encouraging him to make a public service announcement urging his followers to roll up their sleeves, according to two former senior Trump administration officials. The officials emphasized that vaccine hesitancy among Republicans
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