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Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops will remain in Washington through March 12 due, in part, to concerns about potential violence stemming from online chatter among QAnon supporters who suggest former President Donald Trump could still be inaugurated on March 4, according to the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. “Some of these people
Continue ReadingA day after Kylian Mbappe lit up the Champions League with an impressive hat trick against Barcelona, Erling Braut Haaland netted a wonderful brace as the game’s new stars continue to take center stage. The 20-year-old was in devastating form as Borussia Dortmund came from behind to take control of its Champions League round of
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The acquittal of Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial speaks volumes about the moral fiber of the Republican senators who refused to abandon him. Even more, it shows how the former President, despite his political toxicity, still has a stranglehold on the Republican Party. This should be an electoral bonanza for Democrats in the
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Former President Donald Trump made a number of wild claims in a statement Tuesday savaging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. But one really stood out to me: His insistence that he had “single-handedly saved” more than a dozen Senate seats — including McConnell’s! — from falling into the clutches of Democrats over the past two
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The Biden administration is relishing the chance to put its new-and-improved distribution program on display with the release of the forthcoming Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but as the US Food and Drug Administration weighs authorization, expectations for a massive, imminent surge in available vaccine doses have been dashed. Federal health officials now expect to get
Continue ReadingSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had an instant reaction when seeing the lengthy attack he endured from former President Donald Trump. He laughed about it, according to a source familiar with the matter. The reaction underscores how McConnell plans to navigate the post-Trump era: Focus squarely on winning back the Senate majority — while ignoring
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, NC (WLOS) — Students at one mountain school are jumping for joy — and for a healthy heart. Coach Thomas Callahan is using a jump rope to show his students how they can exercise in small spaces. Since students in the Asheville City Schools system are still
Continue ReadingA new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday suggests that Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against concerning new coronavirus variants, including one first seen in South Africa called B.1.351. For the study, researchers at Pfizer and the University of Texas Medical Branch genetically engineered versions of the virus to
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The winter storms and Arctic deep freeze that have blanketed the West, Midwest and South are still threatening lives and spreading misery, particularly in Texas. But even as millions suffer with access to power, water and heat, the political debate over causes and blame is hot and getting hotter. The icy disaster is already a
Continue ReadingPeople who survive a bout of Covid-19 with mild symptoms or even no symptoms may be able to thank their Neanderthal ancestors, a new study suggests. Researchers found a genetic mutation that reduces the risk of severe Covid-19 infection by about 22%. It was found in all the samples they took of Neanderthal DNA, and
Continue ReadingPresident Joe Biden spoke Wednesday with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, ending what had been a lengthy stretch without a call after Biden took office. The period without communication had raised questions about what was behind the delay, though the White House insisted the two men had a strong relationship and that Biden was simply
Continue ReadingJohn Henderson says his wife is complaining that her throat hurts and is having a little trouble using portable oxygen tanks. Henderson’s power first went out Tuesday morning and stayed off for 2 hours, and then came back on around 7 p.m., then was back off again around midnight and hasn’t been on since, he
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LITTLETON, CO (KCNC) — Two homeowners are still waiting to learn the fate of their Black Lives Matter flag. In December, Kara and Ben Willkoff received a letter from the HOA saying their flag was not approved. “I looked in the bylaws to figure out if we were
Continue ReadingPromotions of two female generals were delayed by Pentagon officials until after the 2020 presidential election out of fear of “turmoil” from President Donald Trump’s White House, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper, according to the newspaper, worried that if
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI, FL (WFOR) — Police officers are not among the groups who are next in line for vaccines. But calls are growing louder from South Florida to change that. “A report came out, Florida’s ground zero for this new strain, this B117,” said El Portal Police Chief David
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Ford is spending $1 billion to modernize a plant in Germany as part of a plan to sell only electric passenger cars in Europe by 2030. The factory in Cologne, Germany, will be overhauled to produce the US carmaker’s first European-built, mass volume all-electric passenger vehicle starting in 2023, according to the company. Ford said
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Click here for updates on this story CHERRY HILL, NJ (KYW) — A South Jersey man made it his mission to collect books for classrooms. He gave away a quarter-million of them before the pandemic. But he hasn’t stopped! We met Larry Abrams in February 2020, hard at work in Cherry Hill. Piling up tens
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Lowering Covid-19 cases across the US is critical not only to preventing another surge fueled by variants — but it also makes vaccines more likely to continue working against mutations, one expert says. “The best thing we could possibly do to improve the chances that the vaccine will continue working … is to reduce cases
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President Joe Biden took questions from Wisconsin residents and from Anderson Cooper at a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. We’re still looking into some of the claims Biden made, so this article is not comprehensive. But we can tell you now that he made at least four false claims — all
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Baltimore (WJZ) — We’re all trying to take steps to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially wearing a mask when traveling. But one man said he was recently taken off a flight because of the mask he was wearing. Rob Joseph said he was taken off his
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