Skip to Content
Everything has been impacted by the spread of Covid-19, even the most important football game of the year. Thousands of fans will be traveling to Tampa, Florida, as the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off in the Super Bowl on Sunday. And for the 25,000 that will be gracing Raymond James Stadium
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump’s legal team argued Tuesday that he cannot be convicted by the Senate because he is no longer in office, previewing what’s likely to be one of the biggest points of contention during Trump’s Senate impeachment trial that begins next week. Trump’s lawyers filed a 14-page response to the House’s impeachment effort
Continue Reading
Boston Dynamics is teaching its robot dog Spot new tricks. On Tuesday the company announced three new products for Spot — Spot Arm, Spot Enterprise and Scout — that aim to increase the robot’s functionality in hazardous, remote work sites. The rather charming bot has become famous in Boston Dynamics’ videos of it dancing, going
Continue Reading
On Monday, President Joe Biden met with 10 Republican US senators at the White House to discuss a roughly $618 billion recovery package they introduced to address the economic and health challenges created by Covid-19. The meeting should be one of many Biden has to make good on his campaign promise to work across the
Continue Reading
After making thousands off GameStop stock last week, a 20-year-old college student used his newfound riches to pay it forward to a local children’s hospital. Hunter Kahn, a mechanical engineering student at Cornell University, donated multiple Nintendo Switch consoles and games to Children’s Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis after cashing out almost $30,000 in GameStop stock
Continue Reading
In a precision operation early Monday, Myanmar’s armed forces chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing summarily deposed the country’s government, arresting state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and dozens of other key officials. The military blocked roads in the capital Naypyidaw and Rangoon, disrupted television, telephone and internet service and imposed a curfew.
Continue ReadingPfizer expects to earn approximately $15 billion in revenue from its Covid-19 vaccine this year, the company said Tuesday. Its fourth-quarter earnings report was the first since Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine received emergency-use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration in December — the first vaccine to receive such approval. Since then, the vaccine, developed
Continue ReadingGOP state senators in Georgia introduced a slate of bills on Monday that seek to roll back voter access in the state, such as “no excuse” absentee voting and automatic voter registration. If passed, the nine proposed measures — which follow elections where Democrats made historic gains in the state — could considerably reshape Georgia’s
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Scottsdale, Arizona (KPHO/KTVK) — Culinary Dropout in the Scottsdale Quarter now has four domes for customers to dine-in safely outside. The Desert Domes sit two to six people and were installed on Jan. 29 as an addition to their patio dining experience. The domes are in what normally
Continue Reading
Brace yourself for six more weeks of winter. That is, if you like to get your weather prediction from a groundhog in Pennsylvania. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Tuesday morning and, as legend holds, that means six additional weeks of heavy coats and mittens. Phil was awakened at 7:25 a.m. and made his prediction in
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump lost reelection over voters’ dissatisfaction with his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, his own pollster said in a post-campaign report, disputing the key argument Trump has repeatedly made that he lost because of voter fraud, despite a lack of evidence. Voters felt President Joe Biden was “better to handle coronavirus” than
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story FAIRHOPE, Alabama (WALA) — New court documents revealed disturbing allegations against the Fairhope High School band director arrested on child pornography charges. The documents claimed Anthony Wayne Fillingim downloaded nude pictures and videos of underage boys performing sex acts on themselves. The documents said all of the boys
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story East Alton, Illinois (KMOV) — The former Wood River power plant in East Alton was demolished Monday morning. Over the weekend, environmentalists were worried about hazardous dust spreading. News 4’s Julia Avery spoke with the East Alton police chief about some last minute changes to the demolition plans.
Continue ReadingThe Senate voted to confirm Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary on Tuesday, making him the first Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary. Buttigieg’s confirmation elevates the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to a top post in the federal government. The choice vaults a candidate President Joe Biden spoke glowingly of after the
Continue ReadingTesla is recalling 135,000 Tesla Model S sedans and Model X SUVs because their large center touchscreens can fail. Tesla had previously objected to a push to issue a recall from regulators, as it claimed that the problem wasn’t a safety issue. The recall applies to some 2012 through 2018 Model S and 2016 through
Continue ReadingYour loved ones are right to have questions about the Covid-19 vaccine — the American public hasn’t watched vaccine development this closely since Dr. Jonas Salk discovered how to immunize kids from polio in the ’50s. But vaccine hesitancy could put a dangerous damper on the country’s response. Pockets of some populations most at risk
Continue Reading
Tom Moore, the 100-year-old World War II veteran whose efforts to raise millions for the UK’s National Health Service made him a universally adored icon during the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak, has died in hospital after himself contracting the disease, his family said Tuesday. Known affectionately as Captain Tom, Moore raised almost £33
Continue ReadingUber’s future used to be self-driving cars. Now it’s delivering alcohol. On Tuesday, the company announced that it is acquiring alcohol delivery startup Drizly for $1.1 billion in stock and cash. The deal, which is not yet complete, will result in Drizly being integrated into Uber’s food delivery app while also remaining a standalone app.
Continue ReadingHere is a look at the life of Jay Inslee, governor of Washington and former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Personal Birth date: February 9, 1951 Birth place: Seattle, Washington Birth name: Jay Robert Inslee Father: Frank Inslee, biology teacher, coach and athletic director Mother: Adele (Brown) Inslee, store clerk Marriage: Trudi (Tindall) Inslee (August 27,
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration has formally determined that the military takeover in Myanmar constitutes a coup d’état, a designation that requires the US to cut its foreign assistance to the country. “After careful review of the facts and circumstances, we have assessed that Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s ruling party, and Win Myint,
Continue Reading