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States are ramping up their Covid-19 vaccination programs so more people can be protected against the virus, but some governors are confused and angry because they don’t know how much vaccine the federal government will send them. Though the Trump administration announced this week that it would release all available Covid-19 vaccine doses instead of
Continue ReadingAfter already losing seven family members to Covid-19, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Karl-Anthony Towns has tested positive for the coronavirus. Towns made the announcement on his social media, saying he received the test prior to Friday evening’s scheduled game against the Memphis Grizzlies, which has now been postponed. “I pray every day that this nightmare of
Continue ReadingVice President Mike Pence came closer than initially known to the mob of pro-Trump rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, according to new reporting from the Washington Post. CNN previously reported and video footage showed that a lone US Capitol Police officer had lured rioters away from the entrance of the Senate
Continue ReadingJustice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to “capture and assassinate elected officials.” A federal prosecutor in Arizona asked a magistrate judge in a hearing on Friday to strike the line in a recent court filing about defendant Jacob Anthony Chansley, a man who
Continue ReadingStates are ramping up their Covid-19 vaccination programs so more people can get vaccinated, but some governors are confused and angry because they don’t know how much vaccine the federal government will send them. “I have 2.1 million of you in line, and they gave us 60,000 [vaccine doses],” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Friday.
Continue ReadingDustin Diamond, who played the role of Screech on the popular 1990s high school comedy “Saved by the Bell,” is hospitalized with cancer, his manager told CNN Friday. Diamond’s health is “serious” and he is undergoing testing at an undisclosed Florida hospital to determine the type and severity of the cancer, according to his rep.
Continue ReadingThe review of US Capitol security in the wake of this month’s riots will be handled by retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, the widely praised former commander of the First Army who became a household name as he coordinated relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Over the course of his career, the general
Continue ReadingJames Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented the game of basketball, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday. Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near the town of Almonte in Ontario, Canada. He didn’t invent the game in Ontario, that would come when he was a physical education teacher
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There’ll be no arguments about crowd size at Joe Biden’s inauguration — because there won’t be a crowd. In an extraordinary move that reveals the extreme state in which President Donald Trump leaves the nation, the entire monument-dotted National Mall in Washington will be closed on Wednesday. There are fears that violent pro-Trump mobs that
Continue ReadingHopes of a surge in Covid-19 vaccine shipments under a new policy to release second doses held in reserve appear to be evaporating — with the revelation that those doses have already been distributed, contrary to recent indications by the Trump administration. A senior administration official told CNN that when the administration announced that it
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden is elevating the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to a Cabinet-level position, a move that highlights the emphasis the incoming administration plans to put on science as it inherits a public health crisis. Biden on Friday named Eric Lander, a principal leader of the Human Genome
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden on Friday outlined a plan to administer Covid-19 vaccines to the US population that includes opening up eligibility to get more people vaccinated, creating more vaccination sites and taking measures to increase the supply and distribution of the vaccines. His plan includes mobilizing more personnel to support the vaccination effort, launching a
Continue ReadingActing Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who will leave office in less than a week. stated that he ‘cannot wait to leave this job,” according to a transcript released by the Department of Defense. The admission, during a press gaggle Thursday on his way back from a trip to Nebraska, Tennessee and Colorado, was one
Continue ReadingRep. John Garamendi said Friday that he was concerned that fellow representatives who want to be armed at the Capitol were a threat to him and other lawmakers. When asked by CNN’s Brooke Baldwin whether, regarding members trying to bring guns into the Capitol, he thought that one of his fellow members of Congress might
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors offered the most chilling description yet of rioters who seized the Capitol last week, writing in a new court filing that the intention was “to capture and assassinate elected officials.” The view was included in a memo seeking to keep Jacob Anthony Chansley, who rallied people inside the Capitol using a bullhorn, in
Continue ReadingWhen Andrea Hall leads the nation in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at Joe Biden’s inauguration next week, she’ll not only represent the kind of progress envisioned by the incoming president but she’ll also deliver the words with a sense of mission, doing her part to bring together a divided country. “Everything it expresses, I
Continue ReadingDespite hopes of widespread vaccinations this year, experts warned the start of 2021 would be a very rough time in this pandemic. It turns out the first two weeks have been abysmal. The United States just shattered its all-time records for the most Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths reported in one day: — On January
Continue ReadingThe first confirmation hearing for a crucial position in the Biden administration has been postponed from Friday until Tuesday of next week. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence postponed Friday’s confirmation hearing for President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be the next director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, the committee’s leadership said in a statement Thursday
Continue ReadingIn a last-minute bid to persuade President Donald Trump to pardon Julian Assange, Wikileaks has reached out to several high-profile reporters asking for help in its efforts to rescue its founder from potential life in prison. The messages sent to reporters over Twitter direct message said that Assange’s partner, Stella Moris, had directed Wikileaks to
Continue ReadingOne is dropping in on the White House phone operators, addressing troops at bases across the country, paying a visit to national guardsmen in place for the inauguration and speaking by phone with his successor. The other is holed up inside, silenced on social media, resisting entreaties to deliver a farewell address and refusing to
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