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When President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December, so began the 180-day countdown for US intelligence agencies to tell Congress what they know about UFOs. No, really. The director of National Intelligence and the secretary of defense have a little less than six months now
Continue ReadingSen. Pat Toomey said Sunday that President Donald Trump should resign from office and could face “criminal liability” after the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, becoming the second Republican senator to call for the President’s resignation. “I think at this point, with just a few days left, it’s the best path forward, the best
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Springfield Twp., Ohio (WTVG) — Two children are safe after being trapped in a house that was on fire in Springfield Township Saturday morning. According to Springfield Twp. Fire Department, firefighters responded to a 911 call in reference to a house on fire in the 25-hundred block of
Continue ReadingThe restaurant industry is among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. In communities across the US, people are “adopting” restaurant workers on social networks to help alleviate their hardships. A search for “Adopt a Server” groups and pages on Facebook yields over 40 results across locations in the United States, from New Jersey to
Continue ReadingWatching rioters storm the US Capitol reopened old wounds for Valarie Carey. Carey’s younger sister, Miriam Carey, was fatally shot by Capitol police and US Secret Service officers more than seven years ago after leading officers on a high-speed chase near the White House. Carey said the restraint shown by Capitol police on Wednesday was
Continue ReadingA Sriwijaya Air jetliner carrying 62 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak, in Indonesian Borneo, lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on Saturday. Maj. Gen Bambang
Continue ReadingThe weekly tallies of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States have never been higher, and state officials are warning of more alarming patterns following the holiday season. The total number of Americans infected with the virus surpassed 22 million Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, and more than 372,000 have died. Kentucky
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It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime for 9-year-old Braeden Lousier-Hicks of Airdrie, Alberta, who has an extremely rare genetic disease. After the family waited five years to go on a charity-sponsored trip to Hawaii, it was postponed indefinitely due to Canada’s Covid-19 restrictions. His mother, Lia Louiser, says the heartbreak of
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors have charged three men and the FBI arrested another on Saturday in connection with Wednesday’s riot at the US Capitol, including a man seen on video carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern and another wearing a bearskin headdress. The arrests Saturday, coming a day after federal charges were announced against more than a
Continue ReadingPresidential inaugurations — and the swirl of festivities that surround them — usually offer prime schmoozing opportunities: Lobbyists attempt to woo incoming administration officials at VIP-only luncheons; big campaign donors score coveted tickets for the swearing-in ceremonies, and corporate executives mingle with Washington powerbrokers at private receptions. But not this year. With the coronavirus pandemic
Continue ReadingThe weekly tallies of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States have never been higher, and state officials are warning of more alarming patterns following the holiday season. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said the state was seeing a “real and significant increase in cases and our positivity rate from people’s gatherings around the holiday.”
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump is considering having Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz defend him if he faces another impeachment trial, two sources familiar with the matter said. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday Democrats are prepared to move forward with impeachment next week if Trump doesn’t resign, and Trump is beginning to mull who would represent
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump announced Friday that he won’t attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20. If he follows through, he’ll become only the fourth president to boycott his successor’s regularly scheduled inauguration and the first in more than 150 years to do so. Two other presidents missed their successors’ regularly scheduled swearings-in, Martin Van
Continue ReadingA Sriwijaya Air jetliner carrying 62 people on board is feared to have crashed shortly after taking off from Jakarta, according to the head of Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, Suryanto Cahyono. Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 from Jakarta to Pontianak, in Indonesian Borneo, lost contact at 2:40 p.m. Western Indonesian Time (2:40 a.m. ET) on
Continue ReadingThe NFL playoffs are here. Beginning Saturday, 14 teams will face off for the honor of playing in the much-anticipated Super Bowl LV, scheduled for February 7. With games being played during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the season has been anything but typical. Now, though, we’ve reached the postseason. Here’s what you should know going
Continue ReadingDerrick Evans, the West Virginia state lawmaker who was allegedly among the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, resigned Saturday. “I hereby resign as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, effective immediately,” he wrote in a brief letter addressed to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice. “I take full responsibility for
Continue ReadingAn Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun two blocks from the US Capitol building on Wednesday for hours before authorities ever noticed, according to federal prosecutors. Another man allegedly showed up in the nation’s capital with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds
Continue ReadingThe Democratic National Committee is on the precipice of a dramatic change, shifting its role from oppositional force challenging Donald Trump at every turn to a political megaphone for a Democrat-dominated Washington. And the man multiple top Democrats say is expected to become the next chair of the party — Jaime Harrison, the former South
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2020 will be remembered for many unpleasant reasons — the global pandemic, political unrest, sky-high unemployment — and now we can add a record number of billion-dollar weather and climate disasters to the list. An astonishing 22 separate weather and climate disasters costing over $1 billion each occurred in the US in 2020, the National
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