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Manchester City shrugged off the loss of six players to Covid-19 to beat Chelsea 3-1 on Sunday to reignite its English Premier League title challenge. Pep Guardiola’s team has made, by its own high standards, a faltering start to the campaign, not helped by the disruption of recent positive coronavirus tests among squad members, with
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes to overturn the election results after his loss to President-elect Biden, according to an audio recording of a phone call obtained by The Washington Post. In excerpts of the stunning one-hour phone call Saturday, Trump lambasted his fellow Republican for refusing to
Continue ReadingMembers of Congress returned to Washington on Sunday to officially usher in a new session and elect their speaker. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is running unopposed in her election after serving for 17 years as the leader of the House Democrats. But she has a slim margin for error and is carefully counting votes to ensure
Continue ReadingJust days before the crucial Georgia runoffs that will determine control of the US Senate, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger delivered a strong message to Donald Trump as the President persists in attacking the Peach State’s electoral process and the Republican leaders in charge of administering the system. “Respectfully, President Trump: What you’re saying
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The scattershot efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory are coalescing into a movement led by top Republicans determined to exploit a manufactured crisis for broader political gains. Nearly a dozen more GOP senators, a handful of whom will be sworn-in Sunday, have now announced they will challenge Biden’s clear Electoral College win over
Continue ReadingHospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the pandemic. And at one California hospital, an outbreak possibly connected to an inflatable, air-powered costume on Christmas has sickened nearly four dozen employees. Overall, at least 123,000 people
Continue ReadingGeorgia may feel teleported to the center of the US political universe, but its emergence as a swing state has been a long time coming. That doesn’t make its political evolution any less remarkable. One of the five Southern states that voted for the segregationist George Wallace in 1968, it joins Virginia as one of
Continue ReadingThe 117th Congress is officially being sworn in on Sunday, bringing an influx of new lawmakers to Capitol Hill amid the ongoing pandemic. The Constitution calls for Congress to convene on January 3 at noon ET — the reason for the rare Sunday session. Newly elected and returning members will take the oath of office
Continue ReadingThe 117th Congress, being sworn in Sunday, is historically diverse, with record-setting numbers of women, Black and Latino members and members who identify as LGBTQ. But even as the new Congress begins, its roster will likely remain unsettled for months. There will be two vacancies in the House: New York’s 22nd District will not have
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Coronavirus restrictions in England are “alas probably about to get tougher,” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday, as the country battles to rein in a deadly surge in coronavirus infections. In an interview on the BBC’s “The Andrew Marr Show,” Johnson was pressed over whether the restrictions currently in place in the worst-hit areas
Continue ReadingUS Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on Sunday said he has “no reason to doubt” the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 death toll, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that the agency has “exaggerated” its numbers. “From a public health perspective, I have no reason to doubt those numbers,” Adams told CNN’s Jake
Continue ReadingA Covid-19 vaccine appointment at a Canton, South Dakota hospital turned into a marriage proposal for one healthcare couple. Robbie Vargas-Cortes, 31, a paramedic and EMS supervisor, was scheduled to get his vaccination on December 23rd, and knew his boyfriend of five years was one of the vaccine administrators at Sanford Canton-Inwood Medical Center. “I
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“And now for something completely different,” John Cleese routinely intoned between absurdist sketches on “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” He might have been wearing a tuxedo or a pink bikini, and on one occasion he said it while appearing to be roasting on a spit. After the debacle of 2020 — a year that felt a
Continue ReadingTottenham Hotspur has publicly criticized three prominent first team players for flouting coronavirus rules after they attended a Christmas party with their families. Photographs that circulated on social media showed Erik Lamela, Sergio Reguilon and Giovani Lo Celso at the party in London, with West Ham player Manuel Lanzini also in attendance. Restrictions by the
Continue ReadingEven if you don’t have coronavirus, record-high Covid-19 hospitalizations could have a devastating impact on you. “If you are in a car accident, you’re going to want us to save your life,” said Dr. Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. “If you have a heart attack
Continue ReadingFormer Denver Broncos running back Floyd Little died Friday at the age of 78, according to his family. “After nearly a year of confronting, even battling cancer, the beloved hero, brother, uncle, grandfather, father and husband, Pro Football Hall of Famer, Denver Bronco, and Syracuse #44 Legend, Floyd D. Little ran his last mile, gracefully
Continue ReadingThe Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate activist group, has quickly announced itself as one of the most influential progressive forces in the formative days of President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration. As Biden builds out his White House senior staff and Cabinet, the climate movement has notched a series of high-profile victories, one of the few
Continue ReadingNearly a dozen Republican senators and senators-elect announced Saturday they will vote against counting electoral votes next week when Congress is expected to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory — despite no credible evidence suggesting widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. The 11 Republican lawmakers said they intend to support an objection to the Electoral
Continue ReadingLegendary talk show host and former CNN interviewer Larry King has Covid-19, according to a source close to the family. King, 87, has been hospitalized at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for more than a week, the source said. Due to protocols at the hospital, King’s three sons have been unable to visit
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump is spending his final days in office attacking leadership within his own party, this time the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate, offering a possible preview of his broader post-presidential strategy to use his influence in the 2022 midterm elections and beyond. Trump, back at the White House after his Mar-a-Lago holiday
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