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As a Delta Air Lines plane taxied to the runway at LaGuardia Airport on Monday, a flight attendant saw a man and woman walking through the aisle. “I need to get off the plane. I don’t want to sit here. I’m gonna pop the door,” the flight attendant paraphrased him as saying. The man felt
Continue ReadingThe State Department on Wednesday issued the most decisive statement yet from the Trump administration blaming the Russian Security Service for the poisoning of opposition leader Alexey Navalny, days after CNN reported on the first direct evidence of the agency’s involvement in the poisoning. “The United States believes that officers from the Russian Federal Security
Continue ReadingOne of two passengers who exited a Delta flight with their dog as the plane taxied onto a runway felt he needed to leave or he would lose control, according to statements from a Tuesday hearing. The two passengers and the dog were aboard an Atlanta-bound flight at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Monday, when
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The United Kingdom has identified a new, more contagious coronavirus variant linked to a recent surge in cases in England. The new mutation is being called VUI-202012/01 — the first “Variant Under Investigation” in the UK in December 2020. While scientists hunt for more information about the variant, its impact is already being felt, with
Continue ReadingThousands of stranded truck drivers at the British port of Dover vented their anger Wednesday as they struggled to access coronavirus tests, after France agreed to ease a blockade despite fears over a new Covid-19 variant. The UK and France struck a deal late on Tuesday evening to allow truck drivers, French citizens and residents
Continue ReadingAt his confirmation hearing nearly two years ago, Attorney General William Barr boasted that there was an advantage to putting him in charge of the Justice Department — he could afford not to care about the consequences of his decisions. Mostly retired and 68 years old at the time, Barr’s pitch to senators in January
Continue ReadingA man suspected of killing three police officers in central France has been found dead, the country’s Interior Minister has said. Three gendarmes were shot dead and a fourth injured after they responded to a domestic violence incident in Puy-de-Dôme, west of Lyon, in the early hours of Wednesday. The alleged shooter left the scene,
Continue ReadingAt his confirmation hearing nearly two years ago, Attorney General William Barr boasted that there was an advantage to putting him in charge of the Justice Department — he could afford not to care about the consequences of his decisions. Mostly retired and 68 years old at the time, Barr’s pitch to senators in January
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on Wednesday disputed suggestions from Pentagon officials who questioned the accuracy of Biden’s assertion a day earlier that the Department of Defense has refused to brief his team on the massive cyberattack on government agencies and major American technology and accounting companies. “As the President-elect noted yesterday, the Department of
Continue ReadingPedro Martinez has a simple message for Congress: “HELP US!” The military veteran and father of four said the $600 payments passed this week as part of a second coronavirus relief package are far too little to undo the financial damage his family has suffered as the pandemic has surged again — a message also
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — In 2012, Jason and Liz Derkosh suffered an unimaginable loss when their 2-year-old son Maddox fell into the African painted dog exhibit at The Pittsburgh Zoo and died. “He’s with us. We think about him every day”, said Liz Derkosh. Since then, they’ve been channeling
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story MIAMI (WFOR) — Early Tuesday morning, hundreds of Miami residents lined up and awaited their turn to receive a $250 grocery gift card. The City of Miami handed them out to those in need at Jose Marti Park. It couldn’t come soon enough for Maria Gomez. She got
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — Dean Katica woke up early last Thursday during the snowstorm so he’d have enough time to make it to work at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “I couldn’t get my car out,” said Katica. The COVID unit nurse was shocked to find a huge snow pile
Continue ReadingNikola Motor Company’s plans to mass produce garbage trucks for Republic Services, one of the nation’s largest waste management service providers, were canceled Wednesday morning, the latest in a string of bad news for the electric truck and hydrogen cell maker. In August, the company had announced plans to produce as many as 5,000 trucks
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story BOSTON (WBZ) — Robert Harrington and Dan Brett have known the headaches that come along with picking out and setting up a Christmas tree. “We’ve lugged Christmas trees to our house and thought there must be a better way,” Harrington said. So, the former Boston College roommates decided
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration will purchase an additional 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. Pfizer will deliver at least 70 million doses by June 30, and the rest will be delivered no later than July 31, according to a news release. With this agreement,
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday introduced Miguel Cardona as his nominee for education secretary, calling the Connecticut education commissioner “brilliant” and saying he will play a key role in his administration’s efforts to reopen schools forced online amid the coronavirus pandemic Cardona, whose parents moved from Puerto Rico to Connecticut, would be another high-profile Latino
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President Donald Trump announced a wave of pardons on Tuesday for people ranging from Republican allies to two men who pleaded guilty in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Meanwhile, speculation grows about whether President Trump will pardon three of his adult children, his son-in-law, or even himself before his term ends on January 20. But what
Continue ReadingThe opening and closing ceremonies of Tokyo’s Olympic Games will be carried out with a “simpler, more restrained approach,” the Organizing Committee announced on Wednesday. The ceremonies will be designed to “reflect the overall simplification of the Games” with Covid-19 countermeasures in place. Tokyo’s Organizing Committee made no announcements about how the opening and closing
Continue ReadingTayshia Adams is engaged! “The Bachelorette” star and Zac Clark are getting hitched and it all went down during Tuesday night’s finale of the ABC dating show. “If you had told me in March that I’d be getting engaged at the end of the year, I would not have believed it for a second,” Adams
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