California Democrat Katie Porter tore into Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during a House hearing over coronavirus relief funding, accusing him of pretending to be a lawyer as the two sparred over details of the CARES Act. A House Financial Services Committee hearing on Wednesday nearly devolved into a shouting match after Porter grilled the secretary over his desire to return hundreds of billions in unused money […]
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In a stern Facebook lecture, Austin Mayor Steve Adler told fellow Texans they needed to stay home or face new lockdowns if coronavirus cases kept rising. He left out that he was speaking from a vacation home in Cabo San Lucas. “We need to stay home if you can. This is not the time to relax. We are going to be looking really closely. … We […]
A New York City tavern owner who declared his business an autonomous zone, in defiance of city and state Covid-19 orders, has been arrested after undercover police went into the pub to prove he was serving customers indoors. Danny Presti was handcuffed by sheriff’s deputies and taken into custody on Tuesday night for violating bans on indoor food and beverage services. Dozens of supporters stood on […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has apparently decided against waiting for Joe Biden to take office as president before distributing a new Covid-19 vaccine, saying the first batch of inoculations will be available by December 15. “The goal line is in sight,” Cuomo said on Wednesday in a press briefing. The mid-December timeline assumes that the vaccine will get all necessary federal approvals and be OK’d […]
2 Dec, 2020 21:15 Follow RT on Saying the US electoral system was under attack, President Donald Trump said he would fight to ensure only legal votes are counted, adding that the media rushed to ‘anoint’ Joe Biden as the winner of a ‘very strange’ election. Follow RT on Source link
An unidentified Trump administration official has blamed Israel for last week’s assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, CNN said, following an earlier New York Times report citing anonymous US sources fingering Tel Aviv. The latest senior official to attribute Friday’s killing of Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh declined to say whether the US knew about the attack in advance or participated in any way, CNN said […]
There may not be enough doses of coronavirus vaccines until May 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, amid a flurry of activity among drug-makers and governments to get various jabs authorized and distributed. “We are not going to have sufficient vaccination in place to prevent another surge of cases for at least another three-to-six months,” the chief of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, Michael […]
British police have arrested a 57-year-old after two women were stabbed while shopping in the northern English city of Burnley. The authorities have requested people not to speculate about the man’s motivations. Lancashire police reported that they were called to an incident at 9:30am local time after two women were stabbed in a Burnley city branch of popular department store Marks & Spencer. The two victims […]
Israeli politicians have passed a proposal to dissolve parliament and hold early elections in 2021 after the opposition slammed Benjamin Netanyahu’s management of the coronavirus pandemic. On Wednesday afternoon, Lawmakers voted 61-54 in favor of dissolving the 23rd Knesset, which would trigger the fourth election in just two years if enacted. The two dispersal bills that were approved in a preliminary reading must pass three more […]
The UK immigration minister has blasted lawyers’ tactics after their eleventh-hour legal challenges prevented more than 35 Jamaican murderers, rapists and other criminals from being deported on Wednesday morning. Speaking on Wednesday, immigration minister Chris Philp said that 13 “dangerous” criminals had been deported in the early hours on Wednesday morning, but many had been left off the flight due to last-minute legal challenges by their […]
A new experimental drug has confounded scientists after it appeared to reverse age-related cognitive decline in mice seemingly overnight. The research has far-reaching implications for a number of degenerative disease treatments. A new study tested how effective a drug called ISRIB was in reversing age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice. The team of scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found […]
Activist Joshua Wong was jailed for 13-and-a-half months on Wednesday by a Hong Kong court for his role in last year’s riots in the city. Last month, Wong pleaded guilty to organizing and inciting an unauthorized assembly outside a police station during 2019’s anti-government protests. As the offenses had taken place before China implemented its new national security law, he was only facing up to five […]
Joe Biden told a New York Times opinion columnist that he won’t immediately remove the elevated tariffs that the Trump administration imposed on China. He intends to first review the existing US-China agreement. Biden says he will develop a “coherent strategy” with traditional allies in Europe and Asia. “The best China strategy, I think, is one which gets every one of our — or at least […]
US President Donald Trump has pledged to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets out the military budget for 2021, unless a measure shielding social media firms from liability for user content is terminated. The president took to Twitter on Tuesday night with a series of posts deeming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act a “serious threat” to US national security and the […]
CNN has threatened legal action against Project Veritas after the conservative muckraking outfit recorded and published excerpts from the network’s morning briefings with company president Jeff Zucker, calling the move a “felony.” The outlet’s communications team notified Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe after he managed to join the network’s conference call that this “may be a felony,” adding that they had “referred it to law enforcement.” Legal […]
With the Red Cross warning governments to clamp down on a “second pandemic” of misinformation, the organization’s health and care chief told RT that he’s not demanding censorship, but pushing for “positive change.” The first batches of Covid-19 vaccines are on the cusp of availability, but International Federation of Red Cross President Francesco Rocca said that a “second pandemic” of “fake news” about vaccines might turn […]
Anyone wondering how protective the legacy media will be of Joe Biden’s incoming administration got a good indication on Tuesday, when USA Today fact-checked a photo of his Press Secretary Jen Psaki wearing a Soviet souvenir. There was no allegation that the photo, posted on Twitter by Donald Trump campaign spokesman Matt Wolking, was altered or fraudulent. There was no assertion made by Wolking that might […]
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said his party will back a bill to dissolve the Knesset and send the country into its fourth election in just two years, as a shaky coalition with PM Benjamin Netanyahu continues to unravel. The minister and lawmaker said on Tuesday that his party, Blue and White, would support an opposition-crafted bill to dissolve parliament, accusing Netanyahu of reneging on a […]
A trucker testified that almost 300,000 ballots were inside his trailer that vanished from a Pennsylvania lot, even as the US attorney general said the Department of Justice had seen no evidence of significant fraud so far. “People are coming forward like never before. Large truck carrying hundreds of thousands of fraudulent (FAKE) ballots to a voting center? TERRIBLE – SAVE AMERICA!” President Donald Trump tweeted […]
Actress Ellen Page, who stars in the Netflix series ‘The Umbrella Academy’ and won an Oscar nomination for her role in the 2007 movie ‘Juno,’ has announced that she is transgender and has changed her name to Elliot Page. “I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self,” Page said on Tuesday in an […]
Self-proclaimed President-elect Joe Biden has chosen a budget director, Neera Tanden, who once argued the US should ease funding shortages for left-wing social programs by making countries like Libya pay for being bombed. Biden’s transition team on Monday announced its nominations for the six people selected to fill key economic roles in the incoming administration, led by former Federal Reserve Bank Chair Janet Yellen as treasury […]
There’s an old wives tale which suggests that a little too much, uh, ‘time to yourself’ can lead a person to go blind, but rapper and occasional combat sports announcer Snoop Dogg might just be able to lend a helping hand. Snoop Dogg, 49, was among the commentary team for last weekend’s boxing exhibition between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. and his performance on the […]
South Korea’s National Assembly has passed a bill, dubbed the ‘BTS law’ in honor of the country’s biggest music act, which will allow the nation’s top stars to postpone their mandatory military service to the age of 30. Before the Tuesday law change, all able-bodied South Korean men between 18 and 28 had to serve in the military for about 20 months. Now, established stars might […]
The gigantic radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has come crashing down, ending decades of extraterrestrial discoveries. The telescope was previously damaged, and was due to close. The telescope’s 820-ton instrument platform broke free of its steel cables and crashed through the 1,000ft (305m) wide dish below on Monday night, the National Science Foundation (NSF) said in a tweet on Tuesday. The instrument platform […]
Objections by Poland and Hungary over an EU plan to deal with the economic crisis has put the bloc in a “very difficult situation” and raises doubts over its future, according to billionaire investor George Soros. Soros had previously said the EU should issue “perpetual bonds,” which means the principal amount of the money borrowed would never be repaid, only the annual interest payments. It also […]
Russian energy major Gazprom has seen a dramatic fall in net profits for the first nine months of 2020, which fell to 218 billion rubles ($2.9 billion) from nearly 1.1 trillion rubles ($14.5 billion) a year ago. In its report published on Monday, Gazprom said that overall net sales of gas dropped by third for the three quarters year-on-year. The company explained that it was caused […]
The UK’s High Court has ruled that minors can only consent to gender reassignment if they understand the treatment, after a ‘detransitioning’ woman filed suit against the NHS for enabling ‘irreversible’ biological changes. In a landmark ruling, the court said that children under 16 who want to undergo gender-changing procedures can only be given puberty blockers if they “understand the nature of the treatment.” Read more […]
Senior cabinet minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday that Brexit trade talks remain stalled on three main sticking points and accused the European Union of asking too much from Britain. The talks on future ties between the EU and UK are stuck on fishing, governance rules and dispute resolution, the minister told Sky. The EU still wants to take the lion’s share of the fishing in […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced a new bill to ban civil servants and armed forces personnel from holding other allegiances. The measure is set to apply to around one million state employees. They will be prohibited from holding foreign citizenships and residence permits under the plan, which has been published in the State Duma’s online database. “A soldier, a federal state civil servant, an employee […]
A strange metallic monolith has been spotted in Romania just days after a similar structure was discovered in a remote Utah desert – before being removed by an unknown party. The cryptic 13-foot (4m) object was found near an ancient fortress and archaeological site in the city of Piatra Neamt. Photographs and videos show that the structure has a startling resemblance to a similar monolith that […]
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has come to Australia’s defense after a Chinese diplomat shared an illustration showing an Aussie soldier with an Afghan child at knifepoint, saying the government has chided Beijing for the post. Calling the tweet “unfactual,” Ardern told reporters on Tuesday that her administration had contacted Beijing “directly” to raise objections over the controversial image, shared on Sunday by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman […]
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has called for starting confirmation hearings for Joe Biden’s Cabinet appointees even before the presumptive president-elect is inaugurated. Senate hearings on the Cabinet nominees should begin immediately after the Georgia run-off elections on January 5, allowing for confirmations to be completed on Biden’s January 20 inauguration day and soon thereafter, Schumer said Monday on Capitol Hill. He argued […]
The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, has gone on the offensive after a participant in its coronavirus vaccine trial sued the firm, alleging he suffered serious side effects from the jab. In a countersuit, SII has demanded Rs 100 crore ($13.5 million USD) from the volunteer for his “malicious and misconceived” allegation that Covishield, a version of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University Covid-19 […]