A teenager huddling in his basement was killed and several of his family members were critically injured when a tornado blew a tree onto their home and it collapsed on top of them, police said Tuesday.
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Top eight stories for today including California officials canceled regional lockdown orders amid a drop in hospitalizations and the steadying of new coronavirus cases; Janet Yellen was confirmed as the first female treasury secretary; Russia has been plunged into a political storm, and more.
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Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10, officials said Monday.
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Top eight stories for today including the article of impeachment outlining former President Trump’s incitement of an insurrectionist mob to storm the U.S. Capitol is heading to the Senate; Claims of excessive force, retaliation and other misconduct by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be probed during a civil rights investigation; President Biden’s nominee for secretary of defense overwhelmingly won confirmation in the Senate, and more.
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Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth but went on to break the career home run record in the pre-steroids era, died early Friday. He was 86.
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Top eight stories for today including social media platform Parler will remain offline for now; Texas’ ban on a common abortion procedure came before the full Fifth Circuit; Europe’s top rights court found Russia committed several human rights violations during its brief 2008 war with the former Soviet republic of Georgia, and more.
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Top eight stories for today including Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States; A European court handed Cypriot halloumi cheese makers a setback; A Colorado community asked the 10th Circuit to let its due process claims against the state’s practice of force pooling oil and gas leases play out in federal court, and more.
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In his final hours in office, President Donald Trump pardoned 73 people, including his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, rapper “Lil Wayne,” and a Republican fundraiser.
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President Donald Trump is expected to pardon his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, as part of a flurry of clemency action that appeared to be still in flux in the final hours of his presidency, according to a person familiar with his thinking.
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Hours from inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden paused on what might have been his triumphal entrance to Washington Tuesday evening to mark instead the national tragedy of the coronavirus pandemic with a moment of collective grief for Americans lost.
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Most Americans agree that another boost from the federal government is needed to help the country weather economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Top eight stories for today including California fired back on the Trump administration’s eleventh-hour attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act before the president leaves office; A slew of nominees to critical positions in Joe Biden’s Cabinet came before Congress; Kansas asked a 10th Circuit panel to preserve a law specifically targeting individuals who lie to gain access to animal processing plants for undercover investigations, and more.
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Top eight stories for today including President-elect Joe Biden called for more federal involvement in creating vaccination sites and getting more shots in arms; The global death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic surpassed 2 million; Los Angeles health officials hope mass vaccination sites like the one opened at Dodger Stadium will turn the tide, and more.
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Forty-six Pygmies have been massacred in eastern DR Congo’s Ituri province by the notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, local sources said on Friday.
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An articulated bus dramatically plunged off a bridge in New York City late Thursday, leaving its front half hanging over a highway ramp, its fall broken only by the road below.
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Top eight stories for today including Earth experienced the second-warmest year on record in 2020; President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious $1.9 trillion spending plan; Europe’s highest court ruled an Italian border region can continue giving its residents a discount at the fuel pump to keep them from cruising over to Slovenia to buy cheaper fuel, and more.
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Top eight stories for today including President Donald Trump was impeached for the second time in his single term; California health officials will reshuffle priorities to allow anyone over the age of 65 to receive the coronavirus vaccine; An EU magistrate said all member states should be allowed to bring privacy complaints against companies regardless of where they are headquartered, and more.
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Vice President Mike Pence has refused to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump following an attack on the U.S. Capitol last week, ignoring an ongoing vote in the House asking him to consider employing it.
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Top eight stories for today including the Department of Health and Human Services urged states to start vaccinating everyone 65 and older and to stop reserving two shots per person; One of the country’s biggest labor unions joined with four ride-share drivers in a constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 22; Ireland’s prime minister said on he will issue a formal apology for the widespread abuse unwed mothers and their children suffered during much of the 20th century, and more.
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Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor on Tuesday recovered the flight data recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board.
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