A New York state court employee was charged with threatening to murder a US official after he made online posts threatening to kill several high-level Democratic members of Congress, according to a complaint from the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York. Brendan Hunt, who goes by “X-Ray Ultra” on social media
Continue ReadingThe son of a retired New York City family court judge is on trial for allegedly threatening the lives of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, now-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Prosecutors showed a jury in Brooklyn federal court messages and social media videos in which Brendan Hunt, 37, makes threats against the
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Republican members of Congress, Fox News personalities and other prominent right-wing figures are falsely claiming that President Joe Biden is trying to force Americans to eat far less red meat. “Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030. They want to limit us to about four pounds a
Continue ReadingA Fox News anchor admitted on air on Monday that his show was inaccurate when it claimed on Friday that President Joe Biden is trying to require Americans to sharply reduce their consumption of red meat. John Roberts, co-host of the afternoon show “America Reports,” made the Monday concession after CNN and other media outlets
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US officials say Covid-19 vaccines are our way out of the pandemic. But the US faces a stubborn challenge — vaccine hesitancy — which could prevent some communities from reaching widespread protection levels and suppressing the spread of the virus. Providing strong incentives to get a shot could help, some experts say. “Many Americans want
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Tesla just posted record quarterly profits, with one measure of earnings passing the $1 billion mark for the first time. But in order to justify its sky-high stock price, the automaker will need to overcome a growing list of challenges. What’s happening: A global chip shortage is snarling production, while the business environment in China,
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India is in crisis. Hospitals have run out of supplies, family members are desperately driving from clinic to clinic in search of a spare bed for their loved ones, and mass cremations are a daily occurrence, as hundreds of thousands more people are infected with COVID-19 each day. The country has reported more than 17.6
Continue ReadingMontana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a 20-week abortion ban and two other anti-abortion bills into law on Monday, adding to the slew of such measures advanced by Republican state lawmakers as the Biden administration seeks to unwind restrictions on the procedure. “Today we’re taking action to protect the most vulnerable amongst us, the unborn —
Continue ReadingThe White House is reconsidering raising the number of refugees allowed into the US to about 62,500, its original goal, The Washington Post reported Monday. The move comes after the White House publicly shifted the figure several times as it tries to negotiate a balance between pleasing immigrant advocacy groups and being mindful of the
Continue Reading Amanda Saucedo did everything the natural parenting blogs she read told her to do before she brought her newborn son Ben into her bed to co-sleep in October 2014. “I was a single mom of two kids, so I took sleep any way I could get it,” said Saucedo, who was 27 at the time.
Continue ReadingOn one side of the Dallas Convention Center earlier this month, hundreds of teens gathered for a high school volleyball tournament, complete with coaches, spectators and corporate sponsors. The sounds of their cheering were muffled but audible on the other side of the building, in a temporary shelter for hundreds of other children — all
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RB Leipzig’s Julian Nagelsmann will take over from Hansi Flick as Bayern Munich’s head coach next season after signing a five-year contract, the Bundesliga champion announced on Tuesday. The 33-year-old Nagelsmann will move to Bayern on July 1 and has agreed a deal running through until June 30, 2026. Flick is to leave Bayern at
Continue ReadingTwo months after his effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour ran into the Senate parliamentarian buzz saw, President Joe Biden is set to use his executive powers to hike the pay of hundreds of thousands of federal contract workers. The President is expected to issue an executive order on Tuesday
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Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Monday criticized the ongoing Republican election audit of the 2020 ballots from Arizona’s largest county as a political stunt, calling it a “farce” and saying it should end. “A group of Republicans are continuing to try to appease their base who refuse to accept that … Trump lost
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(CNN) — En febrero, parecía que India había controlado el covid-19, y los casos diarios cayeron casi un 90% desde el pico de la primera ola el año pasado. Ahora, el país está experimentando el peor brote del mundo. Los casos diarios han aumentado continuamente durante los últimos 10 días; el lunes, India reportó 352.991
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Donald Trump schooled his protégés well in his politics of down-in-the-muck misinformation. The ex-President’s Washington devotees and media backers are proving they don’t need him in the White House or blazing away on Twitter to stir his stew of lies, false realities, assaults on democracy, circus politics and racial grievance. The test of their approach
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Are you still washing your hands as diligently as you did at the beginning of the pandemic? If you’re like the people tracked in a recent handwashing study, the answer is unfortunately no. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
Continue Reading Hong Kong (CNN) — La mayor flotilla naval reunida por Reino Unido en los últimos años zarpará en mayo en un viaje de un mes a través del Pacífico, dijo el lunes el Ministerio de Defensa británico. «Cuando nuestro grupo de ataque de portaaviones (CSG, por sus siglas en inglés) zarpe el próximo mes, enarbolará
Continue Reading With polls showing that about half of Republicans are unenthusiastic about getting a Covid-19 vaccine, some of former President Donald Trump’s advisers are encouraging him to make a public service announcement urging his followers to roll up their sleeves, according to two former senior Trump administration officials. The officials emphasized that vaccine hesitancy among Republicans
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Titanium has been discovered in the beautiful remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova about 11,000 light-years away. This discovery could help scientists understand what leads some giant stars to explode, according to the new study. Observations of the supernova were made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has been in operation since 1999, between 2000
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