WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The White House announced on Wednesday (Feb 10) that it had put a senior national security official in charge of the response to the broad Russian breach of government computers, only hours after the Democratic chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee criticised the “disjointed and disorganised response” in the opening weeks of […]
A male polar bear killed his female partner during sex after a zoo’s attempt to encourage the animals to breed went badly wrong. Nuka, a 16 year-old male polar bear killed 20 year-old Anana at Detroit Zoo on Monday, just days after the two animals were reintroduced to one another. Further details on how Anana […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The House Republicans’ campaign arm on Wednesday (Feb 10) revealed the list of 47 House Democrats it will target in the 2022 midterm elections, whose results are likely to be determined largely by the popularity of President Joe Biden. The National Republican Congressional Committee’s list includes 25 Democrats who were first elected […]
Donald Trump was enraged and infuriated by his impeachment lawyer’s rambling attempts to defend him, sources close to the former president claimed. Trump’s anger registered as an eight out of 10 as he watched his attorneys Bruce Castor and David Schoen during the first day of his trial on Tuesday. The former president is said […]
A second-floor window afforded Saheeda Nadeem glimpses of a city park, but she did not dare go for walks — it could have exposed her to deportation. So could visiting her daughter’s grave. Since 2018, Ms. Nadeem, an undocumented immigrant, had faced the specter of being forced to return to her native Pakistan under the […]
Donald Trump was described as the “inciter-in-chief” who “had left everyone in this Capitol for dead” as the impeachment trial against him began in earnest. During eight hours of testimony, Democrat politicians, acting as “impeachment managers”, berated Mr Trump for having whipped up an atmosphere of such febrile aggression that a demonstration of support for […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Donald Trump’s impeachment team intends to lean heavily on his use of the words “peacefully and patriotically” in a Jan 6 speech as part of his defence against the charge that the former president incited a mob of supporters to storm the US Capitol, according to people familiar with the effort. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who authorities say is a leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and helped to organize a ring of other extremists and led them in the attack last month at the U.S. Capitol has held a top-secret security clearance for decades and previously worked for the FBI, his attorney […]
A golden retriever was rescued from a frozen lake after falling through the ice while chasing ducks. Two-year-old pup Lucky fell into the freezing cold lake in Hewlett, Long Island, on Sunday morning after bolting from his owner’s house when he spotted the ducks on the lake. But unbeknown to Lucky, the ice in the […]
A pharmacist has admitted destroying 570 doses of Moderna’s Covid vaccine after claiming they were made by the devil. Steven Brandenburg, 46, of Grafton, Wisconsin, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of tampering with consumer products after investigators found he removed vaccines from cold storage in a bid to destroy them. The vaccine needs to […]