Donald Trump told his 88 million followers that he would not attend the inauguration of Joe Biden. Tweeting before his permanent Twitter ban, Trump wrote: ‘To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th’. The news came the day after pro-Trump rioters invaded the US Capitol […]
LOS ANGELES — A sustained surge of coronavirus infections has locked Southern California in crisis, overwhelming intensive care wards, ambulance services, funeral homes and local officials. Dozens of overcrowded hospitals have had to shut their emergency-room doors to ambulances for hours at a time. Medical wards are running dangerously low on a vital necessity: oxygen, […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – A state lawmaker from West Virginia, a 70-year-old Alabamian armed with jars of petrol and a man who broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and posed at her desk were among those arrested after the storming of the US Capitol, federal law enforcement officials announced on Friday (Jan 8) as they promised […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States hit a new record for coronavirus cases on Friday (Jan 8), notching nearly 290,000 in a span of 24 hours, according to a real-time tally by Johns Hopkins University. The country, the hardest-hit in the world by the Covid-19 pandemic, also recorded 3,676 virus deaths in the same day, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (BLOOMBERG) – The Trump administration’s final attempt to restrict United States asylum laws aimed at immigrants fleeing from oppression – coined “death to asylum” by its opponents – was blocked by a federal judge before it was to go into effect Monday (Jan 11). US District Judge James Donato in San Francisco on […]
Prosecutors in Colorado said this week that they would not charge two police officers who drew their guns and handcuffed a Black family, including two girls, after suspecting them of riding in a stolen car. The encounter with the Aurora police last August was recorded on a widely shared video that showed four children lying […]
A freshman member of the House of Representatives said on Friday that she regretted having made an approving reference to Hitler at a rally in Washington — a comment that drew condemnation from members of both parties and prompted some Democrats to demand that she resign. The congresswoman, Mary Miller, an Illinois Republican, made the […]
House speaker Nancy Pelosi is attempting to block ‘unstable President’ Trump from being able to order a nuclear strike in his final days in office. Pelosi released a statement this morning saying she is exploring ‘available precautions’ for blocking Donald Trump from having access to nuclear codes. She said she has already spoken with the […]
Violent scenes unfolded in Washington on Wednesday, hours before Congress had been due to confirm Joe Biden’s presidential win. There was deadly rioting as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building after the outgoing president continued his refusal to accept the election result. On this edition of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, our […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Friday. Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high in the low 40s. Much the same over the weekend, but a bit chillier and gusty on Saturday. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Jan. 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day). When members of Congress were evacuated […]