WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Vice-President Mike Pence, in defiance of President Donald Trump, said on Wednesday (Jan 6) that he will not intervene to stop the certification by Congress of Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory. “The Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” […]
A 22 year-old man shot dead by a paramedic treating his girlfriend was not a domestic abuser – and was excited about becoming a dad, his family say. Candace McDonald says her nephew Kevin Curl had not injured his girlfriend Nia McCurl’s leg on the morning of the December 17 shooting in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. […]
Democrat Raphael Warnock has unseated Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate election, NBC news projects. The final votes are being counted in two key Senate runoff elections that will determine control of the US Senate and the fate of Joe Biden’s presidency. Mr Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff need to win both races to […]
ATLANTA (BLOOMBERG) – President Donald Trump failed again to invalidate his Georgia election loss and allow the state’s Republican-led legislature to declare him the winner – his latest courtroom defeat in a quixotic effort to remain in office despite losing the Nov 3 contest. US District Judge Mark H. Cohen in Atlanta on Tuesday (Jan […]
America’s only female death row inmate was sexually assaulted by her stepfather and his pals in a specially-built room, a court heard. Lisa Montgomery’s lawyers claim both she and her sister were abused in the room at a court hearing on Tuesday which saw them plead for the 52 year-old to be spared execution. Montgomery, […]
Genesis Community Church, outside of Boston, thought it was taking all the right safety precautions for its Christmas services: requiring an R.S.V.P. in case contact tracing was needed, limiting capacity and requiring masks. But it was not enough. More than 40 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in cases that are believed to be […]
A 17 year-old boy has denied killing two men at a Black Lives Matter protest sparked by the police shooting of a black man. Kyle Rittenhouse, who has turned 18 since the shootings, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday afternoon to the August 2020 killings of Anthony Huber, 26, and Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. […]
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told Donald Trump to stay away from his golf club there, amid rumors he is planning a trip on January 19. First Minister Sturgeon told a press conference on Tuesday: ‘I have no idea what Donald Trump’s travel plans are, you’ll be glad to know. ‘I hope and expect…that […]
The city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, approved an emergency declaration ahead of the county district attorney’s announcement on whether charges will be filed in the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The City Council said Monday that the resolution will take effect immediately after Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley makes his decision public, citing protests over […]
A family’s house has been pelted with rocks after their young adopted sons vanished from their garden a fortnight ago. The West family, from Bakersfield in California, have also had their windows broken, and been bombarded with threats over the disappearance of Orson West, three, and his four year-old brother Orrin. The siblings, who were […]