[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Tuesday. Weather: Mostly cloudy, with a high in the low 40s. Scattered sprinkles or flurries possible. Alternate-side parking: In effect today. Suspended tomorrow for Three Kings’ Day. Weeks ago, when a nurse in Queens became the first person in the United States to […]
DALTON, United States (AFP) – Sitting at a workbench in the shop where he repairs leather goods and sells cowboy hats and Confederate flags, Paul Coffey says he doesn’t believe official results and remains convinced Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Georgia in the presidential election. Like many Republicans, the affable retired air traffic controller […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – City officials in Washington on Monday (Jan 4) warned supporters of President Donald Trump not to bring guns to protests this week against congressional certification of his election defeat and enlisted hundreds of National Guard troops to help keep order. “We have received some information that there are individuals intent on bringing […]
Gabriel Sterling, a top election official in Georgia, delivered a scathing refutation on Monday of President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, running through a long list of already-debunked conspiracy theories and systematically debunking each one again. It was like “Groundhog Day,” he said with evident frustration, adding of the fraud claims, “This is all […]
Former president Barack Obama cast Tuesday’s runoff elections in Georgia as an existential struggle for core democratic institutions, hours after a recording was made public of President Trump pressuring an official of the state to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss there. “Tomorrow is Election Day in Georgia and the stakes could not be […]
Donald Trump could snub Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration for a trip to Scotland, according to recently-filed flight logs. Prestwick Airport near Glasgow has been told to prepare for the arrival of a US military Boeing 757 on January 19 – the day before President-elect Biden takes over. It is still unclear who will be aboard […]
A 16 year-old boy has designed a new ‘Covid Invaders’ arcade game to encourage people to get vaccinated. Josh Ternyak’s simple game – based on the 1978 classic Space Invaders – sees players pilot a syringe, and shoot squirts of the preventative injection at Covid particles. Josh, from Plymouth in Minnesota, said: ‘I wanted to […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Monday. Weather: Mostly cloudy, with a high in the low 40s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Wednesday (Three Kings Day). The dreaded year 2020 is gone. Vaccinations around the state signal that an end to the pandemic is in sight. But a new […]
Some work spaces in central employment districts may become housing, and some housing in residential areas may become work spaces. By Dror Poleg Coronavirus will not kill the office. If anything, it figures to be more dynamic than ever. The ability to work remotely will not drive most people away from cities and offices, but […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – When Mr Donald Trump lost the 2016 Iowa caucuses to Senator Ted Cruz, during a campaign in which he insulted Mr Cruz’s wife and father, the future president did what he typically does after a loss: Mr Trump falsely claimed he had won and accused his opponent of election fraud. “What Donald […]