Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fence around the U.S. Capitol building is an eyesore, an insult to the American people and an embarrassment for the Unites States around the world.At least one Democrat has been brave enough to do something about it. Washington D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a bill titled “No Fencing at the…
Tanzania’s autocratic president John Magufuli is determined to walk a reckless path. Since June 2020, he has consistently declared that COVID-19, which has sickened millions and cost 2.4 million lives worldwide, doesn’t exist in his country.Cases that appeared in Tanzania had been eliminated, thanks to God and the country’s fervent prayers, he claimed. He implored…
As Senator Ted Cruz flew back and forth between Cancún, Mexico and Houston this week, “a lot of people in Texas,” including Beto O’Rourke, have stepped up to fill in for the senator during a winter storm that led to the state’s power crisis.Speaking with Vanity Fair’s Joe Hagan on an episode of the Inside…
New York legislators are looking to rein in Governor Andrew Cuomo’s control over the state’s response to the pandemic and the No. 2 ranking Democrat in the Senate is confident they have the votes they need.Cuomo has taken heavy criticism for withholding information related to nursing home deaths and members of his own party are…
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Citi bank is pictured at an exhibition hall in Bangkok, Thailand, May 12, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha(Reuters) – Citigroup Inc’s employees in Texas can take shelter in the company’s offices, a company executive said on Friday, as the U.S. state battles a severe winter storm that caused blackouts and disrupted water…
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks to Defense Department personnel during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 10, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday said there must be an immediate reduction of violence in Afghanistan, adding there had…
A 3D printed Facebook logo and keyboard buttons are placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) – It’s a truism that the real news story isn’t the dog biting the man, but vice versa. A proposed U.S. law aimed at helping small media outlets…
Early data from NASA shows where the Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on Mars.Feb. 19, 2021
A Federal Judge in California on Thursday sentenced a venture capitalist who donated nearly $1 million to former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee to 12 years in prison for falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent while lobbying high-level U.S. officials.Imaad Zuberi was also fined $1.75 million and ordered to pay $15.7…
Texas Senator Ted Cruz sparked outrage after he was spotted heading to Cancun while his home state grappled with extreme temperatures and an escalating crisis. Cruz has returned to Houston and says he had been dropping off his daughters.Feb. 19, 2021
