Article by WN.Com Correspondent DallasDarling. Congressional Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday vehemently rejected a call by Sen. Ted Cruz for lawmakers and Americans to put the current “anger and division behind us,” 24 hours after the senator himself baselessly contested the presidential election results ... Sanders ... (17) Rep ...New York, New York....
The Dutch government has resigned over a scandal in which thousands of parents were wrongly accused of child benefit fraud leaving many facing financial ruin. Compensation claims for people caught in the controversy are expected to top €300 million ($363.8m, £266.9 million) as about 10,000 families receive at least €30,000 ... Read More ... ....
An ally of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened that Israel could attack Iran’s nuclear program if the United States rejoined the nuclear deal ... Israel has repeatedly threatened over the past years to launch military attacks against nuclear and military facilities in Iran to hamper the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and missile capabilities ... ....
An earthquake on the Indonesian islandof Sulawesi has killed at least seven people and injured hundreds. More than a dozen patients and staff are reported to be trapped in the rubble of a hospital that was damaged in the quake ... No Tsunami warning was issued ... Related Topics. ....
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS (REUTERS) - Hundreds of Central Americans camped overnight outside the bus terminal in the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, anxiously awaiting the departure early on Friday morning (Jan 15) of a migrant caravan hoping to reach the United States... .......
A man who donned fur, horns and red, white and blue face paint while storming the Capitol last week is now requesting a pardon from President Trump ... His attorney Albert Watkins is now making a plea for a pardon, stating that Chansley was not involved in Wednesday's violence and surrendered peacefully.ADVERTISEMENT ... .......
Indonesian investigators have successfully recovered data from a crashed passenger jet’s flight recorder, days after the plane with 62 people aboard slammed into the sea, they said Friday ... (Photo by Azwar Ipank / AFP) ... More than 3,000 people are taking part in the recovery effort, assisted by dozens of boats and helicopters ... ....
US PresidentDonald Trump is reportedly refusing to pay his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for his work, which included an unsuccessful attempt to overturn the elections results amid unfounded allegations, according to the Washington Post... "The president is pretty wound up," a senior administration official told the Post ... 3 election ... ....
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week's siege of the US Capitol by PresidentDonald Trump's supporters on Thursday (Jan 14), saying in a court filing that rioters intended "to capture and assassinate elected officials" ... Chansley was due to appear in federal court on Friday ... .......
The Islamic RevolutionGuards Corps (IRGC) has kicked off massive military drills in central Iran, in which it tests its latest ballistic missiles and combat drones. The first round of the drills, codenamed the GreatProphet 15, was held with mass launches of ballistic ground-to-ground missiles and operations by combat bomber drones ... www.presstv.ir ... ....
The family of a Libyan man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing has lost an appeal in a court in Scotland to have his conviction overturned posthumously ... 21, 1988. The bombing killed all 259 people aboard the plane and another 11 on the ground. Al-Megrahi was found guilty of mass murder ... Supreme Court ... SIGN UP ... SIGN UP ... ....
It is truly shocking that the banks who have been pouring billions into fossil fuel investments should dominate a committee advising the government on ending fossil fuel financing. And yet, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. At the end of last year, the government’s official advisers on climate action, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), ...Watch more....
Read full article. 15 January 2021, 10.29 am183;2-min read. Vaccinations at Havelhoehe community hospital in Berlin...Europe's biggest economy and most populous country managed the pandemic better than neighbours last spring. But it has seen a sharp rise in cases and deaths recently and daily per capita mortality has often exceeded the U.S ... News18....