Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday said that he cannot support a bipartisan $908 billion COVID-19 relief proposal unveiled this week by congressional moderates unless significant changes are made ... "But, in its current form, I cannot support it.”. A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Sens ... .......
PresidentDonald Trump has raised $207.5 million since Election Day while seeking to overturn the results, according to a new report, while actually spending just a small fraction of that on efforts to challenge the vote count in key states ... How 2020 became the year of 'fundraising on steroids' ... SIGN UP ... SIGN UP ... ....
Donald Trump has ordered that nearly all US troops are to leave Somalia by early next year. Around 700 troops have been stationed in the country for the last 13 years fighting local al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabaab. Now the outgoing president has told the Pentagon to pull them out of the African country, according to the Wall Street Journal...SIGN UP ... ....
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Powerful winds that pushed wildfires through Southern California, burning several homes and injuring two firefighters, began easing but forecasters warned that the fire danger remained Friday ...The weather service said winds would be decreasing through Friday, down to 25 mph (40 kph) to 45 mph into Friday morning ... ___ ... ....
Belarus’ PresidentAlexander Lukashenko says military build-ups by the United States and NATO near the western borders of his country, Russia, and a number of other states in the region is cause for “serious concern.”. “Once again, the world is on the brink of an unbridled arms race ... Russia slams West for ‘interfering’ in Belarus internal affairs ... ....
China has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing, performing a calculation that would take a modern-day supercomputer billions of years to complete. The milestone, known as quantum supremacy, comes just over a year after Google became the first in the world to achieve the same feat. ... Read more. ‘Quantum apocalypse’ ... SIGN UP ... SIGN UP ... ....
Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarling. On June 19, 2012, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked into the EcuadorianEmbassy in London and claimed political asylum ... The grim picture revealed how U.S. and coalition forces had killed thousands of civilians in unreported incidences while using torture techniques against certain prisoners of war....
Read full article. Justin VallejoDecember 3, 2020, 1.07 AM. Former national security adviser is understood to have been paid more than $30,000 by the broadcaster ...Captioning the tweet "Freedom never kneels except for God [pray emoji, US flag emoji]", Mr Flynn linked to ad from a TEA Party-affiliated group called We The PeopleConvention ... ....
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A Japanese space mission will deliver samples collected from asteroid Ryugu in a capsule to the outback desert of Woomera in South Australia this Sunday morning. A leading expert from The Australian National University (ANU) who will analyze the samples says they could provide major insights into the origin of life on Earth... ANU astronomer Dr ... .......
India summoned Canada’s ambassador on Friday and said comments made by Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau over protests by farmers near Delhi were an interference in its domestic affairs and would seriously hurt bilateral ties ... There was no comment from the Canadian embassy ... The comment was made in apparent reference to Trudeau's remarks ... ....
‘MODERATELY PROSPEROUS’. Xi said that nearly 100 million were making more than US$1.68 per day, which was still below the World Bank’s absolute poverty level. Bloomberg ... The incomes of nearly 100 million people had moved above China’s official poverty line — defined as those who earn less than 11 yuan (US$1.68) per day, he said ... 20 ... ....