PoliticsThe IndependentRepublican lawmaker calls for Kyle Rittenhouse, who is on trial for murder, to be elected to Congress
A Republican lawmaker in Florida has been condemned after calling for Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager charged with murder, to be elected to Congress. Anthony Sabatini, who sits in the state's House of Representatives, on Saturday tweeted, “KYLE RITTENHOUSE FOR CONGRESS”. It came a day after Rittenhouse, 17, was granted bail after being charged with allegedly shooting dead two people and leaving a third paralysed in August during protests against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
PoliticsLA TimesOp-Ed: In what moral universe does Biden require a Catholic task force when Trump got a free pass?
The election of the second Roman Catholic as president of the United States should be the occasion of great celebration among his coreligionists. Not all Catholics supported Joseph Biden, of course, though about half did. On Nov. 7, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, José Gomez, archbishop of Los Angeles, congratulated Biden and Kamala Harris, and five days later so did Pope Francis.
HealthThe ConversationChina beat the coronavirus with science and strong public health measures, not just with authoritarianism
In January 2020, the Chinese government decided to lock down this city of 11 million people. All transportation to and from the city was stopped. Officials further locked down several other cities in Hubei Province, eventually quarantining over 50 million people.
U.S.The IndependentIowa congressman notorious for racist remarks asks Kamala Harris if she was descended from slave owners
An Iowa congressman known for making racist comments has asked Kamala Harris if she was descended from slave owners. Republican Steve King, who has a long history of making offensive remarks about immigrants, questioned the vice-president-elect's background on Twitter. I'm reading that @KamalaHarris made history as first woman, first black woman, first Asian woman, etc = a boatload of intersectionality points.
PoliticsPoliticoRepublicans dash to defend perilous 2022 Senate map
Sen. Kelly Loeffler also will have to run again next cycle if she wins the current Georgia Senate runoff on Jan. 5. Meanwhile, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo. said he's doing all the things necessary to run for re-election even though he's made no announcement.
PoliticsThe WeekThere's a very simple, extremely plausible reason Trump won't admit Biden won
President Trump lost his bid for re-election by 6 million votes and counting, and 74 electoral votes, and his legal team is consistently losing its court battles to disqualify President-elect Joe Biden's voters. "Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy of his own election in 2016, especially with the Russia investigation," CNN reports, citing a source familiar with Trump's thinking. Pointing to "those who he claims undercut his election by pointing to Russian interference efforts," Trump "has suggested it is fair game to not recognize Joe Biden as the president-elect."
U.S.USA TODAYWisconsin police arrest 15-year-old boy for Mayfair Mall shooting, say 'bullets started flying' during altercation
A 15-year-old Milwaukee boy who allegedly opened fire at a suburban Wisconsin shopping mall on Friday, sending eight people to the hospital, has been arrested, police said Sunday. Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber said the suspect was arrested Saturday night, adding that the shooting was the result of an altercation between two groups of people at Mayfair Mall. "We do know there was some sort of altercation, and that's when the bullets started flying," Weber said during a Sunday press conference.
HealthUSA TODAY OpinionI took the COVID vaccine to show anti-vaxxers that science works
It was June, and I'd just signed up for the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine trial. After the second dose, I was tested for COVID-19 antibodies — the sign of successful vaccination — but never told the result. This is all good news, because it means we may finally turn a corner in controlling the virus, and because it will show, once again, the critical importance of science and vaccines.
PoliticsThe WeekI was wrong about Mitt Romney
Alone among Republican senators (indeed, alone among any senator in history), he crossed party lines to vote to convict President Trump on the charge of abusing his power by pressuring a foreign government to interfere in our election. And — not alone, exactly, but hardly in plentiful company — he has forthrightly condemned the president for stonewalling the Biden transition and undermining our democracy. These actions have taken real guts.
PoliticsNational ReviewHere Comes the Biden Blame Game
During the eight years that President Obama and his team managed the economy, Americans were regularly assured that the president's Keynesian policies would deliver striking growth in the years ahead. The growth repeatedly failed to materialize, and what followed was a master class in blamesmanship. No matter how far into the Obama term we were, the disappointing growth was a “new normal”– not the result of President Obama's high tax and heavy regulatory policies.
U.S.USA TODAYNebraska man arrested for allegedly shooting 4 people, killing 2, at a Sonic Drive-In restaurant, police say
A man was arrested for allegedly shooting four people, killing two, late Saturday night at a Sonic Drive-In restaurant in Nebraska, authorities said Sunday. The Bellevue Police Department in a news release said Silva was booked into Sarpy County jail. Police identified those killed as Nathan Pastrana, 22, and Ryan Helbert, 28, both employees of the restaurant, were killed in the shooting, police said Sunday night.
U.S.Business InsiderTrump supporter charged with assault after breathing forcefully on protesters at the Virginia golf course where Trump was playing
A man who deliberately breathed on two women outside President Donald Trump's Virginia golf course has been charged with assault, the sheriff's office said. Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said that Raymond Deskins, 61, was "charged with simple assault" over the Saturday incident. It said video footage of the incident "did not capture the entire interaction."
PoliticsThe WeekMaryland Gov. Larry Hogan is 'embarrassed' his GOP is helping Trump make the U.S. look like 'a banana republic'
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is no longer sure Trump will "do the right thing" and acknowledge his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, but he's certain Biden will be sworn in Jan. 20, 2021, he told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday's State of the Union. Hogan, who has been critical of Trump, said he voted for the late President Ronald Reagan this year. Pressuring state legislators in Michigan and other states to "somehow change the outcome with electors was completely outrageous," Hogan said.
PoliticsThe IndependentLindsey Graham continues to weigh in on Georgia election after being accused of interference
Senator Lindsey Graham, whose constituency is in North Carolina, is once again weighing in on the state of Georgia's elections process. On Saturday, Mr Graham echoed Georgia Governor Brian Kemp's desire for the state to conduct an audit of mail-in ballot signatures. His intervention comes a day after Mr Kemp accepted the results of the state's recount after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger certified that Joe Biden had won the election.
LifestyleINSIDER7 Thanksgiving hacks that will make your turkey juicier, evenly cooked, and tastier than ever
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and it's not too late to learn some expert tips for cooking the perfect turkey. Using a meat thermometer and glazing the turkey with sweet wine can ensure your main course stays juicy and moist. Preparing a Thanksgiving meal is no easy feat.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderTrump plans to hold indoor holiday parties at the White House, report says, despite the CDC warning against such gatherings
The Trump White House plans to hold indoor Christmas and Hanukkah parties despite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warnings against large gatherings, Axios reported. An invitation for one of President Donald Trump's holiday parties seen by the outlet makes no mention of masks or any other precaution, even as the White House is dogged by continued cases of COVID-19. A White House official, who was not named, told the outlet that the events would be held indoors.
- BusinessKTRK – Houston
Houston man charged in million dollar global cyber scam
The 36-year-old is accused of stealing money related to a million dollar airplane purchase and transferring the funds to a Houston bank.
BusinessBusiness InsiderFacebook is reportedly planning to woo Joe Biden by rolling out new vaccine and climate change features
Facebook is building a strategy to help get on President-elect Joe Biden's good side, company sources told the Financial Times. Facebook is reportedly planning to crack down harder on COVID-19 misinformation, and is considering adding an information banner to its site encouraging users to get vaccinated. Facebook is also reportedly looking at ways to encourage users to engage with content about the Paris Climate Agreement, which Biden has pledged to rejoin.
LifestyleUSA TODAYBeating the odds: The world's most premature twins to celebrate 2nd birthday
TTTS) is also very rare,” Dr. Jonathan Klein, a neonatologist and medical director of the NICU at University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, told The Associated Press in January 2019, about two months after the Ewoldt twins were born. A lot of patients pass away before they are even born. At 17 weeks, Ewoldt underwent surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital to seal and disconnect the twins' aberrant vessels.
BusinessMiami HeraldThis Miami supplier is manufacturing millions of masks. Why won’t anyone buy them?
As the COVID-19 pandemic roared to life this spring, the U.S. found itself faced with an acute shortage of masks and other personal protective equipment to support front-line workers. Today, America's PPE supply chain is lurching back to life. DemeTech, a Miami-area medical device manufacturer, has been trying to bridge the gap by hiring hundreds of new workers to make Food and Drug Administration-approved surgical masks — which only look like ones you'd buy at a corner store — and Centers for Disease Control-approved N95 respirators.
PoliticsCBS NewsGOP starting to tell Trump it's over: "Stop golfing and concede"
A small, but growing, number of Republicans have a message for President Trump: The election is over and he lost. The message became louder over the weekend, after a far-fetched press conference by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis on unfounded mass election fraud, which Trump ally and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie called a "national embarrassment." On Saturday, the Trump campaign suffered a big loss as a federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit trying to invalidate millions of votes in that state as full of "strained legal arguments" that were "unsupported by evidence."
ScienceUSA TODAY350-pound loggerhead among more than 150 cold-stunned turtles rescued in Massachusetts
A large loggerhead turtle that washed ashore in Massachusetts Friday was among more than 150 cold-stunned sea turtles to strand on Cape Cod beaches in a three day span, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The loggerhead, an adult male that weighed 350 pounds, was moved from Massachusetts' Great Hollow Beach by Truro Department of Public Works staff and brought to the sanctuary in South Wellfleet. It was then transferred to a van and driven to New England Aquarium's Animal Care Center.
HealthAFP'Half-measure' virus vaccine intrigues experts
Evidence suggesting an initial half dose of the vaccine being developed by drugs firm AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is more effective than a full dose is counterintuitive, and even took the researchers by surprise. Why would less be better than more when it comes to triggering an immune response? Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, described the findings from the Phase 3 clinical trial as "intriguing".
- PoliticsWPVI – Philadelphia
New COVID-19 restrictions going into effect in Delaware Monday morning
Delaware Governor John Carney issued a third revision to the state's COVID-19 emergency order, which goes into effect Monday morning.
PoliticsThe WeekReporter Carl Bernstein names 21 GOP senators who 'repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump'
Political reporters in Washington, D.C., have been saying a lot of Republicans in Congress privately despise President Trump, but few have publicly criticized him — and likewise, few have publicly acknowledged his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden. Carl Bernstein, one half of the journalistic duo that uncovered President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, named 21 names on Sunday night, saying that in private conversations, these Republicans senators "have repeatedly expressed extreme contempt for Trump" and his fitness to be president. The 21 senators he named include names you would expect, but also some surprises, like Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.
“Donald Trump defeated Donald Trump.”
“The victory was a vindication of a style of American politics that many feared was gone forever.”
“Mr. Biden’s victory — and Mr. Trump’s defeat — is a testament to the resilience of American democracy.”
“Trump’s 2020 reelection bid was doomed by his boorish behavior. Time and again, he refused to act like a president.”
“Biden took the opportunity to unite the Democratic Party.”