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The IndependentMyPillow guy’s social network launch falls flat
‘Huge letdown’: Telegram users on Lindell’s verified channel express frustration at signing up for VIP access to new social media network that still hasn’t opened despite announcement
- The Independent
‘We failed him’: Mayor voices sorrow as prosecutors admit 13-year-old Adam Toledo wasn’t holding gun
‘An attorney who works in this office failed to fully inform himself before speaking in court’
- The Independent
SolarWinds: Russian intelligence behind major cyber attack, Raab reveals as US expels diplomats
‘We see what Russia is doing to undermine our democracies’, foreign minister says
- LA Times
Ruling in doping case to keep world's fastest sprinter out of Tokyo Olympics
Facing a two-year ban for missed drug tests, top U.S. sprinter Christian Coleman sees his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for sport fall short.
- The Independent
North Carolina teacher killed in shoot-out after trying to rob Mexican drug cartel
Barney Harris shot and killed despite wearing bulletproof vest to rob drugs and cash
- BBC
Fyre Festival: Ticket-holders to receive money from $2m class action settlement
Ticket-holders of the now infamous 2017 music festival that never happened will get some money back.
- Reuters
Canada government will help Toronto as it struggles with COVID-19, says PM Trudeau
The Canadian government will help Toronto as the country's largest city struggles to cope with a rapidly worsening wave of COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday. Toronto is the capital of Ontario, the most populous of the 10 provinces, where cases could treble by the end of May unless tough restrictions are imposed, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. cited sources as saying. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has so far resisted wide-ranging steps but is under increasing criticism for how he has handled the epidemic, will make an announcement at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1830 GMT).
- The Independent
BLM activist arrested for anti-Asian hate crime in Seattle
‘Thank God the light finally changed and I was able to drive off’, said victim after abuse
- Associated Press
Philip's legacy lives in chef who traded prison for kitchen
Jon Watts was 18 years old when he woke up in a prison cell and decided he had to change. “I was a young boy in prison,” Watts, now 32, told The Associated Press. After Philip’s death last week at age 99, politicians and world leaders rushed to eulogize his lifetime of service to his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, and to the British nation.
- The Independent
AOC ignores Marjorie Taylor Greene’s incessant Twitter pleas for a public ‘head to head’
MTG says a debate ‘would be informative for the American People’ with her degree in business administration and AOC’s degree in economics
- Reuters
Indian hospitals overwhelmed by COVID surge as beds, oxygen fall short
Many Indian hospitals were scrambling for beds and oxygen as COVID-19 infections surged to a new daily record on Thursday, with a second wave of infections centred on the rich western state of Maharashtra. India's tally of total infections is second only to the United States, with experts blaming everything from official complacency to aggressive variants. The country has been producing oxygen at full capacity for each of the last two days but will have to turn to imports, with the health ministry saying it was planning to import 50,000 metric tons.
- The Independent
Biden expels Russian diplomats and announces new sanctions in retaliation for hacking
Sanctions follow allegations of election interference and a hacking campaign
- The Independent
Mitch McConnell refused to allow Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lie in state in Capitol, book claims
‘Mitch McConnell is not a force for good in our country,’ Nancy Pelosi reportedly told author
- LA Times
L.A., you slay: Meet the local queens taking 'RuPaul's Drag Race' by storm
As they vie for the top prize on VH1's Emmy-winning reality show, Gottmik and Symone discuss what makes L.A. — and its drag scene — so distinctive.
- The Independent
Babies dying from Covid in Brazil as ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ hits country
Médecins Sans Frontières says country has been plunged into ‘permanent state of mourning’
- Business Insider
Cuba's Raul Castro is stepping down, ending more than half a century of Castro rule over the island
Though the change in leadership will not necessarily lead to drastic shifts in policy in Cuba, it's still a historic moment for the country.
- The Independent
CNN crew member collapses as Daunte Wright protesters pelt reporters with bottle and eggs
‘A bottle of water knocked you out? Hahahaha’
- The Independent
Can you still get Covid-19 after having the vaccine?
Pfizer is 95 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 disease and Moderna is 94 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 disease
- Business Insider
The US is readying sanctions against Russia over the SolarWinds cyber attack. Here's a simple explanation of how the massive hack happened and why it's such a big deal
Federal investigators and cybersecurity experts say that Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service is probably responsible for the attack.
- The State
Thermal imaging finds signs of life as 12 remain missing on capsized boat off Gulf Coast
The search for survivors continues.