British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a wave of public and political outrage on Tuesday over allegations that he and his staff flouted coronavirus lockdown rules by holding a garden party in 2020 while Britons were barred by law from mingling outside the home. Opposition politicians called for a police …...Read More
Boris Johnson faces accusations he threw party during lockdowns
Oklahoma death row inmates seek firing squad as alternative to lethal injection
Two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state's three-drug lethal injection, one of their attorneys told a federal judge on Monday. The two inmates — Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle — want U.S. District Judge Stephen …...Read More
Supreme Court will likely issue 'split' ruling on Biden vaccine mandate: Dhillon
Center for American Liberty CEO and civil rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon predicted a "split ruling" out of the Supreme Court in the case that will determine the constitutionality of President Biden's COVID-19 OSHA vaccine regulations. The Supreme Court on Friday heard close to four hours of oral arguments over two …...Read More
Texas toddler gets gun in car, shoots mother and sibling southwest of Fort Worth
A handgun went off in the hands of a toddler in a Texas Walmart parking lot Wednesday, wounding the child's mother in the arm and side and young sibling in the leg, police said. The shooting happened in Granbury, Texas, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth. Police said the …...Read More
Pope Francis encourages a 'courageous and prophetic faith,' decries consumerism
Pope Francis marked Epiphany on Thursday by encouraging people to shake off consumeristic "tyranny" and crises of faith in lives and societies and instead find the courage to work for justice and brotherhood in societies dominated by what he called the "sinister logic of power." During Mass in St. Peter’s …...Read More
Psaki denies White House ‘lost control’ of COVID despite surge in cases
White House press secretary Jen Psaki denied that the Biden administration has "lost control" of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday when pressed by a reporter who pointed out the rise of issues related to the omicron coronavirus variant. President Biden routinely promised on the campaign trail that he would "shut …...Read More
Schumer targets filibuster reform to pass voting rights legislation
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., kicked off the new year with another effort to blow up the Senate filibuster to pass federal voting reform legislation. Schumer said Monday the Senate will "debate or consider changes to Senate rules on or before" the Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Jr. federal …...Read More
North Korea holds political conference as Kim marks 10 years in power
North Korea opened a key political conference Monday to review past projects and discuss new policies amid the pandemic and a diplomatic deadlock with the United States. The official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday that leader Kim Jong Un presided over a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of …...Read More
COVID-19 omicron variant: Booster shots are critical to fighting the virus
The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is, but scientists don’t yet know if it causes more severe disease even as the world faces exploding cases just before Christmas. "Everything is riskier now because omicron is so …...Read More
Omicron v. delta: Battle of coronavirus mutants is critical
As the omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around the world, scientists are anxiously watching a battle play out that could determine the future of the pandemic. Can the latest competitor to the world-dominating delta overthrow it? Some scientists, poring over data from …...Read More
