The US government is arranging a charter flight to evacuate American diplomats and citizens from the Chinese city that has become ground zero for a new deadly strain of coronavirus, a US official with knowledge of the matter told CNN Saturday. The United States has a contract with a transporter to evacuate about three dozen…… MORE
Joe Biden has earned the Democratic presidential endorsement of Iowa Rep. Cindy Axne, giving the former vice president a boost at a critical time — just nine days before the state’s caucuses. Axne, a first term congresswoman, was one of two Iowa Democrats to flip a Republican held district in the state in 2018, and…… MORE
When most Americans think of sanctuary cities, they think of predominately liberal jurisdictions that have vowed to protect undocumented immigrants from what they view as overzealous federal immigration policies. But in the last year or so, conservative cities and counties around the nation have co-opted the term, declaring themselves sanctuaries from attempts at gun control…… MORE
The Veterans of Foreign Wars is demanding that President Donald Trump apologize for downplaying traumatic brain injuries sustained by US service members in Iraq after Iranian missile strikes on American troops earlier this month. Earlier this week, Trump said he does not consider potential traumatic brain injuries to be as serious as physical combat wounds,…… MORE
A top Pentagon official as recently as last month vowed the department would not tolerate “any act of retaliation” against Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — a pledge now being put to the test after Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn this week repeatedly attacked the key National Security Council aide who testified before Congress on the Ukraine…… MORE
A top Pentagon official pledged last month in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that “the Department will not tolerate any act of retaliation or reprisal” against Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a decorated veteran and key National Security Council aide who testified before Congress on the Ukraine scandal. Read that letter below. Click…… MORE
There’s a moment in the second episode of Netflix’s “Cheer” where viewers learn more about a boy named Jerry Harris, described by his teammates on the Navarro College cheer team as an ever-positive spirit and friend to many. It’s in this episode that we learn that Jerry’s inherent joy comes despite a tragic background, marked…… MORE
The Associated Press news agency (AP) has apologized after cropping a Ugandan climate activist from a photograph where she had posed with her white peers after a press conference in Davos, Switzerland. Climate activist Vanessa Nakate said she was invited to attend a youth climate science event. When news coverage of the event emerged, she…… MORE
President Donald Trump was impeached in December by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, but now it’s up to the Republican-led Senate to decide whether to remove him from office. Under the rules, it takes two-thirds of the Senate — 67 votes — to remove an impeached President. That means 20 Republicans would have to turn…… MORE
It’s barely been 48 hours since Nick Kyrgios made headlines for mocking Rafael Nadal’s routine, and now, he’s causing another stir. In his fourth-round, five-set tie-break victory against Russian Karen Khachanov at the Australian Open, Kyrgios appeared to injure his right hand after attempting a full dive across the court. And in the midst of…… MORE
