Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., had her personal verified Twitter account permanently banned for spreading COVID-19 “misinformation,” the social media company said Sunday. “We permanently suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” Twitter said in a statement. “We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will […]
Antonio Brown appears to have played his last game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Head coach Bruce Arians made the announcement during his post-game presser, telling reporters that the embattled wide receiver is “no longer a Buc” after he stunned the crowd at MetLife Stadium during Sunday’s game win over the New York Jets. He […]
Authorities in Boulder County, Colorado, have not ruled out arson as a possible cause of the wildfire that destroyed thousands of acres and hundreds of homes. Police told Fox 31 Denver that they are investigating all possible causes of last week’s fire, saying that if arson or human negligence were to blame that the people […]
More than 1,400 flights going into, out of and within the U.S. were canceled on Friday as the year comes to a close with snarled travel due to the impact of COVID-19 and the omicron variant on airlines and their crews. According to FlightAware’s live delay and cancellation statistic, 1,417 flights in the U.S. were […]
More than 200 Marines have been removed for refusing to comply with the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Capt. Andrew Wood, a Marine Corps spokesperson, said in an emailed statement that 206 Marines have been separated to date for not getting vaccinated. The new numbers come as the military ramps up discipline for service members who […]
Anthony Fauci on Thursday defended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision to cut its recommended isolation time to five days for people infected with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic. Fauci said there was a need to cut the isolation period for asymptomatic people to keep society running as the nation is hit with […]
Initial filings for unemployment insurance dipped last week and remained close to their lowest level in more than 50 years, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Jobless claims for the week ended Dec. 25 totaled 198,000, less than the 205,000 Dow Jones forecast and a dip of 8,000 from the previous period. When adjusting for weekly volatility, […]
Mexican authorities detained 252,256 migrants from January to November of 2021, breaking the country’s yearly record for migrant detentions. The statistics, released this month by Mexico’s interior secretary, show a 206 percent increase in migrant detentions from the 82,379 migrants detained in 2020. The detention numbers from 2020 are an outlier, as the coronavirus pandemic […]
A 14-year-old girl needlessly died as “collateral damage” in a police shooting last week and drew her last breath in the arms of her grieving mother, the family and their lawyers said Tuesday. Heartbroken loved ones of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, who was killed Thursday in a dressing room at a Burlington store in the North Hollywood […]
A fifth victim has died after a gunman repeatedly escaped police capture and carried out what authorities described Tuesday as a violent, targeted rampage across the Denver metro area. Sarah Steck, 28, died Tuesday at a local hospital. Steck was a clerk at the Hyatt House, a hotel in suburban Denver, Lakewood police spokesman John […]
Gas prices could exceed a $4 average before the summer, GasBuddy.com predicted. The GasBuddy forecast projects gas prices will peak nationally at an average of $3.79 in May, before retreating below current levels by late 2022, CNN reported. “We could see a national average that flirts with, or in a worst-case scenario, potentially exceeds $4 […]
India’s government has refused to renew the license of the Missionaries of Charity, an organization founded in the 1950s by the late Mother Teresa, and it blocked the nonprofit from accepting donations from foreign places to use for its humanitarian work. No reason has been given about the government’s refusal, carried out under India’s Foreign […]
