One of the many big surprises in this month’s surprising election was the Democrats’ failure to overturn Republican majorities in state legislatures. Various Democratic committees budgeted $88 million to flip majorities in big states such as Texas, Florida and North Carolina. Total gains: zero. That’s a bad return on lavish investments in money and psychic...
President Trump on Wednesday phoned into a public hearing on election issues in Pennsylvania and declared that his loss to Joe Biden was the result of cheating by Democrats. “This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot,” Trump said. “This election was rigged and we can’t let that happen...
Disney Cruise Line extended its suspension again this week, halting all of its cruises through Jan. 31, 2021, as COVID-19 continues to spread. The suspension canceled sailings of the Disney Magic, Wonder and Dream through Feb. 1 and the Disney Fantasy through Feb. 6. “Our team at Disney Cruise Line remains focused on the health...
Biden said during an at times campaign-like speech in Wilmington, Del., that he and his family were setting an example by not celebrating the holiday as a large group.
Penguin Random House Canada’s decision to publish a new book by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson — who has called white privilege a “Marxist lie” — caused employees to break down in tears during a company-wide meeting, according to a new report. Several workers, who didn’t want to be identified, vented to Vice News about...
Almost 5 million Americans have already traveled by plane ahead of Thanksgiving — a pandemic-era high, according to the latest data. Airport security screened 4.8 million people from Friday to Tuesday, the TSA said. That’s still 59 percent less than the same period in 2019, when nearly 12 million people passed through American airports. But...
A woman’s body was discovered by a jogger in a popular Southern California park — and now authorities are investigating her death as a homicide. The unidentified woman, believed to be between the ages of 35 and 45, was discovered by the jogger in Pasadena’s Hahamongna Watershed Park around 7:50 a.m. Tuesday, CBS LA reported....
A 12-year-old boy in Iowa turned tragedy into triumph. After August’s wild wind storm known as a derecho, Tommy Rhomberg has crafted more than 200 baseball bats, which he sold to raise money for victims of the storm, from fallen branches. Each bat, about 30 inches long, made with his grandfather’s whittling tools and sandpaper,...
Costes, a Michelin star restaurant in Budapest, has seen its dining numbers dwindle during the coronavirus pandemic, so it set up shop on a Ferris wheel one night in October as a boost, and the event went so well that they are planning another one for the spring. Andrea Márton, marketing manager for the restaurant,...
A 20-year-old Illinois woman has gone missing after dropping her younger sister off at school, authorities said. Taegan Renee Randolph, of Matherville, was last seen on Friday morning while performing the school drop-off, People reported. Her mother, Torri Peterson Randolph, said she then missed her class at the Capri Cosmetology School in Davenport — and...
Amazon’s widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services, is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers. It has also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said. “Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region...
Hamza “Travis” Nagdy -- who often led marches while preaching through a megaphone -- was gunned down just before 12:30 a.m. Monday near the University of Louisville campus, the Courier Journal reported.
A Brooklyn man was shot in the thumb when he went to buy pot from a guy he met on Instagram and the phony pusher tried to rob him instead, according to cops and police sources. The victim was one of six people shot in four separate incidents in Gotham on Tuesday and Wednesday — which...
The Grammy versus Weeknd drama is far from "over now."
A missing pug has been found safe in Southern California — six years after he became separated from his owner. Sandra Campos said she was thrilled to get a call that her pug named Chato was located over the weekend roaming by Highway 99 in Davis, news station ABC10 reported. “I just started to cry,...
Expensify CEO David Barrett stood by his decision to urge his clients to vote for Joe Biden, saying the benefits of the controversial call to action far outweighed the costs. Barrett’s Oct. 22 email calling a vote for President Trump “a vote against democracy” prompted a wide range of reactions among the millions of Expensify...
A group of Georgia parents upset that COVID-19 scuttled a high school homecoming dance threw their own elaborate bash for 250 students — many of whom were photographed without masks, according to a report. One parent of a teen at Ola High School in McDonough who attended the Nov. 14 soiree at a rented venue...
Aaron Boone’s claim that the media’s criticism of Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez was “over the top” did not sit well with YES broadcaster Michael Kay. On Monday, the Bombers manager said media and fans have “unfairly criticized” Sanchez and have been “blinded by some of the things that he’s done really well.” Kay went off...
And some huge musical guests will help close out 2020, too.
Cloud-based software giant Salesforce reportedly is in advance talks to buy messaging app Slack — just months after Salesforce’s billionaire boss, Marc Benioff, denied he was interested in making any acquisitions. San Francisco-based Salesforce sees Slack as a logical extension of its enterprise offerings, a source told Reuters on Wednesday, adding there is no certainty...
The Twitter account behind the card game UNO has weighed in on NBA All-Star Donovan Mitchell’s tabletop traditions to deliver a smackdown of a popular but unofficial rule.
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin is facing some liberal pushback in his effort to be the next leading Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Durbin (D-Ill.) is the second highest-ranking Democrat on the influential panel. No. 3 in command is Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), who is also interested in running Judiciary for his party. “In...
LANZAROTE, Spain – At least eight people were drowned after a boat carrying more than 35 migrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa and heading towards the Canary Islands capsized on Tuesday, emergency services said on Wednesday. Four people were found dead late on Tuesday and another four bodies were rescued on Wednesday morning....
A middle school teacher has admitted to a sexually inappropriate relationship with an underage female student that consisted of fondling and texts
LASALLE, Ill. — State officials are investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a veterans nursing home in rural Illinois that has infected nearly 200 residents and staff, and killed 27 veterans. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office and the state’s Department of Veterans Affairs are attempting to determine what caused the outbreak at the state-run LaSalle Veterans...
