Ensaf Haidar, wife of the jailed Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi (File photo)OTTAWA: Members of Canada’s House of Commons on Wednesday unanimously voted to grant citizenship to Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been imprisoned in his home country since 2012 and whose wife and three children live in Canada.The motion asks Immigration Minister Marco…
DJ LeMahieu felt your pain, Yankees fans. He still doesn’t know why it took so long for the Yankees to re-sign him to a new contract.”I just didn’t know what the heck was going on,” LeMahieu said at his re-introductory Zoom news conference on Thursday.On Wednesday, the Yankees announced the six-year, $90 million contract that…
From the Triangle Business Journal: Ray Carey, CEO of ArchiveSocial, tells TBJ his firm won the contract to archive Trump’s social media footprint. Carey, who took over the top spot at ArchiveSocial in 2019 from founder Anil Chawla, recognizes the mission and said the company is more than up for the challenge. [Clip] ArchiveSocial works…
Ukraine has launched a criminal investigation into attempts to interfere in the November 2020 U.S. presidential election.Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on January 28 that Ukraine would do everything in its power to bring to justice forces within the country and outside it who attempted to damage…
| USA TODAYShow CaptionHide CaptionAP Top Stories January 27Here’s the latest for Wednesday January 27th: Senate votes to hold Trump trial, over Republican objections; Biden says administration is buying more COVID vaccine; Chicago plans to reopen schools delayed; Alabama cleans up tornado damage.APA California man kept a collection of weapons and homemade pipe bombs before…
LiveUpdated Jan. 28, 2021, 6:29 p.m. ET Jan. 28, 2021, 6:29 p.m. ETPregnant women are getting conflicting advice about vaccines. And New York seriously undercounted virus deaths in nursing homes, investigators say.Here’s what you need to know: Novavax’s vaccine works well, except on the variant first found in South Africa. The variant that emerged in South…
WASHINGTON – Top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken has signaled that U.S. sanctions on Iran will remain in place for some time as Washington waits to see if Tehran verifiably stops violating a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers before potentially rejoining the deal that the prior U.S. administration quit.Speaking Wednesday in his first news conference…
By Staff Report | Thursday, January 28, 2021Saved to `My Liked Photos`Hendrick Motorsports1 of 8View FullscreenHendrick Motorsports released a first look at Kyle Larson’s NationsGuard paint scheme for the No. 5 Chevrolet in the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season.Saved to `My Liked Photos`Hendrick Motorsports2 of 8View FullscreenSaved to `My Liked Photos`Hendrick Motorsports3 of 8View FullscreenSaved…
One source who speaks regularly with Trump told PEOPLE after he arrived in Florida: “He is not in a very good mood”Whatever else happens next, Donald Trump has now followed in the footsteps of his predecessors and officially launched a post-White House project.On Monday the former president announced he had opened an “office” in Florida that will…
Republicans around the country turned to an untested legal theory to challenge changes to state election laws during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent national election results.The theory, called the independent state legislature doctrine, would vest more authority in state legislatures to set rules for federal elections with fewer checks by other state bodies like…
