US President-elect Joe Biden’s spokeswoman quickly dismissed Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that a COVID-19 ban on travellers arriving from much of Europe and Brazil would be lifted, underlining the fractious transition of power.”On the advice of our medical team, the Administration does not intend to lift these restrictions on 1/26,” tweeted Jen Psaki, Mr Biden’s…
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US pro-choice organisations say they have high hopes that President-elect Joe Biden will advance reproductive rights in the country and “undo the damage” of his predecessor Donald Trump.Mr Biden has already flagged an intention to restore funding to Planned Parenthood, protect a woman’s right to choose and rescind some of the Trump administration’s more controversial…
Twenty-three Special Rapporteurs and members of Working Groups – unpaid volunteers who are not UN staff – put their names to the statement, in which they strongly affirmed and expressed their “solidarity with the American people who stand for democracy, equality and the rule of law at this critical moment”. De-escalate and unifyThe group announced that…
2020 was the year of headlines. The Hustler is looking back on the tumultuous events of the past year before we push forward into the new year. JANUARY:The year kicked off with a bang as the Vanderbilt football team announced Todd Fitch and Ted Roof as offensive and defensive coordinators, respectively.Caviar & Bananas permanently shut its…
15hhours agoTueTuesday 19 JanJanuary 2021 at 6:56amBy Lucy SweeneyThat brings today’s US politics blog to a closeWe’re going to wrap things up here today folks. The blog machine is going to have a nice little rest before Pete wakes it up at 6:00am AEDT for a mammoth session of non-stop blogging until after the inauguration…
Manuel Balce Ceneta/APHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)The FBI is investigating a claim that one of the people who breached House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots stole a laptop or…
The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com.Scott Martelle, a Maine native, is a member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board.Sitting out front of our house last week watching the sun set, I struck up a…
In settling a lawsuit with the parents of Seth Rich, the DNC staffer murdered in 2016, Fox News stipulated the settlement remain private until after the 2020 election, The New York Times reported. The multi-million dollar settlement was announced at the end of November, more than a month after it was reached on October 12,…
As President Donald Trump and his allies face accusations of inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol, an image made the rounds on social media Monday showing Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, wearing a shirt bearing a logo of a far-right militia group with members who are under FBI investigation over their alleged…
