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President Donald Trump spent the morning after Christmas tweeting conspiracies about the election he lost and calling for $2,000 stimulus checks that his own allies rejected. But he remained silent about the emergency unemployment benefits for millions that are set to expire Saturday unless he signs the massive $900 billion stimulus package. If the president […]

Washington (AFP) – Authorities searched a house in the Nashville area on Saturday as they probed the large blast that ripped through the downtown of the southern US city on Christmas morning, injuring several people and damaging dozens of buildings. The operation in Antioch came as US media reports said a 63-year-old “person of interest”

White House staffers are receiving conflicting messages about their departure instructions. First staffers received an email telling them that they would need to leave by January 4 to make way for in the incoming Biden administration. The White House Management Office sent Trump administration workers an internal memo via email on Tuesday night. The email

President Donald Trump is accusing people in his inner-circle of not supporting him, as he continues lodging lawsuits in federal court and retweeting insults about former allies. Vice President Mike Pence has joined the list of supporters that Trump has accused of turning against him after a heated pre-holiday meeting. Despite both men expressing public support for overturning

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed a bill banning the sale or display of hate symbols on state-owned public property or events, such as state fairs. The law went to effect immediately and specifically calls out the Confederate flag. The law defines the term, “symbol of hate” to coincide with “symbols of white supremacist

The execution of Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, has been delayed a second time. Montgomery, 52, got the death penalty in 2008 for killing a pregnant woman four years earlier and stealing her fetus. The baby survived. Montgomery’s execution was initially scheduled for Dec. 8, but two of her attorneys contracted

The mayor of Dodge City, Kansas has resigned from office after receiving threats over her support for a local mask mandated to help slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Mayor Joyce Warshaw wrote a letter to the city’s commission stating that she no longer felt “safe” in her position and decided to leave

Washington (AFP) – A huge blast tore through a section of downtown Nashville early Friday, after police responding to reports of gunfire discovered a parked motorhome reportedly blaring a warning that it carried a bomb.  The explosion shattered windows and ripped apart trees but appeared calculated to spare lives, injuring just three people as it detonated at 6:30am (1230

ATLANTA — The Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, the Democratic challengers seeking to unseat Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, reported a combined $210.2 million in contributions over the past two months in reports filed Christmas Eve. The individual totals were almost evenly split with Warnock reporting $103.4 million in receipts to Ossoff’s

Columbus (AFP) – The fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by police in  Columbus, Ohio — the US city’s second such killing this month — sparked a fresh wave of protests on Thursday against racial injustice and police brutality in the country.  Andre Maurice Hill, 47, was in the garage of a house on

Washington (AFP) – Republicans on Thursday blocked an effort to amend the hard-won pandemic relief package to more than triple direct payments to struggling Americans, something demanded by President Donald Trump. After months of partisan bickering, legislators late Monday finally approved a $900 billion stimulus package to help families and businesses struggling to survive the