Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša congratulates Donald Trump despite no election result
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša has handed Donald Trump victory in the 2020 United States Presi..
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Month: November 2020
Texas State football player shot, killed; 2 suspects arrested, search on for others: police
At least two suspects have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Texas State University football player, who was killed during a drug deal gone wrong this week, authorities said Wednesday. A manhunt was underway for two additional suspects who police said were involved in the shooting death of Khambrail Winters, 20, a Houston native and defensive back for the football […]
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Black Lives Matter flag becomes issue in Florida community
As demonstrations against police brutality roiled the country earlier this year, Antoine Mickle began noticing the flags going up in his Jacksonville neighborhood declaring “Blue Lives Matter.” For months, those flags hung from his neighbors’ homes. But when Mickle decided to hang a flag of his own last month — proclaiming that “Black Lives Matter” […]
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Coronavirus delays national math, reading tests until 2022
National reading and math tests long used to track what U.S. students know in those subjects are being postponed from next year to 2022 over concerns about whether testing would be feasible or produce valid results during the coronavirus pandemic, the National Center for Education Statistics announced Wednesday. The biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress evaluations used for […]
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Nevada now has one COVID-19 case a minute, one death per two hours
The coronavirus is spreading so fast in Nevada that one person is diagnosed with it every minute and someone is dying from it every two hours, state health officials said Wednesday. Nearly half of the state’s 142,239 total cases since the start of the pandemic in March have occurred since September — fully one-fourth of […]
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Trump administration kills plans for Alaskan gold mine
The Trump administration denied a permit to build a massive gold and copper mine in Alaska that could have put the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery at risk. In a surprise move, the Army Corps of Engineers said “the proposed project is contrary to the public interest” in killing a permit to build the Pebble […]
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Barack Obama to receive PEN America’s Voice of Influence award
Former President Barack Obama is set to receive a PEN America award following the release of his best-selling memoir “A Promised Land.” The free speech activist group announced Wednesday that it was awarding its second annual Voice of Influence Award to the 44th president, recognizing how his writings “have traversed political, social and ideological bounds and framed a self-reflective […]
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Jim Hanifan, offensive line coaching great, dies at 87
Jim Hanifan, the former St. Louis Cardinals coach who returned to the city as offensive line coach to help the Rams win the Super Bowl, has died. He was 87. Hanifan’s daughter, Kathy Hinder, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he died Tuesday at Missouri Baptist Hospital. She said the cause of death hasn’t been […]
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Bogdan Bogdanovic’s free-agency saga ends with hard Kings decision
Shooting comes at a price in the NBA, but it was too rich for the Kings to keep one of their own. Bogdan Bogdanovic’s restricted free-agent saga came to an end Tuesday night when the Kings declined to match the Hawks’ four-year, $72 million offer sheet, clearing the way for Atlanta to land the sharpshooting […]
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Twitter will reopen applications for blue checkmark verifications next year
Twitter said it will reopen applications for its famous blue checkmark verification process early next year after a more than three-year hiatus. The bright blue badge is Twitter’s way of showing that accounts belonging to public figures have been verified to be real and not impostors, but the program was suspended in 2017 following confusion […]
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