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Lamar Alexander will vote to 'acquit' Trump in Senate impeachment trial

Sen. Susan Collins said she is disappointed that the Senate has voted against calling its own witnesses in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial . That ...

Family kicked off flight over alleged body odor sues, claiming 'unbearable humiliation'

The suit alleges a gate agent said Orthodox Jews only take baths once a week. The airline has refuted the claims, stating that passengers and crew members...

Collins Says She's Disappointed That The Senate Voted Against Calling Witnesses

Lisa Murkowski, a Republican moderate who Democrats had hoped would vote with them to extend the trial, said the case against Trump was rushed and flawed. I...

UK: London police shoot man in 'terrorism-related' incident

The incident involved the stabbing of "a number of people" and left two people injured, the police said. The U.S. Embassy in London has tweeted that America...

Church service stampede kills at least 20 in Tanzania's Moshi

The stampede was caused by church faithful being ushered to pass through one exit at the meeting venue so they could walk on "anointed oil", according to a stat...

DNC Debate Rules Could Allow Mike Bloomberg On Stage

It's very depressing to see the DNC drop the donor requirement and open up the possibility that someone like Bloomberg, who owns a news empire, can just spend m...

Today is 02/02/2020, the first palindrome day in over 900 years

Palindrome refers to a number or a segment that reads the same forwards as it does backwards. This "ubiquitous palindrome" won't happen again for another 101 ...

Buttigieg, other candidates make last minute push in Iowa

Mayor Pete Buttigieg , a Democratic candidate for president, doubts the Senate trial will clear President Trump's name in the long run. "Tuesday morning will...

United Kingdom flags disappear in European Union as Brexit transition begins

The EU has repeatedly told Britain the level of access to its lucrative single market will depend on how far London agrees to adhere to a "level playing fie...

Coronavirus: China travellers to be refused entry to Australia

Australia has upgraded its travel advice in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak to include all of mainland China to level four, "do not travel", Prime Minist...

Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, others to visit Saints Rest this afternoon

According to a listing on his campaign's website, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Sanders's wif...

NP Explained: How easy is it to kill a swarm of locusts?

Keith Cressman, senior locust forecasting officer at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said the swarms formed after cyclones dumped vast amoun...

Police shoot man after several stabbed in London

London Ambulance Service said: "We have a number of resources attending an incident in Streatham High Road". Police are advising people to avoid the area "whi...

First person outside of mainland China dies of Wuhan coronavirus

China's Foreign Ministry blasted the USA decision to restrict entry of Chinese nationals because of the outbreak, which has been declared a global health emer...

Des Moines Register, partners cancel release of Iowa Poll over respondent concerns

The Des Moines Register , CNN and Selzer & Co. have decided not to release the final installment of the CNN / Des Moines Register / Mediacom survey this ...

Indonesia evacuates 238 citizens from virus-stricken Wuhan

Four Indonesians declined to be evacuated, while three others did not pass health screening by the Chinese authorities and so were refused permission to leave t...

Pennsylvania groundhog declares early spring 'a certainty'

During the first few years of Groundhog Day events, Phil's prediction was made in a private wooded area. Today marks the 134th Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney...

Four children killed, one critical after 4WD crash, Sydney

A fifth child was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to The Children's Hospital at Westmead in a critical condition. "I don't...

Bloomberg details first round of his massive campaign spending

Although he has been rising in the polls , Bloomberg has not been able to participate in any of the debates since he announced his presidential bid because t...

Groundhog Day 2020: PETA calls for robotic groundhog to replace Punxsutawney Phil

Sunday marks the return of a century-old tradition in which humans look to groundhogs to give us a six-week weather forecast. In the letter, PETA President In...

Israeli planes hit Hamas in Gaza after border fire

Israel's military said Friday it conducted airstrikes in response to a Palestinian missile attack in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military mentioned it hit con...

H5N1 bird flu kills 4,500 chickens in central China

No human cases of the Hunan H5N1 virus have been reported. The farm has 7,850 chickens, and 4,500 of the chickens have died from the contagion. It that is not e...

Heatwave Threatens to Stoke Australia's Deadly Bushfires - engteco_asean_beyond Tempo.co

Parts of NSW and the ACT are once again bracing for severe fire danger, just weeks after huge fires tore through NSW's south coast. Australia's bush fires hav...

Key Trump impeachment figure and diplomat Marie Yovanovitch retires

The impeachment process began on September 24, after an anonymous whistleblower complaint that Trump had tried to solicit a personal favor from a foreign go...

Indonesia offers reward for plucking tyre off giant croc's neck

A crocodile that headed to the riverbank stuck scooter tyre around its neck for years ago, is still gasping for air. The crocodile has had the tyre around its...

Pentagon notes rise of sexual assault cases in U.S. military academies

Every two years, the almost 13,000 students at the three schools - the army's US Military Academy at West Point , New York, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, M...

New study estimates 75,000 in Wuhan infected with coronavirus

In the past days in China revealed 2102 new cases of the disease in Hong Kong - 13 confirmed cases in Macau - 7, Taiwan 10, RIA Novosti reported. The resu...

More homes reported burned in southeast Australia wildfires

A bushfire near the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) grew to more than 35,000 hectares on Saturday, as officials closed a major motorway. "The combination o...

Colin Kaepernick Super Bowl Ad Allegedly Blocked by the NFL

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Coronavirus: US confirms eighth case with quarantine in effect

Citing a likely "sharper rise" in infections, Singapore on Friday barred arrivals and transit passengers from mainland China. Some 124 cases were reported out...