General news

• Senate plods along on infrastructure bill as McConnell warns Democrats to move slowly

  03-08-2021 23:54 via nbcnews.com
  Lawmakers are working through amendments to the $555 billion legislation, which would invest heavily in roads, public transit, water systems and broadband.
  
  Read more

• Why the GOP is choosing paranoia over saving the lives of its own voters

  03-08-2021 23:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  The anti-government movement fueling Republican support for insurrection and plague traces back to the conservative resurgence under Goldwater and Reagan.
  
  Read more

• America is still reaping the consequences of what Ronald Reagan sowed

  03-08-2021 23:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  The anti-government movement fueling Republican support for insurrection and plague traces back to the conservative resurgence under Goldwater and Reagan.
  
  Read more

• WATCH: Hundreds run for their lives in Bourbon Street shooting

  03-08-2021 23:35
  
  The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a shooting that injured five people on Bourbon Street early Sunday morning.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Biden calls on Andrew Cuomo to resign after report details sexual harassment allegations

  03-08-2021 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  • Report puts spotlight on brothers' relationship
  • Video: The gesture Cuomo is defending
  
  Read more

• Biden calls on Andrew Cuomo to resign after sexual harassment report – video

  03-08-2021 23:23
  
  Joe Biden has called on Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday to resign after a report found he sexually harassed 11 women. New York’s attorney general Letitia James unveiled the results of an investigation that showed the governor engaged in unwanted groping, kissing and hugging and made inappropriate comments to multiple womenCuomo faces calls to quit after inquiry finds he sexually harassed 11 womenAndrew Cuomo sexual harassment: the key testimony from the report Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Ron DeSantis' move baffles vaccine expert

  03-08-2021 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Paul Offit sharply criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) decision to threaten the funding for schools who issue mask mandates.
  
  Read more

• 'I don't understand it': DeSantis' move baffles doctor

  03-08-2021 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Paul Offit sharply criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) decision to threaten the funding for schools who issue mask mandates.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Governor DeSantis' move baffles vaccine expert

  03-08-2021 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  Dr. Paul Offit sharply criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) decision to threaten the funding for schools who issue mask mandates.
  
  Read more

• CDC announces targeted eviction moratorium after days of pressure

  03-08-2021 23:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  House Democrats, unable to pass a new moratorium, had pressed the White House to act.
  
  Read more

• Biden calls on Cuomo to quit after damning sexual harassment report

  03-08-2021 23:20
  
  New York governor accused of harassment by 11 womenPresident leads calls from both parties for Cuomo’s resignationJoe Biden has led calls from both parties for New York governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after an investigation found he had sexually harassed 11 women. Related: Biden calls on Cuomo to resign after report corroborates harassment allegations – liveContinue reading...
  
  Read more

• Cuomo faces calls to resign from powerful Democrats

  03-08-2021 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday faced mounting pressure from Democrats, including New York's two US senators, to resign in the wake of a report that found he sexually harassed multiple women.
  
  Read more

• Special investigators describe disturbing actions by NY Gov.

  03-08-2021 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  The New York attorney general's investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
  
  Read more

• 'He should resign': Biden reacts to Cuomo allegations

  03-08-2021 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden reacted to allegations of sexual harassment against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying the governor should resign.
  
  Read more

• Passengers duct tape man to seat after in-air fight on Frontier Airlines plane

  03-08-2021 22:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  Maxwell Berry, who was arrested at an airport in Miami, is alleged to have groped two flight attendants and then gotten into a physical altercation with a third.
  
  Read more

• Biden calls on Gov. Cuomo to resign after investigation finds he sexually harassed women

  03-08-2021 22:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report on Tuesday that found the governor sexually harassed 11 women.
  
  Read more

• Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment: the key testimony from the report

  03-08-2021 22:18
  
  Eleven women have accused the New York governor of harassment – andinvestigators say their accounts have been corroboratedMonths after New York governor Andrew Cuomo denied multiple allegations of sexual harassment, the New York attorney general’s office released a 165-page report on Tuesday that corroborates the allegations that made public over the last year. Related: ‘This is not who I am’: Cuomo issues denial after investigation finds he sexually harassed women &ndash
  
  Read more

• See the gesture Governor Cuomo is defending

  03-08-2021 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responds to the New York attorney general's investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him that found he sexually harassed multiple women.
  
  Read more

• See the gesture Gov. Cuomo is defending

  03-08-2021 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo responds to the New York attorney general's investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him that found he sexually harassed multiple women.
  
  Read more

• The town where thousands of US-bound migrants came to a standstill

  03-08-2021 21:31 via cnn.com
  
  They travelled by the thousands to arrive here from Haiti, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, and even further, from Ghana, Mali and Togo. Now they're stuck.
  
  Read more

• Cuomo denies sexual harassment claims in New York attorney general report – video

  03-08-2021 21:31
  
  The governor of New York state, Andrew Cuomo, faced demands to resign on Tuesday after an investigation found he sexually harassed 11 women. An explosive 165-page report released by the state attorney general, Letitia James, delivered a mountain of damning and often graphic evidence that Cuomo created a 'climate of fear' in a 'toxic' workplace and violated federal and state civil laws. But the governor released a defiant video address, insisting that 'I never touched any
  
  Read more

• Analysis: 35 words that almost certainly will end Cuomo's political career

  03-08-2021 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  "We, the investigators appointed to conduct an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, conclude that the Governor engaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal and New York State law."
  
  Read more

• Iranian-backed forces suspected of tanker hijacking off UAE coast

  03-08-2021 21:11
  
  Panama-registered Asphalt Princess was reportedly seized by eight to nine armed individualsIranian-backed forces are suspected of being behind the seizure of a tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, after Britain’s maritime trade agency reported a “potential hijack” in the area on Tuesday by eight to nine armed individuals.Maritime security sources identified the vessel as the Panama-flagged asphalt tanker that was reportedly intercepted in an area in the Arabian Sea
  
  Read more

• Bolivia’s lake Poopo dries up and scientists fear refill unlikely

  03-08-2021 21:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bolivia’s Lake Poopo was once a fountain of life for local inhabitants, who fished from its teeming waters and farmed along its banks.
  
  Read more

• Movies: James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad'

  03-08-2021 21:01 via cnn.com
  
  The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' director brings his sensibilities to DC's squad of anti-heroes and baddies. Rick Damigella reports.
  
  Read more

• At least 30 bodies float down river between Ethiopia's Tigray and Sudan

  03-08-2021 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  At least 30 corpses have washed up on the Sudanese banks of a river that abuts Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray, according to two Ethiopian refugees and four Sudanese witnesses who told Reuters on Monday they had retrieved the bodies.
  
  Read more

• 'Clear and unequivocal embrace': LGBTQ athletes are finally scoring big endorsements

  03-08-2021 20:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe has signed deals with Nike, Samsung, Visa and a slew of other big-name brands.
  
  Read more

• Police officer dies following shooting outside the Pentagon building, law enforcement sources say

  03-08-2021 20:35 via cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon is locked down with no personnel allowed outside due to a "shooting event" that happened outside the building on a bus platform, according a message that was sent to the Pentagon workforce by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
  
  Read more

• 'Pattern of inappropriate conduct': The 10 most explosive excerpts from the Cuomo report

  03-08-2021 20:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Investigators said they found Cuomo's "denials to lack credibility and to be inconsistent with the weight of the evidence." The governor again denied the allegations after the report was released.
  
  Read more

• 'We won't spare the Taliban alive at any cost:' Deadly blast amid anti-militant operation

  03-08-2021 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  A car bomb exploded near the home of Afghanistan's acting defense minister in Kabul on Tuesday evening, just hours after the Afghan army urged residents in another city to evacuate ahead of an operation against the Taliban.
  
  Read more

• Powerful blast rocks Kabul after Afghan army urges civilians to leave Taliban-controlled areas of major city

  03-08-2021 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  A car bomb exploded near the home of Afghanistan's acting defense minister in Kabul on Tuesday evening, just hours after the Afghan army urged residents in another city to evacuate ahead of an operation against the Taliban.
  
  Read more

• 'Where the hell have they been?': California governor blasts pundits

  03-08-2021 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasts pundits who he says were sowing doubt about vaccines as his state battles growing COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
  
  Read more

• Olympian Raven Saunders' mother dies days following her silver medal win

  03-08-2021 20:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Clarissa Saunders, the mother of Team USA's shot put medal winner, has died.
  
  Read more

• Powerful blast hits Kabul near heavily fortified 'Green Zone'

  03-08-2021 20:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  The "Green Zone" in Afghanistan's capital houses government buildings as well as foreign embassies.
  
  Read more

• Schumer and Gillibrand call for Cuomo's resignation

  03-08-2021 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday faced mounting pressure from Democrats, including New York's two US senators, to resign in the wake of a report that found he sexually harassed multiple women.
  
  Read more

• Special investigators describe disturbing actions by New York's governor, including inappropriately touching a state trooper

  03-08-2021 19:18 via cnn.com
  
  The New York attorney general's investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo found that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
  
  Read more

• Afghanistan war: Bodies on the streets as fighting traps Lashkar Gah residents

  03-08-2021 19:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Terrified locals are fleeing if they can as the Taliban and troops battle to control Lashkar Gah.
  
  Read more

• Police officer shot in incident outside Pentagon building, law enforcement sources say

  03-08-2021 18:53 via cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon is locked down with no personnel allowed outside due to a "shooting event" that happened outside the building on a bus platform, according a message that was sent to the Pentagon workforce by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
  
  Read more

• Taliban on brink of taking key Afghan city as residents told to flee

  03-08-2021 18:27
  
  Officials confirm all but one district of Lashkar Gah is under hardline Islamists’ control after fierce fightingTaliban fighters appeared to be on the brink of overrunning the key Afghan provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, as officials confirmed all but one district of the city was under the hardline Islamists’ control and residents were ordered to evacuate.Majid Akhund, the deputy chairman of the Helmand provincial council, said the Taliban had taken control of nine Lashkar Gah distr
  
  Read more

• Covid hospitalizations rise across US as hospitals say patients aren’t vaccinated

  03-08-2021 18:21
  
  More than 50,000 hospitalized in US as of Monday, similar to rates seen last summerCovid-19 hospitalizations are surging across the US and stretched hospitals are warning that the overwhelming majority of coronavirus patients are unvaccinated and their serious sickness preventable.More than 50,000 people were hospitalized across the US as of Monday, according to the US health department. This is significantly fewer people than during the peak in cases, deaths and hospitalizations this January, b
  
  Read more

• Belarusian Olympian says punishment awaited her back home as she heads to Poland

  03-08-2021 18:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  Krystsina Tsimanouskaya refused to board a flight back to Belarus, claiming her team was forcing her to return home after she criticized her coaches.
  
  Read more

• Chinese badminton player's cursing hasn't gone down well in S. Korea

  03-08-2021 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  South Korea's Badminton Korea Association plans to pursue a formal complaint with the World Badminton Federation (WBF) regarding China's Chen Qingchen's cursing during an Olympic match at Tokyo 2020, the organization has told CNN.
  
  Read more

• Badminton Korea Association to file complaint about Chinese player's cursing at Tokyo 2020

  03-08-2021 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  South Korea's Badminton Korea Association plans to pursue a formal complaint with the World Badminton Federation (WBF) regarding China's Chen Qingchen's cursing during an Olympic match at Tokyo 2020, the organization has told CNN.
  
  Read more

• Sunisa Lee blames Twitter for Olympic bronze medal performance

  03-08-2021 18:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  While Lee said she's probably going to delete Twitter, she acknowledged that TikTok is one app she's not ready to give up.
  
  Read more

• Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds recreate their first date for 10-year anniversary

  03-08-2021 18:05 via cnn.com
  
  If there was an award for the cutest anniversary idea, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds would win.
  
  Read more

• Brazil’s election authority to investigate Bolsonaro over baseless fraud claims

  03-08-2021 18:04
  
  President has stepped up crusade against Brazil’s electronic voting system – prompting counter-attack from superior electoral courtBrazil’s top electoral authority has launched a counter-offensive against Jair Bolsonaro’s Donald Trump-style campaign against the country’s voting system by announcing it will investigate his potentially criminal propagation of groundless vote-rigging claims. Related: Lula 2022? Brazil poised for sensational political comebackContinue r
  
  Read more

• 'Treasures' including 2,400-year-old fruit discovered at sunken ancient city

  03-08-2021 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  Archaeological "treasures," including Greek ceramics and 2,400-year-old wicker baskets filled with fruit, have been discovered at the site of the ancient sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion, off Egypt's coast.
  
  Read more

• Archaeological 'treasures,' including 2,400-year-old fruit, discovered at ancient Egyptian city

  03-08-2021 17:58 via cnn.com
  
  Archaeological "treasures," including Greek ceramics and 2,400-year-old wicker baskets filled with fruit, have been discovered at the site of the ancient sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion, off Egypt's coast.
  
  Read more

• Head of Belarusian exile group found dead in Ukrainian capital

  03-08-2021 17:57 via cnn.com
  
  A Belarusian dissident who helped his countrymen flee persecution was found dead in a park on Tuesday in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, where police have launched a murder investigation.
  
  Read more

• Pentagon under lockdown following report of shooting on bus platform outside

  03-08-2021 17:56 via cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon is locked down with no personnel allowed outside due to a "shooting event" that happened outside the building on a bus platform, according a message that was sent to the Pentagon workforce by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_news on Twitter!