• The day my ‘second home,’ the Capitol, was overtaken by mob

    The day my ‘second home,’ the Capitol, was overtaken by mob
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Covering Congress is a privilege and a second home for longtime reporters such as Andrew Taylor of The Associated Press. Wednesday was supposed to be a busy, historic day on Capitol Hill, but it quickly turned into something entirely different when a mob struck and the Senate was evacuated. Taylor and other reporters were spirited away along with senators for safety for a few hours. When they returned to the Senate wing of the Capitol, it was crowded with police and secur
  • EXPLAINER: Breaking down the uncertainty after Capitol siege

    EXPLAINER: Breaking down the uncertainty after Capitol siege
    Uncertainty is everywhere in the U.S. capital a day after the seat of American lawmaking was overrun by supporters of President Donald Trump. With 13 days left until Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president, no one’s sure what coming days could bring. Julie Pace, Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press, says this is a striking moment and that the country is in uncharted territory. She notes that it’s all happening against a backdrop of the pandemic and the nation
  • McEnany: Administration found siege ‘appalling’

    McEnany: Administration found siege ‘appalling’
    WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says President Donald Trump’s administration found the siege of the U.S. Capitol to be “appalling, reprehensible and antithetical to the American way.”
    But while McEnany’s statement to the press Thursday broke the White House’s silence a day after the violence, Trump himself remained quiet.
    McEnany, for the first time, said that the White House was committed to the “orderly transition of pow
  • Kirkpatrick joins calls to remove President Trump from office via 25th Amendment

    Kirkpatrick joins calls to remove President Trump from office via 25th Amendment
    TUCSON (KVOA) - Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona called for the removal of President Donald Trump from office Thursday, joining several congressional members including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer in response to Wednesday's uproar at the U.S. Capitol.Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol building in order to disrupt the ceremonial counting of the electoral vote - which would confirm the victory of President-elect Joe B
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  • Tucson Bars Sue Pima County over Mandatory Curfew

    Tucson Bars Sue Pima County over Mandatory Curfew
    Several Tucson-based bars and restaurants have filed litigation against Pima County in attempts to overturn its mandatory 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew they say disproportionately affects the private sector of businesses that depend on revenue from operations during these hours. …
  • Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies

    Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam War in his epic book about the war, has died. He was 84. His daughter Catherine Sheehan Bruno said he died Thursday of complications from Parkinson’s disease. His account of the Vietnam War, “A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam,” took him 15 years
  • Activists in Kenosha move carefully after US Capitol chaos

    Activists in Kenosha move carefully after US Capitol chaos
    KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The chaotic protests that some feared would return to Kenosha after a prosecutor decided this week not to charge a police officer who shot a Black man in the back haven’t materialized. Activists say they are moving carefully after extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol. Demonstrators took to the streets in Kenosha in August after a white officer shot Jacob Blake during a domestic incident and left him paralyzed. Two people were shot to death and hundreds were arrest
  • Deal reached on project to protect lakes from invasive fish

    Deal reached on project to protect lakes from invasive fish
    TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan and Illinois have reached a deal with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on funding the next phase of a project to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. The plan calls for installing fish-repelling mechanisms at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Illinois. The area is a choke point between the carp-infested Illinois River and Lake Michigan. Both states agreed to pay some of the design and engineering costs for the $858 million project. Scientist
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  • Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob

    Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days before the pro-President Donald Trump riot at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on the building Wednesday, Justice Department leaders reached out to offer up FBI agents. The police turned them down both times, according to a defense official and two people familiar with the matter. They told The Associated Press that the Capitol Police had planned for a free speech demonstration
  • Painful questions after siege of Capitol by pro-Trump mob

    Painful questions after siege of Capitol by pro-Trump mob
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters raised painful new questions across government. Discussions are underway about Trump’s fitness to remain in office for two more weeks, the ability of the police to secure the complex and the future of the Republican Party. The attack reinforced lawmakers’ resolve to stay up all night to finish counting the Electoral College vote and confirm Democrat Joe Biden won the presidential electi
  • Boeing will pay $2.5 billion to settle charge over plane

    Boeing will pay $2.5 billion to settle charge over plane
    Boeing will pay $2.5 billion to settle a criminal charge related to its troubled 737 Max jetliner. The Justice Department announced the settlement Thursday, nearly two years after the second of two crashes that killed 346 people in all. Boeing is agreeing to pay money for crash victims’ families, airline customers and airlines, as well as a fine. The 737 Max entered service in 2017. The first crash occurred in October 2018 in Indonesia, and a second occurred five months later in Ethiopia.
  • Head of Capitol Police union calls for chief to resign, says riot showed ‘failure of leadership at the very top’

    Head of Capitol Police union calls for chief to resign, says riot showed ‘failure of leadership at the very top’
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Head of Capitol Police union calls for chief to resign, says riot showed ‘failure of leadership at the very top.’The post Head of Capitol Police union calls for chief to resign, says riot showed ‘failure of leadership at the very top’ appeared first on KVOA.
  • Police: Pima County Republican Party headquarters vandalized

    Police: Pima County Republican Party headquarters vandalized
    TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Pima County Republican Party says their headquarters in Tucson was vandalized overnight. Photos on the party’s website posted Thursday show shattered glass on the front door of the headquarters. Officials say nobody was inside the building at the time. Tucson police say it appears a rock was thrown through a glass door, leaving a hole but not large enough for anyone to enter. Police say they don’t have any immediate suspects. Newly elected county GOP Pa
  • Brazil enjoys fun in the sun as COVID-19 deaths top 200,000

    Brazil enjoys fun in the sun as COVID-19 deaths top 200,000
    SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilians are once again crowding their beaches and the country is marking a pandemic milestone. The health ministry says Brazil passed 200,000 deaths from COPVID-19 on Thursday. That is the second highest total in the world. Many Brazilians have been straining against quarantine for months, going to bars or small gatherings with friends, but massive blowouts had been few and far between since the pandemic began. Festivities kicked off after the Southern Hemisphere’
  • Aspiring rapper admits fires at SC governor’s rental homes

    Aspiring rapper admits fires at SC governor’s rental homes
    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An aspiring rapper who performed under the name “Dank Frank” won’t spend any more time in jail for burning down two rental houses owned by South Carolina’s governor. A judge sentenced 23-year-old Frank Wilberding to the more than 600 days he has spent in the Richland County jail awaiting trial on arson and other charges. Prosecutors said Wilberding burned the homes near the University of South Carolina in May 2019 because of a dispute with the
  • Graham: Trump’s actions were ‘problem’ in Capitol violence

    Graham: Trump’s actions were ‘problem’ in Capitol violence
    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says President Donald Trump must accept his own role in the violence that occurred at the U.S. Capitol. Graham told reporters Thursday that he didn’t regret helping Trump but that the whole matter had been a “self-inflicted wound.” Graham decried Trump’s comments at a rally on Wednesday where thousands of the president’s supporters gathered, and where he stoked displeasure at the impending Electoral College certif
  • Washington PD seek identities of protesters captured on surveillance video

    Washington PD seek identities of protesters captured on surveillance video
    Washington Metropolitan Police DepartmentWASHINGTON DC (CNN) - The Washington Metropolitan Police Department is releasing photos of suspects they want to talk to about the violence on Capitol Hill.Police label the surveillance photos taken inside the capitol of being of "persons of interest in unrest-related offenses."The photos are posted on the department's website at mpdc.dc.gov.Anyone with information about the identity of these people is encouraged to call DC police at 202-727-9099.Among t
  • The Latest: Netanyahu: Agreement reached with Pfizer

    The Latest: Netanyahu: Agreement reached with Pfizer
    JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has reached a new agreement with the Pfizer drug company that will allow Israel to vaccinate all citizens over 16 by the end of March.
    Israel has already secured millions of doses and launched one of the earliest and fastest vaccination drives in the world. The country of 9 million has already vaccinated more than 15% of its population. Israel’s Magen David Adom medical service said Thursday it has given the first of two v
  • Brazil passes 200,000 deaths from the pandemic, the second highest total around the globe

    Brazil passes 200,000 deaths from the pandemic, the second highest total around the globe
    SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil passes 200,000 deaths from the pandemic, the second highest total around the globe.The post Brazil passes 200,000 deaths from the pandemic, the second highest total around the globe appeared first on KVOA.
  • Cooler air is arriving in Southern Arizona on Saturday

    Cooler air is arriving in Southern Arizona on Saturday
    TUCSON - We are still seeing temperatures in the 70's today and tomorrow, but a cold front we have been tracking will move in on Saturday bring our high temperatures to slightly below average.
    Starting Saturday our high temperatures will fall back down into the 60's for Tucson and into the 50's for Cochise county while the lows will stabilize in the mid 30's.This front is not expected to bring us any rain at all and no rain is expected over the next couple weeks.The sunshine and dry air wil
  • Several state lawmakers joined, observed US Capitol turmoil

    Several state lawmakers joined, observed US Capitol turmoil
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Lawmakers from at least a half-dozen states attended or observed the massive demonstrations in Washington that turned into a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. A legislator from West Virginia went so far as to don a helmet and join a screaming mob as it broke into the congressional building. It was unclear Thursday whether he or others would be prosecuted for their roles in what Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and many others called a “fai
  • Pima County Republican Headquarters vandalized after uproar US Capitol

    Pima County Republican Headquarters vandalized after uproar US Capitol
    Pima County GOP
    TUCSON (KVOA) - Following Wednesday's uproar in Washington D.C., Pima County Republican Party announced Thursday that their headquarters in Tucson was vandalized.Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol building in order to disrupt the ceremonial counting of the electoral vote - which would confirm the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. The incident in Washington D.C. then triggered protests across the United States, including one at the Ari
  • ‘What else could I do?’ NJ Rep. Kim helps clean up Capitol

    ‘What else could I do?’ NJ Rep. Kim helps clean up Capitol
    New Jersey Rep. Andy Kim walked amid the mess shortly after voting to certify Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump and felt the weight of the day wearing on him when something motivated him to clean up the debris. It was then he noticed police officers putting pizza boxes in trash bags, so he asked for one, too, and began cleaning up. The image of Kim crouched down clearing away litter bookended a violent, historic day that saw protesters smash through police lines, break windows and wren
  • Armed statehouse protests set tone for US Capitol insurgents

    Armed statehouse protests set tone for US Capitol insurgents
    BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When President Trump-supporting insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the presidential election on Wednesday, the nation was shocked, but not unwarned. A series of dress rehearsals of sorts have played out in statehouses in Michigan, Oregon, Idaho and elsewhere in recent months, with armed protesters forcing their way into buildings. Political science professor Joe Lowndes says there’s a direct relationship between the growing paramil
  • Prosecutor: Sedition charge possible for pro-Trump rioters

    Prosecutor: Sedition charge possible for pro-Trump rioters
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia says “all options are on the table” for charging members of the violent pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol — including sedition charges. Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for D.C., saus prosecutors plan to file 15 federal cases on Thursday for crimes including unauthorized access and theft of property, and investigators are combing through reams of evidence to bring additional charges.
  • PBS’ ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ aims to be timely tonic

    PBS’ ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ aims to be timely tonic
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The TV series “All Creatures Great and Small” was a hit when it aired years ago and is back as a PBS reboot. Producer Colin Callender saw the story of veterinarians serving a close-knit rural community as tonic for a politically divisive era. Then the pandemic arrived, giving more reason to revive the world depicted by author James Herriot. Herriot was the pen name for James Wight, a vet in England’s Yorkshire region for five decades. He recounted the a
  • US registering highest deaths yet from COVID-19

    US registering highest deaths yet from COVID-19
    WASHINGTON DC (AP) - The U.S. registered its highest deaths yet from the coronavirus on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. The virus is surging in virtually every state.
    California is particularly hard hit, with skyrocketing deaths and infections threatening to force hospitals to ration care.
    The same day that supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, the nation record
  • US attorney for DC says ‘all options are on the table’ for charging rioters at Capitol, including sedition

    US attorney for DC says ‘all options are on the table’ for charging rioters at Capitol, including sedition
    WASHINGTON (AP) — US attorney for DC says ‘all options are on the table’ for charging rioters at Capitol, including sedition.The post US attorney for DC says ‘all options are on the table’ for charging rioters at Capitol, including sedition appeared first on KVOA.
  • Biden introduces Merrick Garland as attorney general pick

    Biden introduces Merrick Garland as attorney general pick
    Senate Democrats / CC BY 2.0FILE: Merrick Garland, Former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
    WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has introduced Merrick Garland as his pick for attorney general along with three others he has selected for senior Justice Department positions. Biden says they will restore the independence of the agency and faith in the rule of law. The four lawyers were introduced by Biden at an event Thursday
  • Gas leak prompts evacuation on Tucson’s south side

    Gas leak prompts evacuation on Tucson’s south side
    TUCSON (KVOA) - Mobile homes have been evacuated Thursday afternoon on Tucson's south side due to a gas leak.
    Tucson Fire Department crews were dispatched to a mobile home near Park Avenue and Bilby Road for reports of a fire.UPDATE: -Gas leak prompts evacuations - Fire has been controlled-Gas still burning, according to TFD http://bit.ly/3bjgcc4NOW: Tucson Fire crews are monitoring a gas leak near Park Avenue and Bilby Road. :: Tucson Fire DepartmentPosted by News 4 Tucson - KVOA on Thursday, J
  • Missouri woman believed to be last Civil War widow dies

    Missouri woman believed to be last Civil War widow dies
    O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman who was believed to be the last remaining widow of a Civil War soldier has died. Helen Viola Jackson married James Bolin in 1936, when she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl. He was 93 and in declining health. Bolin was also a Civil War veteran who fought for the Union in the border state of Missouri. Jackson died Dec. 16 at a nursing home in Marshfield, Missouri. She was 101. Several Civil War heritage organizations have recognized Jackson’s qui
  • Local Officials React to Storming of U.S. Capitol

    Local Officials React to Storming of U.S. Capitol
    As the House of Representatives was doing a ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes Wednesday to award the White House to President-elect Joe Biden, a crowd of rioters incited by President Donald Trump stormed the building, leading members of Congress, Capitol Hill staff and members of the media to temporarily seek shelter.…
  • Trump honors golfing greats with award in private ceremony

    Trump honors golfing greats with award in private ceremony
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Hall of Fame  golfers Annika Sorenstam and Gary Player along with the late Babe Didrikson Zaharias have been presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The award is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors. President Donald Trump has generally held public ceremonies when presenting this honor, but Thursday’s event was closed to the media. The president had no public events listed on his schedule following the previous day&rs
  • Didn’t get your relief payment yet? You aren’t alone

    Didn’t get your relief payment yet? You aren’t alone
    The U.S. Treasury and IRS have sent out the bulk of the second economic impact payments, which are intended to provide some relief to Americans. However, frustration is high among millions of people who did not receive payments yet and must wait for the mail or file their taxes before they receive it. The payments, worth $600 per eligible adult and dependent, are being distributed by direct deposit, paper checks and debit cards. Those who did not receive a payment or received the wrong amount mu
  • London’s field hospital to be used amid acute COVID pressure

    London’s field hospital to be used amid acute COVID pressure
    LONDON (AP) — Britain’s National Health Service will from next week employ a little-used field hospital specially built at a huge exhibition center in east London in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic last spring. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens said Thursday that the pressures facing hospitals in London and the southeast of England are so acute that the Nightingale hospital at the ExCel London will be opened next week to inpatients. Only a few hundred beds for non-
  • Seller of gun used in 2019 Texas mass shooting gets 2 years

    Seller of gun used in 2019 Texas mass shooting gets 2 years
    LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors say the man who sold an AR-15-style rifle used in a 2019 mass shooting that killed seven people in West Texas has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. Marcus Anthony Braziel of Lubbock was sentenced Thursday. He pleaded guilty in October to unlicensed firearms dealing and concealing the proceeds from weapons sales from the IRS. Braziel admitted selling the rifle that Seth Aaron Ator, of Odessa, used when he killed seven people and wounded 25 othe
  • More demand Illinois congresswoman who cited Hitler resign

    More demand Illinois congresswoman who cited Hitler resign
    CHICAGO (AP) — A growing number of Democrats are calling for the resignation of U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, a newly sworn-in Republican who quoted Adolf Hitler at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol this week. U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Marie Newman, both Illinois Democrats, on Thursday called for Miller to immediately step down. State legislators are circulating a petition urging her resignation. Miller’s spokeswoman hasn’t returned calls seeking comment, but the group
  • Timeline: After years of slow steps, Facebook muzzles Trump

    Timeline: After years of slow steps, Facebook muzzles Trump
    Facebook is facing its toughest challenge yet: an election complicated by a pandemic, a deeply divided nation lured by conspiracy theories and alternate versions of reality. Is it ready? The company says yes. But a look back at its checkered history of trying to deal with misinformation suggests that the task could still be stickier than it seems. From its efforts to come to grips with Russian interference in the 2016 elections to the latest tweak of its policies for allowable political ads, Fac
  • VIRUS TODAY: Record US deaths come on day of Capitol attack

    VIRUS TODAY: Record US deaths come on day of Capitol attack
    The U.S. registered its highest deaths yet from the coronavirus on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. The virus is surging in virtually every state. The same day that supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, the nation recorded nearly 3,900 deaths. Meanwhile, the number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell slightly last week to 787,000. The historically high num
  • Siege of US Capitol by pro-Trump mob forces hard questions

    Siege of US Capitol by pro-Trump mob forces hard questions
    WASHINGTON (AP) — On the day after, the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters raised painful new questions across government. Discussions are underway about Trump’s fitness to remain in office for two more weeks, the ability of the police to secure the complex and the future of the Republican Party. The attack reinforced lawmakers’ resolve to stay up all night to finish counting the Electoral College vote, which confirmed Democrat Joe Bi
  • Ukraine: Few masks for Christmas, despite virus pressure

    Ukraine: Few masks for Christmas, despite virus pressure
    LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Although Ukraine is struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic that has inundated its overburdened medical system with patients, Orthodox Christmas celebrations have occurred widely without masks or social distancing. In the mountain village of Iltsy, unmasked worshipers on Thursday crowded a small church, where they kissed icons and later stood close together outside to watch a procession of musicians. The main streets of the city of Lviv were full of celebrants,
  • Rafael Payare to head Montreal Symphony starting in 2022-23

    Rafael Payare to head Montreal Symphony starting in 2022-23
    Conductor Rafael Payare has been hired as music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal starting with the 2022-23 season. The Venezuelan follows the lengthy tenures of Montreal music directors Kent Nagano and Charles Dutoit. Payare trained with Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim and Lorin Maazel. Payare has been music director of the San Diego Symphony since 2019-20 and has a contract there through 2025-26. Payare first conducted the Montreal orchestra in September 2018. He turns
  • Lawmakers openly discuss ousting Trump, possible impeachment

    Lawmakers openly discuss ousting Trump, possible impeachment
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers in both parties and members of President Donald Trump’s own administration have engaged in discussions on removing Trump from power after the insurrection in the Capitol by his supporters. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that if he wasn’t removed, the House may move forward with a second impeachment. The lawmakers and officials are discussing the efforts even though Trump has less than two weeks in office. The talks began Wednesday afternoon as Trump
  • The Latest: US registers most deaths from coronavirus

    The Latest: US registers most deaths from coronavirus
    The U.S. registered its highest deaths yet from the coronavirus on the day a mob attacked the Capitol.On Wednesday, the nation recorded nearly 3,900 deaths. The virus is surging in nearly every state. California is particularly hard hit, with skyrocketing deaths and infections threatening to force hospitals to ration care.
    On Thursday, there were 583 deaths in California for a record two-day total of 1,042. The confirmed death toll now stands at 28,045. The state has registered over a quarter mi
  • Tucson police arrest 2 suspects in fatal shooting last month

    Tucson police arrest 2 suspects in fatal shooting last month
    TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Police in Tucson say they have arrested two 19-year-old men in connection with a recent fatal shooting. They say Darrel Dequann Ingram and Herald Phillip Lauterio have both been booked into Pima County Jail on suspicion of murder, aggravated robbery and armed robbery. Police say 32-year-old Justin Gervon Chavis was shot at a Tucson laundromat on Dec. 30. Chavis was taken to a hospital where he later died. Police detectives are trying to identify a third suspect in the
  • Casino mogul, GOP megadonor Adelson to take medical leave

    Casino mogul, GOP megadonor Adelson to take medical leave
    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas Sands announced Thursday that chairman Sheldon Adelson will take a medical leave after recently resuming cancer treatments. President and COO Robert G. Goldstein will take the post of acting CEO and chairman. Adelson first announced that he was being treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma back in 2019. Adelson is a Republican megadonor who recently gave $75 million to a super PAC that attacked President-elect Joe Biden in the leadup to last November’s ele
  • Pelosi calls for using 25th Amendment on Trump

    Pelosi calls for using 25th Amendment on Trump
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump should immediately be removed from office or Congress may proceed to impeach him.
    Pelosi on Thursday joined those calling on the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to force Trump from office. It came a day after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, forcing the building into lockdown. Trump called them “very special” people and said he loved them.
    Yesterday, American democracy came under attack — but we
  • California sees two-day record of coronavirus deaths

    California sees two-day record of coronavirus deaths
    LOS ANGELES (AP) — California health authorities have reported a record two-day total of 1,042 coronavirus deaths as many hospitals strain under unprecedented caseloads. The state Department of Public Health’s website on Thursday lists 583 new deaths a day after 459 deaths. The previous two-day total was 1,013 deaths at the end of December. California’s death toll since the start of the pandemic now stands at 28,045. The post California sees two-day record of coronavirus d
  • Biden blames Trump for violence at Capitol that’s shaken US

    Biden blames Trump for violence at Capitol that’s shaken US
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is denouncing the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol as “domestic terrorists” and he blames President Donald Trump for the violence that has shaken the nation’s capital and beyond. Biden says the protest by Trump supporters who breached the security of Congress on Wednesday was “not dissent, was not disorder, was not protest. It was chaos.” Biden says the actions Trump has taken to subvert the nation’s democr
  • Pelosi to seek resignation of Capitol police chief, announces resignation of other key security figure

    Pelosi to seek resignation of Capitol police chief, announces resignation of other key security figure
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Pelosi to seek resignation of Capitol police chief, announces resignation of other key security figure.The post Pelosi to seek resignation of Capitol police chief, announces resignation of other key security figure appeared first on KVOA.

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