JANUARY 14, 2022
The Justice Department on Thursday announced the first sedition charges related to the January 6 insurrection, a watershed moment in the year-long investigation.
The case revolves around the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, and its leader Stewart Rhodes. Many of the defendants were already facing charges for storming the US Capitol building and deny wrongdoing. But the...
JANUARY 14, 2022
Brief Scorecard: South Africa 210 and 101 for 2 (Petersen 48*, Elgar 30, Shami 1-22) need another 111 runs to beat India 223 and 198 (Pant 100*, Jansen 4-36, Rabada 3-53, Ngidi 3-21)
Rishabh Pant celebrates his hundred. - Getty Images
Rishabh Pant is a shot-maker of such quality that he can take the conditions out of the...
JANUARY 12, 2022
Snow forecasted in D.C. area on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022
A storm looks likely to hit the Washington, D.C., area during part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, and there’s a chance for snow Sunday into Monday.
Forecasting this storm is tricky because the American and European weather models differ on whether this storm will be more rain...
JANUARY 10, 2022
Serbia's Novak Djokovic's father Srdjan, center, brother Djordje, right, and mother Dijana attend a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. Tennis star Novak Djokovic on Monday won a court battle to stay in Australia to contest the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated against COVID-19, but the government threatened to cancel his visa a second...
JANUARY 10, 2022
People are seen in a TSA security checkpoint line at Orlando. - SOPA Images
Forget accidentally bringing a full-sized tube of toothpaste to the airport — agents confiscated a myriad of unusual items at checkpoints in 2021, including a "meth burrito." The Transportation Security Administration released its annual list of some of the oddest confiscated items from...
JANUARY 9, 2022
The former president talked with historians assessing the Trump Presidency. / Credit: Princeton University
There's at least one thing that Donald Trump's critics and supporters can agree on about his presidency, according to Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University: "He came in to be a disrupter, and of all of his...
JANUARY 9, 2022
Former President Donald Trump spread false claims about his 2020 election defeat - AFP via Getty Images
A Republican senator who broke publicly with former President Donald Trump amid the latter’s false claims about the 2020 election worked on Sunday to reiterate that the former president lost to Joe Biden fairly.
As the nation focused its attention on the...
JANUARY 9, 2022
Brief Scorecard: England 294 (Bairstow 113, Stokes 66, Boland 4-36) and 9 for 270 (Crawley 77, Stokes 60, Boland 3-30) drew with Australia 8 for 416 dec (Khawaja 137, Smith 67, Broad 5-101) and 6 for 265 dec (Khawaja 101*, Green 74, Leach 4-84)
Joe Root on the draw: 'It was hugely important, especially off the back of...
JANUARY 9, 2022
Amid an ongoing Omicron menace, Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology confirmed the detection of a new Covid-19 strain ‘Deltacron’ that combines delta and omicron in Cyprus.
In an interview with Sigma TV Friday, the professor confirmed the discovery of a new strain...
JANUARY 6, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden slams Trump while making remarks in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill one year after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
In a remarkable speech on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden laid the blame for the insurrection clearly and emphatically at the feet of Donald Trump.
He never...
