JANUARY 5, 2021
A dramatic spike in temperatures is occurring at high altitudes above the North Pole, where the air is thin and typically frigid. Known as a sudden stratospheric warming event, experts say it’s likely to have potentially significant repercussions for winter weather across the Northern Hemisphere for weeks to possibly months.
This unusually strong event may have profound influences...
JANUARY 4, 2021
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller has not commented on a Washington Post op-ed signed by 10 former defense secretaries asserting that the Pentagon has no role in electoral disputes. - Chip Somodevilla, AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned of "bloodshed and riots" after President Donald Trump's latest attempt to overturn...
JANUARY 4, 2021
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JANUARY 04: President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally with Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock the day before their runoff election in the parking lot of Centerparc Stadium January 04, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. Biden's trip comes a day after the release of a recording of...
JANUARY 4, 2021
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., questions Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday Dec. 10, 2020. - Sarah Silbiger/TWP via AP, Pool
Multiple congressional Republicans on Monday chided President Donald Trump over his attempt to privately pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” ballots that would overturn Joe Biden’s win.
While no...
JANUARY 4, 2021
Covent Garden in London last week. - Andrew Testa / NY Times
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a strict new national lockdown on Monday as Britain’s desperate race to vaccinate its population risked being overtaken by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus that was on track to overwhelm the nation’s beleaguered hospitals.
After several...
JANUARY 3, 2021
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA - JANUARY 03: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks during a drive-in rally at Garden City Stadium on January 03, 2021 in Savannah, Georgia. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris joined Georgia Democratic Senate candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff for a campaign event two days before the January 5th runoff election that has implications into which...
JANUARY 3, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nancy Pelosi won her fourth term as House speaker on Sunday, showing in the first vote of the new session of Congress how her narrow majority will make it difficult for House Democrats to pass legislation in the new Congress.
The 80-year-old California Democrat, who has led her party in the chamber since 2003, won...
JANUARY 3, 2021
President Trump has spent almost nine weeks making false conspiracy claims about his election loss. - Anna Moneymaker/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump demanded that Georgia’s Republican secretary of state “find” him enough votes to overturn the presidential election, and vaguely threatened him with “a criminal offense,” during an hourlong telephone conversation with him on Saturday, according...
JANUARY 3, 2021
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, meets with incoming GOP senators for the 116th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 14, 2018. - J. Scott Applewhite, AP
The divide within the Republican Party over the results of the 2020 presidential election deepened last week as a dozen GOP Senators declared they will join their House colleagues in objecting to...
JANUARY 2, 2021
India will make vaccines free nationwide, Thailand’s capital will close entertainment venues and Hong Kong plans to roll out inoculations in February as authorities in Asia try to suppress recent outbreaks.
Sydney has mandated masks in many indoor settings as the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down in 2021. Tokyo’s governor is urging Japan to declare a...
