WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump is offering rare, kind words to his successor in a farewell video as he spends his final full day in office preparing to issue a flurry of pardons in a near-deserted White House, surrounded by an extraordinary security presence outside. “This week we inaugurate a new administration and pray for
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States across the country say they’re running low on coronavirus vaccine supply, with many officials insisting the vaccine delivery numbers reported by the Trump administration don’t align with what they are seeing on the ground. From New York to Tennessee to West Virginia, officials are clamoring for more doses of coronavirus vaccine. And officials in
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Sarah Thomas already made history when she was named the first permanent female NFL official in 2015 and became the first female to officiate an NFL playoff game in 2019. Now, she’s about to take her accomplishments up a notch. Thomas has been selected to be part of the officiating crew for Super Bowl LV
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Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, CA (KCBS/KCAL) — Even during the pandemic and with many people still working at home, Los Angeles still has the nation’s worst traffic, a new study shows. Consumer electronics company TomTom released its new study and L.A. is ranked number one in the country when it
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Two Baltimore sisters have started their very own eco-friendly toilet paper company. They started out by donating it to people in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, and have now landed their first big client. Nnadagi Isa, and her sister Louise, rolled out their bamboo toilet
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If you were awake early this morning, you probably noticed the fog that had developed across the area. This fog reduced visibility for many of us. In mid-Missouri, we get to see a lot of weather. This last week alone, we’ve seen snow, rain, and just this morning we saw fog. Fog is one of
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President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Washington, DC, on Tuesday for the start of his inaugural ceremonies at a dark and solemn moment in American history, preparing to take his oath of office as the US passes 400,000 coronavirus deaths and is more divided than at any time since the Civil War. One of Biden’s first
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Netflix — which was founded in 1997 as a rental company that sent you DVDs in the mail — crossed a major milestone on Tuesday, further solidifying itself as one of the most influential companies in Hollywood. The streaming service said it now has more than 200 million subscribers globally, after adding 8.5 million subscribers
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Pittsburgh, CA (KPIX) — Dozens of commercial plate glass windows were smashed in downtown Pittsburg Sunday night, and the police have a suspect in custody. Just before midnight? Pittsburg Police responded to a call of a man smashing small business windows. One witness quickly identified, 41-year-old Donald Guenther.
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Joe Biden’s transition team found a culture of coronavirus skepticism within Donald Trump’s federal government as they prepared to take office, sources close to the Biden transition told CNN, with political appointees loyal to the President reflecting his dismissiveness of public health guidelines and sometimes mocking career employees for wearing masks. The findings from Biden’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some residents will be able to resume curbside recycling on Feb. 1 while others will have to wait a week according to the City of Columbia Solid Waste Utility. Officials say the department is now sufficiently staffed to offer a curbside recycling program on an alternating weekly basis. Customers will receive a
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TONIGHT: Partly to mostly clear with temperatures falling into the low to mid-20s. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and breezy with southwest wind gusts between 20-25 mph. Highs in the upper 40s to around 50. EXTENDED: Nice weather sticks around through Thursday as southwest breezes and sunshine keep us near 50. A cold front moves through on
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President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant health secretary, and she would make history as the first out, transgender federal official to be confirmed by the United States Senate, according to a statement Tuesday. Levine is currently the Pennsylvania health secretary and a pediatrics and psychiatry professor at Penn State
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A president’s most valuable commodity is time and Donald Trump is out of it. With a day remaining in his term, Trump was still consumed with grievance over Republicans he believes abandoned him and insistent to people around him that he actually won the election he lost. On Tuesday, the once-loyal Senate Majority Leader Mitch
Continue Reading Nancy Wilkinson knows her way around the internet. Retired from a career in IT support, the 66-year-old was unfazed by the hurdles her Decatur, Georgia, neighbors and friends faced as they struggled to schedule appointments for the Covid-19 vaccine. Acting on a Sunday 4:30 a.m. email request to register, Wilkinson snagged an appointment last week
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With one day left in his tenure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to his taxpayer-funded Twitter account and denounced multiculturalism, saying it is “not who America is.” “Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these
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Avril Haines, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, pledged Tuesday to turn the corner after President Donald Trump’s warring with the intelligence community. “To be effective, the DNI must never shy away from speaking truth to power — even, especially, when doing so may be inconvenient or difficult,” Haines said at
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Construction spending on apartment buildings is up across the country, and Arizona is no exception, despite the pandemic economy. You don’t have to look far to find construction projects in the Valley. “People, number one, want to be here,” said Susan Kauffman, the director of
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) — Thousands of qualified Arizonans are still waiting for their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine but people with an appointment are bringing family members and friends who aren’t qualified and are still getting the vaccine. Now, people who are patiently waiting are furious. “They’re letting
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A US Army soldier was arrested Tuesday on terrorism charges after federal prosecutors said he allegedly attempted to assist ISIS’ efforts to plan attacks on targets in New York City and on US soldiers in the Middle East. Cole Bridges, a 20-year-old private, allegedly made the attempts while communicating with someone he believed to be
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