The Senate moved into the next phase of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial Friday afternoon, as senators got their turn to pose written questions to the legal teams with the trial racing toward its conclusion. Trump’s legal team wrapped up its presentation in a little more than three hours Friday before the question-and-answer
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Snowfall will continue into Monday afternoon and evening.
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Click here for updates on this story Portland, Tennessee (WSMV) — The Sumner County Sheriff’s Office investigates the death of a mother and her 1-year-old son. According to the sheriff’s office, a probation officer notified them to respond to a home on Butler Road on Tuesday for a “medical emergency.” When responding, deputies found 32-year-old
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Omaha, Nebraska (WOWT) — Technology that may have seemed like a page from the future fifty years ago, is now a part of the ‘here and now’ for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. One of its doctors, Dr. Claudia Berrondo, recently performed the first successful pediatric operation using
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that one of her deputies, TJ Ducklo, had been suspended for one week without pay after a Vanity Fair story revealed Ducklo had threatened a reporter who was working on a story about his romantic relationship with another reporter. “This in our view was an important step
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J.J. Watt, the three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, is leaving the Houston Texans after 10 seasons. In a video shared on social media Friday, Watt shared the news that he’d asked for and received a release from the Texans, who drafted him out of Wisconsin with the eleventh pick of the first round
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Donald Trump’s legal team on Friday wrapped up its presentation in a little over three hours as Trump’s lawyers sought to equate the former President’s speech with that of Democrats, showing lengthy montages of Democratic politicians saying they would “fight,” to argue that Trump’s rhetoric on January 6 did not incite the rioters who attacked
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Bitcoin’s big week got bigger with an announcement from rapper Jay Z and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that the pair are establishing a bitcoin development fund. Dorsey tweeted the news Friday, writing that they are taking applications for a “blind irrevocable trust” focused on Africa and India. He promises the fund will have “zero direction”
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Donald Trump’s legal team on Friday sought to equate the former President’s speech with that of Democrats, showing lengthy montages of Democratic politicians saying they would “fight,” to argue that Trump’s rhetoric on January 6 did not incite the rioters who attacked the Capitol afterward. The defense team’s presentation showed Democratic reactions to videos of
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For a CEO who receives no salary, Elon Musk’s 2020 payday reached sky-high levels. He received four grants to buy 8.4 million Tesla shares in 2020. After paying the exercise price, those blocks of stock options were each worth $6.2 billion at Wednesday’s closing price. The combined $24.8 billion value of those options alone is
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Atlanta (WGCL) — The family of a 12-year-old found shot to death in southwest Atlanta is pleading for anyone with information to come forward. David Mack’s body was found Wednesday, the day after his grandmother reported him missing. Police said he had been shot. Instead of celebrating his
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged Friday when asked about a report that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, had withheld information regarding Covid-19 fatalities in nursing homes during the pandemic. “The President hosted Gov. Cuomo, and a bipartisan group of governors and mayors were at the White House today to get their
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Revolut is on a mission to build a global digital bank. The British company is already one of Europe’s biggest fintechs. Now Revolut is setting its sights on a bigger prize: America. Valued at $5.5 billion, Revolut has more than 15 million customers around the world and last spring it quietly entered the US market.
Continue Reading An exclusive pair of Nike basketball sneakers designed in honor of former President Barack Obama were pulled from the luxury auctioneer Sotheby’s ahead of their anticipated sale Friday. No reason was immediately given for why the item — a pair of Nike Hyperdunks that was set to go on sale Friday at 4:44 p.m. ET
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Madison (Wisconsin State Journal ) — AChicago astronomer’s claim that Middleton-based dollmaker American Girl appropriated the astronomer’s likeness will go forward, a federal judge ruled Thursday, though he dismissed some of the claims made in the lawsuit. U.S. District Judge James Peterson said he would allow Lucianne Walkowicz,
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Sand Springs, Oklahoma (Tulsa World) — The victims of Tuesday’s double murder-suicide in Sand Springs have been identified, police said Wednesday afternoon. David Kaser, 56, fatally shot his two daughters, Clarissa Kaser, 19, and Crystal “Grey” Kaser, 14, before killing himself, according to a news release from police
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Residents at an assisted living community in Columbia received their second dose of a coronavirus vaccine — while residents at two other facilities got their first doses.
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The UK chairman of accounting firm KPMG is resigning after he told staff in a meeting to stop complaining about the pandemic and said that there was “no such thing as unconscious bias.” In a video of the meeting published by the Daily Mail, Bill Michael can be seen telling employees they “are in a
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story New Haven, Connecticut (WFSB) — A man wanted for questioning in the case of a Yale student’s death is believed to be in Georgia. On Wednesday, New Haven police said they were looking to locate 29-year-old Qinxuan Pan. Friday, the United States Marshals Service released a wanted poster
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) — Many in Middle Tennessee are in bed or getting ready to go to bed by 10:30 p.m., but not Officer Brenna Hosey and other Metro Nashville Police officers who work the midnight shift. “People are fascinated, honestly, by people that work the midnight shift
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