President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, will appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Tuesday for a confirmation hearing. Read her opening statement as prepared:
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Click here for updates on this story TORONTO, Ontario (CTV News) — Canada logged its coldest temperature in years on Sunday as the remnants of a polar vortex set in across most of the country. According to Environment Canada’s weather conditions report, Wekweeti in the Northwest Territories confirmed a -51.9 C reading, which the agency
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President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, will pledge to bring a bipartisan approach to the role during her confirmation hearing Tuesday as she faces down fierce opposition from Senate Republicans. In her prepared opening remarks before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Tanden vows that, if confirmed, she
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It’s likely that, a couple of weeks ago, you’d never heard the name Ursula von der Leyen. President of the European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch and most powerful institution, is not a job that enjoys the fame or the grandeur of a national leader. So if your name’s appearing in the media, chances
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A roller coaster of research has stoked concerns that a coronavirus variant first linked to South Africa could be resistant to vaccines and raise the bar for herd immunity. But scientists and vaccine makers say the data have not yet had the final word, and there’s still reason to be hopeful. On Sunday, health officials
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A leading English referee and his family have been subjected to online death threats following two erroneous decisions in successive games he took charge of. Mike Dean had received criticism for sending off West Ham’s Tomas Soucek on Saturday and Southampton’s Jan Bednarek on February 2, despite reviewing both incidents on the pitch-side monitor. Both
Continue Reading A school in Utah is continuing its Black History Month curriculum after parents asked the school to allow their children opt out of the program. Maria Montessori Academy in North Ogden, Utah, after receiving requests from parents, sent out an opt-out form last Wednesday for those unwilling to participate in the school’s planned Black History
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President Joe Biden had been in office less than a week when a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction blocking one of his first immigration-related actions. The order was a victory for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who crowed “WE WON” on Twitter. In fact, Paxton, a controversial conservative Republican, had successfully gambled that his
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The point of Donald Trump’s second impeachment is not his actual conviction. The quivering weakness of many Republican senators, who will not be moved to vote against him even after he incited a mob to attack the Capitol, means conviction appears impossible. But Trump can still be held to account. Indeed, this reckoning has already
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Elon Musk’s Tesla spent the last couple of years trying to win over China in a bid to conquer the world’s largest car market. Now the company risks upsetting Beijing’s powerful regulators. The electric carmaker has been summoned by five Chinese regulatory agencies to answer questions about the quality of its Shanghai-made Model 3 cars,
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues to fuel uncertainty and anxiety, how it impacts our mental well-being is hard to ignore — something athletes, bereft of competitions and regular training routines, perhaps know better than most. For Colleen Quigley, a 3000-meter steeplechase runner from the United States, there’s some relief that she “discovered mental health” a
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Around Mid-Missouri, residential streets and lettered highways were still covered in snow as winter weather continues to move through the area.
Continue Reading A Washington state trooper was killed in an avalanche while snowmobiling Monday in Kittitas County, Washington, the county sheriff’s office said in a press release. Search-and-rescue crews recovered trooper Steve Houle, 51, of Cle Elum from the avalanche. He was a 28-year veteran of the Washington State Patrol, the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office said in
Continue Reading The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for new astronauts for the first time in 11 years. Applications open on March 31, and women are encouraged to apply as the agency seeks “to expand gender diversity in our ranks,” according to a statement from the ESA published Monday. “To go farther than we ever have
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Nicole Hidalgo had been looking forward to the wedding for months. It was Spring 2016 and she’d traveled from her home in New York to the historic Spanish city of Seville to attend the nuptials of her good friend Jose Blaya. Blaya and Hidalgo had met six years previously when Blaya had moved from Spain
Continue Reading After a full year of being pulled down by the pandemic, global oil prices are roaring back. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Impeachment The
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TUESDAY: Precipitation has largely shut off. Most of the day will be dry aside from a stray flurry here and there. The cold isn’t going anywhere, with highs in the teens this afternoon. Wind chills will likely top out in the single digits. TONIGHT: Another round of light snow and freezing drizzle will move in
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Attentive lover. Passionate about work. Empathy in spades. Facial hair. For months, Sara Jablow has sought a hard-to-find combination of personality traits in prospective boyfriends. Now, however, after nearly a year of the Covid-19 pandemic, one elusive characteristic is beginning to transcend all others for her: vaccination status. It’s not that Jablow is picky; the
Continue Reading It’s another home run for coffee consumption — as long as it’s black and caffeinated, that is. Drinking one or more cups of plain, leaded coffee a day was associated with a long-term reduced risk of heart failure, according to a review of diet data from three major studies using analytic tools from the American
Continue Reading A Louisiana woman has sought medical treatment after mistakenly using Gorilla Glue spray adhesive in place of actual hair spray. Tessica Brown’s plight went viral earlier in February after she revealed that her hair had been stuck in the same style for a month since she substituted her usual Got2b Glued spray with the industrial-strength
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