Florida Department of Health medical workers prepare to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to seniors in the parking lot of the Gulf View Square Mall in New Port Richey near Tampa, Florida, U.S. December 31, 2020. Octavio Jones | Reuters The rollout of the coronavirus vaccination program heralds what hopefully is […]
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Amazon to drop Parler from its web hosting service, citing violent posts
Parler CEO John Matze joins CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on July 2, 2020. CNBC Amazon has pulled the plug on Parler, a social media app popular with Trump supporters, in the wake of the deadly U.S. Capitol riot earlier this week. Amazon’s cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), informed […]
Pence will attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration
U.S. President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a news conference at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House February 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images WASHINGTON – Vice President Mike Pence will attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe […]
Apple removes Parler from App Store in wake of U.S. Capitol riot
Apple CEO Tim Cook Spencer Platt | Getty Images Apple removed Parler, an app popular with Trump supporters, from its iPhone App Store on Saturday. Apple said that posts on the pro-Trump social network related to the U.S. Capitol riot last week included calls for violence, which violates Apple’s rules […]
FAA chief issues stern warning to travelers after politically-motivated flight disruptions
A flight attendant gathers trash on a flight aboard a Boeing 737 Max from Dallas Fort Worth Airport to Tulsa, Oklahoma, December 2, 2020. Carlo Allegri | Reuters The head of the Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday said travelers will face serious consequences for unruly behavior on aircraft, a stern […]
Op-Ed: Donald Trump should resign — it would help the U.S. heal on the global stage
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump climb on walls at the U.S. Capitol during a protest against the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, January 6, 2021. Stephanie Keith | Reuters A lawyer friend tells me there’s a powerful prima facie case, […]
Amazon employees call for company to cut ties with Parler after deadly U.S. Capitol riot
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, pictured on September 13, 2018. Bloomberg | Getty Images A group of Amazon corporate employees is calling on the company to stop providing cloud services to Parler, a social media app popular with Trump supporters. In a tweet on Saturday, employee advocacy group […]
Covid killing nearly 3,000 in U.S. every day as CDC warns of ‘surge event’ from Capitol riots
A patient lies on a stretcher in a hallway near other patients in the overloaded Emergency Room at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on January 5, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Nearly 3,000 people in the […]
Trump pressured Georgia top elections investigator to ‘find the fraud’ in a phone call
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Great Again rally at Richard B. Russell Airport in Rome, Georgia on November 1, 2020. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump tried to pressure Georgia’s top elections investigator to “find the fraud” during a December phone call […]
Democrats’ historic Georgia Senate wins were years in the making thanks to local grassroots
Democratic candidates for Senate Jon Ossoff (L), Raphael Warnock (C) and US President-elect Joe Biden (R) bump elbows on stage during a rally outside Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 4, 2021. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia marked the first […]