Source: Political journalists boycotted a Downing Street briefing on Monday after one of Boris Johnson’s aides banned selected reporters from attending. The confrontation took place inside No 10 after Lee Cain, Johnson’s most senior communications MORE
Iran said on Tuesday that its top court had confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man accused of spying for US intelligence. Amir Rahimpour was found guilty of passing along information about Iran’s nuclear MORE
Del. Wendell Walker (R) introduced a bill to remove the tribute to former governor and U.S. senator in Richmond, after a Democratic push to remove Confederate statues in the state, reported The News & Advance, a Lynchburg, MORE
John Delaney, a wealthy businessman and former Maryland congressman, announced on Friday that he is ending his presidential campaign, just three days before the Iowa caucuses. In a statement, his campaign said that his decision MORE
***I hate to submit anything subject to a paywall, but it is the 1st of the month: By, Paul Krugman At this point, the Democratic presidential nomination is very much up in the air. Not MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump’s lead attorneys during the impeachment trial, is being paid for his legal work through a rented $80-a-month mailbox a block away from the White House.The MORE
The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China MORE
The UK will officially leave the European Union at 23:00 GMT, ending 47 years of membership. In a video message to be released an hour earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson – who led the 2016 MORE
Newly installed panels from the US border wall fell over in high winds Wednesday, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border. The area is part of an ongoing construction project to improve existing MORE
The plan, which includes a map outlining proposed new Israeli borders, provides for Israeli sovereignty over much of the Jordan Valley, a strategic area on the eastern frontier of the West Bank abutting Jordan, a MORE
The exact nature of Bolton’s version of events is uncertain, as is its potential impact on the trial. What’s clearer is the irony it represents. Over the past five months, some potential witnesses chose to MORE
Newsweek: About 71 percent of Republicans believe that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should call witnesses during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, a new survey showed. SurveyUSA asked 4,096 registered voters whether witnesses with firsthand MORE
Obamacare’s Secret Success Source: With little notice, the ACA has racked up a big win – near-universal coverage Under the Affordable Care Act, several states have already achieved near-universal coverage, and without anywhere near the national MORE
TMZ: Basketball legend Kobe Bryant one of several dead in copter crash Source: Kobe Bryant died in a helicoper crash in Calabasas Sunday morning … TMZ Sports is reporting Bryant was traveling with at least three MORE
CHICAGO — Chicago police said someone stole “an unknown object” from inside a Cannabis Amnesty Box at a Chicago airport. Police spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said someone reached into a box at Midway International Airport on MORE
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a case study of how lawmakers make themselves richer with the bills they pass Source: When the price of Apple stock hit a then-record high in October MORE
White House may stop helping France fight African jihadis with drones and refueling planes. Experts say that could open the door to more terrorism. Source: WASHINGTON — France is appealing to President Donald Trump not MORE
After 9 seasons released periodically over nearly two decades, the long wait for SE10 of Curb Your Enthusiasm was impressive, to say the least. Larry David ‘et al’s ‘ ability to indulge in social faux MORE
NPR summation NPR Transcript I confirmed with your staff [crosstalk] last night that I would talk about Iran and Ukraine. I just don’t have anything else to say about that this morning. I just MORE
NYPD officer & fiancée charged with murder in death of cop’s 8-year-old autistic son; sources say child was abused for years Source: Michael Valva, 40, and his fiancée, Angela Pollina, 42, were charged with MORE
NJ Media Acting on a 2013 warrant out of South Jersey, Customs and Border Patrol agents took [Yarelis] Rivera into custody when she got off the boat [on Dec. 20, 2019], but failed to verify MORE
In a wide-ranging speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) […] Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that Germany had made a mistake during the 2015 refugee crisis. Not […] by welcoming asylum-seekers fleeing conflict, but by not MORE
Yet he’s not charged with any criminal violations… Source: The U.S. government announced Thursday that former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has been banned from ever working at a bank again and will pay $17.5 million for scandals in MORE
Adjustments underscore weakness in Defense Department systems. Source: The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Department’s continuing difficulty in MORE
SouthChinaMorningPost The central Chinese city of Wuhan and seven other cities in Hubei province went into lockdown to help contain the spread of a deadly virus on Thursday, a day before the World Health Organisation (WHO) MORE