WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative groups that allege without evidence that President-elect Joe Biden stole the U.S. election from Donald Trump plan protests nationwide on Saturday, including a Washington rally headlined by Trumpβs recently pardoned former national security adviser.
Month: December 2020
United Airlines flight attendants raise alarm on crew quarantine protocols
βMost of us feel thatβs unsafe,β said one of the employees. Reuters also viewed around a dozen comments in a private online group for United flight attendants, which expressed unease and frustration about loose quarantine and contact tracing protocols by the airline.
Unitedβs major rival American Airlines, by contrast, removes all crew from service when they have worked with an infected person, a policy decision American flight attendants and the union representing them affirmed.
Police arrest three people after 21 migrants found in Spanish sweat shop
MADRID (Reuters) – Twenty one migrants have been found hidden in a sweat shop in Spain where they were forced to work long hours in unhygienic conditions for two euros ($2.40) per hour, police said on Saturday.
Migrant workers were hidden behind large bundles of clothes at the factory in Murcia, southeastern Spain, which sold clothes to African countries, police video footage showed.
Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow democracy dead ends at Supreme Court
(CNN)President Donald Trump’s effort to unravel democracyΒ hit a dead endΒ at the Supreme Court Friday night, capping five weeks in which he dragged the country along on his narcissistic quest to stay in power after President-elect Joe Biden overwhelmingly won the election.In the end, the guardrails of democracy stayed in place. Trump lost — forΒ the second timeΒ at the Supreme Court this week. But instead of helping the effort to curb a deadly pandemic that has claimed nearly 300,000 American lives by easing the transition for his successor, he is already scheming about his next political moves. Before the high court rejected his bid Friday, his campaign announced a cable ad buy to further his fraudulent claims about the election, and he clearly intends to try and meddle in Congress’ counting of the Electoral College results in January.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/12/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-pfizer-vaccine/index.html
βWe might get thrown out of NATOβ: Twitter baffled & divided over UK govt idea to send warships against EU fishermen
Debates broke out on Twitter over the news that the Royal Navy was ready to deploy British patrol vessels to confront European fishing boats after a βno-dealβ Brexit.
London has until December 31 to hammer out a free-trade deal with the EU, and fisheries remain one of the most contentious issues. While the EU wants to secure the decades-old quota system which allows European boats to operate in British waters, the UK wishes to make its waters more exclusive to British fishermen.
Ontario reports 1,873 new COVID-19 cases with increase in tests completed
Ontario is reporting 1,873 new cases of COVID-19 today, a slight rise from the 1,848 cases yesterday.
The most new cases are in Toronto (522), Peel Region (436), York Region (185), and Hamilton(109).
There were 1,918 resolved cases reported.
The province says it conducted over 65,000 tests in the previous day.
Research finds 5 genes linked to severest form of COVID-19
Five key genes are linked with the severest form of COVID-19, scientists said on Friday, in research that also pointed to several existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat people who risk getting critically ill with the pandemic disease.
Researchers who studied the DNA of 2,700 COVID-19 patients in 208 intensive care units across the United Kingdom found that five genes involving in two molecular processes β antiviral immunity and lung inflammation β were central to many severe cases.
China’s Chang’e 5 Moon Mission is Set to Return After Completing Orbital Manoeuvre
The Chang’e 5 is a part of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Programme, named after the mythological goddess of the Moon who is known for stealing an elixir of immortality from her husband and escaping to the Moon. China started developing the project in 2003, and four years later its first spacecraft was launched on 24 October 2007.
China’s Chang’e 5 probe hasΒ completed its orbital manoeuvreΒ and is now approaching the flight path that will lead it to Earth, the Xinhua news agency quoted the China National Space Agency as saying.
