Day: December 21, 2024
Check out the full slate of NFL games today and don’t miss tonight’s Sunday Football showdown between the Packers vs Seahawks. Live coverage begins at 7 PM ET on NBC and Peacock.
Another funding bill. A debt limit extension. Major party-line bills on immigration and taxes. Nominations. Trump tried to push Congress to take the debt ceiling off his plate but failed.
At least four people were killed and more than 200 others injured after a driver rammed an SUV into a crowded Christmas market in eastern Germany.
New York, the city that never sleeps… sown with towering, vertiginous skyscrapers that are in danger of disappearing, sinking under their own weight. In a scientific study published in the journal Earth’s Future, researchers “attempt to assess how the cumulative mass of the megalopolis’ infrastructure influences its subsidence”, a phenomenon directly caused by human activity and soil erosion. The city under 762 million tonnes of construction…
Bing Crosby once said the most difficult thing he ever did in his decades-long career was sing “White Christmas” to homesick troops in France in December 1944.
The death toll from a car-ramming at a German Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg rose to four on Saturday, according to German newspaper Bild, after a suspect on Friday ploughed into a large crowd of visitors. German authorities are investigating a Saudi doctor, arrested as the suspected driver of the car, with Der Spiegel magazine reporting he had sympathies with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Police said they arrested a 50-year-old from Saudi Arabia who has been living in Germany for almost two decades.
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Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation’s first Black woman to win election as a governor and as the state’s first female governor.