January 6 committee postpones request for some records from Trump White House The House select committee investigating January 6 has postponed its request for dozens of pages of records from the Trump White House even though the documents were determined by the current White House counsel to be relevant to its probe.
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:00:20 GMT 'Bomb cyclone' leaves more than 600K power outages across New England Hundreds of thousands of New Englanders were dealing with power outages and debris cleanup Wednesday after a nor'easter strengthened into a "bomb cyclone" and tore through the region, downing trees and power lines with winds that sometimes reached hurricane strength.
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:03:40 GMT McConnell endorses Herschel Walker's Senate bid in sign of growing GOP establishment support Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is backing former football star Herschel Walker's Senate bid in Georgia, the latest sign that the Republican establishment is aligning behind Walker despite having serious doubts about the GOP candidate's viability.
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:27:41 GMT Intelligence leaders defend diversity efforts in face of Republican attacks The Biden administration's most senior intelligence officials defended their push to boost diversity in the ranks of the intelligence community in a congressional hearing on Wednesday, amid attacks from Republicans that such efforts are a distraction from core national security priorities.
Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:56:22 GMT Cigarette sales in America were falling. Then Covid hit We all had to find our own ways to cope with the pandemic lockdowns last year. Some people bought Pelotons and baked bread. Others took a slightly less healthy route.