Human-to-human transmission confirmed in China coronavirus

6 hours ago | New York Post | 3 articles

Human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in the outbreak of a SARS-like virus spreading across China and beyond, a government expert said Monday, ramping up fears that...
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Cop charged with DUI after highway crash that killed off-duty cop passenger in Illinois

7 hours ago | NY Daily News | 2 articles

An off-duty police officer was killed and another was charged with driving under the influence after the car they were traveling in crashed into an accident scene on a highway...
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Police: Driver hit 100 mph before deadly Christmas crash in Colonie

8 hours ago | Times Union

COLONIE - The 17-year-old behind the wheel of an Audi sedan that crashed and killed a passenger on Central Avenue on Christmas Day was travelling at over 100 miles per hour...
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FMIA: Patrick Mahomes Is ‘The Whole Package,' Running Chiefs Into Super Bowl LIV To Meet 49ers

9 hours ago | NBC Sports | 3 articles

Super Bowl LIV is set. Peter King opens Football Morning in America in Kansas City, where "the complete package" Patrick Mahomes ran the Chiefs past the Titans, setting up a...
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I took a $20, 4-day train ride between Zambia and Tanzania, and even though it was delayed by an entire day, I'd do it again

9 hours ago | Business Insider

Hoping to experience an African safari on a budget, I recently traveled first class on the TAZARA train from Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for $20. The...
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The spread of China's mysterious, fatal Wuhan virus is poised to get infinitely worse as the Chinese New Year travel rush begins

9 hours ago | Business Insider

A deadly coronavirus known as the " Wuhan virus ," or 2019-nCoV, is gripping China. At least three people have died from the illness, which originated in a seafood market in...
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Human-to-human transmission confirmed in China coronavirus

10 hours ago | Boston Herald | 5 articles

By YANAN WANG and KEN MORITSUGU BEIJING - The head of a Chinese government expert team says human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new...
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Bloomberg: My Story Would Have Been Different If I'd Been Black

11 hours ago | Newser

Michael Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk policy while heading up the Big Apple has become his Achilles' heel in the 2020 campaign, Politico notes. Now, however, the ex-mayor is...
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Davos says it is focusing on the climate crisis, but its billionaires and world leaders are still arriving on private jets

11 hours ago | Business Insider

The World Economic Forum made the idea of a sustainable world the key theme for this year's event Davos, Switzerland. But the financial, political, and celebrity elites that...
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NASA asteroid warning: Not one but TWO huge space rocks to hurtle past Earth today

11 hours ago | RT

The new year brings with it new asteroid threats, with NASA warning of two close cosmic flybys in a single day following a busy festive period of Near Earth Object approaches...
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Senate Republicans plan speedy Trump trial

Senate Republicans released their partisan impeachment trial resolution on Monday evening, a blueprint that could result in President Donald Trump's swift acquittal. Senate... Read more ...

Third horse in three days dies at Santa Anita Park

The number of horse deaths at the California track - almost 40 in just over a year - led officials to briefly halt racing there last year. Read more ...

Dad kills coyote with bare hands after animal threatens child, police say

The man was able to grab the coyote and strangle it, but he was bitten several times in the process. Read more ...

Jubilee the NJ shelter dog with ‘weird' eyes adopted after story goes viral

All eyes were on this shelter dog. A Siberian husky named Jubilee whose breeder dumped her at a New Jersey shelter because of her “weird” eyelid deformity now has a forever... Read more ...

VIDEO: Father rushes, tackles his son's competitor at high school wrestling...

A father was arrested by police after tackling a North Carolina high school wrestler who was competing against his son. Read more ...

As trial nears, President Trump's lawyers call impeachment case 'flimsy'

President Donald Trump's legal team is asserting that he did “absolutely nothing wrong" and calling the impeachment case “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution." Read more ...

Tim Cook and Apple commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

What you need to know Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. Apple has a full-page tribute to one of the most important people in America's history. CEO Tim... Read more ...

Wardens identify man killed when snowmobile crashes through ice on Maine lake

Rescuers followed the man's snowmobile tracks to an area of bad ice, where he went into the lake several hundred yards from shore. Read more ...

Virginia's capital braces for gun-rights rally

RICHMOND, Va. - Gun-rights activists and other groups began to descend on Virginia's capital city Monday to protest Democrats' plans to pass gun-control legislation. Gov. Ralph... Read more ...

READ: McConnell Lays Out Plan For Senate Impeachment Trial Procedure

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is planning for each side in the impeachment trial to have 24 hours to present their case, spread over two days. Democrats object to that... Read more ...