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- PoliticsYahoo News
Giuliani tells Pennsylvania legislators they can override popular vote to appoint pro-Trump electors
President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his campaign counsel Jenna Ellis on Wednesday floated the idea to Pennsylvania Republicans that the state legislature could decide on its own to give the state's 20 Electoral College votes to Trump, despite the state’s certifying that Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election in the state.
- HealthReuters
Type O blood linked to lower COVID risk, taking Vitamin D unlikely to help
Among 225,556 Canadians who were tested for the virus, the risk for a COVID-19 diagnosis was 12% lower and the risk for severe COVID-19 or death was 13% lower in people with blood group O versus those with A, AB, or B, researchers reported on Tuesday in Annals of Internal Medicine. People in any blood group who were Rh-negative were also somewhat protected, especially if they had O-negative blood. People in these blood type groups may have developed antibodies that can recognize some aspect of the new virus, coauthor Dr. Joel Ray of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto told Reuters.
- U.S.The Root
14-Year-Old Honestie Hodges, Handcuffed at Gunpoint by Michigan Police as a Child, Dies From COVID-19
In 2017, 11-year-old Honestie Hodges made national headlines after a horrific confrontation with Grand Rapids, Mich., police, in which they handcuffed the little girl at gunpoint at her home. The incident led to a new policy dictating how the department would interact with minors.
- SportsYahoo Sports
Johnny Manziel says he '100 percent' lost his Browns teammates' respect with off-field antics
The draft bust admitted he wasted two years of Browns great Joe Thomas' career.
- PoliticsRefinery29
For His Final Act, Trump Plans To Have 5 Federal Prisoners Executed
Fifty-six days out from the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice announced that it will do something unprecedented: execute people on federal death row during the transition period. There are five executions scheduled before the January 20 inauguration, including one just five days before Biden is sworn in. The DOJ, under General Attorney William Barr, ended a 17-year pause on federal executions when they resumed them last summer. In a statement released Friday, the DOJ described the upcoming executions as being for people who committed “staggeringly brutal murders.” Barr’s DOJ has already executed eight people this year, despite many states pausing due to the coronavirus pandemic. But, if these five go forward, it would mean the DOJ under Trump and Barr will have executed 13 people in just six months, which is a huge shift for federal executions that had been quite rare until last year. The decision to continue executions during the presidential transition period is unprecedented; you’d have to go back over a century, to Grover Cleveland in 1889, to find a president who went forward with executions between an electoral defeat and the swearing-in of their successor. “What is clear is that this administration wants these prisoners dead before Joe Biden takes office,” Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center Robert Dunham told CNN. It’s possible that the rush to execute people on death row before Biden’s inauguration may be because Biden his against the death penalty and hopes to end it at the federal level when he takes office. “The president-elect opposes the death penalty, now and in the future, and as president will work to end its use,” transition spokesman, T.J. Ducklo, told NPR. Among the five people scheduled to be executed before January 20 is Brandon Bernard, who will be the youngest person in nearly 70 years to be executed by the United States for a crime committed when he was a teenager. He was 18 when he and a friend were convicted of murdering two youth ministers; his accomplice, Christoper Vialva, was executed in September after he exhausted all of his appeals. Lisa Montgomery, the only woman currently on federal death row and the first woman to be executed by the U.S. in almost 70 years, is scheduled to be executed on January 12 for killing a pregnant woman, cutting out her baby, and passing the baby off as her own. Dustin Higgs, a Black man, was convicted of ordering a triple homicide and his execution is scheduled for Martin Luther King Day; Higgs did not actually pull the trigger in the case and the person who did received life in prison. A Black man named Corey Johnson is also scheduled for execution on January 14. He was convicted of killing seven people as a part of a drug trade and his attorneys are arguing that Johnson has an intellectual disability that should prevent him from being eligible for execution but that no jury has heard evidence to rule on it. Lastly, Alfred Bourgeois will be executed December 11 for the abuse and 2002 murder of his daughter. His attorney is also seeking to have his case re-tried to take an intellectual disability into account. Despite the nature of the crimes of all five awaiting execution, advocates continue to push back on the death penalty as an inhumane form of retributivist punishment. The fact that Trump is carrying this out in his final days in office only speaks to the nature of his presidency, and where his priorities lie. “The federal government has already presided over the executions of eight people so far this year,” Hannah Riley, a spokeswoman at the Southern Center for Human Rights, told NPR. “The death penalty is always unconscionable, but it is especially egregious to carry out executions as hundreds of people are dying of COVID-19 in this country every day.” Like what you see? How about some more R29 goodness, right here?Team Trump Might Cancel Their Gettysburg "Hearing"No, Trump Can't Pardon Himself — Here's WhyTrump Once Accused A Turkey Of Refusing To Concede
- NewsYahoo Entertainment
VideoPat Sajak ‘almost lost it’ after contestant questions ‘Wheel of Fortune’ puzzle: ‘Ungrateful players! I’ve had it!’
38 years after his mother appeared on “Wheel of Fortune,” contestant Darin McBain spun the Wheel Wednesday night. And he did really well, especially on a crossword puzzle for things that start with the word “kitchen.” He correctly guessed, “Cabinet, towels, oven, sink.” However, after winning, McBain questioned one of the puzzle answers. “Kitchen oven?” asked McBain. “What was that? Who calls it a "kitchen oven?” Many fans agreed with McBain, with several taking to Twitter to voice their support, but host Pat Sajak was not in agreement. In fact, he blasted McBain for even questioning the puzzle. “Don't!” Sajak exclaimed. “You won! Don't argue, Darin!...You got the puzzle. Ungrateful players! I've had it!” Sajak was only teasing, but he did admit “I finally snapped.” At the end of the show he apologized for the earlier outburst, saying, “I'm sorry I yelled at you, Darin. It’s just -- I don't remember your mother giving us trouble like you did.”
- EntertainmentTown & Country
Did Margaret Thatcher Really Greet Queen Elizabeth With Such a Strange Curtsy?
The Crown's new season shows Thatcher saluting the Queen with a strangely deep dive.
