Summary List Placement Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday. Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every morning. Have an Amazon Alexa device? Listen to this update by searching “Business Insider” in your flash briefing settings. Google is threatening to pull out of Australia. The […]
Isaiah Stevens, Colorado St. knock off Utah St. 84-76
LOGAN, Utah — Isaiah Stevens scored 18 points with eight rebounds and eight assists and Colorado State knocked Utah State out of a first-place tie in the Mountain West Conference with an 84-76 win on Thursday night. Kendle Moore added 16 points for the Rams (11-3, 8-2), who lost to the Aggies 83-64 on Tuesday […]
7 Democratic senators call for ethics probe into Cruz and Hawley to determine whether their electoral college objections contributed to the Capitol siege
Summary List Placement Seven Democratic senators have called for an ethics probe into Republican Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz over their objections to the Electoral College vote on January 6 and whether or not their actions contributed to the Capitol siege. The probe was requested on Thursday in an ethics complaint by Democratic Senators […]
Palo Alto: Attempted armed robbery under investigation
PALO ALTO – Authorities are investigating an attempted armed robbery in Palo Alto. The incident was reported about 2:20 p.m. Wednesday in the 1100 block of Webster Street, near Lincoln Avenue, the Palo Alto Police Department said in a news release. Police said the victim, a man in his 20s, was working outside his residence […]
Draymond Green’s ejection sinks Warriors in loss to Knicks
Tired in their second game in two nights and disorganized without one of their most important players, the Warriors lost to the New York Knicks, 119-104, Thursday night at Chase Center. Twenty-four hours after their most complete win of the season over the San Antonio Spurs, the Warriors (8-7) had a difficult time mustering the […]
Avalanche blows 2-0 lead as Kings split two-game series
Adrian Kempe completed Los Angeles’ comeback from a two-goal deficit by scoring the game-winning goal late in the third period as the Kings defeated the Avalanche 4-2 on Thursday to salvage a split of the two-game series at the Staples Center. Blake Lizotte scored an empty-net goal in the final minute as the Kings went […]
A Columbia man was charged with threatening to ‘explode the IRS’ building and kill Nancy Pelosi
Summary List Placement A man is facing federal charges after he tweeted threats to “explode the IRS headquarters,” as well as threaten to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Cody Wolf Gideon Mohr, 27, of Columbia, Maryland, was arrested earlier Thursday after a criminal complaint was filed in relation to his tweets. […]
UNC men defeat Big Sky favorite, 78-76, on last second free throws
Northern Colorado can shoot the ball well — the team has scored 117 3s — but it’s struggled from the free throw line as of late. On Thursday night, however, the charity stripe is where the Bears iced a big home win. UNC (8-6, 5-4 Big Sky) defeated conference preseason favorite Eastern Washington (3-6, 2-2 […]
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon supporter, has announced articles of impeachment against Joe Biden
Summary List Placement Just a day after the inauguration of the country’s 46th president, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she would be introducing articles of impeachment against Joe Biden. In a statement released on Thursday, Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, said: “President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the […]
Amid cancellation talk, Tokyo Olympics “focused on hosting”
TOKYO — IOC President Thomas Bach and local organizers are pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be canceled. Now set to open July 23, the Tokyo Games were postponed 10 months ago at the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, and now the event appears threatened again. The Times of London, citing […]
As a symbolic gesture to reframe America as a land of immigrants, Biden wants to remove the word ‘alien’ from immigration laws
Summary List Placement President Joe Biden wants to remove the word “alien” from US immigration laws as a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the US as “a nation of immigrants.” In a summary of his immigration bill, Biden said he planned to replace the word with “non-citizen.” “The language change on the first day of this […]
Fauci said the US’s COVID-19 vaccines are powerful enough that they should be able to shoulder new strains of the infection with limited impact on efficacy
Summary List Placement Top US infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday the COVID-19 vaccines might not be as effective against new coronavirus strains, but that the vaccines were powerful enough that they would still be beneficial. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and an advisor on the White […]