House impeachment managers have presented senators with video footage of lawmakers fleeing the mobs of Trump supporters who had broken into the U.S. Capitol building on January 6. The scenes of deadly violence, which included rioters in tactical gear and armed with zip-ties, shocked lawmakers, but Democrats still face an uphill struggle to get the two-thirds majority required for a conviction for Trump, who has been charged with inciting the riots....

Nearly all Senate Republican lawmakers are expected to vote against raising the debt ceiling as Democrats aim to do this week in a bid to avoid a government shutdown. GOP leaders have argued that Democrats should pass the debt ceiling increase through the budget reconciliation process—which they could do without any Republican support. Meanwhile, Democrats have pointed out that most Republicans voted to increase the debt ceiling under former President Donald Trump—when nearly $8 trillion was added in just four years....

A new poll by Morning Consult/Politico released on Wednesday found that Trump has maintained his position among GOP voters over the last month, with the majority saying he’d get their backing in a 2024 Republican presidential primary. Support for Trump remained the same as it was earlier this month, at 53 percent, in the new survey, which was conducted between June 24 and 26. His steady rating suggests that the ongoing congressional hearings are doing little to dissuade Republicans from casting another ballot for the former president....

The Englishman is set to lift his maiden title with Gor Mahia on November 18 in Kisumu having guided the club to a record 16th league crown in his first season. Kerr joined Gor Mahia last July and went on to lift his first major title with a record 73 points and a game to spare. The new man in town joined in the celebration of K’Ogalo’s success by encrypting a tattoo on his left leg....

The two were omitted by former Stars coach Antoine Hey who named a 23-man squad that is dominated by APR and reigning champions Rayon Sports FC. Former Slovakia based, Omborenga Fitina made it in the squad alongside debutant Ally Mbogo with the rest drawn from the pool of players who recently took part in the CHAN qualifiers against Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Kenya and Rwanda will take each other in the second match of day one on December 3 at Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos....

The hard-line attack on Gorbachev - perhaps the strongest one yet–began when his own prime minister, a stubborn Communist Party apparatchik named Valentin Pavlov, asked the Parliament for authority to issue emergency economic decrees without permission from Gorbachev. “The president’s working day is 14 hours,” he said. “In my opinion, there is a lot the president simply can’t do.” Pavlov also criticized the Grand Bargain reform plan worked out by liberal Soviet economist Grigory Yavlinsky and a team of academics at Harvard University, under which rapid Soviet change would be supported by Western financial aid....

In the clip, which was shared to TikTok by Tina Flick, the gorilla can be seen entering his enclosure before quickly sliding across the floor, stopping just short of Flick before slickly spinning round as if on a revolving platform. It makes for quite the entrance and has proven popular online, with the clip racking up over 52 million views in the space of a few days. Flick can be heard on the video admitting the encounter “scared the heck” out of her....

The governor shared a throwback image from 2019, posed for the pictures flashing his muscles and a maskless smile, while getting a flu vaccination from a nurse. “Flu season is approaching. This year it’s especially important to get vaccinated for the flu,” the governor captioned his Instagram update on Friday. “You don’t want to risk getting both Covid AND the flu. He also encouraged his followers to find out where they can get vaccinate for the flu at VaccineFinder....

But here’s our best judgment on organizations that had a team in the top 31 in the owner standings. Hendrick Motorsports: A Hard to give the champions anything but an A as Jimmie Johnson (six wins) earned his sixth Cup title. Dale Earnhardt Jr. didn’t win a race, but he rallied to finish fifth in points. And Jeff Gordon didn’t get one of the 12 Chase positions, but he got in through the Brian France special for those unfairly disadvantaged....

Taylor Swift fans felt the 29-year-old pop star was the victim of another snub after her latest album Lover failed to get an “Album of the Year” nomination. Their anger seemed particularly directed at Lil Nas X, with some questioning whether his ‘album’ 7 was not too short to be considered an album. One wrote: “The Grammys literally nominated a fing EP for ALBUM of the year over Lover and if that ain’t fing bias then idk what is,” while another tweeted, “How are we living in a world where Lil Nas X is getting nominated for Album of the Year for an EP that is approx 2 minutes long, yet Taylor Swift and Beyoncé did not get nominated”...

Balthus’s fans claim that he has singlehandedly preserved painting’s classic tradition, running from Piero delta Francesca right up through Cezanne, in the face of modern art’s insatiable appetite for novelty. That feat, apparently, required Balthus to paint a lot of nubile young girls. In “The Golden Days” (1945-46), a pubescent female with an off-the-shoulder decolletage gazes at her newly seductive self in a mirror while her skirt hikes itself (a Balthus trademark) past midthigh....

In a video shared to TikTok on October 8, user Mimiii (@aimeebh) explained she’d chosen to get two nautical-inspired swallows tattooed on her hands just like her “favorite person,” leaving viewers “sobbing.” At the time of writing, the cute clip has received more than 80,000 likes and over 580,000 views. Home Fast An Ipsos survey of 1,016 respondents found that 26 percent of Americans have been inked. Nine percent have one tattoo, while 21 percent have two or more....

Police said the victim had been home alone at a home on 38th Street NW when the masked suspect kicked in the door around 8 a.m. Thursday. The suspect reportedly assaulted the victim and demanded money, but the victim grabbed his gun and shot the suspect, who was later identified as his grandson, multiple times. The grandson, identified by police as 34-year-old Jessie Gibson, fled on foot and was found in a nearby motel, where he had been staying, with nonlife-threatening injuries, according to police....

ABC Australia reported Monday the carcass had been spotted in Outer Harbor, Adelaide’s main shipping port. A source from South Australia’s National Parks and Wildlife Service, Jon Emmett, told the outlet that officials tried to remove the carcass from the water; however, it was in a difficult position, and two great white sharks were in the process of feasting on it as they tried to remove it. ABC Adelaide shared a graphic video from the scene to its Twitter account on Monday....

Gray wolves are designated as endangered under the California Endangered Species Acts. According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the wolves were eradicated from the state in the 1920s. The Associated Press reported that OR93 was born in 2019 to the White River pack in northern Oregon. After entering California briefly in late January and coming back to Oregon, he re-entered California on Feb. 4 and began heading south....

A screenshot of OCEARCH’s shark tracker was posted on Facebook, Saturday, showing the group huddled around the coast near the North and South Carolina border. “What do you think could be causing this big gap in where white sharks are pinging right now,” the research organization posted on Facebook. “There are pings in the Gulf of Mexico and then a big grouping in North Carolina/South Carolina but none in the middle....

At least 16 others, including four children, were transported to local hospitals suffering from heat exhaustion, officials said at the scene of the latest tragedy involving migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico. Abbott, a Republican, was quick to place blame for the deaths on President Joe Biden. “These deaths are on Biden,“Abbott tweeted on Monday night. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law....

“I was here with him, he never left his post,” U.S. Representative Greg Pence, a Republican from Indiana, told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday. “We impeached the president weeks, days later and now here we are having an investigation? Sounds a little bassackwards, right?” The 1/6 Commission, modeled after the panel assigned to review the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, would review the lead-up to the attack, Capitol security, and future measures that should be taken to prevent another Capitol security issue....