Google Doodles often change the classic Google logo to incorporate a historical figure or special occasion relating to a specific date. The Google image for Wednesday, March 16 features a woman sitting in a field painting sheep while the Google logo is subtly spelled out by clouds in the background. The woman displayed is supposed to be Bonheur, who is known for her work as an animal painter and sculptor....
In an October 26 letter to Cyber Ninjas and CEO Doug Logan, Fann said that she had previously sent Logan a September 14 letter. In that letter, Fann told the company to submit all its audit-related records to her in order to comply with a court order. Cyber Ninjas only provided 300 records, “an insubstantial percentage of all existing responsive records,” Fann wrote. “Accordingly, Cyber Ninjas’ inadequate response to my September 14 request places it in material breach of the (contract) as construed by the court,” her letter continued....
“We are going to have to look Americans in the eye and say ‘We are making the best decisions for the most Americans possible’ and the answer to that is to get Americans back to work, to get Americans back to their businesses,” Hollingsworth told WIBC, adding that no option will result in “zero evil.” “But it is the lesser of these two evils and we intend to move forward that direction,” he continued....
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California was joined by fellow Republican representatives Jim Banks of Indiana and Elise Stefanik of New York and by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana during a news conference. The lawmakers held the conference to discuss the upcoming public hearing by the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot, scheduled for Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET. The representatives all spoke on how they felt the committee was a political attack on Republicans and a distraction from other national issues....
Polling from ABC News and The Washington Post released last weekend showed that about 20 percent of Americans say they will not get vaccinated against the novel virus. The percentage is substantially higher among those identifying as Republicans (close to 40 percent) and white conservatives (more than a third). During a Sunday interview with ABC News’ This Week, Hutchinson was asked about this skepticism among Republicans and conservatives. “There shouldn’t be a partisan divide first of all....
“This is a cause on which so many Iowans have worked on for years,” Reynolds, a Republican, said during a news conference. “It boils down to our fundamental belief in redemption and second chances.” Reynolds said most felons who have completed their sentences will have their right to vote restored automatically and can pursue public office if they wish to do so. She said each felon’s sentence, parole and probation requirements must be met before voting rights resume....
Congress passed a bipartisan $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill last week, which was included with $1.4 trillion omnibus government spending legislation. Although the White House reportedly urged Republican lawmakers to support the package before it passed, Trump attacked the bill and described it as a “disgrace” in a Tuesday video message. The president took issue with billions of funding to foreign countries and other government priorities, while also asking Congress to raise the $600 stimulus checks included in the package to $2,000 for most Americans....
Pelosi on Thursday explained why she decided not to make bribery one of the articles of impeachment despite accusing Trump of the act. “This was a decision that was recommended by working together with our committee chairs, our attorneys and the rest,” the House Speaker said. In response, GOP Congressman Mark Meadows took to Twitter to accuse Pelosi of leaving out the allegation “because it wasn’t true.” Trump on Sunday retweeted Meadows’ statement and added: “Because Nancy’s teeth were falling out of her mouth, and she didn’t have time to think!...
Two bills introduced this month by Republican Missouri state Representative Adam Schnelting and Republican state Senator-elect Rick Brattin would remove legal liabilities for drivers striking protesters, or those at gatherings deemed to be “unlawful” demonstrations, with their vehicles. “The Fleeing Motorist Protection Act ensures that motorists who are trapped in their vehicle during a riot are civilly and criminally protected under state law,” Schnelting tweeted on Thursday. “If your grandparents are caught in a mob and are being threatened, they shouldn’t be held liable for inadvertently hitting a rioter if they flee the scene in order to save those in the car from physical danger....
The Republican state lawmaker said the pair’s tickets were refunded after they declined to wear the protective gear, despite the Gettsyburg Foundation website clearly warning visitors that face coverings are mandatory. Posting on social media about the incident, Rep. Keller also called requirements to wear face masks “unconstituional” and suggested Americans were “losing their rights” amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the GOP lawmaker had previously refused to have her temperature checked as she entered Ohio’ State House of Representatives....
The Post reported Saturday that Eric Schwerwin, the president of an investment firm where Hunter Biden was a founding member, visited the White House and other official locations 19 times between 2009 and 2015. Schwerwin, who was the president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, met with aides and assistants to the then-vice president and Jill Biden, according to White House visitor logs reviewed by the Post. He also met with Joe Biden himself once in November of 2010....
“What we’re seeing right now,” Hagerty said in the interview, “in either the knee-jerk policies that Biden has used in collapsing our border, the countdown to the WHO in refunding them, Nordstream Two, letting the Russians have that pipeline, entering the START deal with the Russians and getting nothing in return.” He described the things that have come from the Biden administration with China as well, including “killing the Keystone XL pipeline, stopping all drilling here in America, making us dependent on solar panels from China, on wind turbines from China—China’s laughing all the way to the bank....
“Democrats calling for Senator Feinstein to step down from Judiciary Ranking Member should think twice abt [sic] their sexist & ageist motivations against an outstanding legislator & icon in her own right,” Grassley tweeted on Wednesday. “Attacks on Senator Feinstein are totally unjustified.” “She’s such an outstanding legislator, it’s totally unjustified,” he told Politico’s Burgess Everett. “She’s only three months older than I am, and I haven’t announced I’m not running for reelection....
Lee made the comments during Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate. If confirmed, Barrett will be elevated to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, making her President Donald Trump’s third conservative appointee to the Supreme Court. That would increase the conservative majority to six justices serving alongside three liberal justices. Some Democrats have proposed increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court, a process known as “court-packing,” to attempt to install more liberal justices on the U....
Lee introduced the bills last Thursday in response to the federal vaccine mandate issued on September 9 by the administration of President Joe Biden. Four of Lee’s bills would prohibit the federal government and military from mandating vaccinations or fining unvaccinated people. Two of his bills would allow people to claim vaccine exemptions based on personal beliefs or health concerns. Another of Lee’s bills would permit civil lawsuits against federal vaccine mandates....
Portman is the latest Republican to denounce Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to have Ukraine and China probe Biden’s family. Trump on Thursday suggested to reporters outside the White House that China and Ukraine should investigate Biden. Although the president stressed that he hadn’t yet asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to probe his domestic rival, he added that it could be “certainly something we can start thinking about....
Hawley made the remarks on the latest edition of the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. The senator said there should be an investigation into where the virus came from, while also stating that he already knew where it originated. “We ought to have an international investigation into where this came originated,” said Hawley. “We know where it was. It was China.” “China ought to be held to account. And they ought to foot the bill for what the world, including the United States, is now suffering,” he added....
Bolton has become a central figure in the impeachment debate surrounding Trump, with Democrats keen to have him testify in front of senators—while the political world eagerly awaits his tell-all memoir detailing his time in Trump’s turbulent White House. But according to a Vanity Fair article published Monday, Bolton’s prominent role has put him squarely in Trump’s crosshairs and at the top of an enemies list to be addressed once Republican senators acquit the president....
The league managers have confirmed in a statement obtained by Goal that the round 8 match will now be played on Sunday at 4:15pm and not 3:00pm as was previously scheduled. Other changes of the fixtures will see Thika United play against Western Stima as from 2:00pm and not 3:00pm on Sunday. Matches pitting Nakumatt against Kakamega Homeboyz and that between Sofapaka and Bandari will also be played at 3:00pm as opposed to the initial kick-offs which were 2:00pm and 4:15pm respectively....
Actually, by then he had been in No. 10 for seven days. But we always knew that the weekly ritual of Prime Minister’s Questions would be a nervous chore for Brown, never a political actor or orator of Tony Blair’s caliber. Much more striking was the overall success of the new P.M.’s first week. The man who was expected to be ponderous and dispiriting has been fleet of foot and sometimes dazzling....
