The Doodle sees the letter G of the word Google sending a heart to the letter E, which is dressed as a teacher giving a presentation virtually via a laptop on top of stacked books, with a whiteboard in the background. Alongside the Doodle, Google says: “As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people are coming together to help one another now more than ever. We’re launching a Doodle series to recognize and honor many of those on the front lines....

Romney announced his intentions to cast a guilty vote against Trump for his alleged abuse of presidential power in a speech on the Senate floor before the voting officially got underway on Wednesday. “This is not the first time I have disagreed with Mitt, and I imagine it will not be the last,” McDaniel tweeted. “The bottom line is President Trump did nothing wrong, and the Republican Party is more united than ever behind him....

“I’m reading that @KamalaHarris made history as first woman, first black woman, first Asian woman, etc = a boatload of intersectionality points. But Kamala, are you descended from slaves or slave owners?” King tweeted on Sunday. The lawmaker’s remarks were immediately met with a barrage of criticism on social media. “Thankfully, this racist monster will no longer be a Congressman in just 42 days,” New York contributor Yashar Ali tweeted....

The GOP lawmaker appeared on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday and was pressed about the issue by journalist George Stephanopoulos. “Since you’re part of the investigation by the Justice Department, will you pledge not to serve on that committee?” Stephanopoulos asked. “Well, why should I be limited? Why should anybody be limited just because someone has made an accusation?” Perry responded. “Everybody in America is innocent until proven otherwise....

With votes still being counted, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden appears closer to an Electoral College victory than President Donald Trump. Biden also leads in the popular vote but Trump has still claimed some 69 million ballots, more than any candidate in history save for Biden’s 2020 haul. “It probably isn’t the thorough repudiation that people like me were hoping for,” Sarah Longwell, founder of anti-Trump coalition Republican Voters Against Trump, told Newsweek when asked about the state of play in the election....

The news could have thrown a wrench into the proceedings and pressured Republicans to be concerned about probable wrongdoing. But GOP senators appeared apathetic to the findings of a government watchdog agency that determined Trump violated the law by withholding military aid from Ukraine and that new evidence further detailed the president’s efforts to force the ouster of a former ambassador and pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. The new evidence should “absolutely not” be taken into consideration during the trial, said Sen....

President Donald Trump and his Republican Party allies have come under fire for pushing a conspiracy theory alleging that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a bid to influence the race in favor of Hillary Clinton. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the same allegations, attempting to deflect the conclusions of U.S. intelligence services, Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller that Moscow directed a systematic campaign of interference in the 2016 election....

“If I was on the fence, that might be the final factor,” a woman from North Carolina said. “But if I truly believed in the opposing candidate, it’s not going to make me vote any differently.” As long as the person she favors advocates strong America First and Make America Great Again policies, the voter said, she doesn’t need to follow Trump’s lead to feel she is supporting his creed....

The Associated Press reported in November that Paxton is under investigation by the FBI over allegations that he abused his office in an effort to benefit a wealthy donor. That investigation came after seven senior staff members under the attorney general urged federal law enforcement in an open letter in early October to “investigate allegations [against Paxton] of improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential crimes.” “I’m no lawyer, but I suspect the Supreme Court swats this away....

Hundreds of pro-Trump rioters invaded the building as Congress met to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Prior to the violent actions of his supporters, Trump told them they needed to “fight much harder” during a rally on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. Although the rioters’ actions delayed the certification, Congress reconvened Wednesday evening, and the process was completed early Thursday morning. Now, there are reportedly discussions about Pence and Trump’s Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office....

“I’ve continued to say that it is not constitutional to impeach and convict a former president,” Senator Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican, told reporters Wednesday. “Do we go back to Jefferson? Do we go back to Johnson again? Do we go back to Kennedy?” The Senate voted 56-44 on Tuesday to continue with the trial after hearing arguments over whether it is legal to convict a president on an impeachment charge after he’s left office....

Tom Mountain, the vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee, was hospitalized with the virus only a few days after being one of around 200 people to attend a Hanukkah party at the White House, according to multiple local media reports. “Well, lets put it this way, when I went down to Washington, D.C. for the White House Hanukkah event, I was perfectly fine, and three days later after that event, I was in the hospital at Brigham and Women’s ready to be put on a lifesaving ventilator,” Mountain told WHDH on Monday....

Approximately 70 percent of Republican voters disagreed with the statement, “The people who broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6 are representative of the Republican Party.” The percentage was taken from poll results published Monday by the market research company Morning Consult. Roughly 40 percent of all voters, regardless of party affiliation, said the rioters didn’t represent the Republican party. Comparatively, 17 percent of Republican voters said that the rioters represented the GOP, and 47 percent of all voters, regardless of party affiliation, felt the same....

The club jetted out of Kenya and arrived safely in Sudan on Saturday albeit minus foreign players, who missed out on the trip due to visa issues, but it is now confirmed that the said players will link up with the team in the evenining today (Sunday). Gor Mahia arrive in Sudan minus foreign players Organizing Secretary Judith Nyangi has explained that head coach Ze Maria, who also did not travel with the players, plus the foreign players are soon arriving and that K’Ogalo are set to feel their match-day pitch tonight....

The Blues are in the market for a new goalkeeper and have identified the Scotland international as a top target. One offer has been knocked back, with Celtic making it clear that they will not let their first-choice shot-stopper go for anything less than his full valuation. The Scottish champions hope they will not get to that point, with there a desire on their part to keep Gordon in Glasgow....

The program—which gives out payments conditional on certain health or education-related obligations—was not designed with environmental protection in mind. But according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the journal Science Advances, this fall in deforestation may be a welcome, if unintended consequence, of the conditional cash transfers. “For decades, people have been debating whether alleviating poverty and protecting the environment are at odds with each other. Resolving this debate is important because lots of poor people are found in the same areas where we find the most endangered ecosystems, like the rainforest,” Paul Ferraro, an author of the study from Johns Hopkins University, told Newsweek....

The incident took place in the village of Aleksandrovka, in southwestern Russia, in December 2021, with investigators now releasing her confession after it was first believed that the deaths had been caused by the house being coated in insect poison. But the suspect, Lidia Viktorovna Shiryaeva, has reportedly confessed to poisoning them. The 49-year-old reportedly said to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Saratov Region: “I knew that my husband had poison in the glove compartment of the car, and I began to cook dinner on the 11th....

With the Celtics in action on Oct. 30, Grant Williams let us in on the secret of his true identity by arriving at TD Garden fully decked out in a Batman costume, though the costume itself didn’t exactly appear to be tailor-made for his 6-foot-6 frame. It’s one thing to just show up in the costume, but it’s another to fully lean into being Batman. Williams did just that....

The footage, which was shared to the app by Olympus Great Danes, shows a dog named Apollo sat on the sofa next to a woman. An automated voice over the video then says: “Sitting beside my Great Dane and ignoring him.” The woman then turns away from the dog, and the animal looks surprised. The voice, speaking from the dog’s perspective, then says: “Do you see this c**p. Well then…”...