All coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in Egypt have died after the oxygen supply to the ward failed. Footage captured by one of the patient's relatives taken at El Husseineya Central Hospital in Ash Sharqia province has gone viral online. The cameraman's aunt, Fatima Al-Sayed Mohamed Ibrahim, 66, was among the patients being treated at the quarantine centre. The incident happened after the oxygen level was almost below two per cent and there was neither enough pressure nor enough oxygen to save the patients' lives. It is the second such incident to occur after patients in the ICU at Zefta General Hospital suffered the same fate. The tragedy has underscored the corruption and negligence at the heart of Egypt's ruling government.

Georgia voters broke records on Tuesday for turnout in the Senate runoff elections. The massive, half a billion dollar investment in television ads, radio spots, mailers, texts, and phone calls have pushed Georgians to the polls—if not, to the edge of their patience—since last November.  Before Election Day, more than 3 million voters had already cast their ballots, about 2 million people visiting early voting sites and 1 million more utilizing the absentee-ballot process through the mail or with drop boxes. Final turnout won’t be known until the polls close, military ballots are counted, and ballots with any technical problems are cured (that deadline is Friday, Jan. 8).

The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in August will not be criminally charged, Kenosha County Michael Graveley announced Tuesday.

Hawley is among a dozen members of the U.S. Senate expected to object to certification of the Electoral College votes.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler rang in the New Year-- and a new term --- by pledging a tougher stance on people who commit violence and vandalism at demonstrations.

The new session of the Pennsylvania Senate got off to a chaotic start Tuesday, with Republicans refusing to seat a Democratic senator whose election victory has been certified by state officials. Amid high emotions and partisan fingerpointing, Republicans also took the rare step of removing the Democratic lieutenant governor, John Fetterman, from presiding over the session. They apparently did so because they did not believe Fetterman was following the rules and recognizing their legislative motions. Democrats, in turn, responded by refusing to back Sen. Jake Corman (R., Centre) from assuming the chamber’s top leadership position — an unusual maneuver on what is most often a largely ceremonial and bipartisan vote.

It is extremely difficult to republish a long out of print book. I know this because I have actually done it myself. First off, a pre-computer era book was typeset by hand, so the text will not often exist as a digital file. This presents the option of either rekeying in an entire book, or else scanning in each page individually. Doing it with some sort of image-to-text OCR program only makes for introducing new problems. It’s a time consuming process and a pain in the ass. Anything beyond text such as illustrations and photographs need to be handled differently. Which is why this exquisite recreation of the 1901 Theosophist publication Thought Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation is so noteworthy. This isn’t an example of merely putting out a new version of a book, but the complete recreation of the original object as it was 116 years ago. It’s...

After touching a squad car's spotlight in November 2019, a Chicago Police officer hit Martina Standley, causing a traumatic brain injury and a crushed leg, according to a lawsuit.

A leaked internal "polling" spreadsheet from one of the country's top union avoidance firms offers an inside look into a highly secretive industry that specializes in helping employers derail union drives using sophisticated, tested, and, at times, legally questionable methods. The spreadsheet was used by union avoidance firms that tried to thwart a union drive at two Seattle hospitals owned by Conifer Health Solutions in 2019. One of the union avoidance firms involved in that campaign was IRI Consultants, which was retained by Google in 2019 amid a wave of unprecedented worker organizing at the company. On Monday, hundreds of Google workers revealed they formed a union with the Communications Workers of America.  According to documents obtained by Motherboard, IRI union avoidance consultants regularly gathered information about 83 rank-and-file hospital employees' personality, temperament, motivations, ethnicity, family background, spouses' employment, finances, health issues, work ethic, job performance, disciplinary history, and involvement in union activity in the lead-up to a union election. Each employee was then given a rating for how likely the company believed they were to vote for the union.  In the notes for one employee, IRI consultants wrote that they were "lazy," "money oriented," "aloof," "from Samoa," "tired of people on team and doesn't want to assist them," and told managers that "'the union is full of crap.'" Notes described another employee as a "follower," "impressionable," "a single mother," adding that their "rent [had] increased" and they couldn't "afford [union] dues" and "will do whatever friends do." 

"Mr. Bean" star Rowan Atkinson has weighed in on "cancel culture": "It’s important that we’re exposed to a wide spectrum of opinion, but what we have now is the digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn."

A group of Republican senators stated they will object when Congress meets on Wednesday to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory, calling for a commission to investigate baseless allegations of electoral fraud. While their challenge is not expected to prevail — Democrats control the House and almost every Senate Republican would need to join the effort for their chamber to approve it — it will force a debate, drawing out a process that is usually a formality and forcing lawmakers to choose between honoring the choice of voters or standing with Trump. President Trump has refused to concede the election. His campaign and others have gone to court in six states, where Biden’s total margin is more than 312,000, to challenge certain ballots or the certification of the vote — and have lost more than 50 cases, including at the Supreme Court. Former senator David Perdue (R-Ga.) is fighting to keep his seat in a Jan. 5 runoff after failing to win 50 percent of the vote in November. Since the outcome is uncertain, he will not be seated in the new session of Congress until the results of the runoff are finalized. Here is where Republican senators stand on Wednesday’s vote:

'Putin would not have been able to stay in power that long if he had said something bad about cats'

Born in 1960s Harlem, the Kamoinge collective was influential in Black photography but ignored by the mainstream until recently. This exhibition should change that.

A British army regiment’s ceremonial pet goat was demoted in disgrace after it marched out of line before a host of dignitaries during a parade to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday, a military spokesman said Saturday. The military mascot, a 6-year-old male goat called Billy, was downgraded from the rank of lance corporal to fusilier — the same status as a private — after army chiefs ruled his poor display had ruined the ceremony earlier this month at a British army base in Episkopi, western Cyprus. Lance Cpl. Dai Davies, 22, the goat’s handler, was unable to keep control during the June 16 march. The mascot darted from side to side, throwing soldiers off their stride, Capt. Crispian Coates, a spokesman, said by telephone from the base in Cyprus. “The goat, which has been the regiment’s mascot since 2001, was supposed to be leading the march, but would not stay in line,” Coates said. “After consideration, the commanding officer decided he had no option but to demote Billy.”

Twitter's first main character of 2021 is a guy who bragged about forcing his hungry young daughter to spend six hours figuring out how a can opener works in a case of classic mediocre podcaster narcissism.

Students and recent graduates struggle to get hired as the oil industry cuts tens of thousands of jobs, some of which may never come back.

The campaign spent 10 times as much boosting the ad as it did on another ad the same day that used untouched clips

Louis Shenker is accused of placing a hoax bomb on a stolen Tesla with a husky dog locked inside that was found in a Queens parking garage.

Term would ‘inject prejudice’ into trial, say attorneys for a Georgia father and son accused of shooting unarmed black man.

The banner was ripped from a historic Black church after a rally last month, according to police.