2020: Latest News

WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee unanimously voted to withdraw from the Commission on Presidential Debates.The RNC clarified that it is not moving away from the presidential debate format, but is rather objecting to the CPD's control over the process. The CPD has organized presidential and vice presidential debates for more than 30 years.

The National Health Authority (NHA) has directed its counterparts in the states to adopt the latest version of the Health Benefit Package (HBP 2022) within their jurisdiction. The total package count of HBP 2022 has climbed to 1,949 with the inclusion of 365 new medical procedures.

Gov. Tate Reeves (Photo by Brandon Dill/Getty Images) JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Gov.

The Trapp family is pictured in a provided image. Photo Credit: Kevin Scott Ramos/Guinness World Records ESKO, Minn. - A family from a small town in Minnesota has been named the tallest in the world by Guinness World Records. The Trapp family, which is made up of Scott, 57, Kristine, 52, Savanna, 27, Molly, 24, and Adam, 22, has an average height of 6 feet, 8.03 inches.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Drop boxes for depositing mail-in and absentee ballots would be banned and donations to run elections would no longer be permitted from groups outside government under bills approved Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Senate.Senators voted 37-12, a potentially veto-proof margin, to prohibit the types of grants issued during the 2020 election. The vote against drop boxes was on party lines, 29-20.

TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA - 2020/06/12: A Toyota sign on car dealer during the daytime. The sky is blue with some clouds.

Cuba Gooding Jr. arrives at court in lower Manhattan on January 22, 2020 in New York City.

A Conservative peer has quit as justice minister over the breaches of Covid rules in Downing Street It comes after Boris Johnson was fined on Tuesday for attending a lockdown party.

Covid for two years. The event was bizarrely held in silence for the first time in its history last year and it was axed completely in 2020.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 03: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Gilbert Gottfried hosts "Amazing Colossal Show" on Comedy Greats at SiriusXM Studios on February 03, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for SiriusXM) Actor and stand-up comedian Gilbert Gottfried has died at the age of 67, according to a family statement posted on Twitter Tuesday."We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our beloved Gilbert Gottfried after a long illness," the family posted, not specifying the medical condition.

Emmerdale from 1994 until 2015, after which her character decided to emigrate to Australia along with Sandy, whose death was announced on the show in 2020. Though Betty lives on in Soapland, actress Paula sadly died in December 2019, at the age of 89.

Miya Ponsetto, 22, of Piru, California was arrested near her home in connection with the assault of boy at a New York City hotel. (Ventura County Sheriff's Office) NEW YORK - Miya Ponsetto, the so-called SoHo Karen, pleaded guilty on Monday in connection with falsely accusing a Black teenager of stealing her phone at a New York City hotel back in 2020.Under a deal with the Manhattan district attorney, Ponsetto pleaded guilty to one felony — second-degree unlawful Imprisonment as a hate crime — and one misdemeanor — second-degree aggravated harassment — and will serve two years of probation in her home state of California.

President Joe Biden is visiting corn-rich Iowa on Tuesday to announce he'll suspend a federal rule preventing the sale of higher ethanol blend gasoline this summer as his administration tries to tamp down prices at the pump that have spiked during Russia’s war with Ukraine.Most gasoline sold in the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol.

SELMA, NC - APRIL 09: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at The Farm at 95 on April 9, 2022 in Selma, North Carolina.

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. - Johnny Depp's defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard begins Monday in Fairfax County.Depp is suing his ex-wife for $50 million dollars in damages for defamation related to an op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post in December 2018 about being a survivor of domestic violence.Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherThe trial begins at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse at 10 a.m. Both Depp and Heard are expected to be present.Heard filed for divorce in May 2016 just days after police were called to Depp's Los Angeles home for a domestic dispute, reports FOX 5's chief legal correspondent Katie Barlow.Model, Amber Heard, and her now ex-husband, Johnny Depp, leave Southport Magistrates Court, Queensland, April 18, 2016.

Nova Scotia RCMP officers were just minutes away from capturing the gunman the morning of Sunday, April 19, 2020, the Mass Casualty Commission said during the inquiry Thursday. Graeme Benjamin reports.

cleared of wrongdoing for shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground during a June 2020 protest.Footage showed officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe shoving 75-year-old activist Martin Gugino to the ground as they were clearing out space in front of the local city hall. The clip soon spread across the nation amid George Floyd protests as an apparent example of police abusing use-of-force.Torgalski and McCabe were suspended and charged with second-degree assault at the time, charges that were dropped following a grand jury inquiry.

In the first few months of 2020, protests over the controversial project were almost a daily occurrence. But with the pandemic, those demonstrations have been curtailed.

COVID-19 recovery rate is at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

Marcellus McCluster (Georgia Bureau of Investigation). CUSSETA, Ga. - A Georgia man has been indicted for the 1982 murder of an Arizona military woman.This week, a Chattahoochee County Grand Jury indicted Marcellus McCluster, age 64, formerly of Richland, GA, for the murder of René Dawn Blackmore, then age 20.Blackmore, a U.S.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad.The clerk of the State Supreme Court has set a April 29 execution date for Richard Bernard Moore, a 57-year-old man who has spent more than two decades on death row after he was convicted of killing convenience store clerk James Mahoney in Spartanburg.Moore could face a choice between the electric chair and the firing squad, two options available to death row prisoners after legislators altered the state’s capital punishment law last year in an effort to work around a decade-long pause in executions, attributed to the corrections agency’s inability to procure lethal injection drugs.The new law made the electric chair the state’s primary means of execution while giving prisoners the option of choosing death by firing squad or lethal injection, if those methods are available.The Lee Correctional Institution, in Bishopville, South Carolina, remains on lockdown on April 16, 2018, after an overnight riot killed seven while also injuring seventeen other inmates. / AFP PHOTO / Logan Cyrus (Photo credit should read LOGAN CYRUS The state corrections agency said last month it had finished developing protocols for firing squad executions and completed $53,600 in renovations on the death chamber in Columbia, installing a metal chair with restraints that faces a wall with a rectangular opening 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.In the case of a firing squad execution, three volunteer shooters — all Corrections Department employees — will have rifles loaded with live ammunition, with their weapons trained on the inmate’s heart.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX 2) - A federal jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has found two suspects in the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer not guilty and a mistrial has been declared for the other two suspects after the jury could not reach a verdict.The jury reached the verdict around 2 p.m. on Friday for Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta of not guilty on all charges.

FILE IMAGE - Visitors wait in line to take a tour bus in midtown New York on Dec. 5, 2021. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Life expectancy in the United States continued to decline in 2021 despite the availability of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new analysis.The findings, published this week on the preprint server medRxiv — meaning it has not yet been peer-reviewed — analyzed provisional government statistics.

PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Phillies will start their hunt for October baseball on Friday as they look to snap a postseason drought. The Phillies will take on the Oakland Athletics at Citizens Bank Park at 3:05 p.m. as they look to build on last season, their first winning season since 2011 that saw Bryce Harper named NL MVP. Over the offseason, the team spent $179 million on Nick Castellanos and Kyle Schwarber, surrounding reigning NL MVP Bryce Harper with two more powerful bats.  The lineup is long and strong with All-Star catcher J.T.

Valerie Bertinelli is opening up about her weight loss journey.  The actress, celebrity chef and author recently wrote a first-person essay for New Beauty, which showcased her struggles with body image and staying positive.  The essay was published Monday, and Bertinelli, 61, detailed that her weight played a major role in how she’s viewed herself in the past. Valerie Bertinelli opens up about her weight loss journey and the toll it took on her mental health. (Manny Hernandez/Getty Images) "But I want to start feeling the same about myself — no matter what weight I am," Bertinelli said.

The Washington Post in an interview this week."I would have gone there in a minute," Trump said. "The crowd was far bigger than I even thought. I believe it was the largest crowd I’ve ever spoken to.

Mattea Roach, a 23-year-old Nova Scotian now living in Toronto, won $38,000 on Wednesday night’s episode — bringing her two-day total to $70,801.She correctly answered 35 out of the 60 clues during the episode — a feat host Mayim Bialik called “very impressive.”Going into the Final Jeopardy! round, Roach could not be caught: she had $28,800 while her two competitors had $2,200 each.She was the only contestant who answered the final clue correctly. ‘Beyond excited’ - Woman from Nova Scotia wins on Jeopardy! Roach told Global News on Wednesday being selected to compete on the show has been “surreal.”Since news of her appearance was made public, Roach said people near and far have reached out to wish her luck.“I want to reiterate again how much the support from people all over Canada means to me,” she said.“It’s been a while since there’s been a Canadian winner on Jeopardy! — I think a couple of years.

FILE-White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino speaks inside the empty Mellon Auditorium August 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino were held in contempt of Congress on Wednesday for their monthlong refusal to comply with subpoenas rendered by the House committee's investigation into the Jan.

The 2021 (L-Zane) and 2020 (R-Magnolia) Gerber Spokesbaby winners are pictured. (Credit: Gerber) Could your child be the next Gerber baby? The company has officially launched its 2022 photo search. Gerber announced this week that it has opened the call for entries into its 2022 photo search to find its next adorable baby to represent the brand.

A slot machine at a casino. (FOX TV)ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - America's commercial casinos are off to their best two-month start ever, the latest indication the industry is recovering in the third year of the coronavirus pandemic.Figures released Tuesday by the American Gaming Association, the gambling industry's national trade association, show that revenue from in-person casino games, sports betting and internet gambling reached $8.92 billion in January and February, up more than 19% from the previous record set in 2020.The core of the gambling industry — in-person slots and table games revenue — was $7.18 billion in the first two months of 2022, up just under 1% from $7.11 billion during the same period in 2020.The figures do not include tribal-run casinos, many of which are experiencing similar increases."This record start to the year demonstrates the sustained momentum of our industry’s recovery into 2022," said Bill Miller, the association's president and CEO.

A factory worker punched a man in a taxi office because of a disagreement about the victim not wearing a covid protective mask.

Herron long-term care home at least 10 days earlier than they had previously acknowledged.Forty-seven residents of the Montreal-area private care home died during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, leading to several investigations, including one by the coroner’s office. Residence Herron lacked staff, supplies before COVID-19 pandemic, Quebec coroner hears The March 29, 2020, email — first reported this week by Radio-Canada — is labelled “URGENT” and warns the chief of staff to Seniors Minister Marguerite Blais that there were “almost no more staff” to care for Herron’s 154 residents.The email was reportedly forwarded to Blais that night, while the health minister at the time, Danielle McCann, received a briefing on the situation the next day.However, both Blais and McCann have stated publicly that they only learned about conditions at the Herron care home from reading a news article in the Montreal Gazette on April 10, 2020.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - APRIL 04: The Kansas Jayhawks celebrate after defeating the North Carolina Tar Heels 72-69 during the 2022 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament National Championship at Caesars Superdome on April 04, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisian NEW ORLEANS - Best. Comeback.

wrote that it took her a while to get her thoughts together before sharing. "I love #WillSmith very much. @chrisrock didn’t deserve to be hit. Period," she wrote. "My heart aches for what has happened.

COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

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COVID-19 recovery rate remained at 98.76 per cent, the ministry said.

RELATED: Democratic Women’s Caucus propose monument honoring Ruth Bader GinsburgOn the high court, her most significant majority opinions were the 1996 ruling that ordered the Virginia Military Institute to accept women or give up its state funding, and the 2015 decision that upheld independent commissions some states use to draw congressional districts."She is instrumental to why we now have women of all backgrounds, experiences and talents serving within our ranks, side by side with their male Sailor and Marine counterparts," Del Toro said in a prepared statement.Ginsburg died Sept. 18, 2020, of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer.

FILE-A company logo stands outside the Ford car plant. (Photo by Paul O'Driscoll/Bloomberg via Getty Images) DETROIT - Ford is issuing two recalls covering over 737,000 vehicles to fix oil leaks and trailer braking systems that won't work.The oil leak recall includes the 2020 through 2022 Ford Escape SUV and the 2021 and 2022 Bronco Sport SUV with 1.5-Liter engines.

CAMDEN, N.J. - A New Jersey man who conspired with his girlfriend to concoct a feelgood story about a helpful homeless man and then used the lie to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations online is scheduled to be sentenced in a federal court Friday. Last fall, Mark D’Amico pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. An indictment unsealed in January 2020 charged D'Amico with a total of 16 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.D’Amico, his former girlfriend Katelyn McClure, and a homeless veteran named Johnny Bobbitt were accused of making up a story in 2017 about Bobbitt giving $20 to help McClure when her car ran out of gas in Philadelphia.D'Amico and McClure solicited donations through GoFundMe, purportedly to help Bobbitt, and conducted newspaper and television interviews.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 09: Chris Rock of 'Fargo' attends the FX Networks' Star Walk Winter Press Tour 2020 at The Langham Huntington, Pasadena on January 09, 2020 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES - A video of Chris Rock detailing the bullying and sexual assault he endured as a child has resurfaced after he was slapped by Will Smith on the Oscars stage. On Wednesday night, Rock performed in front of a sold-out crowd in Boston as part of his comedy tour.

FILE - A photo illustration of water in a clear glass drinking glass. WASHINGTON - Upholding a Trump-era environmental policy, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will not regulate a drinking water contaminant that has been linked to brain damage in infants.The agency said the Trump administration's decision in 2020 not to regulate perchlorate in drinking water was made with the "best available peer reviewed science." The chemical is used in rocket fuel and fireworks.At the time, Trump's EPA said perchlorate was not found widely enough in drinking water or "at levels of public health concern" to warrant federal regulation.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Member of Parliament Premalal Jayasekara alias ‘Choka Malli’ and two others who were convicted and sentenced to death, were acquitted and released by the Court of Appeal on Thursday (31).The order was made by Court of Appeal Justices Nissanka Bandula Karunaratne and R. Gurusinghe.Appeals were filed by Premalal Jayasekera, Ex-Provincial Council Member Nilantha Jayasinghe and Ex-Kahawatte Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Vajira Darshan requesting that the death sentences imposed on them by the Ratnapura High Court be made null, and they be released and acquitted from all the indictments.On the 31st of July 2020, the trio was sentenced to death by the Ratnapura High Court on the indictments of shooting dead one person and injuring two others during the run-up to the 2015 Presidential Election in Kahawatte, Ratnapura.They were convicted of causing damage to an election propaganda campaign and shooting dead a person identified as Shantha Dodangoda.They file appeals challenging the death sentence noting that the verdict by the Ratnapura High Court was flawed.Premalal Jayasekera and the other two convicted men had filed petitions with the Court of Appeal citing that the manner in which the death sentence was imposed was in violation of the law, and they be acquitted and released.

PHILADELPHIA - There's a picture hanging in the Church of the Crucifixion on Bainbridge Street in South Philadelphia that stands out from the rest. It’s that of Reverend Jessie Alejandro. "They call me Mother Jessie, and I am the vicar of the Church of the Crucifixion," Alejandro said.

Covid vaccine doses administered in the country so far has exceeded 183.82 crore.

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Liz Gramlich, 28, from Philadelphia, is going to Disney World once a month in 2022, with her older sister. (Victoria Daniello) ORLANDO, Fla. - Liz Gramlich is a huge fan of Disney. In fact, the 28-year-old from Philadelphia loves Disney so much that for her 2022 New Year’s resolution, she set a goal to visit Walt Disney World in Orlando once a month with her sister.The pair have visited the resort in January, February and March with their latest "magical" adventure booked for April. Gramlich, who works in inside sales, told Fox News Digital that her regular visits to Disney began in 2020.

The three RCMP officers who responded to the 2020 Nova Scotia massacre have testified for the first time at the public inquiry into the tragedy.