The Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions on Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused and then killed his two-year-old daughter in 2002.
The sense of relief in America was almost palpable this week with the country's drug regulators on the brink of approving a Covid-19 vaccine and images of the UK's roll-out dominating newspaper front pages.
WITH his legal options dwindling and time running out before a key electoral college deadline, President Donald Trump increased the pressure on the Supreme Court to help overturn Joe Biden's victory, gaining the support of more than 100 congressional Republicans in his unprecedented assault on the US election system.
The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election executions by putting to death a truck driver who severely abused his two-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck's windows and dashboard.
Jimmy Lai, the media tycoon and longtime backer of Hong Kong's struggle for democracy, faces life in prison after he was charged yesterday with “collusion with a foreign country” under Beijing's new national security law.
More than half of House Republicans, including their top two leaders, are backing a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's victory in an extraordinary display of the party's willingness to subvert the will of voters.
European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal yesterday to cut the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55pc by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock ahead of a UN climate meeting this weekend.
