New Delhi: India’s ruling party and its allies are battling hard in the state of Bihar, where the country’s first major election since the coronavirus struck has become a referendum on the performance of the government. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its coalition partners were behind in Bihar’s 243-member assembly …
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G.O.P. The election results give Trump a fight to fight the transition
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration has shaken up the president’s transition, with President Donald Trump authorizing government officials to investigate the unwarranted allegations of voter fraud to President-elect Joe Biden’s team and associate attorney general William Barr. Some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, backed Trump’s efforts to …
Read More »Could the Covid-19 ban be in Rochester’s future?
Rochester, Min. (KTTC) – This past week the Covid-19 proved to be “somewhere in the country.” It’s happening here: in Mad City. “The virus doesn’t matter where you live or who you are,” said Graham Briggs, director of public health in Olmsted County. “It spreads to our community to the …
Read More »NASA says the galaxy could be at least 300 million habitable planets
Following a nine-year mission completed in 2018, when it ran out of fuel, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified about 300 million planets that are habitable in the galaxy. The journey from 2009 to 2018 to find many exoplanets (planets that orbit stars outside the solar system) took place between 2009 …
Read More »2020 Masters: As Tiger Woods defends his green jacket, as his joyous fifth win could be his swan song
What’s even more surprising than Tiger Woods winning the 2019 Masters is that the 15-time major winner, who won the major just 18 months ago, is unlikely to re-argue that he is not even in the top 14 favorites on the field. Perhaps even more reprehensible is the fact that …
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