April 20th, 2021

• ​In blow to Netanyahu, Ra'am gives Lapid's bloc control of key Knesset panel
• Lashing Bennett's 'absurd' ambition, Netanyahu urges direct vote for PM
• Ra'am says it could back direct premiership vote, derides far-right 'incitement'
• After defeat in key vote, Likud whip concedes Netanyahu won't form government
• Explainer: Jerusalem dispute could derail Palestinian vote
• Abbas to J Street: US must rescind declaration of PLO as terror group
• Walter Mondale, Carter VP who played key role in Israel-Egypt peace, dies at 93
• Sudan officially annuls 63-year Israel boycott law
• Israeli intel agencies believe Vienna talks will lead to U.S. return to Iran nuclear deal
• Iranian enrichment is worrying, but weapons-grade uranium doesn't a bomb make
• Chad military says it killed 300 rebels after attempted incursion
• 6 security personnel taken hostage in Pakistan amid arrest of Islamist group leader
• Top Biden official admits he 'can't make any guarantees' Afghan troop withdrawal won't empower terrorists
• EU hits Myanmar junta officials and two military firms with sanctions
• Russia says its airstrike in Syria killed 200 militants
• New Zealand 'uncomfortable' with expanding intelligence alliance when it comes to China: report
• Two Russian agents have been linked to a high-profile poisoning and a deadly explosion, but there's little Europe can do
• The war against Russia's spies just cost Putin billions from a cancelled nuclear contract
• Protests planned across Russia to 'save Navalny's life' as West warns Putin
• Russia moves Navalny to prison hospital after US, EU threaten 'consequences'
• Bernie Sanders says Putin is murdering Navalny 'in front of the world' for exposing the Russian president's 'vast corruption'
• Russian military build-up near Ukraine numbers more than 150,000 troops, EU's Borrell says
• As Russian troops mass on Ukraine border, EU warns 'spark' could ignite conflict
• Philippines' Duterte would send navy ships in South China Sea to assert claim over resources
• Taiwan says seeking long-range cruise missiles from U.S.
• China accuses U.S. and Japan of "reckless harm"
• Five Killed at Protest of Chinese-Financed Power Plant in Bangladesh
• CCP Has Taken Over Islamic Countries, Muslim Scholar Warns
• China Launches New App Allowing Citizens to Report Others For Expressing "Mistaken Opinions"
• 20 Million 'Online Propagandists' Working for CCP
• Surprise! The 'Russian Bounty' Story Hyped Up By Corrupt Media To Hurt Trump Turned Out To Be Fake News
• 'Britcoin' not bitcoin? UK considers new digital currency
• Victor Davis Hanson: Fight Leftist Cancel Culture by Counter-Boycotting Woke Corporations
• MLB seeing record-high streaming viewership despite All-Star Game backlash
• Billboards troll Warnock, Biden, Abrams over All-Star game as poll says public wants companies out of politics
• Hawley to introduce bill to 'bust up' Big Tech, targeting companies like Google and Amazon
• Republican Leaders Rake in Millions From Small Dollar Donations Leaving Corporate PACs Behind
• MyPillow Sues to Counter Dominion Voting Systems' Defamation Claims
• According To Email Released By WikiLeaks: Dominion Advisor Met With John Podesta Offering 'Anything' To Help Defeat Donald Trump
• U.S. Supreme Court brings end to another Republican election challenge
• Maricopa County Was Given $3 Million of 'Zuckerbucks' Before Election But No One Knows Who Received It and What It Was Used For!
• Amazon illegally interfered in Alabama warehouse election, union alleges in complaint to federal officials
• An 'enormous burden': Chauvin trial jurors will face scrutiny - no matter their verdict
• Minneapolis braces for conclusion of George Floyd trial as it heads to jury
• Army preparing to approve DC request for National Guard ahead of verdict in Derek Chauvin trial
• With Chauvin Verdict Looming, Facebook Deems Minneapolis 'High-Risk Location' And Will Remove Content That Promotes Violence
• Judge Scolds Maxine Waters for 'Abhorrent' Comments, Says She 'May Have Given' Chauvin an Argument for Appeal
• Jonathan Turley: Trump vs. Waters - in incitement case, she may be best witness in ex-president's defense
• Kevin McCarthy: I Will 'Bring Action' Against Maxine Waters For 'Inciting Violence' If Pelosi Doesn't
• Pelosi says Waters shouldn't apologize for 'confrontational' remark, claims she wasn't inciting violence
• Facing Down Censure Vote, Maxine Waters Defiant: 'The Whole Civil Rights Movement Is Confrontation'
• White House on Derek Chauvin Verdict: Protesting Injustice 'Most American Thing Anyone Can Do'
• Indiana's red flag law did not stop FedEx gunman who killed eight people at Indianapolis facility
• North Carolina police arrest 12 after American flag burned, stores vandalized in Daunte Wright protests
• 9 kids injured in shooting at birthday party in Louisiana
• 'Death Followed Us To This Place'; Family Flees War-Torn Yemen To Fall Victim To Oakland Violence
• Republicans seek to expose Antifa violence as Democrats look the other way
• Florida Gov. DeSantis Signs 'Anti-Riot' Bill Into Law, Creating Tougher Penalties for Violent Protesters
• 'Terror is still with us': Attorney General Garland returns for Oklahoma City bombing anniversary
• A year after Canada's worst-ever mass shooting, a ban on assault-style guns has already been in place for months
• 'We Cannot Whitewash Our Own Issues,' Ambassador Says After Claiming White Supremacy Is Baked Into America's Founding
• Pompeo: U.N. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield 'Ought to Resign' for 'Reprehensible' Anti-America Remarks
• Top House Republicans request meeting with Kamala Harris over border 'catastrophe'
• Not 'Illegal Alien," But 'Undocumented Noncitizen' Under New Immigration Policy
• Biden administration bans use of term 'illegal alien': 'The words we use matter'
• Psaki says Biden misspoke when he called youth border surge a crisis
• 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Sinabang, Indonesia
• 5.3 magnitude earthquake hits near San Antonio, Chile
• 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits near San Antonio, Chile
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near San Antonio, Chile
• 5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Lospalos, Timor Leste
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits the West Chile Rise
• Man Who Predicted the Worst Nuclear Disaster Since Chernobyl Sees Another Coming
• Sabancaya volcano in Peru erupts to 27,000ft
• Soufriere volcano on St Vincent erupts to 26,000ft
• Sangay volcano in Ecuador erupts to 21,000ft
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 20,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 17,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 14,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 13,000ft
• Sakurajima volcano on Japan erupts to 12,000ft
• Sinabung volcano in Indonesia erupts to 11,000ft
• Super Typhoon "Surigae" (Bising) forces more than 100 000 to evacuate, Philippines
• Heaviest rainfall in 40 years triggers flash flooding in Singapore
• Widespread flooding hits Mauritius after two months' worth of rain in a day
• Intense hailstorms sweep through Saudi Arabia
• School tornado drills reimagined for COVID era
• As a megadrought persists, new projections show a key Colorado River reservoir could sink to a record low later this year
• Thousands evacuate in Cape Town as winds fan menacing wildfire
• DeSantis Derangement Syndrome: MSNBC's Joy Reid Insinuates Governor Was Involved In Alleged Sex Trafficking
• 'It's not safe': Parents of transgender kids plan to flee their states as GOP bills loom
• Children Strut Across Stage with Drag Queens, Pose For Cash at Night Club
• Disney Parks to ditch gender references for staff costumes
• Namibian court denies entry to gay couple's surrogate daughters
• Planned Parenthood condemns founder's tie to white supremacy; pro-lifers call it 'fake reckoning'
• Dead crewmember with Covid washes up on Vanuatu shores, sparks lockdown
• India's New Delhi Locks Down as Covid-19 Stretches Healthcare System to Its Limits
• India's COVID tsunami leaves bodies piling up as oxygen, medicines, vaccines and hospital beds run short
• Non-stop cremations cast doubt on India's counting of COVID dead
• COVID-19: India added to coronavirus travel 'red list' over new variant concerns
• State Department to list 80% of countries as 'Do Not Travel' as it updates advisory system to align with CDC
• Hugs, tears as Australia-New Zealand travel bubble opens
• United and Delta will offer daily flights to Iceland and Greece this summer, the first European destinations to open to vaccinated Americans
• Chile has one of the world's best vaccination rates. Covid is surging there anyway
• To end this pandemic, 'we've got to get everyone in our country vaccinated,' US surgeon general says
• 'Horrific' video shows police force-vaccinating disabled and special needs people
• Yale, Columbia to Mandate CCP Virus Vaccinations for Students
• Is A Covid-Based "Medical Dictatorship" Preparing Canada For An End To Democracy?
• 1,200 Church Leaders Denounce Boris Johnson's Vaccine Passport Scheme
• COVID Databases Are Among Us, And Governors Must Fight And Win Now - Or Never
• Governor Ducey issues executive order banning vaccine passports in Arizona
• COVID vaccine passports would be banned in N.J. under new bill
• Horowitz: Arkansas governor threatens to veto bills permanently banning mask mandates, vaccine passports
• Get vaxxed or get removed: New rules allow heads of public agencies to demand 'green passports' or testing of workers in Israel
• Walgreens Store Injects People With Saline Rather Than COVID Vaccine in Mix-Up
• New vaccine side effect? In Israel, six people develop herpes zoster
• Bethel Park woman paralyzed 12 hours after getting first dose of Pfizer vaccine, doctors searching for answers
• Clark County woman, 18, suffered seizures, clotting in the brain after J&J vaccine, GoFundMe says
• CDC Says 'No Evidence' COVID-19 Vaccines Caused 3,005 Deaths Reported by VAERS
• CDC probing 'handful' of new potential J&J vaccine reactions
• Johnson & Johnson said blood clots have been reported with all Covid-19 vaccines. The author of the study they cited says they're wrong.
• FDA orders J&J contractor Emergent to stop vaccine production during inspection
• J&J faces more scrutiny after CEO's $30 million payday
• Europe should be open to Russia's Sputnik V shot amid 'Pfizer monopoly,' vaccine backer says
• China is starting clinical trials of a Covid vaccine that can be inhaled
• Young, healthy adults will be deliberately reinfected with COVID-19 to boost vaccine development
• Stanford Study Results: Facemasks are Ineffective to Block Transmission of COVID-19 and Actually Can Cause Health Deterioration and Premature Death
• DeSantis: With More Data, I Would Have Ditched 'Faucism' Earlier, Some of our Restrictions 'Were Ineffective'
• UK government pressured to ease COVID-19 funeral restrictions after photo of queen sitting alone goes viral