Palin announced on Friday that she hopes to replace the long-serving Republican Alaska Representative Don Young, who died last month at the age of 88, in a special election for the state’s lone House seat. She has not run for public office since losing the 2008 election alongside that year’s GOP presidential nominee John McCain. “Public service is a calling, and I would be honored to represent the men and women of Alaska in Congress, just as Rep....

Tammel Esco, 42, was charged Monday after the attack occurred this past Friday evening, according to the Yonkers Police Department. The incident was caught on camera, with the footage showing the unnamed woman getting hit more than 125 times. The attack is one of many anti-Asian hate crimes reported in the United States since the coronavirus pandemic began two years ago. Data from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism shows that anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 339 percent last year, compared with 2020, NBC reported....

Erickson was convicted in June of all 46 charges against him, including first-degree murder, after carrying out an attack inside the suburban Denver high school that he attended in 2019. Eight students were injured in the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch and one who attempted to stop the attack, Kendrick Castillo, was killed. Erickson, who is now 20 years old, was 18 and an adult at the time of the shooting and consequently will face a mandatory life sentence....

Brian Hoyer is clearly not the answer. Behind him, Ryan Mallett has never been trustworthy on or off the field. Houston is wasting young offensive weapons, led by DeAndre Hopkins, and an opportunity to capitalize on a lackluster division. MORE: 2016 mock draft | Top 32 seniors | STEELE: Free Leonard Fournette What does the QB future hold for the Texans? The answer may already be dwindled down to two options: Michigan State’s Connor Cook or Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg....

Jurors deliberated for an hour on Thursday before convicting Miami-Dade Police Officer Alejandro Giraldo of battery and official misconduct for tackling the woman and lying about it in his police report, the Miami Herald reported. The conviction is the latest in the fallout from the 2019 arrest of Dyma Loving, which went viral after being captured on video. Giraldo arrested Loving, a Black woman who had called 911 to report that a neighbor had shouted insults at her and pulled a gun, in 2019....

I care deeply for this environment, and as a project manager with Carbon Tanzania, I work to prevent degradation and biodiversity loss in Yaeda Valley. We work with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) to protect the land on which they depend. Together, we work to strengthen land tenure and to avoid deforestation through the implementation of community-led land use plans but still find ourselves in need of international support....

Copa America Centenario will be played just this once and be gone forever, to be buried in the game’s past along with such supernovas as the European Cup Winners Cup and the New York Cosmos. This tournament will leave an enduring legacy, however: It will serve for years as a reminder of the folly inherent in rejecting the U.S. bid for the 2022 World Cup in favor of the continuing fiasco of Qatar....

According to police, the shooting was reported by neighbors at around 7:30 AM on February 7. Onondaga County Deputy Sheriff Isaac Eames, 48, was pronounced dead at the scene, his son Troy Eames and his wife, Liverpool school district secretary Karen Eames were both seriously injured and were taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. According to reports, Troy Eames died from his wounds on Monday afternoon. Karen Eames is listed in critical condition at Upstate University Hospital, according to a report from the Associated Press....

According to a press release from the Portland Police Bureau, the dangerous objects that protesters threw included eggs, water bottles, golf balls, rocks, potatoes, and a ball bearing. “Some individuals in the crowd began shining bright strobe lights in the officers’ and troopers’ eyes, causing them pain. Officers had to move vehicles into position to light up the crowd and make it more difficult to target officers with lights,” the bureau wrote in their press release, adding that eggs and water bottles were thrown at them....

The Blackhawks are worried that Crawford, who was placed on IR Dec. 27, could miss the rest of the season with “vertigo-like symptoms”, according to a report from Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun-Times . Crawford last appeared in a Chicago loss to New Jersey on Dec. 23, when he allowed three goals in just over 13 minutes of ice time. MORE: NHL midseason awards Chicago has tallied 50 points this season and is 5-4-1 since Crawford was placed on IR....

Fielding calls to this effect on radio, I found myself in occasional agreement until the Trump era. After 2016, listeners would still call to gripe when Cornyn struck them as wavering, but I found that he (and others in the Senate leadership, including Mitch McConnell) became more reliably conservative amid Donald Trump’s unapologetic energy. The president gave many wavering Republicans room to flex some less-exercised muscles, and they surely saw the party changing before their eyes, with a growing desire for fighters and a developing fatigue for the old establishment politics of compromise and half-measures....

That does not mean doubling down on the kinds of barriers that impeded the response to COVID-19 at virtually every turn, or $3 trillion in more spending to bail out decades of irresponsible decisions. It means responding to the economic and health crises we face now—and those we will face in the future—by building a more innovative, more diverse and more resilient economy. Americans from all walks of life have answered the call during this emergency, creating momentum for the reforms that will get the economy going and creating a proof of concept for the next phase and beyond....

President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation to temporarily deny entry to foreign nationals, except the immediate family members of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who have traveled in China in the past two weeks. The restrictions take effect from 5 p.m. ET on Sunday. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the news at the White House press conference on Friday. Americans returning from China’s Hubei province, where the outbreak of the new virus originated, will face a mandatory quarantine for 14 days, Azar said....

With cases in South Korea up by 60 on Tuesday, the lowest spike there in four days, a total of 893 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and eight have died in the country. That makes it the second-hardest-hit country outside of China, where the outbreak is believed to have started late last year. Of the total cases in South Korea so far, Reuters reported around 60 percent are associated with the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which is regarded by some as a cult....

Initially, of course, there was strong support for the lockdowns. But a backlash is brewing. Forty-one percent of voters have already come to believe that the lockdowns did more harm than good. Barely two months into the lockdown, only 51 percent disagree with that assessment. As the economic trauma continues, those numbers are almost certain to shift and cast the initial lockdowns in an even less favorable light. Looking ahead, the data reveal another perspective Reagan applauded: confidence in the commonsense wisdom of the American people....

The 68-year-old and his wife, Laurel, donated $100,000 to a Houston-based COVID-19 Recovery Fund and urged the public to pull together. “The city of Houston, everybody right now is in the same boat,” D’Antoni told Mark Berman of Fox 26. “We’re trying to help out where we can. When you go to war, you go to war. The whole community has to band together and do what we can do....

Blood-clotting problems in patients with COVID-19 have been widely reported, but this is thought to be the first case of penile thrombosis linked to the disease, the team wrote in a case study published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The unnamed 62-year-old man was rushed to hospital in France because he was struggling to breathe. When he arrived at hospital with respiratory failure, he was quickly intubated and hooked up to a ventilator....

A host of evidence-free remedies that also include fasting and drinking cognac have been touted by authority figures around the world. In India, “cow urine parties” have been organized to help revelers join forces and consume the waste product, which some falsely claim can kill coronavirus, alongside cow dung. It’s unclear whether social distancing guidelines are maintained during the parties. “We have been drinking cow urine for 21 years, we also take bath in cow dung....

Daily increases of about 2,000 cases have largely been the norm for the new coronavirus, named COVID-19, but on Monday the WHO reported a massive spike of nearly 20,000 cases. This was predominantly attributed to the WHO including clinically diagnosed cases in China’s Hubei province, where the outbreak originated, in the total case count for the first time since the U.N. agency began issuing daily updates in January. China started reporting clinically diagnosed cases—those that are confirmed by a doctor and not a laboratory test—to the WHO on Thursday....