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A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 7.0 shook parts of the southern Philippines but authorities said it was too deep to cause major damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The quake was located 60 miles below the sea and about 130 miles southeast of Pondaguitan in Davao Occidental province, the U.S. Geological Survey said. In Davao city, President Rodrigo Duterte’s … Read More

U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members in the National Guard  involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. This has prompted the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event. The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security concerns that have gripped Washington … Read More

Biden has selected Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health, leaving her poised to become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. A pediatrician and former Pennsylvania physician general, Levine was appointed to her current post by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf in 2017, making her one of the few transgender people serving in … Read More

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, has become the largest owner of farmland in the United States by quietly buying up massive plots across the country, a new report says. One of the richest people in the world and a self-described nerd who is known for his early programming skills rather than his love of the outdoors, he has been … Read More

According to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, U.S. officials have “reason to believe” that Chinese researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology caught the novel coronavirus months before it developed into a pandemic. “The United States government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with … Read More

The 6.2-magnitude earthquake that struck the western coast of Sulawesi island in Indonesia has now killed at least 42 people, destroying houses, flattening a hospital and setting off landslides, disaster officials said. Rescuers were searching for people trapped in the rubble. More than 600 people were reported to have been injured in the quake, which struck inland between the coastal … Read More

The 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island is now reported to have killed at least seven people and injuring hundreds while damaging many buildings, the country’s disaster agency said. As panicking residents are fleeing to safer areas, additional information from the country’s disaster agency now shows 637 other people were injured in Majene. They say thousands are fleeing their homes … Read More

Indonesia has suffered a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake as the latest in a series of quakes to hit the country. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said the earthquake hit at around 2.28am local time and had a depth of 10km (6.21 miles). As with this tremor, shallow earthquakes are felt more strongly than deeper ones as they are closer to the … Read More

The Pentagon has now deployed 20,000 National Guard troops to the US Capitol in preparation for the inauguration. And the troops preparing for more demonstrations in the nation’s capital will be armed and permitted to use lethal force, according to their commanders at headquarters. Which marks an escalation in the way authorities are preparing there for any repeat violence after … Read More

The Israel Defense Forces are drawing up plans for an attack on Iran’s nuclear program according to Israeli news media. They said that IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi has asked for three alternate proposals to derail Tehran’s nuclear program including military strikes. Iran has resumed enriching uranium to 20 percent, well in excess of the threshold set out in … Read More