American airlines’ net losses are likely to be more than $35 billion for 2020, accounting for more than 40 percent of global carriers’ losses, as the coronavirus pandemic resulted in the worst year in the history of aviation. Read F...

A New York state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow the government to detain people deemed a potential public health risk, amid concerns that the Covid-19 crisis is being allegedly used to usher in authoritarianism. Read Fu...

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said the nation plans to accelerate the rollout of wireless technology while launching hundreds of thousands of new 5G base stations this year. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has admonished Washington’s combative approach to foreign relations, insisting that China-US ties would improve if both nations sought cooperation and self-improvement.  Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A lawyer on the Trump campaign and a number of conservative allies have distanced themselves from attorney Lin Wood, a loud backer of the president, after he accused VP Mike Pence of “treason,” saying he’d face a “firing squad.�...

A lawsuit to empower Vice President Mike Pence to decide which votes to count in any given state has been dismissed by a judge, ruling that the plaintiffs – a group of Republicans who sued Pence himself – lack standing. Read Full Ar...

Explosives experts were called in to defuse a naval mine found attached to the hull of an oil tanker as it departed an Iraqi port, prompting an evacuation of the ship’s crew amid simmering tension in the Gulf. Read Full Article at RT....

A Republican fundraiser has made an ill-timed plea for help in fighting social-media censorship, tweeting in distress just minutes after the GOP-led Senate voted to override President Donald Trump's bid to hit back at Big Tech. Read Ful...

A doctor in London said he is “disgusted” after protesters gathered outside a hospital on New Year’s Eve, chanting “Covid is a hoax.” The video has gone viral, prompting an outpouring of support. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

A house reportedly owned by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been vandalized with Antifa symbols and slogans, demanding more social welfare. Photos circulated online show a pig’s head in a puddle of fake blood left at the gates. Read Fu...

Politico is being branded as misogynistic by Democrats, including media figures, for daring to report on the millions of dollars that incoming Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made in Wall Street speaking fees. Read Full Article at RT.co...

A teacher who sits on the executive board of the Chicago Teachers Union posted images of herself enjoying the sun while vacationing in Puerto Rico, despite saying it’s not safe to reopen schools amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Read Full A...

Thousands of retired doctors and nurses volunteering to rejoin the UK’s National Health Service during the pandemic are being forced to endure “diversity training” – but vaccination training is optional. Read Full Article at RT....

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has revealed that she intends to continue her party’s embrace of symbolic wokeness into the new year, with a rules package that eliminates “gendered terms” like “mother” and “father” from the Hou...

Thousands of people with torches marched through Kiev on Sunday on the first day of the new year to honor Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera who collaborated with Nazis during WWII and actively participated in ethnic cleansings. Read ...

After several young men went public with claims they were sexually assaulted, even drugged, by the American couture prodigy, Wang has denied the accusations. Some, however, insist his behavior was an “open secret” in the industry. R...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan surprised locked-down residents with an unannounced New Year's Eve fireworks display, only to spark anger by filling the show with political messaging. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Senate joined the House of Representatives on Friday by overriding President Donald Trump’s veto of a $740 billion annual spending bill with a 81-13 vote, reaching the two thirds majority needed. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Manchester United striker Edinson Cavani has received backing on social media from former UK newspaper editor-turned-television personality Piers Morgan over his FA ban for a supposed"racial" statement posted to social media. Read Full ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio danced into the new year in Times Square, despite telling residents to stay home due to Covid-19, making him the latest politician to be slammed for ‘do as I say, not as I do’ tactics. Read Full Ar...

With the vaccine not providing immediate immunity to the coronavirus, over two hundred Israeli citizens have been diagnosed with the disease days after getting the Pfizer/BioNTech jabs, local media reported. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Days after the Washington Post argued that $2,000 stimulus checks would be too much for the common American, its journalists rang in the new year in style, receiving $2,021 bonuses for their “exceptional service” last year. Read Ful...

As the last few hours of 2020 ticked away, Ukraine’s president urged Crimeans to “turn back the clock” and return to rule by Kiev. But one local leader says the troubled country would be better off adopting Russian time instead. R...

By deleting her Twitter account amid the storm over her comments on Leeds United, Karen Carney has played to the perception that women in football are special cases who cannot be disagreed with for fear of offending. Read Full Article a...

Several off-road military vehicles caught fire overnight in German city of Leipzig. The cars have sustained heavy damage, according to local police, who suspect a deliberate arson attack caused the blaze. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

UFC bantamweight champ Petr Yan plans a big year in 2021 as he looks to add three more names to his list of victims while cementing his champ status in the UFC's 135-pound division. Read Full Article at RT.com

Lionel Messi's wife Antonela Roccuzzo celebrated the turn of the year with her superstar husband and shared photos of her family's celebrations, but their future in Spain remains uncertain as they plan their next move in 2021. Read Full...

Dr. Anthony Fauci believes vaccinations against Covid-19 could be mandated by “individual institutions” and for travel, though he’s unsure if the vaccine prevents the spread and wants people to keep wearing masks. Read Full Articl...

The USS Nimitz, the US Navy’s only aircraft carrier currently deployed near the Persian Gulf, has been sent home just a day after two B-52 bombers were sent to the area – despite supposed ‘chatter’ about a coming Iranian attack....

Despite fears of a transport collapse, freight traffic across the Channel continued without major hold-ups and complications in the first hours of Friday after the UK officially quit the EU customs union. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

US President-elect Joe Biden isn’t known in Russia for his warm words, slamming the country as an “opponent” and its leader as “a KGB thug.” In Moscow, the return to previous form in the White House will almost be a relief. Re...

Pubs across the UK may be shuttered, but one brewer wants to convert its bars into vaccination centers, rewarding customers with a free beer for taking the jab. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Tokyo Olympic Games originally scheduled for 2020 will go ahead this year despite concerns over rising Covid-19 cases in Japan, according to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia's vast natural gas reserves and renewables potential could make it one of the world's largest hydrogen producers within the next decades. Read Full Article at RT.com

Pandemics, wars and rampaging wildfires. The news from 2020 read more like a script for a Hollywood disaster film. But, now it’s over, the majority of Russians think that things can only get better, according to a new poll. Read Full ...

Portugal has taken the reins of the European Council, vowing in its role as president of the group to implement a sustainable economic recovery for the bloc and act as a fair negotiator between the UK and the EU. Read Full Article at RT...

Chinese movie ticket sales surpassed those of the US last year, as the global cinema industry struggled to stay afloat amid coronavirus restrictions. The trend began even before the pandemic hit and might be here to stay. Read Full Arti...

An attempt to disperse a massive illegal New Year party in France’s northwest has turned into clashes between the gendarmerie and rowdy partygoers, who pelted officers with projectiles and set a police car on fire. Read Full Article a...

After a year that only saw him fight once in the octagon, UFC welterweight contender Colby Covington plans a big year in 2021, starting with a grudge match victory over his former friend and training partner. Read Full Article at RT.com...

Dana White has fired another warning shot at YouTuber Jake Paul, insisting that two-weight UFC women’s champ Amanda Nunes would “put him in a coma” as the brash boxing wannabe continues to seek his next fight. Read Full Article at...

The Philippines will close its borders to foreign travelers from the US for two weeks, to slow the spread of a new, more infectious strain of Covid-19. It has already banned travel from 20 countries where the strain is present. Read Ful...

Khabib Nurmagomedov may be insisting that he has retired from the octagon but his manager Ali Abdelaziz said there's still one way Dana White can get him back into the octagon – give him a matchup against his dream opponent. Read Full...

Russia’s radar operators have had a busy year, tracking over a million flights in 2020. Of these, around 10 a day were military aircraft, including secret spy planes near the country’s borders in Europe and Asia. Read Full Article a...

Piers Corbyn, a prominent anti-lockdown activist and brother of Labour’s ex-leader, has violated anti-coronavirus measures again and taken part in a restriction-defying party in London, announcing his bid for the city’s mayor. Read ...

While the pandemic year brought the biggest gains in 10 years for both safe haven gold and its metal counterpart, silver, the latter has managed to outperform bullion in 2020. Read Full Article at RT.com

The political establishment that for four years sought to defeat the disruption called President Donald Trump is eager to return to the way things were before 2016. That may not be possible after the year that was 2020. Read Full Articl...

Chelsea have revealed they made a £32.5 million ($44.4 million) profit for the financial year ending June 30, 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic. However, the figures do not cover the club’s summer spending splurge. Read Full Art...

Norway has announced it will end travel restrictions placed on the UK aimed at stopping the spread of a coronavirus mutation. It said that special rules pertaining to travelers from the country will remain in place, however. Read Full A...

The next chapter of former UFC starlet Paige VanZant's fighting career will get underway early this year when she makes her debut in the brutal, often-bloody world of bare-knuckle boxing. Read Full Article at RT.com

After the fall of communism, the NATO powers expected Russia to fall into line and Westernize, but without the prospect of Western integration. But that plan has blown up in their faces. Read Full Article at RT.com

US college football officials have promised a review after violent scenes marred the end of the Armed Forces Bowl clash between Mississippi State and Tulsa on Thursday. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Portland Police Bureau cleared the streets on New Year’s Eve after the Oregon city was once again targeted by violent demonstrators who vandalized buildings and reportedly attacked officers. Read Full Article at RT.com

An Airbus A320 aircraft, operated by Colombia’s flag carrier Avianca, has collided with a “pyrotechnic balloon” mid-air, triggering an emergency landing after the aircraft got entangled in tinsel. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Brazil and PSG superstar Neymar has brushed off claims he hosted a lavish New Year’s bash for hundreds of people, instead sharing pictures of what he called a socially-distanced “low-key” dinner with family and friends. Read Full ...

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the largest bourse in the world, has started delisting proceedings for three Chinese telecom providers targeted by the Trump administration over their alleged military ties. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Side-by-side comparisons of how New York City and Wuhan, China rang in the new year have sparked a heated debate on social media about whether the US should have embraced Beijing’s approach to handling the coronavirus pandemic. Read F...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a rare written new year address to his fellow citizens, thanking them for their “invariable trust” and support, as well as pledging to work harder to bring the country into a “new era.” R...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has officially launched a section of the TurkStream gas link from Russia, known as Balkan Stream. The new supplies are set to significantly cut household gas prices and attract new investors. Read Full...

One person was killed and four others have sustained injuries after a semi-truck crashed into a residence in Mesa, Arizona. Police are still investigating how the accident happened. Read Full Article at RT.com

The first case of a new, more infectious Covid-19 strain has been identified in Florida – the third US state to spot a mutant variant first seen in the UK. The find came as Florida broke its record for daily infections. Read Full Arti...

Virginia school teacher Rodney Robinson, named National Teacher of the Year in 2019, came under fire and later apologized for a Twitter message suggesting US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should be attacked by a neighbor. Read ...

The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist organisation has claimed responsibility for a knife attack on police in the Chechen Republic that left one of the officers dead. The two attackers were fatally shot on the spot. Read Full ...

Dozens of vehicles were set ablaze across Strasbourg, after groups of vandals flouted an 8pm curfew order, taking to the streets for a fiery New Year’s Eve custom that’s seen hundreds of cars torched over previous holidays. Read Ful...

Three people have been injured in a reported knife attack in downtown London that sparked a massive police response. Footage from the scene shows ambulance crews and police cars at the site of the incident. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

New York’s iconic Times Square – usually the site of raucous mass celebrations on New Year’s Eve – will be nearly deserted this year, with crowds banned from the area for the first time in over a century, thanks to Covid-19. Rea...

Within minutes of Brexit taking effect, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted a message to Brussels that Scotland would be rejoining the EU “soon,” responding to recent demand for another independence referendum. Read Full...

The Grafton hospital employee who admitted to deliberately removing 57 vials of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine from cold storage – and was fired over it – has now been arrested on three felony charges, police have announced. Read F...

As the clock strikes 11pm in London on New Year’s Eve, the UK formally exits the EU – more than four years after British voters opted to leave, sparking political turmoil and terse talks over its future relationship with the EU. Rea...

Conservatives are crying censorship hypocrisy again, after Twitter refused to take down an allegedly false tweet by Democrat candidate Jon Ossoff accusing Republican Kelly Loeffler of campaigning with a Ku Klux Klan member. Read Full Ar...

Senator David Perdue (R-Georgia) has been sidelined from the campaign ahead of the January 5 runoff that will decide control of the US Senate, having been in ‘close contact’ with a person who tested positive for Covid-19. Read Full ...

Officials have admitted to an “error” that resulted in 42 people receiving the Regeneron antibody treatment instead of the intended Covid-19 vaccine. Read Full Article at RT.com

John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repairman at the center of the Hunter Biden laptop story, says Twitter labeling him a “hacker” has destroyed his business and he plans on refiling a dismissed lawsuit against the company. Read Full ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has claimed “intelligence from Iraq” suggests the US is plotting to “fabricate” a reason to wage war on Iran. Stressing Tehran “doesn’t seek war,” he warned such a scam will be met with...

The first vaccine against the novel coronavirus approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization is Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA one produced by Pfizer/BioNTech, the WHO has announced. Read Full Article at RT.com

Editors and section chiefs at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have sent a letter to Congress claiming their agency head is threatening their journalistic autonomy and stellar reputation, both of which are dubious concepts at best. Read ...

Twitter has blocked a link to an article in a peer-reviewed scientific journal that suggested the antiparasitic drug ivermectin could be useful against Covid-19. The platform claims the journal's website is “potentially unsafe.” Rea...

With thousands of California's frontline hospital workers refusing to take new Covid-19 vaccines, the mainstream media faced the awkward task of explaining why those seen as most knowledgeable would take a pass on inoculation. Read Full...

The police contingent deployed across France has been increased fivefold for New Year's Eve in order to prevent people from violating the Covid-19 curfew and staging illegal parties to mark the arrival of 2021. Read Full Article at RT.c...

Beijing has slammed Washington after two guided-missile destroyers sailed across the Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the thirteenth such mission through the contested waterway this year, adding to already fraught US-China relations. Read Ful...

Ontario’s Finance Minister Rod Phillips has resigned after he was caught taking a midwinter vacation in the Caribbean while his province was under lockdown. During the trip, Phillips hid the truth with fake social media posts. Read Fu...

A doctor-led lobby group has raised concerns over the UK government's radically altered Covid-19 vaccination strategy to prioritise first doses, as daily infections in the country surged to a new record high on Thursday. Read Full Artic...

A post is turning heads and showing new levels of woke madness as a woman claims her sister wants to name her son Adolph so he doesn’t take away opportunities from “marginalized communities.” Read Full Article at RT.com

2020 may have been a tough year for most, but one man who thrived during a rollercoaster 12 months is Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski, who picked up a truckload of trophies in a remarkable year for the Polish hitman. Read Full ...

Ireland has faced a wave of BLM-styled mass protests after a knife-wielding black man was shot dead by the country’s police (gardai) after all the less lethal attempts to subdue him failed. Read Full Article at RT.com

As nations across the globe say ‘good riddance’ to 2020, NASA has warned that a monstrous 220-meter asteroid is headed Earth’s way early in the new year. Read Full Article at RT.com

Manchester United hitman Edinson Cavani has been handed a three-game ban and a £100,000 ($136,000) fine by the English Football Association after admitting he used a racial term in an Instagram post in November. Read Full Article at RT...

Paulina Gretzky and golf star fiance Dustin Johnson enjoyed a successful 2020 as Johnson won the US Masters and returned to world no. 1 status – and the pair looked ready to ring in the New Year in a chirpy TikTok video. Read Full Art...

The commander of a Jerusalem police station has been charged with assault after video emerged of him slapping a 12-year-old boy and harshly shoving a man during a protest by ultra-Orthodox Jews in early October. Read Full Article at RT....

Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to declare the outcome of the presidential election in the state of Wisconsin void and order its legislature to assign a new group of electors, his campaign has announced. Read Full Article at...

Cristiano Ronaldo turns 36 in February but the five-time Ballon d’Or winner says he is eyeing success for “many, many years to come” as the prolific forward chases more glory with Juventus and Portugal in 2021. Read Full Article a...

Paris police chief, Didier Lallement, has caused a stir after quoting Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky in his official New Year greetings cards, sent out to hundreds of elected officials and institutions across the region. Read Full A...

Assassins reportedly dressed as members of the medical staff carried out an audacious hit inside a hospital in northern Mexico, killing a man who was under the protection of the country’s National Guard. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

The hosts of RT’s Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, look at what 2021 has in store for one of the fastest growing assets of the year, bitcoin, and the impact of its triumph on the fiat money. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Newsweek has been bombarded with derision after acknowledging that it incorrectly claimed that a senior Georgia official had no brother, in an article mocking accusations leveled against the sibling by Donald Trump. Read Full Article at...

The leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has struck out at relatives of two men who his administration say were killed during a fatal attack on police officers in the regional capital, Grozny. Read Full Article at RT.c...

In what may well be 2020’s last act of woke symbolism, or next year’s first, Australia will change the lyrics of its national anthem on New Year’s Day to recognize the country’s indigenous history and foster a “spirit of unity...

An NHS spokesman has said that the UK’s emergency Nightingale hospitals are once again being readied for use, having lain dormant since the first wave of the virus earlier in 2020. Read Full Article at RT.com

Britain and Spain have reached an agreement on their border at Gibraltar, according to Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya. The agreement will see the rocky peninsula join the EU’s Schengen zone. Read Full Article at RT.com...

UFC president Dana White has made no secret of his desire to bring Khabib Nurmagomedov back to the octagon, and now he's gone on record to reveal the fight he hopes to make for the Russian, should he decide to return. Read Full Article ...

Seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton has been knighted in UK’s New Year’s honors list but Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of chicanery by adding the star to the ‘Diplomatic and Overseas List’ for the title....