Tension is running high in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after state prosecutors decided not to press charges against a police officer, who left a black man paralyzed from the waist down by shooting him seven times in the back. Read Full Article ...

Beijing has introduced a series of tough restrictions on movement and socializing in the capital of Hebei province after 63 locally transmitted cases were registered; officials say the tally will continue to rise. Read Full Article at R...

Chinese authorities will take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights of the country’s companies against US aggression, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

In the final days of his administration US President Donald Trump has barred transactions with seven Chinese applications, including Alipay payment platform owned by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Group. Read Full Article at RT.com...

President Trump claims there was a plan to rig the crucial Senate races in Georgia against the Republicans. Democrat Raphael Warnock has declared victory while officials say it will take “a couple of days” to tally the votes. Read F...

Major media outlets are projecting victory for Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock over Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler in one of two knife-edge run-off Senate elections in Georgia. Read Full Article at RT.com

Dozens of pro-Trump supporters clashed with Washington DC police in BLM Plaza on Tuesday night, giving a preview of the volatile situation that the US capital may face soon as lawmakers are set to certify election results. Read Full Art...

American rap legend Dr. Dre assured fans that he is “doing great” and would soon return home after he was rushed to the hospital with a brain aneurysm in Los Angeles earlier this week. Read Full Article at RT.com

Two self-appointed enforcers of the Covid-19 rules, including a Huffington Post contributor, tried to bust fellow train passengers whom they caught drinking coffee without masks, only to back down when the crowd turned on them. Read Ful...

A voice message threatening a 9/11-style attack on the US Capitol has prompted a federal probe after the audio was picked up on aviation radios, vowing to “avenge” the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Read Full ...

Hours after polls closed for two run-off elections in Georgia, partial results are still too close to tell whether the GOP will preserve a narrow majority in the Senate that could serve as a check on the Biden-Harris White House. Read F...

Peru has reached an impasse with Pfizer as it negotiates a deal for a Covid-19 vaccine, the country’s health minister said, citing a conflict over legal immunity for the pharma firm that could undermine Peru’s sovereignty. Read Full...

The Davos minds behind ‘the Great Reset’ are now promoting a tear-jerker about an African youth who learned to code and made a game that would help the world’s refugees. Trouble is, his microtransaction gimmick is vaporware. Read ...

India’s emergency-use approval for the British-Swedish AstraZeneca vaccine and the country’s locally developed jab, Covaxin, was lacking in transparency and used “vague” wording, several healthcare experts told RT. Read Full Art...

US President Donald Trump has confirmed he will address the crowds gathering in Washington, DC as Congress prepares to certify the election, while warning the ‘terrorist organization’ Antifa to stay away. Read Full Article at RT.com...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have given special permission to the Buffalo Bills to have in-person attendance at their upcoming playoff game, but thousands of fans are telling him they don’t want him anywhere near the stadium. Read F...

Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio has been released from jail in Washington but was ordered to stay outside the city until his next court hearing, preventing him from attending a protest challenging Joe Biden's election victory. Read F...

US Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is calling out her party for pushing through a new code of conduct that essentially denies women exist by requiring gender-neutral language in Congressional rules. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

An investigation has been launched by public health authorities in Mexico after a young doctor was left paralyzed minutes after taking the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine. Her family have asked for more research to be carried out. Read Full Art...

Two Republican senators from Georgia have agreed to help challenge certification of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral votes, proving fealty to President Donald Trump just as voters go to the polls in their re-election races. Read Fu...

Male-to-female transgendered people retain notable physical advantages over their cisgendered female counterparts after a year of taking hormones, a study has revealed, stating the obvious in scientific fashion. Read Full Article at RT....

Among the approximately 18,000 corporations and agencies believed to be affected by the SolarWinds hack, “fewer than 10” government entities have been compromised in a follow-on attack, according to senior intelligence officials. Re...

The bumpy start of Germany’s vaccination campaign against Covid has sowed discord within Angela Merkel’s coalition, as her party partners demand answers from her health minister and call for a special investigative commission. Read ...

The Norwegian Medicines Agency has announced that two nursing home residents passed away days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, and that an investigation has been launched into the deaths. Read Full Article at RT.com...

President Donald Trump has sparked intense debate over Mike Pence’s role in Congress’ certification of the Electoral College votes, as he seemingly called on the vice president to reject “fraudulent electors.” Read Full Article ...

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) spoke on Tuesday of his disappointment that China had not yet authorized the entry of an international team of WHO scientists in order to trace the origins of coronavirus in Wuhan. Read Fu...

Dutch premier Mark Rutte has admitted his government wasn’t ready to work with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine “so soon” and was preparing for an entirely “different” jab as he comes under fire over a delayed vaccination campaign....

Max Verstappen is unlikely to be on Russian racer Daniil Kvyat's Christmas card list this year after the man he lost his Red Bull seat to confirmed that he has now begun dating his ex-girlfriend - German-born model Kelly Piquet. Read Fu...

Ambulance crews in Los Angeles, which has become ‘ground zero’ for the latest surge in US Covid-19 cases, have been ordered to refuse transport for people likely to die, conserving resources for those with better chances. Read Full ...

An average of one in 50 people in England has Covid-19, the government said on Tuesday, the country's first day of its new national lockdown in response to the rapidly spreading new virus variant driving record infection rates. Read Ful...

While many in the US have received their second round of Covid-19 stimulus checks, others are voicing their frustrations as their payments are delayed due to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sending money to the wrong accounts. Read F...

Footballer and social media sensation Madelene Wright has bounced back from being axed by English club Charlton by launching an account on adult subscription site OnlyFans, licking her lips while telling fans to "check my bio". Read Ful...

Dallas Cowboys and their billionaire owner Jerry Jones have endured a rough 2020 on the field but Jones says that he does have one thing to smile about: the record of having the most fans in stadiums during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read F...

US President Donald Trump has approved new sanctions on Iran in his final weeks in office. Washington hopes to increase the pressure on Tehran by targeting the nation’s steel sector. Read Full Article at RT.com

Germans will have to limit contacts to a “minimum,” Chancellor Angela Merkel said, as she announced that the national Covid-19 lockdown is being both toughened and extended until the end of January, amid soaring infection numbers. R...

Kiev’s refusal to register the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V has turned into a political row, with Ukraine’s opposition launching a petition for those who want the option of having the jab. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has acknowledged recordings in which agents of Belarus’ KGB security service allegedly planned the assassination of Kiev-based journalist Pavel Sheremet, who died in an explosion in 2016. Read ...

Full ties have been restored between Saudi Arabia and Qatar after hugs were exchanged between leaders of the two nations at the annual Gulf Cooperation Council summit on Tuesday, ending their three-year-diplomatic dispute. Read Full Art...

A tennis star has revealed his dramatic undercover dash to escape St. Petersburg after testing positive for Covid-19, funding a private jet because he feared being forced to spend two weeks in a Russian hospital with his family. Read Fu...

UK Housing Minister Christopher Pincher wrote a magazine review lauding Krug champagne… but critics have denounced him as being “out of touch with reality” and say he should focus on his day job instead. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Firefighters in Western Australia are being prevented from reaching at-risk homes due to unexploded bombs buried in the ground, as they tackle a huge blaze that has ripped through more than 9,000 hectares of land since Saturday. Read Fu...

The coronavirus could cause severe brain damage due to the body’s inflammatory response to infection, new research claims. Recent scans found bleeding in brain regions associated with heart rate, breathing, and sense of smell. Read Fu...

Fans have again rowed over whether the football season can continue in England after the Premier League announced that cases of Covid-19 had more than doubled in its latest round of testing, reflecting the spike across the UK. Read Full...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) has lashed out at protesters who gathered outside his Washington, DC residence, saying the demonstrators threatened his family, but he will not be “intimidated by leftwing violence.” Read Full Article a...

Nuclear trains were once considered a relic of the Cold War, but now the secretive locomotives could be set for a comeback, carrying warheads around Russia, in a move that could set Moscow on a collision course with Washington. Read Ful...

The auction, held every January at Tokyo’s main fish market, Toyosu, has been overshadowed by the raging coronavirus pandemic, which has slashed tuna prices, leaving the event without a showy bidding war for its delicious lots. Read F...

Top officials in Singapore are on the defensive amid public uproar after it was acknowledged that data collected by a semi-mandatory Covid-19 contact-tracing app is available to law enforcement. Read Full Article at RT.com

Liverpool City Mayor Steve Rotheram has warned that parts of the UK could be overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases in “two or three weeks’ time,” as infections continue to spike at a “genuinely worrying” rate.  Read Full Article at R...

Wisconsin pharmacist Stephen Brandenburg is a self-confessed “conspiracy theorist” who destroyed over 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine as he thought they would change people’s DNA, according to both the police and his wife. Read F...

The Scottish first minister has advised US President Donald Trump that a golfing trip to Scotland amid the national Covid lockdown would not meet the “essential purpose” criteria for allowing someone to enter the country. Read Full ...

Sergio Ramos has reportedly indicated he is open to leaving the Bernabeu after rejecting a new deal, claiming that PSG are piecing together a package to tempt the Real Madrid captain and Barcelona's Lionel Messi to Paris. Read Full Arti...

The feud between Beijing and Washington escalated on Twitter after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo disputed China's claim that it's a near-Arctic state. Read Full Article at RT.com

Vietnam has suspended inbound flights from the UK and South Africa over new more transmissible variants of Covid-19, with more countries set to have flights blocked, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc announced on Tuesday. Read Full Articl...

Shareholders of both Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Group PSA, the French maker of Peugeot and Citroën cars, approved a $58 billion merger that will turn them into the world’s fourth-biggest car producer. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Shamed Napoli forward Victor Osimhen, who was filmed dancing with people after traveling to his maskless birthday party in Nigeria, should not be judged as harshly as someone who had gone clubbing in Ibiza, his agent has claimed. Read F...

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich may turn to another of his former players to arrest the club's current skid under boss Frank Lampard, with reports online stating he is chasing Andriy Shevchenko to fill the Stamford Bridge hotseat. Read F...

Norway has become the world’s number-one nation for electric vehicles, which comprised more than 50 percent of all new car sales in the country, the Norwegian Road Federation (OFV) reported on Tuesday. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Officials in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are sounding the alarm, as crematoriums struggle with the influx of bodies of Covid-19 victims. Read Full Article at RT.com

UK opposition leader Keir Starmer has said he is willing to work with the government to bring in new legislation that would ban anti-vax campaigns as the country ramps up inoculations to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Read Full Article a...

Iran has requested that Interpol issue a ‘Red Notice’ for Donald Trump and 47 other officials, over their “role” in the assassination of Qassem Soleimani last January, said judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaeili. Read Full ...

Iran’s army has started its first large-scale drone combat wargames, including using indigenous military hardware, amid heightened regional tensions between Tehran and Washington. Read Full Article at RT.com

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has played down suggestions that his government will rule out the use of a Russian coronavirus vaccine, despite reports to the contrary in Western state-funded media outlets. Read Full Article at ...

Iran’s intention to produce 120 kg of uranium enriched to the 20 percent per year level would require boosting its capacity, according to data shared by the country’s nuclear chief. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Emir of Qatar has arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead of a Gulf Cooperation Council summit in the country, marking a major step for the US allies who have been in a diplomatic dispute for three years. Read Full Article at RT.com

The lawyer for one of the top running backs in the NFL, Josh Jacobs, has denied that alcohol was involved after the Las Vegas Raiders star was booked by police for a single-vehicle collision hours following his final season game. Read F...

With a new year comes a new strain of coronavirus and a new wave of fear-porn news stories. But as 2020 proved, you can’t trust everything the media tells you about Covid-19. Read Full Article at RT.com

A bitter row has broken out after the boss of the Madrid Open urged Serena Williams to retire because of her "age and weight", provoking the veteran's investor husband to angrily hit back with accusations of sexism and racism. Read Full...

British comedy icon Rowan Atkinson has said online mob justice makes him “fear for the future” and lashed out at the algorithmically generated outrage perpetuated by social media platforms. Read Full Article at RT.com

Hundreds of engineers and other workers announced the formation of Google’s first union on Monday, ostensibly to provide more structure to ongoing employee activism at the company rather than pursue traditional union goals. Read Full ...

Google's video platform YouTube has been accused of terminating the popular British TalkRADIO show for hosting figures that were skeptical of coronavirus lockdown just hours after the UK entered a new, stricter lockdown. Read Full Artic...

UFC president Dana White has warned fans thinking of streaming this month's UFC 257 clash between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier, warning them that he has "got a surprise" for anyone who tunes in illegally. Read Full Article at RT.co...

The Iranian government has lambasted Seoul for holding $7 billion of Iranian funds on ‘baseless grounds’ but claims it is not related to Iran’s seizure of a South Korean flagged tanker in the Persian Gulf. Read Full Article at RT....

John Dillermand’s oversized penis gets him into trouble all the time, as Danish kids can attest, after watching a new show about him on a public TV channel. Some parents, however, were not amused by the comedy. Read Full Article at RT...

The UK Finance Ministry has announced a new aid package worth £4.6 billion ($6.2 billion) to support firms hit by a renewed Covid-19 lockdown that is likely to last until March. Read Full Article at RT.com

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange will be “free to return home” to Australia once his legal proceedings in the United Kingdom have ended. Read Full Article at RT.com ...

Beijing has called on all parties to seek a diplomatic outcome following Tehran’s announcement that it had resumed 20 percent uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility, reneging on the 2015 nuclear deal. Read Full Article ...

The UK government will present new border control rules soon, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said. He expressed hope that the new lockdown may be eased in March. Read Full Article at RT.com

Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo is in hot water after one of its employees died after reportedly working grueling hours long after midnight and its verified social media account said people “should live with their own choices.” R...

In a sudden reversal, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it will no longer delist China's three largest state-owned telecommunications corporations allegedly linked to the Chinese military. Read Full Article at RT.com

China’s leader Xi Jinping has directed the military to bolster training in 2021 and use more hi-tech in its drills. The order comes after tense standoffs with India and Taiwan last year. Read Full Article at RT.com

Emma Jones, the hugely popular presenter known for her model looks and tight outfits, has received a deluge of support after claiming that she was sent an unwanted sexual photo just hours after news of the UK's latest lockdown. Read Ful...

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has been accused of plagiarizing a story from Martin Luther King after internet sleuths spotted uncanny similarities between “personal” anecdotes told by the civil rights leader and the VP-to-be. R...

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has demanded the immediate release of Julian Assange after a UK judge declined a US extradition request, telling RT the WikiLeaks founder’s battle is far from over as Washington eyes an appeal. Read Fu...

Days before blowing himself up, the Nashville Christmas bomber penned lengthy messages to “acquaintances” speaking of “alien attacks,” a faked moon landing and DNA experiments by “lizard people,” among other conspiracy theor...

Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio, whose group torched a BLM banner torn from a black church last month in Washington, has reportedly been arrested after returning to the nation’s capital for a pro-Trump protest. Read Full Article at...

Black Lives Matter and Muslim organizations led a protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota against the police shooting of a suspected gun felon who shot first. The protesters hoisted a Somali flag over a building at one point. Read Full Articl...

Signing a law that would no longer require Ohioans to retreat in the face of violent crime, Governor Mike DeWine – a Republican – urged the new crop of state legislators to take up gun-control measures next. Read Full Article at RT....

US Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) has been an official member of Congress for only one day, but she’s already managed to trigger political adversaries by advertising her vow to carry a Glock pistol to work. Read Full Artic...

Environmentally minded social media users seized the opportunity to ridicule the less fortunate after the New York Times published an article on fresh college graduates unable to find jobs in the oil industry because of Covid-19. Read F...

All 10 former US defense secretaries who are still living have warned President Donald Trump not to involve the US military in his dispute over 2020 election results – despite Trump not even having hinted at taking such a step. Read F...

Land, air and sea borders between Saudi Arabia and Qatar will reportedly reopen ahead of the upcoming Gulf Cooperation Council summit. The US-brokered deal ends the diplomatic standoff that began in June 2017. Read Full Article at RT.co...

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested National Guard troops and urged residents to avoid downtown as Donald Trump supporters plan to descend on the US capital to protest the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. Read F...

Health authorities in Portugal are investigating the sudden death of a pediatric surgery assistant in Porto, who was reportedly in “perfect health” when she received the Pfizer vaccine against the coronavirus. Read Full Article at R...

The UK court has spared WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from extradition to the US, but Monday’s ruling came as a grim verdict for free speech, Fidel Narvaez, a former Consul at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, told RT. Read Full Ar...

England will enter a new national lockdown until at least mid-February, when vulnerable groups should be vaccinated against Covid-19, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday. Read Full Article at RT.com

Scottish police have arrested former Scottish National Party MP Margaret Ferrier and charged her with reckless conduct, after the politician took a train 400 miles home from London despite testing positive for Covid-19. Read Full Articl...

An unidentified Benfica player had an embarrassing moment on national television after cameras peered into the team's dressing room, showing the completely naked footballer displaying his derriere to the watching audience at home. Read ...

Feed the birds, tuppence a bag? Not in the new UK coronavirus lockdown. A video circulating on social media shows an elderly woman, who was feeding bread to pigeons, being told by London police to ‘disperse.’ Read Full Article at RT...

Hospitals that don’t use up their supply of Covid-19 vaccines within a week of receiving them will be punished with hefty fines and barred from receiving further doses, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared. Read Full Article at...

Denmark will follow the UK in delaying administering second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 jab beyond the recommended 21-day period, despite safety warnings from the manufacturer against altering the vaccine regimen. Read Full Ar...