Like every other mother during this awful lockdown, I wake each morning and my first thought is one of sinking dread.

Dread at yet another day trying to drag a truculent 11-year-old through home-schooling; dread of boredom — my own — and that of my older children prowling the house like restless, bad-tempered lions in captivity; and the dread of doing exactly what I did yesterday and the day before that.

Brittany 'Flex' Watts, who lives in Fort Lauderdale, is a physique bodybuilder
The 31-year-old trained daily in the run up to the Miss Olympia competition

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard rocket for the 14th time, sending it 300,000ft into the air
The launch took placed at 12:18pm ET from Launch Site One in West Texas and tested an upgraded capsule

InSight arrived on Mars in November 2018 with a range of scientific instruments
Instruments included a seismometer, temperature probe and weather station
German scientist have been trying to get the heat probe into the soil two years

Donald Trump Jr is wanted for questioning by the attorney general of Washington DC as part of his investigation into the misuse of funds intended for his father's 2017 inauguration.

President-elect Joe Biden asked Congress to green-light another $1.9 trillion in spending to rescue the country from the COVID-19 crisis during a primetime address Thursday night from Wilmington.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is still insisting that President Donald Trump was 'legally elected,' making those claims to Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo Thursday morning.

Fall Out Boy is slated to play on We the People, a pre-inauguration concert for President-elect Joe Biden, as his parents met working for the future president.

The death sentence of convicted murderer Corey Johnson has been carried out, in what is set to the penultimate federal execution of President Donald Trump's term.

Police say Flavaine Carvalho helped the boy escape a possibly abusive home
She became concerned when she noticed cuts and bruises on the boy's face
Timothy Wilson II, 34, was charged with counts of aggravated child abuse

Eleven students from Brazil and Chile have filed a federal human trafficking lawsuit accusing a northwest Iowa community college, a recruitment company, a pet food manufacturer and a packaging company of subjecting them to involuntary servitude under the guise of a work-study program.

Victoria's Secret mogul Les Wexner let former friend Jeffrey Epstein abuse girls at his sprawling Ohio mega-mansion, according to an explosive new lawsuit obtained by DailyMail.com.

A man posed as a delivery driver before four others stormed a person's home
When the homeowner in Wilthamstow, London, opened the door they ran inside

Brooke Vincent revealed that she's expecting another boy during a Q&A session with her fans on Instagram on Thursday evening.

The former Coronation Street star, 28, made the revelation as she chatted with her social media followers about her experiences with pregnancy number two.

A left-wing activist who told CNN he went inside the Capitol Building during last Wednesday's siege merely to document the chaos has now been arrested by police.

Gerry Jarrett, 79, and his wife Barbara, 76, have been in separate hospital wards
The hospital allowed the Berkshire couple to spend some precious time together

Donald Trump Jr is wanted for questioning by the attorney general of Washington DC as part of his investigation into the misuse of funds intended for his father's 2017 inauguration.

Vice President Mike Pence stopped at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday night to thank National Guardsmen for their service ahead of next week's inauguration ceremony.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been accused of proposing a 'Ministry of Truth' following her suggestion that a government commission needs to 'reign in' the press in order to stop 'misinformation.'

The MAGA rioter accused of viciously beating a police officer with an American flag pole during last week's Capitol siege who said 'Death is the only remedy for what’s in that building' has been arrested.

Of the 1.63million cars registered last year, almost a quarter were grey in colour
It's the third consecutive year that grey has topped the popularity charts
Industry bosses said grey 'probably reflects the atmosphere' of 2020

Sarah Knowles, 28, from Georgia, tipped the scales at 274lbs at her heaviest
Decided to change her life and get healthy after being kicked off fairground ride

Whitney, 37, from Boston, brought Theodore Parks home in October 2020
Hinckley, a one-year-old Golden Retriever took an immediate shine to the baby

The FBI's investigation into the US Capitol siege has found that dozens of people on a terrorist watch list were among those in Washington DC at the time.

The female Trump supporter shot dead storming the Capitol last week was in a throuple with her husband and a live-in girlfriend.

Backstreet Boys Kevin Richardson sparked rumors of a rift between himself and Brian Littrell when he posted a cryptic tweet about losing a friend to QAnon, shortly after his pro-Trump bandmate revealed he'd created a Parler account.

He has been impeached in the House and condemned by some of his own former top officials – but President Donald Trump maintains strong Republican support since his supporters rioted in the Capitol.

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, held a virtual forum with their 5,400 employees
The meeting on Thursday was leaked to Project Veritas
Dorsey says their recent moves were 'bigger than just one account'

Some 27 of 140 acute NHS trusts have no space left for patients in critical care units, official figures show
Six were in the North East, which mostly dodged Tier 4, while five were in the South East and the Midlands

Cafes, pubs, beauty parlours and wedding planners will now receive payouts
Insurers had insisted they weren't liable to pay for losses during first lockdown
But Supreme Court today rejected their arguments in a wide-ranging ruling

New York City residents currently owe more than $1 billion in missed rent, with around 185,000 apartments at least two months behind on payments.

Pressure is growing for the US to completely ban flights from Brazil after the UK stopped all travel from the South American country amid fears over a new coronavirus super-strain.

Ice and freezing fog bring further hazards today after temperatures fall to -11.8C (10.8F) in North Yorkshire
Snow warning from 3am to 8pm tomorrow covers London and South East, with 1in (3cm) expected widely

A coalition of health organizations and technology companies, including Microsoft and Oracle, are working on a project that verifies who has received the coronavirus vaccination and prevent others from making false claims they have.

Joe the pigeon who faced the death sentence over Covid fears has been saved after a leg tag identifying it as belonging to a U.S. bird organisation was declared a fake.

Skies across America will soon look very different with drones delivering prescriptions, parcels and takeout to customers in the coming months.

A lawyer has slammed Governor Andrew Cuomo for New York's 'disgraceful' vaccine roll-out saying he can't get an appointment for his 88-year-old grandma because the state-run sites are booked up until April.

Most Brazilians are oblivious to the highly contagious new coronavirus strain which has sparked an explosive second wave sweeping through their country and causing alarm around the world.

At least seven people have been hospitalized after a tandem MTA bus veered off the road and plunged over an overpass in the Bronx.

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Thursday that President Donald Trump 'incited violence' with his speech to supporters before the Capitol riots – but stopped short of saying whether she would vote to convict him.

Representative Adriano Espaillat on Thursday said he had tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the fourth member of Congress to announce they had contracted the coronavirus following a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol last week.

Nuclear-armed North Korea unveiled a new submarine-launched ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang, state media reported Friday, in a show of strength days before Joe Biden's inauguration as US president.

Cops are hunting for a female assassin who gunned down a former Mexican governor inside a restaurant bathroom.

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin launched New Shepard rocket for the 14th time with 'Mannequin Skywalker' strapped inside the updated space capsule.

Britons in Portugal and South America after all flights to the UK were cancelled
Portugal on banned list due to travel links with Brazil amid fears over new strain
Ban came into force at 4am this morning with some Britons now stuck abroad