Long Island health officials scrambled to contain a coronavirus outbreak in Suffolk County when dozens of people tested positive for the virus after attending a high-end Sweet 16 party in September that violated state restrictions on gatherings. On Wednesday, county officials said they were coping with the fallout from two more so-called superspreader events that […]
MEXICO CITY — In the face of widening American financial restrictions on Cuba, more than 400 Western Union offices on the island will close, Cuban authorities said, a move that could severely restrict the flow of remittances from abroad and worsen a profound economic crisis that has led to widespread food shortages on the island. […]
The number of packages being delivered across the country this year will likely hit new record highs, due in part to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. FedEx, UPS, Canada Post and others are experiencing booming demand as online purchases reach unprecedented levels. According to a survey by FedEx Canada, 35 per cent more Canadians plan to […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – Weakening winds on Wednesday (Oct 28) enabled firefighters in Southern California to begin to corral two raging wildfires that critically injured two frontline crew members and had threatened tens of thousands of homes, authorities said. Fire authorities reported significant progress in setting up containment lines around the two Orange County blazes, […]
NEW ORLEANS (BLOOMBERG) – Hurricane Zeta is roaring ashore in southeastern Louisiana near New Orleans, threatening to be the worst storm to hit the city since Katrina devastated it in 2005. Zeta is making landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana, with winds of 175 kmh, becoming the fifth hurricane or tropical storm to hit the state this […]
The eight-year-old son of a black man shot dead by Philadelphia police has said he believes the officers involved were racist. Zamir, the eldest son of Walter Wallace Jr, said on Wednesday that “white racist cops” had killed his father as he told reporters what he would remember about him. “We used to always hang […]
WILMINGTON, United States (AFP) – Democrat Joe Biden insisted Wednesday (Oct 28) he will tackle coronavirus from Day 1 if he is elected president but warned there is no magic “switch” that ends the pandemic, as Donald Trump campaigned across America seemingly unfazed by Covid-19’s dangers. Six days before a momentous US election, Biden cast […]
David Correia was charged with duping investors in a start-up he founded with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani. By William K. Rashbaum A business partner of Lev Parnas, who helped Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, dig up dirt on the president’s political rivals is expected to plead guilty on Thursday […]
A journal that sits in a staff room just off the intensive care unit at a Milwaukee hospital tells the story of the devastating surge of the coronavirus that much of the country is experiencing. In longhand, the nurses and doctors who are tending to desperately ill Covid-19 patients share their thoughts in the journal, […]
OMAHA — Hundreds of people who attended a Trump rally in Omaha Tuesday night were left stranded on an airport tarmac in near-freezing temperatures and some required medical attention after buses meant to shuttle voters to their cars were delayed for hours, according to local authorities, rally attendees and reports from journalists at the scene. […]