WASHINGTON (AFP) – Dr Jill Biden promotes Covid-19 vaccines and takes part in political rallies – but only when her college professor schedule allows. In her quiet way, Dr Biden is reinventing the traditional role of the First Lady of the United States. Attending a former governor’s funeral last week, President Joe Biden had to […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – New York City’s Times Square will once again fill with revellers ringing in the new year on Dec 31, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday (Nov 16), but only if they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Last year, the still-raging coronavirus pandemic allowed only a handful of invited guests, including […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo could be forced to forfeit millions of dollars that he earned from his 2020 pandemic memoir after a state ethics board on Tuesday (Nov 16) voted to revoke its authorisation for the book. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics accused Mr Cuomo of essentially obtaining […]
A woman who helped deliver her best friend’s baby discovered days later that her husband was the father of the child. Hailey Custer, 28, had been there ‘every step of the way’ to support her best friend during her pregnancy, and was heartbroken when she noticed a birth defect on the baby’s neck identical to […]
Jurors in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial began deliberations Tuesday following clashing closing arguments about the teen, who shot three men during a protest against racial injustice in summer 2020. Prosecutors questioned whether the teen, who showed up at the three-day-long protest with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle and pretended to be an emergency medical technician, was […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Hackers from Pakistan used Facebook to target people in Afghanistan with connections to the previous government during the Taliban’s takeover of the country, the company’s threat investigators said in an interview with Reuters. Facebook said the group, known in the security industry as SideCopy, shared links to websites hosting malware which could […]
US-China talks: Biden raised concerns over Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong; Xi warns of Taiwan 'red line'
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping talked about China’s practices in Tibet, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, among other areas of friction, the White House said in a statement, after the two held over three hours of virtual talks. “President Biden raised concerns about the PRC’s practices in Xinjiang, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – An anti-satellite weapons test by Russia against one of its own targets has generated debris that is a risk to astronauts on the International Space Station and other activities in outer space, the US State Department said on Monday (Nov 15). Experts say weapons that shatter satellites pose a space hazard by […]
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A shooting near a US high school left five teenagers wounded on Monday (Nov 15), police said. Officers in Aurora, Colorado were called to a park near Central High School where they found five people aged between 14 and 17 had been hurt, the Aurora Police Department said. “Unknown suspect who […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Battered by critics and dire opinion polls, President Joe Biden signed into law the biggest US infrastructure revamp in more than half a century at a rare bipartisan celebration in the White House on Monday (Nov 15). The US$1.2 trillion (S$1.6 trillion) package will fix bridges and roads, change out unhealthy lead […]