WASHINGTON(REUTERS) – United States President Joe Biden on Saturday vowed to move forward with policing reform, telling a gathering honouring slain officers that their profession is called on to do too much. “We expect you to be everything,” Biden said in a speech in front of the US Capitol, mourning 491 law enforcement officers who […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was set on Saturday (Oct 16) to launch a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore for the first time a group of rocky bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, gathering new insights into the solar system’s formation. The Atlas V rocket […]
A 25-year-old climate activist went out swinging outside the US Capitol after she bit a police officer who tried to take away a baseball bat she carried. The woman, Olivia Romano, was reportedly screaming ‘Defund the police’ and swinging the baseball bat on Friday, the final day of a week-long protest urging President Joe Biden […]
A US Capitol police officer was arrested Friday on obstruction of justice charges after it was discovered he told a man involved in the January 6 insurrection to delete social media posts about it. Michael Angelo Riley, who spent about 25 years with United States Capitol Police, allegedly told a man who participated in the […]
The White House on Friday will reportedly announce it will lift travel restrictions for foreign nationals who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus beginning on November 8. Travelers will be required to show proof that they have completed their Covid-19 vaccines as well as a negative test within three days of departing, a White House […]
Bill Clinton was rushed to hospital after reportedly being struck down by sepsis. The former US President, 75, was admitted to the intensive care unit at the University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday evening. Doctors reportedly said the decision to put him in ICU was mainly to give him privacy, while his spokesperson […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Republican US senators led by Mr Marco Rubio on Thursday (Oct 14) called on the Biden administration to blacklist Honor, a former unit of embattled Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, describing the firm as a threat to national security. In a letter dated Thursday, seen by Reuters, Mr Rubio described Honor as essentially […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Space exploration company Virgin Galactic Holdings said on Thursday (Oct 14) it is delaying its commercial space travel service to the fourth quarter of 2022 and will not conduct another planned test flight this year. Virgin Galactic said “commercial service is now expected to commence in Q4 2022.” Shares in the company […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Thursday (Oct 14) announced a major new Covid-19 vaccine donation for Africa and promised greater commitment to the continent as he welcomed his first African leader, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta. Meeting at the White House, Mr Biden and the Kenyan president promised to work together on climate change […]
SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) – US authorities said on Thursday (Oct 14) that four ransomware attacks had penetrated water and wastewater facilities in the past year, and they warned similar plants to check for signs of intrusions and take other precautions. The alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) cited a series of apparently […]