WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The State Department on Thursday (Oct 14) defended its handling of so-called Havana Syndrome health complaints, after a bipartisan group of US senators said they were concerned the unexplained ailments were not being taken seriously enough. Around 200 US diplomats, officials and family members overseas are believed to have been struck by […]
A 16-year-old boy who was convicted in the stabbing death of college student Tessa Majors has been sentenced to the maximum nine years to life in prison. Luchiano Lewis, who was one of three teens charged in the 2019 murder that rattled New York City, was sentenced in Manhattan criminal court on Thursday. He pleaded […]
President Joe Biden is set to travel to Italy and meet Pope Francis during the G20 Leaders’ Summit, as well as to the UK for a United Nations convention on climate change. Biden, accompanied by First Lady Jill Biden, will visit Rome for the G20 summit on October 30 and 21, White House Press Secretary […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden touted the success of mandates in spurring vaccination against Covid-19 in the United States on Thursday (Oct 14) but said more needed to be done to get the 66 million people who are eligible but still unvaccinated to get the shot. Vaccination rates against Covid-19 in the United […]
A county in Florida has racked up over $3.5million in fines because it required county employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Leon County violated the state’s vaccine passport ban, a law Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis enacted in September, a total of 714 times, according to the state Department of Health. Vincent Long, Leon County’s […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – The Port of Los Angeles and its longshoreman union will provide 24-hour service to alleviate backlogs that have exacerbated global supply chain problems, senior Biden administration officials said on Wednesday (Oct 12). US President Joe Biden plans to announce the commitments at a meeting on Wednesday with the leaders of the giant […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video This is the moment a disabled black man is dragged out of his car by his hair after repeatedly telling police he couldn’t use his legs. Clifford Owensby, 39, has accused the Dayton, Ohio Police Department of racially profiling him […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The top diplomats from Israel and the United Arab Emirates are set to hold three-way talks in Washington on Wednesday (Oct 13) as President Joe Biden’s administration embraces and looks to expand a normalisation drive. Concerns about Iran – the spectre of which helped bring together Israel and Gulf states when they […]
Former President Donald Trump’s real estate company is reportedly in advanced talks to sell his hotel in Washington, DC – to a firm founded by an executive who donated tens of thousands of dollars to President Joe Biden’s campaign. Miami-based investment firm GCI Merchant Group is in discussions to acquire the lease on Trump International […]
A 16-year-old student was arrested at her high school after refusing to wear a mask on school grounds, and the incident even led to a campus-wide lockdown. Grace Smith returned to Laramie High School in Wyoming on Thursday after serving two consecutive two-day suspensions for not complying with the school’s mask mandate. Anyone inside a […]