As we move into the colder months in the U.S., we’re making plans for our second pandemic winter. Soon, it will be too cold for outdoor gatherings, evenings in the park or dining al fresco (at least, without a heater). Many of us will soon be spending more time indoors, where the virus can transmit […]
What started as a family vacation to Mexico ended unexpectedly when a couple and their 3-year-old son were found dead in an Airbnb apartment from an apparent gas leak. Jose Nunez Jr, his wife Maria and their son Jayden were visiting family in Mexico when they were all found dead in the same room. They […]
A Halloween outfit allowing people to dress up as a ‘Karen’ has provoked a backlash. The costume features simply a bob-style haircut wig and a pair of sunglasses but promises to transform the wearer into an over-privileged white woman who will no doubt be asking to speak to the manager. It is being marketed by […]
AstraZeneca said on Tuesday that it had asked the Food and Drug Administration to grant emergency authorization for an antibody treatment to prevent Covid-19 in people who are at high risk of the disease. If authorized, it would become the first such preventive treatment to be available in the United States, the company said. The […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Having waited eight months for United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s promised “top-to-bottom” policy review of trade with China, some US industries and experts were complaining over the plan’s lack of specifics on negotiations or timing. Unveiling her plan on Monday (Oct 5), Ms Tai, President Joe Biden’s top trade official, pledged […]
Pope Francis and two members of Congress have asked Missouri’s governor to stop the scheduled execution on Tuesday of a 61-year-old man, saying he should be spared because he is intellectually disabled. Ernest Lee Johnson, who is on death row at a state prison in Bonne Terre, Mo., for the 1994 murder of three convenience […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US President Joe Biden told a group of progressives and members of the House leadership on Monday (Oct 4) that he is open to setting income limits for some of the programmes in his social-spending bill, to lower the price tag, according to a person familiar with the discussion. During the virtual […]
Louisiana’s largest nonprofit health care provider will increase its employees’ insurance fees next year if their spouses or domestic partners are unvaccinated, the provider said. Ochsner Health said in a letter to its employees last month that it was adding the extra charge — about $200 a month, starting next year — for unvaccinated spouses […]
Even on a Monday morning, the beaches would usually be bustling in the place that calls itself “Surf City USA”. But the sands in Huntington Beach in California are deserted. So too, the beaches that stretch for miles south. The closures are part of a massive response to the spill of thousands of gallons of […]
Lovely Warren, the embattled Democratic mayor of Rochester, N.Y., agreed to resign on Monday as part of a plea deal on several state criminal charges, capping a swift and staggering fall for a politician once considered a rising star in the state Democratic Party. The plea deal, in Monroe County court, resolves two separate state […]