Marilyn Golden was a college student on a summer backpacking trip in Switzerland when she fell from a tree after a rotting limb snapped. Her back was broken. She spent two years of rehabilitation at Houston Medical Center and had used a wheelchair ever since. “I got radicalized, in a general sense, after I got […]
ATLANTA — The fear of rising crime in American cities is having a profound effect on mayoral politics from New York to Seattle. In Atlanta, it has had the power of resurrection, delivering a reanimating jolt to the once-moribund career of one of the South’s most polarizing public figures. Kasim Reed, the former Atlanta mayor […]
America’s top military commander has said the credibility of the US has been damaged as a result of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The admission, from General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was one of a number of significant revelations in a lengthy session with the Senate Armed Services Committee on […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – People who got Covid-19 vaccine boosters after the shots were cleared for those with weakened immune systems had mostly mild to moderate reactions, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Some 22,191 booster recipients registered with a federal monitoring system starting Aug 12, when the doses were first authorised […]
ATLANTA — A 22-year-old man pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to four murder charges stemming from a shooting rampage at a string of spas in the Atlanta area last spring. The man, Robert Aaron Long, had previously pleaded guilty to four murder charges in nearby Cherokee County, where the shooting spree began. Mr. Long has […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – General Mark Milley, the top US military officer, on Tuesday (Sept 28) staunchly defended calls with his Chinese counterpart that have raised Republican demands for his resignation, saying he had been aiming to ease tension with Beijing and not to “usurp authority”. “At no time was I attempting to change or influence […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – A prominent American cryptocurrency promoter and former hacker has pleaded guilty to advising North Korea on using virtual money to avoid international controls, a New York court said Monday (Sept 28). Virgil Griffith, who is based in Singapore, launched projects in 2018 to provide services to individuals in North Korea by […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday (Sept 27) it had begun a clinical trial to test an influenza vaccine designed with the same mRNA technology behind its successful Covid-19 shot. The idea is to improve on the current generation of flu vaccines that have an efficacy of 40-60 per cent against a […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US authorities on Monday (Sept 27) warned Americans to not buy prescription pills online because they increasingly include lethal doses of fentanyl and methamphetamine. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said the advice applied to counterfeit medicine made to look like real Oxycontin, Vicodin and Xanax or Adderall. Fake pills are widely available […]
The singer R. Kelly, who for years dominated the world of R&B music, was found guilty on Monday of being the ringleader of a decades-long scheme to recruit women and underage girls for sex. After nine hours of deliberations, the jury in the singer’s criminal trial in federal court in Brooklyn convicted him of racketeering […]