When the #MeToo movement erupted years ago, scores of women spoke out against the powerful men, igniting a national reckoning over sexual abuse and harassment. But as cases of high-profile men like the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein put a spotlight on the accusations of white women, Black women often said they felt left out of […]
President Joe Biden received his Covid-19 booster shot on Monday, days after public health officials began recommending boosters for many Americans, including those 65 and older and frontline workers. The president, who is 78, was given his third dose on camera at the White House. ‘Let me be clear, boosters are important, but the most […]
An agreement has been reached for the ‘unconditional release’ from supervision of John Hinckley Jr, who shot former President Ronald Reagan. A federal judge on Monday approved the release next year for Hinckley, who wounded the late president and three others outside a Washington, DC, hotel in 1981, during a failed assassination attempt. The now […]
NEW JERSEY (NYTIMES) – The official-looking letters started arriving soon after Ms Shanetta Little bought the cute Tudor house on Ivy Street in Newark, New Jersey. Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own. She […]
Last year, a frantic run on toilet paper that left store shelves bare across the United States became a symbol of the panic that seized Americans in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, at least one big-box retailer is trying to prevent a repeat of that frenzy as the Delta variant has driven […]
A wave of misinformation touting the deworming drug ivermectin as a Covid treatment appears to be showing no signs of abating, with calls about the drug to poison control centers surging, and officials in New Mexico saying misuse of the medication contributed to at least two deaths. Federal health authorities have repeatedly warned Covid patients […]
OKLAHOMA CITY — On a windy Tuesday morning, the parking lot outside a small brick building on the Southside of Oklahoma City was filling up fast. The first to arrive, a red truck shortly before 8 a.m., was from Texas. So was the second and the third. The building houses one of Oklahoma’s four abortion […]
LA PAZ, Colombia — On a coca farm hidden in the jungle, a half-dozen day laborers slip out of hammocks and head to work, harvesting the shiny green leaves that will become cocaine. In the nearby village of La Paz, chalky white cocaine base serves as currency, used to buy bread or beans. And in […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES, REUTERS) – At least three people were killed and 50 others were injured after an Amtrak train derailed in Montana on Saturday (Sept 25) afternoon, setting off a frantic response by rescuers who scrambled to extricate passengers from cars, US authorities said. Amtrak said that eight cars on an Empire Builder train […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul is considering calling in the National Guard and recruiting medical professionals from other states to cover looming staff shortages at hospitals and other facilities as the likelihood grows that tens of thousands of healthcare workers will not meet the state’s deadlines for mandated vaccinations. In a […]