WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Biden administration has no plans to send any of the thousands of Haitian migrants caught crossing the US-Mexico border to a special holding facility at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, US officials said on Thursday (Sept 23). The officials threw cold water on the idea of using the […]
President Joe Biden’s White House is reportedly leaning towards giving Congress information on what former President Donald Trump and his aides were doing during the January 6 Capitol riot. The Biden administration’s apparent inclination comes despite Trump objecting to the details being released, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Trump has said he would point […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle continued their first major public appearance since quitting the royal family in New York by meeting the US ambassador to the United Nations. The Sussexes met Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Thursday afternoon at 50 UN Plaza in midtown Manhattan and had an ‘important discussion’ on the coronavirus, […]
Elizabeth Geddes, the assistant U.S. attorney delivering the closing statement at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Brooklyn this week, is an experienced prosecutor with a background in cases involving racketeering — the complex top charge that Mr. Kelly faces. Ms. Geddes has worked in Brooklyn’s Eastern District for 15 years, where she currently heads the […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Scientific advisers to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will take up a thorny challenge on Thursday (Sept 23): Who qualifies for the new Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus booster and why? On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised booster shots of the vaccine for people over 65 who received their […]
Orange County — despite its historical associations with famous conservatives of yore, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and John Wayne — hasn’t been a Republican stronghold for years. Back in 2016, headlines trumpeted that Hillary Clinton turned Orange County blue during the presidential election. In 2018, my colleagues wrote that Democrats flipped four Orange County […]
A man ejaculated out of his anus and urinated faeces after developing a rare condition that effects around five in one million people. The 33-year-old, from Texas, ignored the symptoms for two years before deciding to seek medical help due to suffering testicle pain for five days. He told doctors he had passed a ‘substantial […]
WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Arizona Senate are expected on Friday to unveil the results of the deeply flawed review they ordered into Democratic election victories last November in the state’s largest county. The study, conducted by Republican loyalists and conspiracy theorists, some of whom previously had called the election rigged, has long since lost […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – It was a constant refrain from federal health officials after the coronavirus vaccines were authorised: These shots are all equally effective. That has turned out not to be true. Roughly 221 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine have been dispensed thus far in the United States, compared with about 150 million […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – US President Joe Biden hosted a series of meetings on Wednesday (Sept 22) with Democratic lawmakers, including party leaders, as he worked to smooth over deep divisions within his party about his multi-trillion-dollar domestic agenda. In a series of Oval Office meetings that continued throughout the afternoon, Mr Biden huddled with the […]