SACRAMENTO (REUTERS) – California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom appeared set to fend off a recall effort, US television networks said on Tuesday (Sept 14), overcoming a Republican campaign to unseat him over his liberal policies on immigration, Covid-19 and crime. Newsom, a first-term governor beset by challenges including the Covid-19 pandemic, extreme drought and severe […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States is pushing global leaders to endorse what it calls ambitious targets for ending the Covid-19 pandemic, including ensuring 70 per cent of the world’s population is vaccinated against the virus by the 2022, according to a draft US document viewed by Reuters on Tuesday (Sept 14). The three-page outline […]
After the polls overestimated Democratic candidates in 2016 and 2020, it is reasonable to wonder whether Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lead in the California recall election might prove as illusory as Hillary Clinton’s lead in Wisconsin or Joe Biden’s in Florida. It’s not impossible. But Mr. Newsom’s lead now dwarfs the typical polling error and is […]
WASHINGTON — The problem-plagued 2020 census won a cautious vote of confidence Monday from experts who said the count appeared accurate enough for its overriding constitutional purpose: reallocating the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. But the experts, eminent statisticians given inside access to census processes, limited their finding to the overall national tally […]
An ultra-conservative US radio host who spread false claims about vaccines and fought Covid rules in court has died after a two-week battle with coronavirus. Bob Enyart, 62, a self-proclaimed ‘right-wing religious fanatic’ who also worked as a church pastor in Denver, Colorado, told his listeners three of the main Covid vaccines were tested on […]
Brandon Bell/Getty Images Last summer, Kenosha, Wis., was torn apart by a police shooting. Since then, city officials have pushed for change, while activists and police leaders forged new relationships. Festivals and concerts have returned to the lakefront, and many people in Kenosha say that things are back to normal. But one neighborhood, the diverse […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken will urge the Senate to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominees for top national security posts, warning that the US could be caught short-staffed in the event of attack. It is “is essential that we accelerate the process for national security appointments since a catastrophic attack could occur […]
MINNESOTA (REUTERS) – A militia group leader, who was convicted of the 2017 bombing of a mosque outside of Minneapolis that “terrorized” the community of Somali immigrants it served, was sentenced on Monday (Sept 13) to 53 years in prison. Emily Claire Hari, 50, was found guilty in December, after a five-week trial, on five […]
BOSTON — During opening statements on Monday, the defense lawyers for Gamal Abdelaziz and John Wilson made clear that their clients — the first parents to face trial in the sprawling college admissions scandal — would not be the only ones up for judgment. The defense lawyers portrayed the men as the victims of William […]
New York City’s schools reopened on Monday to scenes of joy, relief and anxiety, as roughly a million children returned to their classrooms, most of them for the first time since the country’s largest school system closed in March 2020 because of the pandemic. The day, always chaotic even in normal times, began with many […]