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 […]
Clockwise from top left: Kevin Faulconer, John Cox, Kevin Kiley, Caitlyn Jenner and Larry Elder. Dozens of Republicans are running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. But only a handful of them have registered any meaningful support in the polls or raised the kind of money needed to run a statewide campaign. They include […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Without immediate action to combat climate change, rising sea levels, water scarcity and declining crop productivity could force 216 million people to migrate within their own countries by 2050, the World Bank said in a new report on Monday (Sept 13). The report, Groundswell 2.0, modeled the impacts of climate change on […]
A small hospital in upstate New York is planning to suspend delivering babies starting in a few weeks because some of its labor and delivery nurses resigned rather than comply with the state’s Covid vaccine mandate. The development underscores the challenges that many health care systems face amid a national shortage of nursing staff and […]
A hospital has been forced to stop delivering babies after dozens of staff chose to quit rather than get a mandatory Covid vaccine. The maternity unit at Lewis County General Hospital in New York will temporarily close from September 25 until enough people who have been jabbed can be hired to safely reopen. Lewis County […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The cavernous General Assembly hall of the United Nations will have far fewer vacant seats. Corridors of the organization’s iconic New York City headquarters, eerily silent for months, will echo with more voices and footsteps. Motorcades will whisk in dozens of world leaders to deliver speeches in person. The annual General […]
“Tonight is about us reclaiming our power.” — Amanda Nguyen, founder of the civil rights organization Rise, which hosted a fashion show at New York Fashion Week to celebrate survivors In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. On Friday evening, in the middle of […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video Quick-thinking sports fans managed to save a cat when it fell from an upper-tier in a stadium. Craig Cromer and his wife Kimberly used an American flag to break the animal’s fall during a college match between Miami University and […]
Kathy Schwartz, a retired health care analyst living in Los Angeles, had been following the news about the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom with increasing concern. Ms. Schwartz, 65, initially believed that the recall was a waste of time and money. But she got frightened late last month as Larry Elder, the conservative radio […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden will announce new steps to slow the spread of Covid-19 before the UN General Assembly meets, Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy said on Sunday (Sept 12). Dr Murthy did not specify what those steps would be. The next session of the General Assembly opens on Tuesday; the first […]