LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Children aged 12 or over who attend public schools in Los Angeles will have to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by the start of next year, city education chiefs said Thursday (Sept 9), the first such requirement by a major education board in the United States. The vote by the Los […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Big names in Corporate America including Amazon.com Inc cheered US President Joe Biden as he mandated employees either get vaccinated or be tested regularly, but some mid-sized companies worried that the plan would be tough to carry out and unpopular with a slice of their workers. Earlier on Thursday (Sept 9), Mr […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. U.S. states with low vaccination rates are seeing sharp spikes in children with Covid-19, as the country hit a record 250,000 new child virus cases in the past week. Qantas became one of the […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Strawberry Shortcake, the cartoon baker that started as a greeting card character and became one of the most popular kid’s franchises of the 1980s, is making a comeback. Her pink hair has been straightened. She’s dumped her bulky bonnet for a beanie. And her fictional friends are now a racially diverse crew […]
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AFP) – When Americans honour the nearly 3,000 killed in the Sept 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the 20th anniversary on Saturday, a grim shadow will lurk in the background, that of attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has yet to be tried and convicted for the heinous crime. Mohammed, […]
A big brass model of the tunneling machine that carved out the Holland Tunnel was displayed in the engineering department. Thick binders with years of detailed reports on the region’s key infrastructure operations, including Kennedy and LaGuardia airports and the Midtown Manhattan bus terminal, were kept in the executive office. And tucked away in the […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the execution of a Texas inmate whose request that his pastor be able to touch and pray aloud with him in the death chamber had been rejected by prison authorities. The court also agreed to review the case on its merits, without noted dissents. The court’s brief […]
For 20 years, Nancy Salzman and Keith Raniere were business partners and allies who promised to improve people’s lives. They led the self-help organization that they co-founded in the 1990s as it grew into the cultlike group Nxivm, and when it fell apart in 2018, Ms. Salzman and Mr. Raniere became co-defendants, accused of running […]
This is the Education Briefing, a weekly update on the most important news in U.S. education. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Today, some professors fear that the new school year could go off the rails. Covid returns to college campuses On Sept. 9, 2020, the lead story of this newsletter […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will resume hearing arguments in person when its new term starts in October, after a break of more than a year in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the court announced on Wednesday. But the effects of the pandemic will continue to alter the court’s practices, the announcement said. The courtroom […]