WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci said on Sunday (Sept 5) that officials were likely to soon get the regulatory go-ahead to administer Covid-19 vaccine booster shots made by Pfizer, although Moderna booster could take a little longer. Asked on CBS’ Face the Nation, about President Joe Biden’s goal to […]
GRAND ISLE, La. — As Hurricane Ida blew in last Sunday, Scooter Resweber, the local police chief, gathered his 10 officers into his second-story corner office, where he believed they would be most safe. Behind his small desk two massive panes of hurricane-resistant glass ordinarily give Mr. Resweber a bird’s-eye view of island homes and […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Saturday (Sept 4) said he and his husband, Chasten, were now the parents of two children, making him the first openly gay Cabinet secretary to become a parent while in office. “We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family,” Buttigieg, […]
Patricia Maginnis, one of the nation’s earliest and fiercest proponents of a woman’s right to safe, legal abortions, who crusaded for that right on her own before the formation of an organized reproductive-rights movement, died on Aug. 30 in Oakland, Calif. She was 93. Her niece Semberlyn Crossley said the cause of her death, in […]
[Race/Related is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.] Not long after his mother passed away in 2018, a massive relic from Jeffrey Henson Scales’ childhood was unexpectedly found in his family’s home. His stepfather and older brother were preparing the house for an eventual sale when they […]
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the FBI to declassify documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The order, coming a little more than a week before the 20th anniversary, is a significant moment in a years-long fight between the government and victims’ families over what classified information about the run-up […]
CALIFORNIA (NYTIMES) – Facebook users who recently watched a video from a British tabloid featuring Black men saw an automated prompt from the social network that asked if they would like to “keep seeing videos about Primates,” causing the company to investigate and disable the artificial intelligence-powered feature that pushed the message. Facebook on Friday […]
Malathi Kanche was heading home after dropping her son off at college Wednesday evening when the small S.U.V. she was driving was overwhelmed by floodwaters set off by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. With the vehicle stalled in waist-deep water on Route 22 in Bridgewater, N.J., she and her 15-year-old daughter climbed out. They clung […]
In the wake of the deaths of 13 people in New York City from this week’s flooding, most of them in basement apartments, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday that the city would increase the use of evacuation orders and travel bans, issue stronger flood warnings to those living in basement apartments and send emergency […]
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan prosecutors have opened an investigation into allegations that Russian citizens paid a bribe to the nation’s president, Alejandro Giammattei, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said Friday. The inquiry arose out of information publicized in media reports, said the spokesman, Juan Luis Pantaleón, who noted that it began on Wednesday, […]