WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – A divided US Supreme Court lifted the Biden administration’s moratorium on evictions, ending protections for millions of people who have fallen behind on rent payments during the Covid-19 pandemic. Saying landlords were suffering “irreparable harm”, a 6-3 majority ruled late on Thursday (Aug 26) that the US Centres for Disease Control and […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The number of coronavirus patients in US hospitals breached 100,000 on Thursday (Aug 26), the highest level in eight months, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, as a resurgence of Covid-19 spurred by the highly contagious Delta variant strains the nation’s healthcare system. US Covid-19 hospitalisations have more than […]
Stephanie was 17 and out to dinner with R. Kelly and two rappers, she said, when Mr. Kelly said something that surprised her: He liked “young girls,” and he did not understand why people made such a big deal of it. “Even look at Jerry Lee Lewis,” the woman said she heard Mr. Kelly remark. […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden, anxiously awaiting the completion of US evacuation efforts from Afghanistan, watched a nightmare scenario unfold on Thursday (Aug 26) as suicide bomb explosions outside the Kabul airport killed 12 US troops and wounded 15 others. Biden had already gathered in the White House Situation Room with his top military […]
HEALDSBURG — Take a drive through this picture-perfect wine country town and you’ll start to spot them, unsubtle symbols of our state’s extreme drought. Peeking out from side yards of cottages and behind fences of grand multimillion-dollar homes are massive four-foot plastic cubes for storing water. For the approximately 12,000 people who live here, the […]
The climate crisis is at high risk of becoming an economic crisis. That is an increasingly widespread view among leading economic thinkers — that a range of economic and financial problems could result from a warming planet and humanity’s efforts to deal with it. But if you believe that to be true, what should the […]
Body-camera footage publicly emerged on Wednesday showing a Louisiana State Police trooper repeatedly clubbing a Black man on the head and chest with a flashlight while the man was pinned to the ground after a traffic stop in 2019, in what the white trooper called “pain compliance.” The beating left the man, Aaron Larry Bowman, […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – YouTube said on Wednesday (Aug 25) it has removed more than one million videos with “dangerous coronavirus misinformation” since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The statement by the Google-owned video platform comes as social media platforms are under fire from political leaders for failing to stem the spread of false and […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Kathy C. Hochul has chosen Brian A. Benjamin, a Democratic state senator from Harlem, to be her lieutenant governor, the second highest-ranking position in New York State, according to a person familiar with the decision. Ms. Hochul, a Democrat from Western New York who was sworn in as the state’s first […]
The weekly rhythms of Catholic life have started to return at Our Lady of Lourdes in Harlem. The pews are packed on Sunday mornings, prayer groups meet after work and the collection plate is almost as full as it was before the coronavirus pandemic began. But parishioners are starting to worry about the virus again. […]