A former Huntsville, Ala., police officer who fatally shot a suicidal man was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison, capping a trial in which he was strongly supported by city officials who spent $125,000 in public money on his legal defense. The former officer, William Darby, 28, resigned from the force only last […]
The reports hit the Roman Catholic Church in rapid succession: Analyses of cellphone data obtained by a conservative Catholic blog seemed to show priests at multiple levels of the Catholic hierarchy in both the United States and the Vatican using the gay hookup app Grindr. The first report, published late last month, led to the […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – An online appeal for donations to organise flights to rescue vulnerable Afghans from the Taleban has quickly found a large audience of Americans eager to help. In one day, more than 100,000 people donated more than US$5.8 million (S$7.9 million) to the effort in Afghanistan, exceeding its initial goal of raising US$4.4 […]
New York City police officials, confronting a lagging vaccination rate among officers even as coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths rise in the city, warned officers that they would discipline unvaccinated personnel who do not wear masks while on duty. The policy, which was announced in a bulletin this week and which the New York Post […]
Cuba’s health care system, long a source of national pride, is in acute distress, particularly in distant provinces. After fending off the coronavirus last year, Cuba has been ravaged this summer by the highly contagious Delta variant, which has sent case rates soaring and swamped the country’s medical system. More than 8,600 new cases were […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Three US senators – Republican Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Democrat John Hickenlooper of Colorado and independent Angus King of Maine – disclosed on Thursday (Aug 19) they had tested positive for Covid-19. All three had been vaccinated against the coronavirus. Hickenlooper, 69, said on Twitter he had “tested positive for a breakthrough […]
President Joe Biden will not seek an extension of the enhanced $300 weekly unemployment benefits past September 6 when they are set to expire. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen confirmed that the extra weekly payments would not continue, in a letter to the Senate and House and Senate finance committee chairs on […]
Jerhonda Pace was only 16, but R. Kelly, the superstar singer who was having sex with her, wanted her to dress even younger, Ms. Pace told jurors on Thursday. “He wanted me to put my hair up in pigtails and dress like a Girl Scout,” said Ms. Pace, 28, the first of Mr. Kelly’s accusers […]
The wildfires burning in Northern California, including the rapidly expanding Caldor fire, are affecting more people than simply those forced to evacuate. Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at the University of California, Davis, said the air quality in the area was getting worse every day. “I can look right at the […]
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — In the not-too-distant past, motorists driving along a stretch of Interstate 35 just northeast of San Antonio were met with vast fields of wildflowers and grazing cows in grassy pastures. Today, the cattle are gone, replaced with clusters of sleek apartments, gated communities and big-box stores. And New Braunfels, the third-fastest-growing […]