President Biden sent an urgent message last week to the most populous state in the nation: Keep Gov. Gavin Newsom “on the job.” On the airwaves, Senator Elizabeth Warren, the prominent progressive from Massachusetts, has been repeatedly warning that “Trump Republicans” are “coming to grab power in California.” Text messages — a half-million a day […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS/AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Monday (Aug 16) said he “stood squarely behind” his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and rejected broad criticism of the chaotic withdrawal that is posing a crisis for him. “I am president of the United States of America and the buck stops with me,” Mr Biden […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The US State Department lowered its India travel advisory to the second-lowest level as the virus situation there eases following one of the world’s most lethal resurgences. The shift to advising Americans to “exercise increased caution” when visiting India came after the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said the South Asian […]
WASHINGTON — The precedent, which ruled that much of eastern Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation, is just over a year old. A couple of weeks ago, Oklahoma asked the Supreme Court to overrule it. Two things had happened in between. First, as state officials and the dissenting justices had predicted it would, the ruling […]
The chairwoman of the Broward County School Board in Florida said on Sunday that the district had no choice but to defy Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ban on mask mandates. “We’re living out the nightmare of the Covid pandemic, where so many people in our county, including members of our staff and others, are being impacted,” […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday announced an early election in Canada, a move he said was needed to give his government a mandate for dealing with the pandemic and the recovery from its economic effects. The widely anticipated move signaled his confidence that voters would return him to power after three consecutive […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – When Mr Romain Daubec and his wife, Monica, left San Francisco last summer for Denver, Colorado, they thought their telework hundreds of miles from their offices would last no more than a half-year. But the stunningly rapid spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19 has them settling in for a new way […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – When Mr Romain Daubec and his wife, Monica, left San Francisco last summer for Denver, Colorado, they thought their telework hundreds of miles from their offices would last no more than a half-year. But the stunningly rapid spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19 has them settling in for a new way […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The number of children hospitalised with Covid-19 in the United States hit a record high of just over 1,900 on Saturday (Aug 14), as hospitals across the South were stretched to capacity fighting outbreaks caused by the highly transmissible Delta variant. The Delta variant, which is rapidly spreading among the unvaccinated portion […]
The US COVID crisis has seen children’s intensive care beds run out in Dallas and masks and testing to be made obligatory in schools across California. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced on Saturday that there were no paediatric ICU beds available across the entire 19-county area. Asked what to do if your child falls […]