SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — Towering over the borderland, Mount Cristo Rey is nature’s barrier between Mexico and the United States. Each year for nearly a century it has drawn thousands of people who tread up a constellation of switchbacks representing the “Via Crucis,” or Way of the Cross, to pray beneath the 29-foot-tall limestone crucifix […]
At an optical business in New York City, it took months of coaxing, a cash bonus and a weekly testing mandate to persuade 90 percent of the staff to get a coronavirus vaccine. By Nicole Hong Tiara Felix loves her job at an eyewear store in the Bronx, where she spends five days a week […]
A family, traumatized by a warrant-less police search, has sued the Chicago Police Department after cops allegedly pointed guns at two young girls and their elderly grandfather. Police burst into Regina Evans and Steven Winters’ home in August 2019 and told a confused Winters to ‘get down on the f**king floor’, states the lawsuit filed […]
Part of what Katherine Lee loves about Moscow, Idaho, where she lives, are the trails 10 minutes away. She visits with family or friends several days a week to hike or mountain bike, or to have walking meetings with colleagues. But the trails have been closed for weeks this summer, to mitigate risk as wildfires […]
United Airlines has announced that all its employees in the US must get vaccinated against the coronavirus by late October, or risk being terminated. It is the first major American airline carrier to impose the requirement – one of the strictest vaccine mandates from any US company. The airline’s mandate applies to all 67,000 of […]
The second-largest reservoir in the US has hit all-time low water levels amid a climate change-induced megadrought engulfing the country’s western states. Lake Powell, a massive reservoir on the Utah-Arizona border, saw its water levels reach a record low of 3,553ft (1,082m) last week. The National Park Service, which is in charge of the popular […]
Donald Trump has attacked Andrew Cuomo as the New York governor faces impeachment over claims he sexually harassed 11 women. The former president, 75, said Cuomo, 63, has ‘got real problems’ after a damning 165-page report from New York’s attorney general, released on Tuesday, alleged he harassed multiple women – including some of his colleagues. One […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday (Aug 6) that it may not have enough funding for the next six months to help the millions of people in Myanmar facing food insecurity amid a wave of Covid-19 infections and political unrest in the South-east Asian nation. The WFP said […]
Six people have died in Alaska after a sightseeing plane crashed in southern Alaska, the US Coast Guard has said. The plane’s emergency alert beacon was activated when it crashed near Ketchikan and a helicopter company reported seeing wreckage on a ridgeline in the search areas. The coast guard said it found the wreckage on […]
The nurses in the COVID unit at UF Health hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, cannot believe they are here again, reconfiguring their space like a jigsaw puzzle to find room for yet more patients. Over the past three weeks, coronavirus cases have risen across a country in the grip of the Delta variant, but the surge […]