WASHINGTON – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a reversal on Tuesday (July 27) recommended that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with significant or high spread of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. At present, with the exception of the Northeast and parts of the Upper Midwest, much of […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Thursday (July 29) that federal workers will be required to prove they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19 or submit to frequent coronavirus testing and other mitigation steps, according to a person familiar with the matter. A vaccine mandate won’t be finalised until Thursday, the person […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Pentagon and Republican congressmen on Tuesday (July 27) aired fresh concerns about China’s build-up of its nuclear forces after a new report saying Beijing was building 110 more missile silos. An American Federation of Scientists (AFS) report on Monday said satellite images showed China was building a new field of silos […]
A unique Wu-Tang Clan album, which was once owned by imprisoned pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, has been sold by the US government. Shkreli, 38, was ordered to forfeit the only copy of Wu-Tang’s seventh album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, in 2017 and the money raised from its sale will go toward paying off […]
A former babysitter who served a few months in jail for shaking a 5-month-old boy so forcefully 37 years ago that he suffered permanent brain damage now faces a possible life sentence after his death from those injuries in 2019, at age 35, the authorities said. Terry McKirchy, 59, who now lives in Texas, was […]
By Annie Karni The White House is masking up again, just over two months after President Biden and senior government officials shed their face coverings in the biggest sign to date that the country was moving toward normalcy. After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that people vaccinated against the coronavirus […]
A new study of hundreds of Black educators, students and parents found that Black students will be returning to the classroom this fall with disproportionate amounts of trauma and heightened mistrust of education, resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and continued instances of racial injustice. The study, released this month by the Black Education Research Collective […]
MIAMI (NYTIMES) – Even in a state accustomed to strange things washing ashore – like cocaine bricks, corpses, sharks and unexploded military ordnance – the floating contraption that beached itself in Florida over the weekend had the authorities doing a double take. A man popped out of the top hatch of the contraption, a makeshift […]
The F.B.I. agents showed Thomas Webster a wanted flier with a picture taken during the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. In the photograph, a middle-aged man is shouting angrily across a metal barricade with a pole in his raised right hand. “That’s a picture of you, right, Mr. Webster?” an agent asked, according to […]
By Emily Cochrane and Jonathan Weisman President Biden is meeting with Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, the lead Democratic negotiator on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, on Tuesday as talks between a group of senators and White House officials continue to hinge on a handful of unresolved disagreements over funding levels and how to finance the […]