Kathryn Garcia, 51, the former sanitation commissioner, trailed Eric Adams by just one percentage point after after New York City’s Board of Elections released a new count on Tuesday evening that included tens of thousands of absentee ballots. After beginning her campaign in relative obscurity, she surged late in the race, and earlier election results […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Faced with a steep decline in vaccination rates, President Joe Biden said on Tuesday (July 6) that his administration would send people door to door, set up clinics at workplaces and urge employers to offer paid time off as part of a renewed push to reach tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans. […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States Transportation Department finalised an order on Tuesday (July 6) banning ticket sales for air travel between the US and Belarus, acting after Minsk forced a Ryanair flight to land and arrested a dissident journalist who was aboard. The department on June 29 had issued a show cause order proposing […]
Cases in New York City remain low, even though less than half of city residents are fully vaccinated. By Jonathan Wolfe and Amelia Nierenberg This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Cases are surging in crowded U.S. immigrant detention centers. Israeli […]
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – Search and rescue teams pulled the remains of eight more victims from the ruins of a Florida condominium tower on Tuesday (July 6), raising the number of confirmed fatalities to 36 with 109 people considered missing. The updated death toll was announced hours after several hundred mourners filled a Miami Beach […]
The similarities in the sermons are unmistakable. “I don’t think I’ve given you this before,” the pastor in North Carolina tells his congregation. He goes on to list “five selfs” that signify hostility to God: self-will, self-glory, self-gratification, self-righteousness and self-sufficiency. Cut to an older pastor in Alabama, at a podium a year later: “Let […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The White House’s top official for Asia said America’s position in the region has “slipped” as an assertive China makes advances across the region. “I think we recognise that the United States has a lot of work to do,” Dr Kurt Campbell, the US coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs on the National Security […]
Last summer, investors flocked to the biotech company Emergent BioSolutions. The host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” Jim Cramer, gushed about the Maryland business, which had secured a lucrative government contract to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines for Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca. “I love this story,” Mr. Cramer said last August, hailing the company’s soaring stock price. […]
At least 28 people are confirmed to have died in the Miami building collapse after rescue workers pulled a further four bodies from the rubble. The four unidentified remains were recovered from beneath the concrete of the wrecked of Champlain Towers South in Surfside on Monday and overnight. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 117 […]
SURFSIDE, Fla. — Ines Mason bought the 14th-floor condo, perched on an island in Biscayne Bay, five years ago as a getaway, lured by the captivating view of the water. “In the morning, the sun rises, you can see that,” she said. “It’s amazing.” But after seeing another high rise similar to her own collapse […]