Fresh off a vote-counting debacle that caught national attention, the chaotic New York City Democratic mayoral primary is moving into a new phase: the wait for absentee ballots. A preliminary, nonbinding tally of ranked-choice votes on Wednesday showed a highly competitive race, with Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, holding a lead of about two […]
NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY (BLOOMBERG) – Johnson & Johnson said that its single-shot coronavirus vaccine neutralises the fast-spreading delta variant and provides durable protection against infection more broadly. The company said in a statement Thursday (July 1) that recipients of its vaccine produced strong neutralising antibodies over the course of at least eight months against […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Two weeks after President Joe Biden met President Vladimir Putin of Russia and demanded that he rein in the constant cyberattacks directed at US targets, US and British intelligence agencies Thursday (July 1) exposed the details of what they called a global effort by Russia’s military intelligence organisation to break into government […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A worker was trapped and several people were injured on Thursday (July 1) when a building under construction collapsed in Washington, fire officials said. Several workers had been caught in the debris and injured and had been removed by search and rescue crews, while neighboring homes were evacuated, Washington Fire and EMS […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – An annual US State Department report released on Thursday (July 1) said discriminatory policies perpetuated human trafficking, drawing a link with systemic racism in the United States and abroad for the first time. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in the Trafficking in Persons report that inequities undercut Washington’s battle against […]
Donald Trump is among the worst US leaders of all-time, according to a survey of more than 100 presidential historians. The former commander-in-chief came out 41st in the list, ahead of only Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan. The C-Span Presidential Historians Survey, now in its fourth edition, is carried out every time there […]
New Jersey’s yearlong ban on smoking inside casinos in Atlantic City will end on Sunday as the state continues to relax its coronavirus-related mandates. But even as Gov. Philip D. Murphy acknowledged an end to the safety rule he implemented when casinos reopened a year ago, he strongly suggested that he supported efforts to make […]
Joe and Jill Biden have arrived in Miami to visit the doomed apartment block that collapsed leaving at least 18 people dead and a further 147 people missing. The president and the first lady will meet with families of the victims later today and will also thank the first responders and rescue teams who have worked […]
The bodies of two children 4 and 10 years old were pulled from the Miami-area building collapse site, bringing the death toll up to 18. The children were among six victims found dead on the seventh day of search and rescue efforts. ‘The loss of children is too great to bear,’ Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella […]
Donald J. Trump’s long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg, surrendered on Thursday to the Manhattan district attorney’s office as he and the Trump Organization prepared to face charges in connection with a tax investigation, people with knowledge of the matter said. The exact charges were not yet known. Prosecutors were expected to unseal an […]