The Delta variant of the coronavirus is becoming the globally dominant strain due to its “significantly increased transmissibility”, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) chief scientist has said. Dr Soumya Swaminathan’s comments came as officials in countries such as the United States, Britain, Germany and Russia urged more people to get vaccinated, warning that the more […]
Andrew Yang and Kathryn Garcia, two leading candidates in the New York City mayor’s race, joined each other on the campaign trail on Saturday, a late alliance that prompted their top rival, Eric Adams, to criticize the event as an effort to weaken the voice of minority voters. Mr. Yang and Ms. Garcia fell just […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – With marches, music and speeches, Americans on Saturday (June 19) celebrated “Juneteenth”, the newly declared national holiday that marks the end of slavery and which comes a year after George Floyd’s murder sparked anti-racism protests. Hundreds of events were planned across the country, from New York to Los Angeles, and most […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on Saturday (June 19) announced the passing of their German Shepherd Champ, who they called a “constant, cherished companion” for 13 years. “In our most joyful moments and in our most grief-stricken days, he was there with us, sensitive to our every unspoken feeling […]
It is not uncommon for the police to receive calls about people in distress at Monastery Beach in California — known locally as Mortuary Beach because of its deadly undertow and steep drop into the ocean. So when a teenager told the authorities that his father had not returned from a late afternoon swim there […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Crops have shriveled up under searing heat. Immense water reservoirs, which generate the bulk of Brazil’s electricity, are growing alarmingly shallow. And the world’s largest waterfall system, Iguaçu Falls, has been reduced from a torrent to a trickle. As Brazil approaches 500,000 deaths from Covid-19, a worsening drought is imperiling the […]
TOPANGA, Calif. — The Palisades Fire that forced hundreds to evacuate last month on the outskirts of Los Angeles never got close to James Grasso’s house. But he watched it carefully from the hilltops in Topanga Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, with his emergency radios and pagers by his side. Mr. Grasso, 60, a […]
As Eric Adams lined up for graduation at the New York City Police Academy in 1984, he congratulated the cadet who had beaten him out for valedictorian, only to learn that the other recruit’s average was a point lower than his own. Mr. Adams complained to his commander about the slight. “Welcome to the Police […]
A few weeks after the pandemic first shut down the city last spring, Russell Jackson, a chef and the owner of Reverence, a fine-dining restaurant in Harlem, started selling “Reverence to go” meal kits. Later in the year, he was tapped by the Aspen Institute’s Food and Society Program to join the James Beard Foundation, […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – John Micklus’s battle with Covid-19 began last Christmas and ended five weeks later with lungs so damaged that doctors said there was nothing they could do to save him. “The doctor’s recommendation was to get my affairs in order,” Mr Micklus said. The 62-year-old called his wife from his hospital bed […]