LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – A baking heatwave that has gripped the US South-west for three days spread eastward to Iowa and Missouri on Thursday (June 17), while punishing the hardest-hit areas with record high temperatures that have strained power systems. The National Weather Service has issued excessive heat warnings for much of the South-west, including […]
A day after the final Democratic debate in the New York City mayor’s race, as the candidates hit the campaign trail and remained focused on crime, Andrew Yang faced criticism over his comments about people with mental illness. Mr. Yang said during the debate that he wanted homeless people off the streets — comments that […]
When the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, a day after the Senate rushed the measure through unanimously, 14 House members, all Republicans, voted against the proposal. President Biden signed the measure into law on Thursday afternoon. Juneteenth celebrates the events of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A senior State Department official said on Thursday (June 17) the United States was working with Taiwan regulators to ensure Covid-19 vaccines will be delivered “in very short order” to the democratically self-ruled island claimed by China. Washington has promised to donate 750,000 vaccine doses to Taiwan as the United States and […]
Good morning. It was after 9 p.m. on Sunday when I heard two big booms within five minutes. In this part of West Los Angeles, the sounds aren’t so familiar — and two in quick succession had me wondering: fireworks or gunshots? A quick alert from both Citizen and Ring drew comments from neighbors that […]
The economy is changing so fast that just making sense of it is no easy task. Within a few months, the United States has gone from no jobs and depressed prices to widespread labor shortages and uncomfortably high inflation. In this most unusual recovery, the signals that economic policymakers use to inform their decisions are […]
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad may be deemed successful in cementing the Transatlantic Alliance, but Vice-President Kamala Harris’ first overseas trip has been called a failure, even by some Democrats. In fact, her June 7-9 trip to Guatemala and Mexico was always unlikely to succeed, given the challenge of addressing the root […]
LONDON – America is back: This is the message US President Joe Biden repeated throughout his just-concluded whirlwind tour of Europe. Mr Biden sought to reforge the transatlantic union between North America and Europe in a series of summits: the gathering of the Group of Seven (G-7) most industrialised states held in Britain, followed by […]
Donald Trump has attacked Joe Biden for ‘getting nothing’ out of his summit with Vladimir Putin and said ‘it was a good day for Russia’. The former US president blasted his successor on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News, shortly after Biden’s meeting with Putin in Geneva had concluded. Specifically, he accused Biden of giving […]
The first “murder hornet” discovered in the US this year has been found north of Seattle. The dead Asian giant hornet, which was found in Snohomish County, appears to be unrelated to findings in Canada and Whatcom County along the Canadian border in 2019 and 2020. The insects are two inches (about 5cm) long, are […]