More than 50 million people in the western US have been warned to expect extreme heat over the coming days with temperatures set to hit 120F (49C). Eight states including California and Montana are under excessive heat warnings as forecasters predict heat records that have stood for more than 100 years to be beaten by […]
Business leaders warn the mayor that an influx of aid could be squandered on short-term programs that won’t help the unemployed. By Matthew Haag and Dana Rubinstein Mayor Bill de Blasio has many ideas about how to spend an unparalleled influx of $22 billion in federal aid heading to New York City. Source: Read Full […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The Pentagon is developing a proposal to send dozens of Special Forces trainers back to Somalia to help local forces combat al-Shabab, the terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaeda – a step that would partly reverse former president Donald Trump’s abrupt pullout of nearly all 700 American troops from the country in January. […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday (June 15) authorised around 14 million more doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine manufactured at a problem-plagued Baltimore factory, according to two sources familiar with the plans. The FDA confirmed it had authorised a batch of the one-dose vaccine made at Emergent BioSolutions […]
NASHVILLE — In a dramatic showdown on Tuesday, Southern Baptists elected a moderate pastor from Alabama as their next president, narrowly heading off an attempted takeover by the denomination’s insurgent right wing. The election of the pastor, Ed Litton, was the result of what was effectively a three-way standoff for the leadership of the nation’s […]
HILLSBOROUGH, CALIFORNIA (NYTIMES) – Live from his home kitchen in the San Francisco Bay Area, Martin Yan flashed a smile, raised his cleaver and chanted the catchphrase that the 150 or so people watching him online were clamouring to hear: “If Yan can cook, so can you!” For Yan – who over a four-decade career […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Southwest Airlines said systems have been restored after the second disruption in a matter of hours forced the company to cancel or delay more than 1,400 flights. The airline scrubbed about 14 per cent of its scheduled flights and delayed another 28 per cent, according to flight tracker FlightAware as of […]
Daily deaths have dropped considerably since their January peak, with about 44 percent of the population now fully vaccinated. By Dan Levin and Julie Bosman It is a number that once seemed unimaginable. In the next few days, more than 600,000 people in the United States will have died from Covid-19, the highest death toll […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday (June 15) announced his nominees to be ambassadors to Israel, Mexico and Nato, as he moves to strengthen US alliances in tough regions. Among a slate of names announced by the White House on Tuesday were Thomas Nides, a Morgan Stanley vice-chairman who served as a deputy […]
Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein will be extradited to Los Angeles to face charges that he sexually assaulted five women in California, a New York judge has ruled. Weinstein, 69, and his lawyers fought his extradition for months, but Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case on Tuesday decided that Los Angeles County authorities could take over […]