CALIFORNIA (REUTERS) – The Joe Biden administration late on Thursday (June 10) restored a US$929 million (S$1.23 billion) grant for California’s high-speed rail that former president Donald Trump revoked in 2019. The parties, which also include the California High-Speed Rail Authority and the US Transportation Department, agreed to restore the grant within three days, according […]
The top Democratic candidates in the New York City mayor’s race clashed sharply over political visions and personal ethics in a debate that began with sustained attacks against one candidate, Eric Adams, over questions of his residency and transparency. Two days before early voting begins and less than two weeks before the June 22 Democratic […]
The debate moderators wasted no time delving into the left-field issue that has dominated the mayoral race this week: Does Eric Adams, who has been one of the front-runners all spring, even live in the city he hopes to govern? The candidates were happy to pile on to Mr. Adams, to varying degrees, though after […]
AUSTIN, Texas — The State Bar of Texas is investigating whether Attorney General Ken Paxton committed professional misconduct by challenging President Biden’s victory in the courts, which a complaint called a “frivolous lawsuit” that wasted taxpayer money. The investigation, which could result in discipline ranging from a reprimand to disbarment, is the latest obstacle for […]
MIAMI (AFP) – Two people including a child were shot dead in a grocery store in Florida on Thursday (June 10), the latest in a series of shootings in the southern US state. The shooting – in which the gunman also killed himself – occurred in a Publix grocery store in Royal Palm Beach, 80 […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the reach of the federal Armed Career Criminal Act, a kind of three-strikes statute, ruling by a 5-to-4 vote that violent felonies committed recklessly — as opposed to intentionally or knowingly — do not count as strikes. The law requires mandatory 15-year sentences for people convicted of […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Emma Coronel Aispuro, on Thursday (June 10) pleaded guilty in federal court for her role in helping her husband run the Sinaloa cartel of smugglers. Clad in a green jumpsuit and wearing a white face mask, Coronel appeared for a court hearing […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A nurse who is an anti-vaxxer tried to prove that Covid vaccines make people magnetic by sticking a key to her neck – but it kept falling off. The nurse, who hasn’t been named, was left red-faced after repeatedly trying […]
More than 170 staff at a group of hospitals in Houston, Texas have been suspended for refusing to get a vaccine after being asked to by company bosses. Houston Methodist, which runs almost 300 healthcare sites in the city, has said 178 of its staff have been banned from coming into work without pay after […]
What did you do during the pandemic? Tzali Reicher, who is 24 and lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, met his future wife, got married, traveled among three continents and embarked on a project to track every Jew who died of the coronavirus. He counted colleagues, neighbors, people he admired, including the rabbi he hoped to […]