IOWA (BLOOMBERG) – Just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down travel last spring, the princess who is Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States paid a visit to the Wyoming Supreme Court in Cheyenne to talk about women’s rights with the tribunal’s three female jurists. In July, Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud spoke about […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. The U.S. is expected to provide 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses to 100 nations over the next two years. Infections are rising in Mongolia, where half the people have received the Sinopharm vaccine. France is […]
President Joe Biden will reportedly announce that the US is purchasing 500million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccines to donate to the world. Biden is set to announce the plan at the Group of Seven meeting in UK this week, three people with knowledge on the matter told the Washington Post on Wednesday afternoon. The president’s […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin directed the Pentagon on Wednesday (June 9) to sharpen its focus on China, which the United States has tagged as its top strategic rival. “Now, it is up to the Department to get to work,” Austin said after issuing an internal directive to the giant Pentagon bureaucracy. […]
Michael Smith, who helped shape policies that promoted community policing, eased cash requirements for bail and encouraged prosecutors and judges to explore alternatives to prison, died on May 31 at his home in Minneapolis. He was 78. The cause was lung cancer, his wife, Katherine Kruse, said. From 1974 through 1995, Mr. Smith profoundly influenced […]
As a Catholic nun, Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper had taken a vow of poverty. But this week, prosecutors said Sister Mary Margaret, 79, had agreed to plead guilty to stealing more than $835,000 from a Catholic elementary school to support a gambling habit and to pay for other personal expenses. Sister Mary Margaret was charged […]
Most classrooms are open as the school year comes to a close. By Amelia Nierenberg and Kate Taylor This is the Education Briefing, a weekly update on the most important news in American education. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. This week: After a year of remote learning and quarantines, most […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday (June 9) announced an agreement with Merck to buy 1.7 million courses of an experimental antiviral pill against Covid-19. The US$1.2 billion (S$1.59 billion) deal is for a drug called molnupiravir, which is currently being tested in a global phase three clinical trial of 1,850 people, with results […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden is withdrawing a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok and ordering a new Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps, the White House said on Wednesday (June 9). The administration of former president Donald Trump had attempted […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video A pack of at least seven sharks began circling near three terrified women on an inflatable lilo in waters off a Florida beach. The close-encounter with the hammerhead sharks took place at Pensacola beach, on the Florida-Alabama border, and was […]