Former President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Rudy Giuliani aggressively pressured the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, a newly revealed 2019 phone call shows. The audio obtained by CNN on Monday was of Giuliani’s July 2019 phone call with US diplomat Kurt Volker and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s senior adviser […]
A Senate investigation into the US Capitol riots has uncovered a “number of intelligence and security failures” leading up to and on the day violence erupted. On 6 January pro-Trump supporters broke into the Capitol building, vandalised and destroyed property and ransacked offices as Congress met to certify Joe Biden as the 46th President of […]
As part of its strategy to vaccinate more of its population, Washington State will allow adults to claim a free marijuana joint when they receive a Covid-19 vaccination shot. The state’s liquor and cannabis board announced on Monday that the promotion, called “Joints for Jabs,” was effective immediately and would run through July 12. The […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – An effort by US President Joe Biden to reunite migrant families separated by the previous administration is moving slowly, with only seven children reunited with parents, according to a US Department of Homeland Security report released on Tuesday (June 8). Another 29 families are set to be reunited in the coming […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has warned migrants not to travel to the US – saying they will be turned away if they do try to cross the border. The direct threat from Joe Biden’s second-in-command came during a speech in Guatemala on Monday, as Harris visited the country for her first overseas trip since taking […]
Dozens of staff members at a Houston-area hospital protested on Monday night against a policy that requires employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The hospital, Houston Methodist, had told employees that they had to be vaccinated by Monday. Last month, 117 employees filed a lawsuit against the hospital over the vaccine policy. While the U.S. […]
Dozens of staff members at a Houston-area hospital protested on Monday night against a policy that requires employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The hospital, Houston Methodist, had told employees that they had to be vaccinated by Monday. Last month, 117 Houston Methodist employees filed a lawsuit against their employer over the vaccine policy. While […]
Staff members at a Houston-area hospital walked out on Monday night to protest a policy that requires employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. The hospital, Houston Methodist, had told employees that they had to be vaccinated by Monday. Last month, 117 Houston Methodist employees filed a lawsuit against their employer over the vaccine policy. While […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Joe Biden reaffirmed US support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity on Monday (June 7) after Russian troop movements on its border, and invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters that Mr Biden talked by phone with Mr Zelensky, telling him “he will stand up […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Biogen’s aducanumab, the first drug to target an underlying cause of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, to be sold under the brand Aduhelm, is the first new approval of an Alzheimer’s drug since 2003 and the only treatment designed to slow progression of the mind-robbing […]