SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday (June 2) that President Joe Biden could announce this week Washington’s plan for distributing 80 million coronavirus vaccines globally. “I want you to know as well that in a few short days …possibly as early as tomorrow, the president […]
Hours before the second Democratic debate was set to begin, Ifeoma Ike, the former senior adviser for Dianne Morales’s campaign, announced that she had joined Maya Wiley’s team in the same capacity. “Much love to my former team fighting for all the right things,” read her tweet announcing the change. “20 days left.” She elaborated […]
An inmate escaped custody while being transported to take a coronavirus test. Anthony Burnette was last spotted entering the woods in Tennessee and remains at large. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page on Tuesday that Burnette was last seen going into the woods behind the Grundy County Health Department in Altamont. […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Nasa announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour became a hellscape while our own thrived. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting […]
The second official debate among the eight major Democratic candidates for mayor of New York City takes place Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. The candidates set to attend are Eric Adams, Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia, Raymond J. McGuire, Dianne Morales, Scott M. Stringer, Maya Wiley and Andrew Yang. The event comes as the contest […]
Former President Donald Trump’s blog which he posted statements on after being banned from social media giants has been permanently shut down. From the Desk of Donald J Trump has been scrapped from the ex-president’s website and ‘will not be returning,’ his senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC on Wednesday morning. ‘It was just auxiliary to […]
Good morning. A week ago, a gunman opened fire at a San Jose rail yard, killing nine of his colleagues before apparently killing himself. Some eight miles away, the gunman’s home had been set ablaze. Although officials are still trying to piece together exactly what happened that morning and why — a task that may […]
Russian hackers have forced the shut down of America’s largest producer of beef prompting fears that the US could face meat shortages in the coming days. The attack on JBS happened on Sunday and has led to the world’s largest meat producer closing all of its nine major beef plants across the US. The company […]
A Californian teenager fought off a bear that was in her garden and attacking her dogs. Home security footage captured the American black bear and its two cubs walking on a wall outside 17-year-old Hailey Morinico’s home in Bradbury and her dogs running at them and barking. The bear cubs retreated while their mother swiped […]
PARIS (AFP) – Elephants are known to use versatile trunks to grab objects big and small, drink great draughts, and sniff out water kilometres away. But a tusker’s proboscis can also switch to vacuum mode to eat, with suction power ranging from faint to ferocious, researchers said on Wednesday (June 2). A team from the […]