NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Mr Matt Friedlander walked into the White Horse Tavern on Monday (May 3), grabbed a seat at the polished wooden bar and let out a sigh of relief as he ordered a Budweiser and a glass of bourbon: A major pandemic restriction on drinking in New York City was finally gone. […]
There’s usually nothing too dramatic about the census. Except perhaps what happened to New York State last week, when the Census Bureau released figures that will cost it a seat in Congress — because the state’s 2020 census population came up 89 people, or .00044 percent, short. But the near miss obscured something important: New […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – From muddy streets in South Africa’s townships to cocktail parties at Davos – Bill and Melinda Gates came as a pair. Together, they built a charitable empire through Bill’s technology company Microsoft and the massive non-profit they co-founded and co-chair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. And when it came time to […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – An armed person was shot by FBI agents on Monday (May 3) after a stand-off of several hours at the entry gate to the CIA headquarters, the federal investigation agency said. The unidentified person was prevented from driving past the initial gate into the CIA’s sprawling wooded compound just outside Washington early […]
In a funeral that served as both a celebration of life and a condemnation of racist policing in America, the family of Andrew Brown Jr. was joined in Elizabeth City, N.C., on Monday by the relatives of other Black men killed by police officers. Speaking to Mr. Brown’s sons, Eric Garner’s grandmother offered her love […]
Adam Kolton, an environmentalist and longtime defender of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska against oil and gas development, died on April 26 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 53 and lived in Bethesda. The cause was cancer, his wife, Laura, said. Through his work with two Washington, D.C.-based conservation groups, the […]
Donald Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani responded to an FBI search of his apartment last week by claiming that only attorneys for the ex-president fall subject to raids. Giuliani on Monday, five days after federal investigators executed a search warrant on his Manhattan home, claimed that the ‘out of control’ raid was motivated […]
Cities across the South were reeling from damage caused by tornadoes that touched down late Sunday night and Monday morning. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but damage — including downed trees and utility poles, and buildings whose roofs were torn off — was reported in parts of Mississippi and Kentucky, and tornado warnings […]
A state lawmaker serving as a substitute teacher allegedly kneed a male student in the crotch during a religious rant in the classroom. Mark Samsel, 36, a Republican state legislator in Kansas, was arrested after students recorded numerous videos of him opining on sex, masturbation, suicide, anti-LGBTQ bigotry and religion. Videos that students and parents […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organisation, plans to run for a second five-year term as the head of the agency, US-based Stat News reported on Monday (May 3), citing a person familiar with the matter. Tedros, as he is widely known, has been the public face of the WHO’s […]