President Joe Biden has reached his 100th day in the White House. How has he spent his honeymoon period? And how is he navigating tricky relationships with Russia, China and the UK? Host Dermot Murnaghan speaks to Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former aide to President Trump, about Mr Biden’s stance on racial equality and his […]
WASHINGTON — Executives of Emergent BioSolutions, the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer that was forced to discard up to 15 million doses because of possible contamination, reported a shake-up in leadership on Thursday and offered the most fulsome defense yet of the company’s performance. While announcing the high-level personnel changes and taking responsibility for the ruined doses, […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Former vice-president Mike Pence is making his first public appearance since leaving office in the early presidential primary state of South Carolina on Thursday (April 29), as he and other potential 2024 Republican candidates carefully test the waters with Donald Trump looming in the background. Trump is holding out the possibility that […]
“What has been a secretly whispered stress campaign for so many parents for so long is finally seeing prime-time attention.” — Senator Patty Murray of Washington In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. The last time America came close to creating a national child […]
Two sheriff’s deputies were among four people who were killed in a 13-hour standoff in Boone, N.C., that the authorities said started on Wednesday morning when they were called to the home of a man who had not shown up for work. Deputies from the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office arrived at a house at 9:44 […]
An eight-year-old girl leaped from the sixth floor balcony of a high-rise building to escape a fire and broke both of her legs. The girl was trapped by the fire that broke out around 6pm on Wednesday at a 17-story Bronx residential complex in New York City, officials told the New York Post. Video footage […]
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video Republican Senator Ted Cruz was caught sleeping, waking up, then snoozing again during President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress – a speech that Americans overwhelmingly approved of. Cruz, who has been a vocal supporter of Biden’s […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Thursday. Weather: Occasional showers, with afternoon thunderstorms. High in the mid-70s. Alternate-side parking: Suspended today for Orthodox Holy Thursday and tomorrow for Orthodox Holy Friday. Scott M. Stringer, the New York City comptroller and a candidate for mayor, now faces accusations of sexual […]
Identifying those psychological traits may help health officials convince the sizable minority of Americans who don’t want a coronavirus vaccine. Simply sharing information hasn’t worked. By Sabrina Tavernise For years, scientists and doctors have treated vaccine skepticism as a knowledge problem. If patients were hesitant to get vaccinated, the thinking went, they simply needed more […]
On the very spot from which Joe Biden addressed the American people, insurrectionists had tried to hijack his ascent to the presidency. That was less than four months ago. However typically upbeat President Biden’s tone in his first ever star-turn before a joint session of Congress, the rancour and bitterness remain a big part of […]