WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Joe Biden’s address to Congress broke a historic glass ceiling on Wednesday (April 28), as two women – Vice-President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – sat behind the president for the first time in United States history. The seating arrangement carried a symbolic meaning for the advancement of US […]
Three days after George Floyd was killed in police custody in Minneapolis last year, the city’s Third Precinct police building was set on fire. Thousands of protesters surrounded the building as it burned, sending giant orange flames and tall black clouds of smoke into the sky. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old man was sentenced to four […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US prosecutors charged three white men in Georgia on Wednesday (April 28) with federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping in last year’s slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was gunned down as he was out jogging through a suburban neighbourhood. The Justice Department said that former police officer Gregory McMichael, […]
The effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office to obscure the pandemic death toll in New York nursing homes was far greater than previously known, with aides repeatedly overruling state health officials over a span of at least five months, according to interviews and newly unearthed documents. Mr. Cuomo’s most senior aides engaged in a […]
Finding Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd was a “no-brainer”, one of the jurors in the trial has said. Brandon Mitchell said he and the 11 other jurors could have completed their deliberations within the 10 hours they actually took – and might have finished in just 60 minutes. They did not need much […]
Brendan Hunt was struggling to find success as an actor in New York City when he discovered another way to become famous. He began to film conspiracy theory videos about the Sept. 11 attacks and other mass killings, building an audience over many years. He posted anti-Semitic propaganda, and branded himself as a free speech […]
BOSTON (REUTERS) – A Chinese businessman pleaded guilty on Wednesday (April 28) to US charges that he smuggled marine technology out of the United States for the benefit of a Chinese military university involved in developing underwater drones. Shuren Qin, a marine biologist and founder of a company that sells oceanographic instruments, pleaded guilty in […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969, died on Wednesday (April 28) after battling cancer, his family said. “Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility, and faced this, […]
Virus cases and rates are plunging, and vaccination is rising, but one doctor cautioned, “We still have a long way to go.” By Sharon Otterman and Joseph Goldstein After months of persistently high coronavirus caseloads, New York City appears to have finally reached a turning point. The city’s second wave is ebbing, a half-year after […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Microsoft Corp may revise a programme that shares coding flaws in its products with other companies after a suspected leak led to a sprawling cyber attack against thousands of Microsoft Exchange e-mail clients globally. The technology giant is weighing how and when to share data with at least some of the […]