WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Vice-President Kamala Harris unveiled an additional US$310 million in US aid to Central America after a virtual meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Monday (April 26), as the two countries agreed to work together to control migration. President Joe Biden gave Harris the job of leading US efforts with Mexico […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – A 61-year-old Asian man who was assaulted in East Harlem while pushing a grocery cart full of bottles and cans remained in critical but stable condition on Monday morning (April 26), police said, another victim in a rising wave of attacks against Asians in New York City. The man – identified […]
Fueled by partisan fury and a backlash against pandemic shutdowns, a Republican-led campaign to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has officially qualified for the ballot, setting the stage for the second recall election in the state’s history, officials said on Monday. In a widely expected filing, the California secretary of state’s office found that […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – A growing call for health officials to relax rules about outdoor mask wearing could soon lead to one of the most significant changes in virus guidelines since the US first told Americans to don face coverings to curb the spread of Covid-19. Outdoor mask wearing has been the subject of controversy in […]
Africa’s slow vaccine rollout could endanger millions of lives — on and off the continent. By Amelia Nierenberg and Jonathan Wolfe This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. India continues to shatter case records as it awaits international aid. The Biden […]
Over the past decade, the United States population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s, the Census Bureau reported on Monday, a remarkable slackening that was driven by a leveling off of immigration and a declining birthrate. The bureau also reported changes to the nation’s political map: The long-running trend of the South and […]
The Biden administration, under increasing pressure to address a devastating surge of the coronavirus in India, said on Sunday that it had removed impediments to the export of raw materials for vaccines and would also supply India with therapeutics, rapid diagnostic test kits, ventilators and personal protective gear. “Just as India sent assistance to the […]
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced on Monday a sweeping Justice Department investigation into the Louisville, Ky., metro police and the county government there, the second time in a week that the department has opened a civil investigation into a police force that prompted national furor for the killing of an unarmed Black person. The […]
The family of a Black man killed by sheriff’s deputies in Elizabeth City, N.C., last week will be shown video from the deputies’ body cameras on Monday before it is released to the public in response to mounting pressure from protesters and public officials. The family will hold a news conference after viewing of the […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – With President Joe Biden approaching his 100th day in office this week, a slim majority of Americans approve of the job he’s doing, but he has been unable to overcome the country’s entrenched partisan divide, according to separate polls released Sunday (April 25). The surveys, from Fox News, NBC News and ABC […]