By Michael Gold New York City is now allowing any eligible New Yorker to get vaccinated at city-run sites without an appointment, an attempt to simplify the inoculation process and expand access, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday. “We want to make it simple,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference. “We want […]
US politicians have overwhelmingly backed a bill aimed at tackling anti-Asian hate crimes in America. The Senate voted 94-1 to approve the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act in a rare showing of bipartisan unity. The new bill, if approved by the House of Representatives, will give federal, state and local law enforcement greater powers to fight […]
SINGAPORE – The Republic may be small and without access to resources, but it will strive to achieve its climate targets through innovation, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday (April 23). He was speaking on the second day of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, which was convened by United States President Joe Biden. […]
Twin infants, a boy and a girl, were found dead in an apartment in Queens on Thursday, and their mother was in custody, officials said. The babies, who were six weeks old, were dead when police officers answering a 911 call arrived at the apartment, on the fifth floor of a building in the Woodside […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A bullet hole in a garage near her sister’s house marks the place where Adrienne Hood’s son, who was Black, was shot and killed by police officers in Columbus in 2016. Ms. Hood said her son’s death opened her eyes to a city and a Police Department that have been enveloped in […]
The mother of a 7-month-old boy who is suspected to have died of malnutrition admitted that she did not want to ‘carry a fat-ass child’ and that she kept him on a ‘Biblical’ vegan diet. Carla Garriques, 28, held up and slapped the Bible while explaining how she fed Kameri Garriques, who was found dead. […]
All 40 world leaders who were invited to the climate summit hosted by US President Joe Biden have confirmed their attendance, setting up a meeting of the world’s largest polluters and economies with the purpose of galvanising countries to do more to combat climate change before time runs out. The two-day virtual meeting starting today […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – An unvaccinated worker infected with a Covid-19 variant sparked an outbreak at a United States nursing home where nearly all the residents had been inoculated, said a study out on Wednesday (April 22). The dozens of cases, including 22 among fully vaccinated residents and staff, highlighted the importance of broad vaccine coverage […]
A police lieutenant in Virginia lost his job this week after he contributed $25 to a legal-defense fund and expressed praise for Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people last year during protests in Kenosha, Wis., officials said. The lieutenant, William Kelly, a member of the Norfolk Police Department for nearly 19 years, […]
Minneapolis had been braced for this moment. A sense of anxiety hanging over the city for months. Its downtown boarded up and militarised in anticipation of this verdict. When the moment came the crowd fell silent outside the courthouse and held each other. The tense air broken with a shout, “guilty!”. There were cheers, tears, […]