This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. India recorded over 100,000 new cases in one day for the first time. The U.S. is averaging more than three million vaccinations a day for the first time. Walgreens wasn’t following U.S. guidance on […]
By James Oliphant and Chris Kahn WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Since the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead and scores of others wounded. His supporters appear to have listened. Three months after […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said on Tuesday (April 6) it would discuss calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics with its allies after growing pressure to shun the Winter Games on human rights grounds. “It is something that we certainly wish to discuss,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said when asked if the United […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The United States is pressing ahead with plans to hit six nations that tax Internet-based companies with retaliatory tariffs that could total almost US$1 billion (S$1.34 billion) annually. Goods entering the US – ranging from Austrian grand pianos and British merry-go-rounds to Turkish kilim rugs and Italian anchovies – could face tariffs […]
Six people from the same family have been found dead at a suburban Texas home in an apparent murder-suicide. Police officers from the town of Allen in Dallas said investigators believe brothers Tanvir Towhid, 21, and Farhan Towhid, 19, were behind the killings. Sgt Jon Felty from the Allen Police Department said one of the […]
In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine offered school districts early access to vaccines for their staff if they committed to opening classrooms by March 1. In Washington, Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency related to child and adolescent mental health and banned fully virtual instruction starting in April. In Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker announced […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The deadly breach of the Capitol’s perimeter could delay the gradual reopening of the building’s grounds to the public just as lawmakers were eyeing a return to more normal security measures following the Jan. 6 insurrection. Capitol Police officer William “Billy” Evans, an 18-year veteran of the force, was killed Friday when […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Americans who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 can safely travel at home and abroad, as long as they take basic precautions like wearing masks, federal health officials announced on Friday (April 2), a long-awaited change from the dire government warnings that have kept many millions home for the past year. In announcing […]
Authorities are piecing together what they know about the man shot dead outside the US Capitol building after he launched a fatal attack on police officers. US Capitol Police officer William Evans died in hospital after a man rammed a car into two officers and “lunged” towards them with a knife in his hand at […]
MINNEAPOLIS (REUTERS) – A Minneapolis homicide investigator testified on Friday (April 2) that Derek Chauvin used “totally unnecessary” deadly force when kneeling on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest last May that sparked global protests against police brutality. Chauvin, who is white, was fired by the city’s police department the day after he was captured […]