Five people, including the Czech Republic’s richest man, were killed on a heli-skiing excursion on Saturday when their chopper crashed near a glacier in Alaska, officials said. The Czech billionaire, Petr Kellner, whose net worth has been estimated at $17.5 billion by Forbes, was aboard the Airbus AS350 B3 helicopter when it went down near […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Dr Deborah Birx, who coordinated the White House coronavirus task force under President Donald Trump, believes the Covid-19 death toll in the United States would have been substantially lower if the government had responded more effectively. In an interview with CNN, parts of which were released before broadcast later on Sunday (March […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Dr Deborah Birx, who coordinated the White House coronavirus task force under President Donald Trump, believes the Covid-19 death toll in the United States would have been substantially lower if the government had responded more effectively. In an interview with CNN, parts of which were released before broadcast later on Sunday (March […]
OHIO (NY TIMES) – As town meetings go, the discussion was fairly routine, meandering from what Memorial Day celebrations might look like in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, to a federal grant application for bulletproof vests for police officers. But when the time came for the trustees in West Chester Township, Ohio, to […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Top Biden administration officials on Sunday (March 28) expressed concern about the way a pivotal report examining the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic was crafted, including the possibility that the Chinese government had a hand in writing it. The Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the findings from its mission to […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The Biden administration is escalating efforts to safeguard the US power grid from hackers, developing a plan to better coordinate with industry to counter threats and respond to attacks, said people familiar with the matter. Top administration officials, including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger, briefed top […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The violence meted out by Myanmar’s military since last month’s coup risks inflicting “catastrophic” consequences on the country’s younger generation, the head of the UN children’s agency warned Sunday (March 28). The comments from Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore come after at least seven children were among more than 100 people killed […]
NASHVILLE — Unrelenting rainfall in Nashville turned roads to rapids, sweeping vehicles off the streets and drowning a motorist who was carried away, one of at least four people killed during a storm that continued to threaten the city on Sunday, the authorities said. The water also gushed through neighborhoods, flooding houses and stranding dozens […]
Friday: Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that all adults will be eligible for the vaccine by April 15. By Jill Cowan Good morning. Well, the moment many of us have been waiting for has arrived: Californians 50 and older will be eligible to be vaccinated starting April 1 and residents older than 16 will […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Saturday (March 27) that China’s tit-for-tat sanctions against two Americans in the growing dispute over Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs were “baseless” and would only shine a harsh spotlight on the “genocide” in Xinjiang. “Beijing’s attempts to intimidate and silence those speaking out for human rights […]