Frances Degen Horowitz, who as the president of the City University of New York’s Graduate Center for nearly 15 years raised its academic stature and transplanted it to a prestigious Fifth Avenue campus, died on March 15 at her home in Manhattan. She was 88. Her son Benjamin H. Levi said the cause was heart […]
AstraZeneca has defended its use of coronavirus vaccine data after US authorities suggested some results from a large American-led trial may have been based on “outdated information”. The Anglo-Swedish company said the study showed the jab was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 illness and 100% effective against severe disease and hospitalisation. The trial of […]
He received briefcases stuffed with cash. He held clandestine meetings with drug traffickers in a rice factory. He sought to invest in a cocaine lab. He vowed to flood the United States with drugs. And he did all of this while pursuing the highest office in Honduras. These were some of the accusations made about […]
President Joe Biden has called for an assault weapon ban and the closure of background check loopholes, after the seventh mass killing this year in the US left 10 dead. In an address to the nation following the bloodshed at a supermarket in Colorado, the president said simply: “We must act.” And he called on […]
The suspect in the murders of 10 people at a Boulder, Colo., grocery store — the second mass shooting to shake the country in less than a week — is a 21-year-old man from a nearby Denver suburb who used an AR-15 type of assault rifle, law enforcement officials said. The police in Arvada, Colo., […]
ATLANTA — Bouquets of harlequin flowers and handwritten signs blanketed the entrance of Gold Spa, the bright colors standing out against the salon’s dim interior. “Hyun Jung Grant loved karaoke she made the world’s best kimchi stew, age 51,” one sign read. “We are not scapegoats!” another said. In the parking lot in front of […]
After a year where the pandemic and protests over police brutality underscored New York City’s broad racial inequities, Mayor Bill de Blasio will launch a sweeping initiative to examine and remake the City Charter to correct imbalances. The mayor will announce on Tuesday the formation of a Racial Justice Commission that will be empowered to […]
By Maggie Astor, Cora Engelbrecht, Thomas Kaplan and Glenn Thrush President Biden will travel to Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday to promote his $1.9 trillion stimulus, but his trip is being shadowed by a new outbreak of an old problem: the mass killings of Americans with easily obtainable guns. On Monday, a gunman killed 10 people, including a […]
(Reuters) – AstraZeneca may have used "outdated information" in the results of a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine trial, a U.S. health agency said on Tuesday, casting fresh doubt on the shot, its potential U.S. rollout and plunging its developers, once again, into controversy. The highly unusual rebuke from federal health officials comes just one day after […]
(Reuters) – A U.S. police officer killed in a mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket on Monday had seven children and had been looking for a new job in order to protect his family, his father said. The shooting in Boulder, Colorado, left nine other people dead while a suspect injured in the violence was […]