MIAMI BEACH (AFP) – Throngs of revellers flocking to Miami Beach, Florida for spring break have become so uncontrollable that authorities imposed a curfew on Saturday (March 20) that they hope will spoil the party. For the next 72 hours, visitors will have to leave streets and restaurants will close their doors at 8pm local […]
For many long weeks last summer, protesters in American cities faced off against their own police forces in what proved to be, for major law enforcement agencies across the country, a startling display of violence and disarray. In Philadelphia, police sprayed tear gas on a crowd of mainly peaceful protesters trapped on an interstate who […]
ATLANTA (REUTERS) – Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday (March 20) in support of the Asian American community after a shooting at three local day spas this week left eight people dead, six of them Asian women. The killings followed a year of mounting anti-Asian violence in the […]
In 1966, Joan Hunter of Scituate, Mass., sat down with her husband and three children to watch a special news report about the Vietnam War. As the rest of the family went to bed, Ms. Hunter remained in front of the television, transfixed as a reporter interviewed members of the First Cavalry Division. One piece […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – New US Trade Representative Katherine Tai vowed on Friday (March 19) to leverage trade to help the US economy recover from the coronavirus crisis by focusing on policies that promoted more equitable growth and benefited American workers. Ms Tai, the first woman of colour to lead the agency, was sworn in on […]
New York City’s public school system, the nation’s largest, will give families another chance to enroll their children in in-person classes following new guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday. The new C.D.C. guidance allows elementary school students wearing masks to be spaced three feet […]
Until Tuesday, when eight people were killed in Atlanta-area spas, it had been a year since there had been a large-scale shooting in a public place. In 2018, the year that a gunman killed 17 people and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., there were 10 mass shootings where […]
A federal investigation into Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the pandemic has focused in recent weeks on whether the governor and his senior aides provided false data on resident deaths to the Justice Department, according to four people with knowledge of the investigation. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation have […]
In February, the Biden administration signaled that past marijuana use would not necessarily disqualify a person for employment in the federal government. It was a change that was seen as a way to open the door for younger talent, but one that only took a few weeks to be tested. On Friday, responding to a […]
Racism is persistent and pervasive in America’s history and present, but what about its future? US correspondent Cordelia Lynch reflects on whether the US has reached a true turning point, with promises of institutional reform starting to come into effect, and the upcoming trial of Derek Chauvin throwing George Floyd‘s tragic killing into the spotlight […]