MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Mexican and foreign companies are lining up for a share of what experts say is likely to become one of the world’s biggest legal marijuana markets, worth billions of dollars. Mexican lawmakers are close to approving legalisation that is expected to catapult the country’s regulated cannabis trade past that of pioneers […]
A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia who has been a main conduit for information about the deadly rampage at three Atlanta-area massage businesses faced criticism on Wednesday for saying that Tuesday “was a really bad day” for the suspect, and for anti-Asian Facebook posts that he made last year. At a news conference, the deputy, Captain […]
Racially motivated violent extremists, such as white supremacists, and militia groups are two of the major security threats facing the US. Agencies contributing to the assessment by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence included the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center. The assessment said extremists who promote white […]
ATLANTA (NYTIMES) – When Mr Alex Wan moved to Atlanta in 1971, he was the only student of Asian descent in his class. His grandmother grew Chinese cabbage and melons in their garden because there was nowhere close to buy them. There was no Chinese church, so services were held in people’s homes. Over the […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Donald Trump said in a nationally televised interview that Americans should get vaccinated. The E.U. proposed a Covid-19 certificate that would allow travel through the region with proof of vaccination, a negative test or […]
With New York City’s mayoral primary a little more than three months away and a deadline to qualify for the city’s generous matching-funds program having just passed, pleas for donations have been in overdrive in recent days. But in the background, another spigot of money has quietly opened for two Democratic mayoral candidates who are […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – United States President Joe Biden says his rescue dog, a german shepherd named Major, is being trained after an incident last week but has not been banished from the White House, adding the pet is still adjusting to life there surrounded by strangers. “Major did not bite someone and penetrate the skin,” […]
Wednesday: Gov. Gavin Newsom starts campaigning against the effort to recall him. Also: Spring is here. By Jill Cowan Good morning. This week, California is taking its biggest strides yet toward a full reopening, a year after the state became the first in the nation to impose a shelter-in-place order. For the first time in […]
A vintage children’s hardback turned up in the mailroom of the Queens Public Library in Auburndale recently. The book was “Ol’ Paul, the Mighty Logger,” by Glen Rounds, a collection of Paul Bunyan tall tales. According to the date stamped on the borrowing card inside, it was about 23,000 days late. Betty Diamond, of Madison, […]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to two current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials. The officials say the restrictions are seen as an unofficial […]