DENVER (REUTERS) – A dangerous winter storm pummelled parts of the US Rockies and western Plains with heavy snow on Sunday (March 14), shutting down Denver’s busy airport and forcing the closure of major highways. Snowfall accumulations were expected to reach 1 metre or more in high-altitude areas. In Cheyenne, Wyoming, about 65.5cm of snow had […]
Exactly one year ago, a young woman died as a barrage of police gunfire ripped through the walls of her modest apartment in Louisville, Ky. For months, her death went largely unrecognized. Once more people took notice, though, the city was shaken to its core. Protests rocked the downtown area during the summer and fall […]
An exquisite Fifth Avenue townhouse of Gilded Age pedigree is on the market for $52 million. It features five stories, a curved terrace and a history that reads like a tragedy of manners, filled with grandeur and pride, pettiness and decay. Think Wharton; better yet, think Joyce. As home to the American Irish Historical Society, […]
For nearly three decades, teaching yoga in Alabama’s public schools has been forbidden by the state’s school board. One lawmaker, Jeremy Gray, has been trying to change that since 2019. He made progress on Thursday, when the state’s House of Representatives passed a bill that would override the ban. The bill, which was approved by […]
An announcer at a girls’ high school basketball game in Oklahoma used a racial slur as players kneeled during the national anthem. The Norman High School team took the knee before their quarter-final game against Midwest City – a familiar way of protesting racial and social injustice. One of the livestream’s broadcasters, who didn’t realise […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A US federal judge on Friday (March 12) temporarily blocked the Department of Defence from forcing American investors to divest holdings in Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp on the grounds the company has ties to China’s military. The Defence Department, under the Trump administration in mid-January, added Xiaomi and eight other firms […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Dr Deborah Birx, the former Trump White House coronavirus taskforce coordinator, is taking a private sector job, joining a Texas manufacturer that says its purifiers clean Covid-19 from the air within minutes and from surfaces within hours. Dr Birx will join Dallas-based ActivePure as chief scientific and medical adviser, she and the […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – When more than 180 nations agreed last year to place strict limits on exports of plastic waste from richer countries to poorer ones, the move was seen as a major victory in the fight against plastic pollution. But new trade data for January, the first month that the agreement took effect, […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – The buyer of a landmark work by the digital artist Beeple, which sold for US$69.3 million (S$93 million), is a leading collector of new technologies who operates under the pseudonym Metakovan, the auction house Christie’s announced on Friday (March 12). The sale of “Everydays: the First 5,000 Days”, a virtual mosaic […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, has been invited by Senate Budget Committee chairman Bernie Sanders to appear before his panel for a hearing on income and wealth inequality. Bezos has a net worth of US$182.7 billion (S$245 billion) according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, while many of Amazon’s […]