MONTREAL — About a decade ago, the comedian Mike Ward, of Quebec, mocked the voice of a well-known disabled teenage singer in a standup routine, roasting him for being off-key, making fun of his hearing aid and calling him “ugly.” But he said he had defended the boy to others because he would soon die. […]
BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) — An alleged gunman's addiction to opioid medication was the “driving force” behind last week’s shooting at a Minnesota health clinic that left one person dead and four injured, a veteran investigator said in his application for a search warrant. Wright County Deputy Patrick Bailey said authorities found a plastic bag containing […]
By Julie Turkewitz and Isayen Herrera Photographs by Meridith Kohut Affordable birth control has disappeared, pushing many women into unplanned pregnancies at a time when they can barely feed the children they already have. SAN DIEGO DE LOS ALTOS, Venezuela — The moment Johanna Guzmán, 25, discovered she was going to have her sixth child […]
WASHINGTON – United States President Joe Biden breathed new life into the transatlantic alliance in his first address to a global audience on Friday (Feb 19), calling on the US and Europe to work together to counter economic and security challenges from China and Russia, and common challenges like the pandemic. “I know the past […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. The G7 more than doubled its pledges for a global international vaccination campaign, to $7.5 billion. Many U.S. states are clawing back vaccine doses from unused stockpiles. Extreme winter weather in the U.S. continues […]
PORTAGE, MICHIGAN (BLOOMBERG) – President Joe Biden on Friday (Feb 19) slammed Donald Trump for failing to secure enough Covid-19 shots as he toured a Michigan facility where Pfizer is manufacturing its vaccine. “My predecessor – as my mother would say, God love him – failed to order enough vaccines,” Biden said on Friday, repeating […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Major US airlines on Friday (Feb 19) said they would adopt a voluntary international contact tracing programme, months after the White House under then-president Donald Trump blocked a mandatory effort. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and other major airlines said they had committed to collecting contact tracing data […]
Joe Biden has officially rejoined the 2015 Paris Accord aimed at tackling climate change, almost four years after Donald Trump pulled the US out of it. President Biden’s decision was revealed by his Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Friday. Biden said afterwards: ‘We can no longer delay or do the bare minimum to address […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Major US airlines on Friday (Feb 19) said they would adopt a voluntary international contact tracing programme, months after the White House under then-president Donald Trump blocked a mandatory effort. American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and other major airlines said they had committed to collecting contact tracing data […]
New York City’s largest union endorsed Maya Wiley, the former MSNBC analyst and legal counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, in the race for mayor on Friday, boosting her campaign as she tries to prove that she is a leading candidate in the crowded Democratic field. The powerful union, Local 1199 of the Service Employees […]