A baby boy who was born deaf was filmed smiling and giggling after hearing music for the first time after having life-changing implants. Manning James, from Roanoake in Virginia, appeared taken aback as his ears picked up the sound of a television playing at his home earlier this month. But within minutes, Manning was bouncing […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Texas began rolling power blackouts for millions of households for the first time in a decade as an unprecedented Arctic freeze wrought chaos in United States energy markets. The operator of the state’s power grid Ercot ordered network operators to reduce strain on the system as people crank up heaters to try […]
For 31 straight years, Louisiana has reported the nation’s highest murder rate. To solve that puzzle, first consider a wider pattern in the South: a history of violence that stretches back further still. A New York Times article in 1998 pointed to “a divergence that has persisted for as long as records have been kept” […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Joe Biden on Sunday (Feb 14) called on Congress to enact “common-sense” gun law reforms, three years after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. “This administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call,” Biden said in a statement marking the Valentine’s Day shooting in 2018 […]
NEW ORLEANS — During the final days of the annual citywide celebration known as Mardi Gras, Kyle Thibodeaux typically earns around $2,000 at his bartending job on Bourbon Street — as much as he sometimes makes in a month. “It’s the single busiest weekend of the whole year,” Mr. Thibodeaux said. But this year, with […]
Starting Sunday, New Yorkers with chronic health conditions like obesity and hypertension can schedule their appointments to get the Covid-19 vaccine at state-run mass vaccination sites. They join a growing number of people in the state who are eligible for the vaccine despite a shortage in supply. Those who are now eligible include adults who […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For weeks after he opened a daytime shelter for the homeless, Jae Bennett was fairly rigid about the building’s 37-person capacity. The last thing he wanted was for a lapse in social distancing to cause the deadly coronavirus to spread among a population in which many people were in frail health. […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Joe Biden said on Saturday (Feb 13) that the Senate’s acquittal of former President Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection was a reminder that democracy was fragile, and every American had a duty to defend the truth. “This sad chapter in our history has reminded us that democracy is fragile,” […]
Former US president Donald Trump has been found not guilty in his impeachment trial. Although the final vote came in as 57 “guilty” and 43 “not guilty”, the Democrats did not reach the two-thirds majority they needed to secure a conviction. Seven members of Mr Trump’s own party (Senators Sasse, Romney, Burr, Collins, Murkowski, Toomey […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The White House on Saturday (Feb 13) called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the Covid-19 outbreak, saying it has “deep concerns” about the way the findings of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) Covid-19 report were communicated. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a […]