WASHINGTON — Senator Richard C. Shelby, a shrewd force in the Senate for more than 30 years and a longtime political powerhouse in his home state of Alabama, said on Monday that he would not seek a seventh term. Mr. Shelby, 86, a onetime conservative Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in 1994, had […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – A weather system already punishing the Midwestern United States with the coldest temperatures of the winter was forecast to spin to the south and West on Wednesday (Feb 10), prompting ice storm warnings and likely hazardous travel conditions. The cell of arctic high pressure sitting over Canada that has driven temperatures […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Biden administration is looking forward to scrutinising data included in a World Health Organisation report released on Tuesday (Feb 9) that said the Covid-19 virus did not originate in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. The head of a WHO-led team probing the origins of […]
ATLANTA (NYTIMES) – The office of Georgia’s secretary of state, Mr Brad Raffensperger, on Monday (Feb 8) started an investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the state’s election results, including a phone call he made to Mr Raffensperger in which Mr Trump pressured him to “find” enough votes to reverse his loss. […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are preparing to speak on Wednesday evening (Thursday, Feb 11, Singapore time) for the first time since the new administration in Washington took office last month, according to two people familiar with the matter. The conversation between the leaders of the world’s two biggest […]
Huge Ma, a 31-year-old software engineer for Airbnb, was stunned when he tried to make a coronavirus vaccine appointment for his mother in early January and saw that there were dozens of websites to check, each with its own sign-up protocol. The city and state appointment systems were completely distinct. “There has to be a […]
For four frantic hours last weekend, Jeffrey Fang’s two youngest children were lost on the streets of San Francisco — moving targets sitting, somewhere, in his carjacked silver minivan. Mr. Fang, a DoorDash delivery driver, had been working on Saturday night when he encountered the carjacker in a quiet residential neighborhood. There was a brief […]
A driver who shot and killed an unarmed car thief he caught stealing his luxury Mercedes SUV will not be charged over the incident. Stephen Lott was cleared Monday over the December 2018 killing of Reyes Bermudez at a Miami Beach car. Lott was told he would face no charges because of Florida’s Stand Your […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Coca-Cola will soon begin selling sodas in completely recycled plastic in the United States for the first time, the beverage giant said on Tuesday (Feb 9). The initial items will be introduced this month in a group of states that includes California and Florida, for items such as Coke and Diet […]
SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) – Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet’s YouTube made smaller strides than their social media rivals including TikTok and Reddit at battling harmful content such as hate speech and misinformation during the second half of 2020, a study released on Monday (Feb 8) showed. Advertising agency IPG Mediabrands released its “Media Responsibility Index,” examining […]