WASHINGTON – Monday’s (Feb 1) coup d’etat in Myanmar stung a Washington eager to return to the business of promoting democracy, with President Joe Biden leading his foreign policy speech at the State Department on Thursday with a strong critique of the army’s seizure of power. The coup negated what was considered a foreign policy […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Air Force said on Friday (Feb 5) that it will carry out a review of security on its bases around the world after an intruder entered a key military facility that is home to Air Force One, the aircraft that flies the president. An unarmed adult male was able to […]
LOS ANGELES (BLOOMBERG) – Former US president Donald Trump’s decision to quit the Screen Actors Guild – after it threatened to expel him – was greeted with a two-word response from the union. “Thank you,” said president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White, who lead the organisation known as SAG-AFTRA. Last month, the […]
Margaret C. Snyder, whose liberal Roman Catholic upbringing inspired a pioneering career at the United Nations, where she refocused the mechanisms of global development aid to include millions of women in Africa, Asia and Latin America, died on Jan. 26 in Syracuse, N.Y. She was 91. The cause was cardiac arrest, her nephew James Snyder […]
A missing 18 year-old was found dead four days after her 17 year-old boyfriend’s corpse was discovered by the side of a road. Kaylah Blackmoor was found inside her Ford Explorer in Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday morning. She went out early on Sunday evening, and told her family she would be right back to bathe […]
(This article is part of the California Today newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox.) Good morning. Over the past couple of weeks, amid the continuing roller coaster ride that is the vaccine distribution, not to mention some intense winter weather, California has also been taking some of its biggest strides toward […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Americans say former President Donald Trump bears at least some blame for the Capitol insurrection, and about half say the Senate should vote to convict him at the end of his impeachment trial. That’s according to a survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that also […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a hard-right politician and QAnon conspiracy theorist, has refused to apologise for her controversial views despite being voted off her committee roles in the US Congress. A motion to remove the fiercely-loyal Donald Trump supporter from the education and labour and budget committees was passed by 230 votes to 199 as the […]
A Columbus police officer who was fired after fatally shooting a Black man in December was arrested and charged with felony murder on Wednesday, Attorney General Dave Yost of Ohio announced. The officer, Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran who is white, was also charged with felonious assault and two counts of dereliction of duty. Mr. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top infectious disease expert doesn’t want the Super Bowl to turn into a super spreader. Dr. Anthony Fauci, says when it comes to Super Bowl parties during the pandemic, people should “just lay low and cool it.” He said during TV interviews Wednesday that now isn’t the time to invite […]