Stephen K. Bannon, who received a last-minute pardon from former President Donald J. Trump after being indicted on federal charges of defrauding donors to a border wall, may yet face state charges in connection with the same scheme. The Manhattan district attorney’s office has begun investigating Mr. Bannon’s role in the fund-raising project for the […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Senate took a tentative step Tuesday (Feb 2) toward pushing through a massive economic aid package proposed by President Joe Biden, but bipartisanship was absent. Besides US$1,400 (S$1,863) stimulus checks, Biden’s proposal would pay for programmes to help schools safely reopen, accelerate Covid-19 testing and vaccine distribution, financially support small […]
Since news of the first death during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 broke — which is to say, before the riot was even over — lawmakers, television personalities and countless regular people on social media have been saying that the rioters have blood on their hands. The law does, in fact, provide a way […]
It did not take long for Keith Reed, a deputy health commissioner in Oklahoma, to spot a big logistical problem with the state’s vaccination rollout. Week after week, Oklahoma was allocating thousands of precious doses to a federal program for nursing home patients that was not using them all. In fact, tens of thousands of […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Health experts in Britain said a variant of the coronavirus first discovered there might make vaccines less effective. Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said that local governments could begin to provide coronavirus vaccines […]
Donald Trump’s legal team have dismissed his impeachment over the Capitol riots last month, after Democrats said the former president aimed the crowds “like a cannon” during his speech before the violence. MMr Trump‘s legal team said the Senate has no authority to try the ex-reality star as a private citizen, and that the chamber […]
A 25 year-old man shot five children and a grown man he lived with dead, and also injured a woman living there, police say. Jarron Deajon Pidgeon opened fire at a house in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Four of the children and the man died at the scene, with a […]
John J. Sweeney, a New York union researcher who climbed to the pinnacle of the American labor movement in the 1990s, leading the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for 14 years through an era of fading union membership but rising political influence, died on Monday at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 86. Carolyn Bobb, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. spokeswoman, […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The US Centres for Disease Control may recommend wearing two masks – one over the other – to keep at bay the more contagious variants of the coronavirus, according to Anthony Fauci. The CDC and Mr Fauci discussed the matter on Monday (Feb 1) but the agency doesn’t yet have the data […]
Last winter was tough for New Yorkers who like to build snowmen or, inexplicably, do not mind stumbling through snow to the subway or digging out their cars. This week surely made those people smile: New York City was smothered by 17.2 inches of snow by early Tuesday, more than in all of last winter, […]