WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – In Mississippi, an online vaccine registration system buckled in a sudden onslaught of traffic. Officials at a local health department in Georgia had to resort to counting every dose they receive before scheduling appointments. A US$44 million (S$58 million) national vaccine scheduling and tracking system is going largely unused by states. And […]
Thirty-odd years ago, 8-year-old Timothy Schlenz spent every Saturday being tutored on the sacraments at a Manhattan church. It was there, he said, that he was regularly abused. Every weekend, his family would drive into the city from New Jersey so that Timothy, who is now 39, could study at St. Catherine of Siena Parish, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A coalition of airline, travel and aerospace industries and union and airport groups on Friday (Jan 29) urged US President Joe Biden not to impose new Covid-19 testing requirements for travellers on domestic flights. The federal government has been mulling additional measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus and officials said […]
A New York judge on Friday increased pressure on former President Donald J. Trump’s family business and several associates, ordering them to give state investigators documents in a civil inquiry into whether the company misstated assets to get bank loans and tax benefits. It was the second blow that the judge, Arthur F. Engoron of […]
WASHINGTON – America’s most profound national security challenge is getting its own house in order, top national security official Jake Sullivan said on Friday (Jan 29) as he called domestic renewal the first major step the US needs to take to compete effectively with China. “(President) Joe Biden has really reinforced for us that foreign […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The new US government has named Rob Malley, an architect of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, as its special envoy to Teheran, but policy hawks say he’s too soft on the Islamic republic. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is “building a dedicated team” to address Washington’s relations with Iran, to be […]
Indoor dining will resume with limited capacity in New York City restaurants next month, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Friday, more than a month after the governor had banned it to combat a second wave of the coronavirus. Starting on Feb. 14, the city’s restaurants can seat customers indoors at 25 percent maximum capacity, […]
Officials are investigating a Texas Army chaplain after he suggested in a social media post that transgender soldiers were “mentally unfit” and “unqualified to serve.” Maj. Andrew Calvert made the comments on a military newspaper’s Facebook page on Monday, the same day President Joe Biden signed an executive order lifting a ban on transgender people […]
Ahmed Ebrahim was born into the family business, selling hot dogs, knishes and pretzels from a cart near Rockefeller Center. He and his brother and business partner, Mahmoud, inherited the work ethic of their mother, Magda, who started as a street vendor more than 30 years ago after immigrating from Egypt. They also inherited a […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – In the winter of 1890, a snowy owl was spotted in New York City’s Central Park, part of what a contemporary account called an “unusual abundance” along the East Coast of the large, strikingly beautiful predators that make their home in the Arctic tundra. “Unusual” is right. A snowy owl, according […]