WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Joe Biden said on Friday (Jan 22) the Covid-19 death toll in the United States, the world’s hardest-hit country in the pandemic, is expected to top 600,000. “The virus is surging. We’re 400,000 dead, expected to reach well over 600,000,” he told a news conference, giving his highest estimate yet for […]
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday telephoned the chief of the National Guard Bureau to express dismay after troops deployed to protect his inauguration were ordered a day earlier to rest in an unheated garage after being booted from the Capitol, administration officials said. Photographs of dozens of guard members resting in parking spaces created […]
As President Donald J. Trump boarded the plane home to Florida on Wednesday, he cast his administration’s policy achievements as sweeping, ambitious and, above all, enduring — but the undoing of his legacy was just about to begin. “We’ve accomplished so much together,” he said to a crowd of his supporters. “We were not a […]
TORONTO — We’re friends again! That was the prevailing mood in Canada this week after the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris. After four years of being insulted, threatened, dismissed and slapped by the Trump administration, shellshocked Canadians felt the once-familiar warmth of their neighbor and closest ally, the […]
TORONTO — We’re friends again! That was the prevailing mood in Canada this week after the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Vice President Kamala Harris. After four years of being insulted, threatened, dismissed and slapped by the Trump administration, shellshocked Canadians felt the once-familiar warmth of their neighbor and closest ally, the […]
CHICAGO — In recent days, coronavirus cases have been dropping steadily across the United States, with hospitalizations falling in concert. But health officials are growing increasingly concerned that quickly circulating variants of the virus could cause new surges of cases faster than the country is managing to distribute Covid-19 vaccines. Public health experts likened the […]
(Reuters) – In early February, 57 people arrived at a Nebraska military base, among the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak. U.S. health officials knew very little then about the mysterious new virus, and the quarantined group offered an early opportunity to size up the threat. The federal […]
YUMA, Ariz. — The Rev. Emilio Chapa was delivering a homily on a recent Sunday when he paused to lament a sight that had shaken him as he entered the sacristy before Mass. The board where his staff posted requests for funeral services was covered with names. “I had never seen it so full before,” […]
YUMA, Ariz. — The Rev. Emilio Chapa was delivering a homily on a recent Sunday when he paused to lament a sight that had shaken him as he entered the sacristy before Mass. The board where his staff posted requests for funeral services was covered with names. “I had never seen it so full before,” […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Friday. Weather: Windy and mostly sunny, with a high in the mid-40s. It drops to about 30 on Saturday, and gets even more blustery. Cold and windy again on Sunday. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Feb. 11 (Lunar New Year’s Eve). The website […]