Joe Biden coughed and spluttered as he began his first press conference as President of the United States. Biden suffered a frog in his throat as Thursday’s briefing on coronavirus began, which saw him warn the US death toll would hit 500,000 in February. Biden – who has had both doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine […]
Joe Biden removed Donald Trump’s bust of Winston Churchill on his first day as President, replacing it with Cesar Chavez. The US leader revealed his new decor after inviting the press to watch him sign a series of executive orders on Wednesday. A bust of Churchill was first displayed in the Oval Office after Tony […]
WASHINGTON (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) – People can now select gender-neutral pronouns when contacting the US government, as President Joe Biden signed a raft of executive actions on his first day in office, including an order tackling discrimination against LGBT+ people. People who identify as non-binary – neither male nor female – can now select the […]
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that the Covid-19 vaccine would not be widely available by late February as the Trump administration previously said. The new administration is determined to meet the goal of 100 million Covid-19 vaccine doses in 100 days, Dr. Rochelle Walensky told Savannah Guthrie […]
A radio host is mystified after Donald Trump unexpectedly pardoned him for a historic drugs conviction. Gary Hendler, 67, said ‘I couldn’t f**king believe it,’ on discovering he’d been cleared of a 1984 drugs conspiracy charge by the former president on Wednesday, despite not lobbying him for a pardon. Hendler, from Ardmore in Pennsylvania, added: […]
A radio host is mystified after Donald Trump unexpectedly pardoned him for a historic drugs conviction. Gary Hendler, 67, said ‘I couldn’t f**king believe it,’ on discovering he’d been cleared of a 1984 drugs conspiracy charge by the former president on Wednesday, despite not lobbying him for a pardon. Hendler, from Ardmore in Pennsylvania, added: […]
PALM BEACH, Fla. — On Wednesday, Donald J. Trump did what many older New Yorkers do: He retired to Florida. His presidential career, filled with the bombast and showmanship he displayed while announcing his candidacy after a golden escalator ride in New York, ended quietly and in private, behind the groomed hedges of his Mar-a-Lago […]
Kahlik Grier, 16, was fatally shot in a random encounter in the stairwell of his Bronx apartment building, the police said. By Edgar Sandoval It was a routine school night for Kahlik Grier, a 16-year-old student in the Bronx. After a day of online classes, he had Chinese takeout with his mother. Then he made […]
LOS ANGELES — In Elissa Elder-Aga’s 25 years of teaching elementary school, reading aloud has always been her favorite classroom activity, a chance to captivate her audience and impart all sorts of lessons — from grammar to morals. But after many tries in the fall, she reached a sobering conclusion: No matter how hard she […]
The anger over the decision to teach fall classes remotely was spelled in chalk on Beth Martin’s sidewalk. “OPEN THE SCHOOLS BETH,” an irate parent scrawled in July after ringing the front doorbell and confronting Ms. Martin, a retired librarian of 30 years and member of the local school board. “She didn’t swear at me, […]