ATLANTA (REUTERS) – Georgia officials have certified the results of the state’s Jan 5 runoff election for two US Senate seats, its secretary of state said, confirming Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock had won their races. The statewide results “are a true and correct tabulation of the certified returns received by this office from […]
Skylar Mack, the American college student who was released from a prison in the Cayman Islands last week for violating coronavirus restrictions, said in an interview that she “deserved it.” In a segment that aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday, Ms. Mack, 18, apologized for breaking the rules and said that any anger […]
A one-year-old has been hailed a ‘miracle baby’ after surviving Covid and a liver transplant within the space of two months. Kasen Donerlson, from Syracuse, New York, who turned one on Thursday, contracted coronavirus while he was suffering with liver failure and waiting for a donor organ to become available. The youngster received his new […]
An 18-year-old American college student who broke the mandatory 14-day quarantine protocol for visitors to the Cayman Islands has returned home. After spending a month behind bars in the Cayman Islands, Skylar Mack arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta after her release from prison, ABC affiliate KABC-TV reported. According to the news station, when […]
An 18 year-old hoped catching Covid had granted him some immunity from the virus – only for it to reinfect him and kill him, his girlfriend said. Wilber Portillo first caught Covid in October 2020, and struggled with its symptoms. Wilber, from Denver in Colorado, eventually overcame them, and was hopeful he had been afforded […]
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio city on Tuesday was mourning a police officer who died after an hourslong armed standoff ended in gunfire and also claimed the life of a suspect, police said. Toledo Police Officer Brandon Stalker, 24, was shot and killed Monday when Christopher Harris, 27, emerged from a home with “a […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday (Jan 19) named Dr. Rachel Levine to service as assistant US health secretary, a historic first as Dr Levine would become the first openly transgender official to be confirmed by the Senate. The pick of Pennsylvania’s top health official for a critical role during the raging Covid-19 […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Tuesday. Weather: Mostly sunny, but watch out for chilling gusts. High in the low 40s. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Feb. 11 (Lunar New Year’s Eve). Tomorrow, Joseph R. Biden Jr. will become the 46th president of the United States. And among those […]
Joe Biden will slap down a move by outgoing President Donald Trump to ease travel restrictions to the USA. Mr Trump hoped to relax the rules on flights from the UK, much of mainland Europe and Brazil, but his successor’s administration will reverse that plan before it can come into force over coronavirus fears. An […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – William Brown has yet to set foot in a classroom during his freshman year of high school – kept at home, like many students, by the pandemic. Days before Christmas, he took a step that could help him and other youngsters return to school sooner. With his parents’ encouragement, the 15-year-old […]