WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Federal health officials warned Friday that a far more contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in Britain could become the dominant source of infection in the United States by March, and would likely lead to a wrenching surge in cases and deaths that would further burden overwhelmed hospitals. This dire forecast […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Federal health officials warned Friday that a far more contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in Britain could become the dominant source of infection in the United States by March, and would likely lead to a wrenching surge in cases and deaths that would further burden overwhelmed hospitals. This dire forecast […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. There have now been over two million virus-related deaths worldwide. The C.D.C warned that the new virus variant could fuel a huge spike in cases. Joe Biden laid out plans for a vaccination blitz […]
Tom Lankford, who as a reporter for The Birmingham News took some of the most memorable photos of the civil rights era even as he worked hand in glove with the city’s police department and the F.B.I., sometimes landing scoops in exchange for things like wiretapping members of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s […]
WASHINGTON – Outgoing United States President Donald Trump’s defining global legacy in foreign policy is the reframing of his country’s relationship with China – in effect forcing citizens of all nations to think about the prospect of a world dominated not by the US but by China. Before the Trump administration, the question was deemed […]
A jogger has been accused of attacking and racially abusing walker for wearing a face mask to protect himself from Covid. Student Joseph Munoz, from Fullerton, California, claims he was punched by a random person in the street who called him an ‘idiot’ for wearing a mask. The alleged suspect, aged in his late 20s, […]
A jogger has been accused of attacking and racially abusing walker for wearing a face mask to protect himself from Covid. Student Joseph Munoz, from Fullerton, California, claims he was punched by a random person in the street who called him an ‘idiot’ for wearing a mask. The alleged suspect, aged in his late 20s, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is tracking an “extensive amount of concerning online chatter,” including calls for armed protests leading up to next week’s presidential inauguration, Director Chris Wray said Thursday. Wray, in his first public appearance since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, said in a security briefing for Vice President Mike […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – President-elect Joe Biden will on Friday outline his plan to ramp up vaccinations against COVID-19 as he prepares to take office amid soaring infection rates and an early rollout by the Trump administration he called “a dismal failure.” Biden has promised to take more serious action to curb the virus than […]
At least nine people were left needing hospital treatment after a bus fell 15m (49ft) off a bridge and into an underpass in New York. The articulated passenger transport – like a bendy bus – crashed at about 11pm local time on Thursday. The nine people rescued suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to the Fire […]