FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s former health director was charged Thursday with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of nine people who got Legionnaires’ disease during the Flint water crisis as prosecutors revisit how the city’s water system was contaminated with lead and bacteria during one of worst human-made environmental disasters in U.S. history. Nick Lyon […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo chose the day of his boss’ impeachment to promote a very different kind of recognition for Mr Donald Trump: Award the president the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Pompeo’s Wednesday (Jan 13) morning tweet said simply: “cc: @NobelPrize” beneath a picture of Mr Trump with Israeli and Arab […]
Good morning. After what felt like an almost lightless holiday season and start to the new year, California officials in recent days have pointed to signs that the state’s overwhelming coronavirus surge is at last subsiding — or at least not getting worse. “There are some good things to report,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in […]
Donald Trump has been impeached once again, with the outgoing US President set to face trial in the upper house of the US Congress after being accused of inciting a deadly riot at the US Capitol building. The lower house of the US Congress, the House of Representatives, moved to impeach Trump after passing the […]
Diana Wiener wanted information and was not getting it. So last May, at age 80, Ms. Wiener went into the news business. “I’d had it with this whole secrecy thing,” she said the other day. Ms. Wiener, a former furniture store owner, lives with her husband in the Five Star Premier Residences of Yonkers, just […]
OKLAHOMA (NYTIMES) – Oklahoma is in the grip of a frightening surge of the coronavirus, the worst it has yet seen and one of the worst in America’s winter. Mercy Hospital Ardmore, in rural Oklahoma, has so many Covid-19 patients that some people are being cared for in curtained-off areas of hallways and the emergency […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The United States stands by Taiwan and always will, the US ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said on Wednesday (Jan 13) following a call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, after her own trip to Taipei this week got scrapped. Ms Craft’s planned visit had come in the teeth of […]
Donald Trump has ‘unequivocally condemned’ the violent Capitol riots in a video released after he became the first president in history to be impeached twice. The president didn’t reference his impeachment in his first comments after the vote, instead telling America: ‘Mob violence goes against everything I believe in’. He claimed to be ‘shocked and […]
MIAMI (NYTIMES) – Health authorities are investigating the case of a Florida doctor who died from an unusually severe blood disorder 16 days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. Dr Gregory Michael, a 56-year-old obstetrician and gynaecologist in Miami Beach, received the vaccine at Mount Sinai Medical Centre on Dec 18 and died 16 days […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Johnson & Johnson’s experimental one-shot Covid-19 vaccine generated a long-lasting immune response in an early safety study, providing a glimpse at how it will perform in the real world as the company inches closer to approaching United States regulators for clearance. More than 90 per cent of participants made immune proteins, […]