NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – They came dressed for chaos. They came in red, white and blue face paint and star-spangled superhero outfits, in flag capes (American, yes, but also Confederate and Trumpian) and flag jackets and Trump bobble hats. One man came as a patriotic duck, another as a bald eagle, another as a cross between a […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday (Jan 7) hit back at assertions that a mob attack on the Capitol showed the United States to be a “banana republic”. A number of foreign critics as well as former US president George W. Bush made the analogy after rioters stirred up by […]
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Deep within a South Los Angeles hospital, a row of elderly Hispanic men lay hooked up to ventilators – their bodies resting in induced comas – while nurses clad in spacesuit-style respirators checked their patients’ bleeping monitors in the otherwise eerie silence. The intensive care unit in one of the city’s […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The top two Democrats in Congress on Thursday called for President Donald Trump’s removal from office, one day after his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy. With 13 days left in Trump’s term, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer both […]
Donald Trump has conceded defeat to Joe Biden for the first time – a day after his supporters stormed the US Capitol. The president said he was “outraged” by Wednesday’s “heinous” attack, which came as politicians in Congress certified Mr Biden’s victory. Four people died in the violent protests – with a mob overwhelming police […]
This is the Coronavirus Briefing, an informed guide to the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. U.S. officials reported at least 3,963 new coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, a single-day record, though delayed recording because of the holidays might have played a role. Brazilian officials said a coronavirus vaccine made by […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A State Department adviser on Iran who expressed anger on Twitter over the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and said Mr Trump “needs to go,” was fired on Thursday (Jan 7), a US official familiar with the matter said. Mr Gabriel Noronha, a special adviser to […]
The 35-year-old Trump supporter shot dead by police in the Capitol reportedly had a history of run-ins with the law. Ashli Babbitt was named by police as the woman shot at close range by an officer after she tried to climb through a broken window in the hallway of Congress. Widely-shared footage shows the […]
For more than a week, the authorities in New York City have faced mounting public pressure to arrest a woman caught on video tackling a Black teenager in the lobby of a boutique hotel in SoHo after falsely accusing him of stealing her cellphone. Now, detectives are traveling to California to interview the woman, the […]
When I first saw those scruffy outlaws scaling the Capitol building after pouring out of Trump’s ‘Save America’ rally, drunk on conspiracy theories, I felt nothing. After last year, there is not much that white people can do to either shock or move me. However, seeing this framed as some sort of dignified coup, protest, or even […]