WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Senate Judiciary Committee voted to subpoena the chief executives of Twitter and Facebook after the social media platforms decided to block stories from the New York Post that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son. The vote passed along party lines with 12 Republicans approving the motion. The […]
New York City election officials announced with fanfare that early voting sites would be established at two cavernous arenas — Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center. But there was a catch: most people can’t use them. Election officials are opening only 18 sites in Queens when early voting starts on Saturday, far less than recommended […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The US government has not determined what caused some US diplomats and intelligence officers to suffer from a mysterious, debilitating affliction while they were overseas, despite devoting vast resources over more than three years to investigating it, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday (Oct 21). Starting in late 2016, dozens of […]
Canada added 2,668 new cases of the novel coroanvirus on Wednesday, setting a new record for highest single-day increase. The new infections come as health officials work to slow the spread of COVID-19, while Canada battles the second wave of the pandemic. In Ontario, 790 new cases of the respiratory illness were reported, and health […]
Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani was secretly filmed with his hands in his pants inside a hotel room with an actress pretending to be film character Borat’s daughter. Giuliani – the former mayor of New York City – was seen in a hotel room with 24 year-old actress Maria Bakalova. She was posing as Borat’s […]
Radio spots are airing throughout Mexico and Central America. Court-appointed researchers are motorbiking through rural hillside communities in Guatemala and showing up at courthouses in Honduras to conduct public record searches. Their efforts are part of a wide-ranging campaign to track down parents separated from their children at the U.S. border beginning in 2017 under […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – A man in Maryland has been arrested on charges that he threatened to kidnap and execute Mr Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday (Oct 21). A criminal complaint filed by the Secret Service on Wednesday did not describe any […]
A man in Maryland has been arrested on charges that he threatened to kidnap and kill Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday. A criminal complaint filed by the Secret Service on Wednesday did not describe any steps taken by the […]
This is the Coronavirus Schools Briefing, a guide to the seismic changes in U.S. education that are taking place during the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. On Tuesday, local health officials ordered students at the University of Michigan to stay in their residences — effective immediately — in an […]
SINGAPORE – Democratic candidate Joe Biden has maintained his wide lead nationwide in opinion polls over President Donald Trump, including in most battleground states, with just two weeks to go before the United States presidential election. Polls conducted by The Financial Times and the New York Times (NYT) also suggest that likely voters are losing […]