Donald Trump reportedly planned to rip open his shirt and unveil a Superman t-shirt following his coronavirus hospital stay in a bizarre show of strength. The US president is said to have made several calls to colleagues last week while being treated at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center about his plans to shock […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – With a call to save the planet, Prince William and Pope Francis on Saturday (Oct 10) joined activists, artists, celebrities and politicians in a free streamed TED event aimed at mobilising and unifying people to confront the climate crisis. “The shared goals of our generation are clear,” Prince William said in […]
On the site of a residential college that for more than 50 years bore the name of Woodrow Wilson, the president who oversaw the resegregation of the federal Civil Service, a new Princeton residential college will be built and named after Mellody Hobson, a prominent Black alumna, the university said. Ms. Hobson, who graduated from […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday (Oct 10) said a new US$1.8 trillion (S$2.4 trillion) economic stimulus proposal from the Trump administration”amounted to one step forward, two steps back” and would need changes to get support from congressional Democrats. In a weekly letter to Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said the […]
First, it was murder hornets. Now it’s stinging caterpillars. As if there wasn’t enough to worry about in 2020, foresters in Virginia are warning that if you see a caterpillar that looks like a wig on a tree, don’t touch it. The Virginia Department of Forestry said it had received reports of hairy-looking puss caterpillars […]
LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA (REUTERS) – Hurricane Delta weakened on Friday (Oct 9) after making landfall in a corner of Louisiana state repeatedly battered by storms this year, packing maximum sustained winds of 150kmh, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said. Delta, now a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, hit land at 6pm Friday […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Prominent US lawmaker Lindsey Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee set to consider President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee next week, refused on Friday (Oct 9) to be tested for the coronavirus. The South Carolina ally of Mr Trump said no to a testing request by his Democratic rival in their […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) drafted a sweeping order last month requiring all passengers and employees to wear masks on all forms of public and commercial transportation in the United States, but it was blocked by the White House, according to two federal health officials. The order would have […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump said he was “medication-free” and revealed more details of his fight with Covid-19 in a televised interview aired Friday (Oct 9), one week after he was hospitalised with the virus. The president appeared on Fox’s Tucker Carlson Tonight for what the White House described as an on-air “medical […]
A man caught having rough sex with a screeching dog while choking it told the owner he was just hugging the stricken animal, police say. Chevance Smith, 24, was found in EL Paso, Texas engaging in sexual contact with an 8-month-old female boxer-pit bull mix named Meda on Saturday, police said. Smith allegedly told the […]