UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – A flurry of world leaders have appealed again to the United Nations to reform the Security Council, reviving a bid launched 15 years ago. But chances of transforming the world’s body most powerful institution are seen as close to zero by most experts, who see little incentive from today’s Permanent Five […]
As people protested the lack of murder charges for the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor, two officers were shot in downtown Louisville late Wednesday, Louisville Metro Police Department told local news outlets. Details of the shootings were unclear, and it’s unknown what condition the officers are in, although they were en route to a hospital. The local […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – The Justice Department sent Congress draft legislation on Wednesday (Sept 23) that would reduce a legal shield for platforms like Facebook and YouTube, in the latest effort by the Trump administration to revisit the law as the President claims those companies are slanted against conservative voices. The original law, Section 230 of […]
People in Louisville, Kentucky, cried out upon hearing there would be no murder charges for the police officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor — and then they marched. Early Wednesday afternoon, a Kentucky judge read out the charges in the Taylor case: Det. Brett Hankison, one of three officers involved, was charged with “wanton […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – White House officials were accused on Wednesday (Sept 23) of improperly intervening to block former national security adviser John Bolton from releasing his best-selling memoir by falsely claiming it contained classified information. The accusation was made in a letter filed with a federal court in Washington by a lawyer for former National […]
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. A vaccine for kids? Prepare to wait Parents, brace yourselves: You may be able to get a coronavirus vaccine by next summer, but […]
At the United Nations General Assembly’s week of speeches this year, the diplomatic forum has felt more like a film playing to a largely empty theater. The speeches from leaders of the 193 member states have been prerecorded because of the pandemic, broadcast to a General Assembly hall that is sparsely populated by socially distanced […]
The developers behind Industry City, a major commercial project in Brooklyn that aimed to create 20,000 jobs, have abandoned their rezoning proposal for the neighborhood, overcome by a swell of opposition from the progressive left. The fight over Industry City was the biggest clash over development in New York City since the collapse of the […]
SANTIAGO (REUTERS) – Chilean scientists have rediscovered a species of frog last seen more than 80 years ago, prompting new calls for the conservation of its habitat in the far-flung Chilean desert. Scientists relocated the diminutive Hall’s water frog, named for the American researcher and collector Frank Gregory Hall who discovered the species in 1935, […]
An American woman living in London says she plans to vote for Joe Biden in the upcoming US election because Donald Trump makes her feel ’embarrassed at work’. Kathleen Gallagher, 29, has said the President’s handling of important issues like the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have led to her being the […]