Delays, discrepancies and abrupt leaps in coronavirus case and death counts in Texas have baffled residents and frustrated local officials. Here is what has gone awry. By Amy Schoenfeld Walker and Lisa Waananen Jones Inconsistencies and problems with Covid-19 data collection in Texas have clouded the picture of the pandemic’s trajectory in the state, to […]
Asean foreign ministers urged self-restraint and non-militarisation in the South China Sea in a joint communique that came at the end of their annual meeting, with several expressing concerns about the “land reclamations, activities, and serious incidents in the area”. Such activities eroded trust and confidence and increased tensions, they said. The ministers also highlighted […]
MIAMI (REUTERS) – Churning in the Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Storm Paulette is expected to become a hurricane on Saturday night (Sept 12) as it approaches Bermuda, according to the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC). Paulette is located about 740km south-east of Bermuda but closing in at a speed of 24 kmh, the Miami-based centre said […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Senator Bernie Sanders has privately worried that Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is not focused enough on the left wing of the Democratic Party, the Washington Post reported. Sanders, who competed against Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, is concerned Biden will lose to President Donald Trump if he continues to campaign […]
Bodycam footage has captured the moment a police officer confronted a student who was hosting a “COVID-19” party where everyone who attended had tested positive for the virus. The video shows an officer in Oxford, Ohio, talking to one of 20 people at a home near Miami University last Saturday – double the number allowed […]
The tensions burst into the open when 163 executives joined to criticize Bill de Blasio’s leadership. Others think their portrait of the city is overly bleak. By J. David Goodman, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays With conditions decaying in New York City neighborhoods and business districts, a powerful corporate executive traveled to Gracie […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – United States health department spokesman Michael Caputo and his aides asked for the right to read and suggest changes to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly Covid-19 reports, Politico reported, citing e-mails and three people familiar with the matter. Communications aides from the US Department of Health and Human Services […]
US president’s lawyers say a court erred in giving Manhattan’s top prosecutor the greenlight to access the tax returns. US President Donald Trump on Friday urged a federal appeals court to block what he called a “bad faith effort” by Manhattan’s top prosecutor to enforce a “dragnet” subpoena for his tax returns to advance a criminal probe […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Vice-President Mike Pence, and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, all masked, joined New York’s somber 19th anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks at the site of the destroyed World Trade Centre on Friday (Sept 11). Mr Biden and Mr Pence bumped elbows in greeting, one of […]
Nonurgent medical procedures have seemed worth postponing in a pandemic. This could pose long-term risks, health officials fear. By Sarah Kliff When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Americans vastly scaled back their preventive health care, and there is little sign that this deferred care will be made up. Vaccinations dropped by nearly 60 percent in April, […]