SACRAMENTO (REUTERS) – California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five counties on Sunday (Sept 6) due to wildfires. The counties included Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino and San Diego, the governor’s office said in a statement on Sunday. The declaration was prompted by the Creek Fire that started on Friday night […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – US President Donald Trump routinely referred to black leaders of foreign nations with racist insults. He had an abiding admiration for President Vladimir Putin’s willingness to treat Russia like a personal business. And he was consumed with hatred for President Barack Obama. Those are the descriptions that Michael Cohen, a former personal […]
KENOSHA (REUTERS) – Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin last month, spoke out for the first time from his hospital bed as duelling demonstrations over racial justice and policing continued to roil a handful of US cities. In a video posted on Twitter, […]
The Census Bureau had begun ending its count in places where it considered its job done. But a lawsuit claims that stopping now will result in a flawed count. By Michael Wines WASHINGTON — The tortuous course of the 2020 census, first slowed by the coronavirus pandemic and then placed on a fast track by […]
TORONTO — A memorial tribute to Nick Cordero, the Canadian stage icon who died from COVID-19 in July, is set to air on a new streaming platform Sunday night. The tribute, which is free to watch via Broadway On Demand at 7 p.m. EDT, will feature appearances from some of Cordero’s former castmates, as well […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – After months of delays, Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic “Tenet” finally arrived in US theaters and generated US$20.2 million over Labour Day weekend. Ticket sales, though difficult to dissect given the uncharted waters of the coronavirus era, are roughly in line with expectations for a new release during a pandemic. The espionage […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jacob Blake has spoken publicly for the first time since a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot him seven times in the back, saying he’s in constant pain from the shooting, which doctors fear will leave him paralyzed from the waist down. In a video posted Saturday night on Twitter by his family’s […]
MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) – Mexico is working to produce its own Covid-19 vaccines and could have one ready by next spring, according to a researcher coordinating local efforts amid a global race to tame a disease that has infected over 26.75 million people worldwide. Dr Esther Orozco, coordinator of the scientific group that represents Mexico […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen’s tell-all memoir makes the case that President Donald Trump is “guilty of the same crimes” that landed his former fixer in federal prison, offering a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s alleged role in a hush money scandal that once overshadowed his presidency. Of all the crises Cohen confronted working for […]
A college professor who pretended to be black for her entire career may have skipped her own mother’s funeral to avoid being ‘caught out’, a family friend has claimed. Jessica Krug, 38, didn’t attend the service when her mum, Sherry Krug, died from pneumonia in 2013, Mail Online reports. The family didn’t understand why at […]