CHICAGO (BLOOMBERG) – McDonald’s Corp is the subject of a lawsuit by more than 50 black former franchisees in the US who say they were driven out of business after being pushed by the company to set up shop in crime-ridden areas and denied financial help extended to white franchisees. The black franchisees were steered […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US President Donald Trump suggested Monday (Aug 31) that a man arrested for killing two people in protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last week may have acted in self-defence, while criticising the killing of one of his supporters in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend that’s still under investigation. Mr Trump said video of […]
Adult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with a further 20 counts of sexual assault involving 13 women from 2004 to January this year, prosecutors have said. The 67-year-old was charged with raping three women and sexually assaulting another in June and has been held in jail on $6.6m (£4.86m) bail since. New charges […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Just 37.4 per cent of active personnel in the US military support President Donald Trump’s re-election, while 43.1 per cent back his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, according to a new poll Monday (Aug 31). The poll by the Military Times and the Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families found that […]
CHICAGO (REUTERS) – High-profile Covid-19 vaccines developed in Russia and China share a potential shortcoming: They are based on a common cold virus that many people have been exposed to, potentially limiting their effectiveness, some experts say. CanSino Biologics’ vaccine, approved for military use in China, is a modified form of adenovirus type 5, or […]
Donald Trump has lashed out at Portland’s “incompetent” mayor as presidential hopeful Joe Biden accused the president of “recklessly encouraging violence” in the city. A man was killed on Saturday night amid clashes between rival groups in the Oregon city, which has seen months of unrest since the police killing of George Floyd. Mr Trump […]
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS) – California fire officials on Sunday (Aug 30) reported significant headway battling the two largest of dozens of lighting-sparked blazes raging in and around the greater San Francisco Bay area since mid-August, though 60,000 people remained under evacuation. As of Sunday firefighters had managed to carve containment lines around 56 per cent […]
PORTLAND (REUTERS) – Officials in Portland, Oregon, said on Sunday (Aug 30) they were braced for an escalation of protest-related violence that has convulsed the city for three months, citing social media posts vowing revenge for a fatal shooting amid weekend street clashes between supporters of President Donald Trump and counter-demonstrators. “For those of you […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – US cases of the novel coronavirus surpassed six million on Sunday (Aug 30) as many states in the Midwest reported increasing infections, according to a Reuters tally. Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota have recently reported record one-day increases in new cases while Montana and Idaho are seeing record numbers […]
BOSTON (AFP) – Hundreds of people demonstrated on Sunday (Aug 30) in the US city of Boston against a new state rule mandating flu shots for students, a measure intended to ease the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The northeastern state of Massachusetts became on Aug 19 the first in the United States to add […]