Kobe Bryant’s wife has paid tribute to her late husband on what would have been his 42nd birthday, saying she wishes she could “wake up from this horrible nightmare”. Vanessa Bryant shared a lengthy message to her nearly 14 million Instagram followers in which she said she loved and missed her US basketball star husband […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Democrats set a high bar last week for the pandemic-era political convention, dispensing with cheering crowds in favour of a virtual pageant that encompassed passionate speeches, a charming cross-country roll call vote, vignettes from an Oscar-winning filmmaker and a low-fi fireworks display above a parking lot. A few hiccups aside, even jaded […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview airing on Sunday (Aug 23), raised the possibility of decoupling the United States economy from China, a major purchaser of US goods. In a video excerpt, Mr Trump initially told interviewer Steve Hilton that “we don’t have to” do business with China, and […]
The state has requested additional support from other states and local jurisdictions in California. Nearly two dozen enormous wildfires continued to ravage parts of California on Saturday, fueled by high temperatures and continuing lightning strikes, including 100 that hit on Friday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) said. The fires have killed […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them — the last gasps of 17 men and women who died of the coronavirus. A 41-year-old ICU nurse in Miami’s Kendall Regional Medical Center, Ruiz has witnessed the desperate, pleading, wide-eyed, barely there gasps. “The fear in […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday (Aug 22) that employees at the US Food and Drug Administration are attempting to sabotage his re-election campaign by slowing down research on coronavirus treatments. Mr Trump tweeted, without evidence, that members of “the deep state” at the regulatory agency are making it hard for […]
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ran on a promise to wipe out corruption. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador swept to power in 2018 after promising to wipe out corruption. But now, his own brother has been implicated in a scandal after footage emerged of him accepting cash. The video alone does not prove anything […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Delaware Senator Tom Carper was caught uttering a series of expletives to an aide as he struggled to unmute himself during a widely-watched US Postal Service hearing on Friday (Aug 21), an unintentional window into one of the shortcomings of virtual pandemic-era meetings. Carper, a Democrat, was in line to question Postmaster-General […]
Aug 21 (Reuters) – About 100 people blocked traffic, vandalized an immigration building, set fires to dumpsters, and threw rocks and glass bottles at police in the Oregon city of Portland on Thursday night, police said, adding they had arrested three people. The gathering, declared unlawful by the police, followed successive nights of the police […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Vice-President Mike Pence on Friday (Aug 21) launched the Republican counterattack to the scathing criticism that President Donald Trump received at the Democrats’ nominating convention this week, countering that a Joe Biden presidency would crush the US economy and allow civil unrest in the streets. “The Democrats are offering a vision […]