SAO PAULO (AFP) – In Brazil, health care workers are on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic in more ways than one, treating patients but also volunteering to test some of the most promising experimental vaccines. Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of infections and deaths in the pandemic, after the United […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – When NASA’s Perseverance rover arrives at Mars, mission managers will be watching, helpless to do anything. The US$2.4 billion (S$3.3 billion) spacecraft will hit the top of the Martian atmosphere at more than 19,000kmh and then come to a complete stop seven minutes later. That the 1-tonne rover will end up […]
WASHINGTON/BUENOS AIRES (REUTERS) – The Trump administration is readying a new initiative that would use financial incentives to encourage US firms to move production facilities out of Asia and into the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, a senior White House adviser said on Wednesday (July 29). The project could bring US$30 billion (S$41 […]
LONDON (THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION) – Super-rich individuals who pledged to give away most of their money to good causes are instead sitting on rising wealth fuelled by the “warehousing” of cash in dedicated family foundations or funds, a new study has found. More than three quarters of a group of US billionaires who signed up […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US deaths from the novel coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday (July 29), a number higher than in any other country and nearly a quarter of the world’s total, according to a Reuters tally. Of the 20 countries with the biggest outbreaks, the United States ranks sixth in deaths per capita, at 4.5 […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Oregon’s governor on Wednesday (July 29) said the federal government agreed to withdraw agents from Portland but the Department of Homeland Security said it would keep officers there until it was certain federal properties would not be attacked. Governor Kate Brown said the government agreed to a phased withdrawal of federal officers […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US federal agencies are investigating suspicious and unsolicited packages of seeds that have been arriving at addresses across America and appear to come from China. Anyone who receives the packages should hold onto the seeds and packaging and immediately contact officials, the US Department of Agriculture said in a statement. The USDA […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – New York City police officers, several in plainclothes, swooped into a demonstration against aggressive police tactics on Tuesday (July 28) and arrested a protester they appeared to have singled out, pulling her into an unmarked minivan before driving off. Videos of the encounter drew intense criticism on social media, including accusations […]
President tells supporters at July 4 celebration that racial justice protests threaten foundations of US society. United States President Donald Trump railed on Friday against “angry mobs” that tried to tear down statues of Confederate leaders and other historical figures, warning thousands of supporters at Mount Rushmore that protesters were trying to erase the country’s […]
Colorado officers Erica Marrero, Kyle Dittrich and Jaron Jones mocked chokehold used to subdue Elijah McClain last year. Three police officers have been fired over photos showing them re-enact a chokehold used on Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died last year after police stopped him on the street in a Denver suburb. Officers […]