PORT MANSFIELD, TEXAS (REUTERS) – Hurricane Hanna’s trail of devastation on the south Texas coast on Sunday (July 26) was marked by overturned tractor-trailer trucks, downed powerlines and roofless houses still threatened by flash flooding in an area already badly hit by Covid-19 infections. Eventually downgraded to a tropical storm, Hanna came ashore on Padre […]
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – Florida on Sunday (July 26) became the second state after California to overtake New York, the worst-hit state at the start of the US novel coronavirus outbreak, according to a Reuters tally. Total Covid-19 cases in the Sunshine State rose by 9,300 to 423,855 on Sunday, just one place behind California, […]
The ’43 Alumni for Biden’ super PAC seeks to unseat Donald Trump, who they say is unfit to lead the United States. Hundreds of officials who worked for former Republican United States President George W Bush endorsed Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden on Wednesday, the latest Republican-led group coming out to oppose the re-election […]
The defence comes after federal officials revealed they have been probing McClain’s death since last year. A police chief has defended the tactics of officers who used pepper spray and batons on protesters gathered during a demonstration and violin vigil for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old unarmed Black man who died after he was put in […]
US president signs off on plan after being briefed. Pentagon will seek to reassure allies, enhance Russian deterrence. President Donald Trump has approved the withdrawal of 9,500 American troops from Germany after being briefed by top Pentagon officials on the move which critics fear will embolden Russia and discourage European allies. “The Secretary of Defense […]
There is nothing straightforward about what is happening here in Portland. After the arrival of federal troops this month it has morphed into something else. There are still thousands of people who protest peacefully in support of Black Lives Matter each evening. But as night falls, a crowd surrounds the federal courthouse. Among them, a […]
BRASILIA (AFP, XINHUA) – Brazil is being battered by the coronavirus crisis, but the damage is uneven across the sprawling South American country, where experts say chaotic policy-making has only made a complicated situation worse. Like the United States – the only country that has recorded more infections and deaths in the pandemic – Brazil […]
UTAH (NYTIMES) – A small plane with six aboard crashed in a residential section of a city in Utah on Saturday afternoon (July 25), sending a fireball hundreds of feet into the air. Officer Jennifer Worthen, a spokeswoman for the West Jordan Police Department, said the crash caused “multiple injuries and possible casualties,” but she […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Mosquitoes have been called the deadliest animal in the world: tiny creatures so dangerous that genetic engineering may be necessary to win the battle against them. But not all mosquitoes are equally responsible for devastating the human population by spreading disease. Out of thousands of species, only a few like to […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – White House advisor Chris Liddell will be Washington’s nominee to be the next head of the OECD, an administration official said on Friday (July 24), putting a Trump ally in the running to lead the association of advanced economies. Liddell, a dual US-New Zealand national, serves as a deputy chief of staff […]