WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – Almost daily, US President Donald Trump and leaders worldwide say they are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine, in perhaps the most urgent mission in the history of medical science. But the repeated assurances of near-miraculous speed are exacerbating a problem that has largely been overlooked and one that public health experts […]
Twitter has taken down a video retweeted by Donald Trump that contained music from the US rock band Linkin Park, citing a copyright complaint. The content was replaced with a notice saying: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” It is the latest incident in an increasingly fractious […]
A former adviser to Donald Trump has denied using racially-charged language in a radio interview just days after the US president commuted his prison sentence. Roger Stone was sentenced in February for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. The […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The Trump administration is balking at $25 billion (S$34.7 billion) in new funding favoured by Republican lawmakers in the next relief Bill to help states with coronavirus testing and contact tracing, said a person familiar with the talks. Also opposed is a plan to allocate billions of additional dollars for the Centres […]
Lewis, called ‘the conscience of the Congress’, had announced in December he had advanced pancreatic cancer. John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and longtime member of the United States House of Representatives, died on Friday. Lewis, a member of Congress from Atlanta who had announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is paying for ads on Facebook’s social media platforms urging supporters to sign a petition banning ByteDance’s TikTok, as the White House ramps up rhetoric to restrict the video app in the United States. “TikTok has been caught red handed by monitoring what is on your phone’s Clipboard,” […]
OTTAWA (REUTERS) – A recent spike in coronavirus cases in Canada is worrying and can be linked to groups of young people gathering in bars and nightclubs and at parties, a top medical official said on Friday (July 17). “When we examine recent trends in case reporting, there is some cause for concern. After a […]
Federal forces have hospitalised and ‘kidnapped’ protesters, whom DHS head Chad Wolf called ‘violent anarchists’. Federal officers deployed tear gas and rounds designed to be less lethal into a crowd of protesters in Oregon on Thursday evening, hours after the head of the Department of Homeland Security visited Portland and called the demonstrators “violent anarchists”. […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Democratic officials have instructed senators, members of Congress and party delegates not to physically attend their national convention this summer, a sign of the ever-shrinking aspirations for their big campaign event in the face of a surge in coronavirus cases in the United States. The directive, issued Thursday (July 16), ensures […]
Dr Anthony Fauci is the talk of the town in Washington DC – there’s almost a folk-like nostalgia that surrounds him. I was in the park the other day when a couple introduced their dog to me and my son. “What’s his name?” I asked. “Fauci,” they replied, with wide smiles and even wider eyes. […]