LAKEWOOD, OHIO (NYTIMES) – Hammered by mounting coronavirus costs and anticipating lost revenue from international students, fall sports and state budgets gutted by the pandemic, US colleges and universities have begun eyeing what until now has been seen as a last resort – thinning the ranks of their faculty. The University of Akron this week […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Coronavirus support to poor countries has been so far “grossly inadequate and that’s dangerously shortsighted”, UN aid chief Mark Lowcock said on Thursday (July 16) as he asked wealthy countries for billions more dollars in assistance. The United Nations increased its humanitarian appeal by more than a third to US$10.3 billion […]
Donald Trump’s hopes of being re-elected in November appear to have been dealt a major blow after his Democrat challenger Joe Biden opened up a 15% lead in a new national opinion poll. To make matters worse for the US president, the data suggests voters are losing faith in his handling of the economy, which […]
An infamous racist filmed screaming ‘N*****’ at a group of Black Lives Matter protesters has died after stepping out in front of a truck. Rachel Ruit, 41, died on Tuesday, a day after she was struck by an Asheville Fire Department Truck in Asheville, North Carolina. Police are investigating Ruit’s death, and say they believe […]
US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has described White House efforts to discredit him as “bizarre” and a “major mistake”. His words came after the Trump administration published a list of statements Dr Fauci made in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic – statements which later turned out to be wrong as experts […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – One in three small firms around the world was obliged to cut jobs to stay open through the coronavirus pandemic in May, a survey showed on Wednesday (July 15), underlining how hard the outbreak has slammed the world economy. Some 26 per cent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) surveyed by Facebook, […]
An animal abuser has been handed a four year community correctional sentence for having sex with a friend’s pet pit bull while his girlfriend recorded his acts of bestiality. Jerry Morgan III was sentenced Friday over the December 2019 video of him molesting the dog, which was recorded by his girlfriend Catrece Peel at his […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Covid-19 vaccines under development are not guaranteed to work and people who say to expect a vaccine before year-end are doing a “grave disservice to the public”, Merck & Co Inc’s chief said, according to a Harvard Business Review report. The potential vaccines may not have the qualities needed to be […]
A man has been shot and killed by police after a dispute over a face mask at a shop in the US state of Michigan. Sean Ruis, 43, was suspected of stabbing a 77-year-old man who had challenged him because he was not wearing a mask while in the Quality Dairy store in Lansing on […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – A man’s decapitated, dismembered body was found in an apartment in a luxury condominium building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Tuesday (July 14) afternoon, according to three law enforcement officials who were briefed on the matter. The investigation was in its early stages on Tuesday evening. Detectives had found an […]