Coronavirus cases in the US are expected to jump 55% to 1.3million weekly by Christmas Day, according to a grim new prediction by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Additionally, deaths could reach 15,600 per week by early January. The CDC in its projections on Wednesday afternoon estimated that 620,000 to 1.3million Americans […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday (Dec 15) imposed sanctions on Chinese painkiller makers, vowing to step up action over the addiction epidemic that kills hundreds of Americans daily. The sanctions came under a new executive order by President Joe Biden that makes it easier for the US to target foreign drug traffickers. The […]
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights. The Guilty plea means Chauvin will not face a federal trial in January, but may spend more years behind bars when a judge sentences him at a later date. He previously pleaded not guilty to the […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – New York will appoint Ms Keechant Sewell as its first-ever woman police chief to head the largest force in the country, US media reported Tuesday (Dec 14), at a time when the city’s trust in law enforcement has been shattered. Ms Sewell, who will also be only the third Black person […]
ALBANY, NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – A New York state ethics board has ordered former governor Andrew Cuomo to turn over millions of dollars in profits from his coronavirus pandemic memoir, giving him 30 days to comply or face forfeiture measures from the state attorney-general. The extraordinary directive is the latest development in a fall from […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – The number of Americans who identify as non-religious is soaring in the profoundly Christian United States, according to a Pew Research Centre study published Tuesday (Dec 14). Some 29 per cent of American adults are now religiously unaffiliated – up from 16 per cent 14 years ago – the survey found. […]
Disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was ordered by a state ethics board to return the $5.1 million he made in profit from his Covid memoir to the state within the next month. On Tuesday the Joint Commission on Public Ethics decided in a 12-1 vote to direct Cuomo to relinquish the money to […]
Donald Trump Jr and three Fox News hosts begged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to get President Donald Trump to address the nation and stop the Capitol riot, new text messages show. But on January 6, Trump wasn’t listening to his children or his biggest media supporters, it was revealed during a hearing […]
A growing number of customers are claiming that they have been accused and even arrested at gunpoint and thrown in jail after Hertz reported cars they rented as stolen. There are 191 claims in federal bankruptcy court from Hertz customers who say they were arrested in false grounds as of Friday, according to CBS News. […]
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin is expected to plead guilty to violating George Floyd’s civil rights, according to a notice sent out Monday by the court’s electronic filing system. He has been accused of depriving Floyd’s right to be free from ‘unreasonable seizure, which includes the right to be free from the use of […]