WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House will launch a new program shipping coronavirus vaccines directly to retail pharmacies starting next week in an effort to increase Americans’ access to shots, a top aide said on Tuesday. President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 response coordinator, Jeff Zients, said the program will launch on Feb 11 and make 1 […]
Sky News host grills Michelle Donelan on coronavirus variants Nick Thomas-Symonds told the BBC’s Today Programme that under his party’s proposal arrivals in the UK from New Zealand and the currently Covid-free Isle of Man would be expected to go into a quarantine hotel for 10 days. Mishal Husain blasted the plan, telling the Shadow Home Secretary […]
Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio plans to run for his state’s open Senate seat, Democrats who have spoken with him said, a bid that would test whether even a Democrat with roots in the blue-collar Youngstown region and close ties to organized labor can win in the increasingly Republican state. Mr. Ryan, an 18-year House […]
UK trade markets ‘growing faster than EU markets’ says Truss Greenlandic business magnate Henrik Leth says he wants to send his huge shipments of fish to our shores instead of the bloc after years of putting up with EU bullies. But he warned the UK’s trade tariffs are forcing his and other businesses to divert […]
UK ‘shouldn’t let’ EU ‘off the hook’ says Richard Tice Richard Tice explained it was a moment for the UK to strike while the iron is hot and “embarrass” the EU by offering vaccine doses to the Republic of Ireland. He believed it would allow the UK to secure “negotiation leverage” against a country which was staunchly […]
There are no new Covid cases in the community today – and no new cases in managed isolation in the past 24 hours. Health Minister Chris Hipkins and director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield gave today’s Covid-19 update. All former guests of the Pullman Hotel have been contacted. Five people still have not been […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Impeachment fever has struck Kentucky, where grievances over coronavirus restrictions and the outcome of the Breonna Taylor death investigation have spurred petitions to oust both the governor and the attorney general. It’s a card rarely played in any serious way in the Bluegrass State, though Kentucky has had its share of […]
John Weaver, a longtime Republican strategist and co-founder of the prominent anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project, has for years sent unsolicited and sexually provocative messages online to young men, often while suggesting he could help them get work in politics, according to interviews with 21 men who received them. His solicitations included sending messages to […]
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Longtime South Dakota Republican voter Jim Thompson is ready to leave the GOP, hoping that an exodus of Donald Trump supporters like him will punish the state’s preeminent politician, Sen. John Thune, for defying Trump. Thompson, a retired rodeo announcer and broadcaster, watched Trump’s calls for supporters to come to Washington […]
Sturgeon slammed by Davidson for ‘falling behind’ on vaccine Earlier this month, Scotland’s Health Minister Jeane Freeman was forced to apologise to Matt Hancock after her vaccine deployment plan mistakenly published “sensitive” details about supplies from manufacturers. Ms Freeman admitted regret over publishing the figures for weekly supplies, information which UK Government ministers considered to […]