2020-06-03
OAKLAND, Calif. — Facebook employees are using Twitter to register their frustration over CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to leave up posts by President Donald Trump that suggested protesters in Minneapolis could be shot. While Twitter demoted and placed a warning on a tweet about the protests that read, in part, that “when the looting starts […]
2020-05-31
Around 500 to 600 demonstrators marched through the Kentucky city’s downtown streets on Thursday night, the Courier Journal reported. The protests stretched for more than six hours, ending in the early hours of Friday as rain poured down. “Understandably, emotions are high,” Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer tweeted just before midnight, sharing a Facebook post asking […]
2020-05-30
President Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to rally at the White House, inviting a potentially dangerous mix of protesters after people angry about the death of an unarmed black man in Minnesota police custody skirmished with the Secret Service on Friday. He threatened “the unlimited power” of the U.S. military to clamp down on demonstrations, […]
2020-05-27
Children could be less infectious but still vulnerable to Covid-19. — Reuters LONDON, May 19 — There are tentative signs that children may not spread the novel coronavirus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said today, though they cautioned that the bad news was that human immunity may not last that long. As Europe […]
2020-05-21
(WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence, installing a new head of the nation’s intelligence agencies at a time when President Donald Trump has ousted multiple officials. Ratcliffe seemed unlikely to get the position when he was nominated in February, as he had already been nominated […]
2020-05-14
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday criticised the congressional testimony delivered by the nation’s top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci a day earlier against the dangers of reopening the economy and schools too quickly. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told a Senate committee that premature lifting of the […]
2020-05-10
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2020-05-02
In this file photo taken on June 30, 2019, US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un stand on North Korean soil while walking to South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ), in Panmunjom, Korea. — AFP pic WASHINGTON, May 3 — US President Donald Trump said yesterday he was “glad” about the reappearance […]
2020-04-18
An empty Westminster Bridge is pictured in front of Britain’s Houses of Parliament in central London on April 13, 2020, as life in Britain continues over the Easter weekend, during the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. – GLYN KIRK The U.K. will most likely fail to strike a new trade agreement with […]
2020-04-04
This was supposed to be the one. The two biggest sides in the country battling it out for one last time this season. The spoils just about settled but the bragging rights still up for grabs. It would have received the full bells and whistles treatment. The week-long build-up as per every match of this […]
2020-03-30
A customer carries take-out food from the TK Burger restaurant, as authorities encourage social distancing to prevent the Covid-19 in Huntington Beach, California March 29, 2020. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, March 30 — Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Shelter from the financial storm The numbers have been staggering: […]
2020-03-23
Amazon will assist its hometown city of Seattle with at-home COVID-19 testing, according to a report from CNBC on Monday. The test kits are provided by the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN, a research effort based on the prior Seattle Flu Study initiative that is now dedicated to better understanding the spread of the novel […]
2020-03-20
Lots of people are offering up their own versions of the video that popped up this week in which Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot enlisted a bunch of celebrities to sing John Lennon’s Imagine. It’s being mocked on all corners of the Internet, and with a bunch of ESPN personalities from shows like Around the Horn and Highly […]
2020-03-16
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO: President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had taken a coronavirus test but that his temperature was “totally normal,” as he extended a travel ban to Britain and Ireland to try to slow the spread of Covid-19. After White House officials took the unprecedented step of checking the temperatures of journalists entering the briefing […]
2020-03-12
Colosseum seen with an empty street, virtually deserted after a decree orders for the whole of Italy to be on lockdown, in Rome March 10, 2020. — Reuters pic ROME, March 11 — Locked-down Italy yesterday recorded its deadliest day of the novel coronavirus outbreak, with its toll jumping by 168, as airlines halted flights […]
2020-03-06
Pakistani volunteers, security personnel and residents search for the victims in the rubble of a collapsed a five-storey residential building in Karachi on March 5, 2020. — AFP pic KARACHI, March 5 — At least 11 people were killed and 22 others wounded when a five-storey residential complex collapsed in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi […]
2020-03-06
Date/Time: Thursday, March 26, 2020, 12:00―12:30 PM EDT In recognition of World Bipolar Day, NIMH is hosting a Facebook Live event on bipolar disorder in adolescents and young adults on Wednesday, March 26, 2020, from 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. ET. Bipolar disorder is not the same as the typical ups and downs every kid goes […]