Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo also pledged to help the American economy recover from the pandemic, to expand broadband access to regions with patchy Internet connections and to promote manufacturing …
Coronavirus updates: As variants spread, countries pursue new round of travel restrictions
The United States, Britain and New Zealand are moving to impose stricter border measures as highly infectious coronavirus variants continue to spread. Go to Source Author: By Jennifer Hassan, Lateshia …
Three nights of anti-lockdown violence in the Netherlands
Dutch government won’t bow to ‘scum’ rioters after third night of violent protests in response to a new coronavirus curfew, official says. Go to Source Author: By Adam Taylor
Only one of the world’s 29 poorest countries has started coronavirus vaccinations
WHO officials said last week that the West African nation of Guinea is the only low-income country to begin administering doses. And those efforts have been limited. Go to Source …
The U.K., facing a scary coronavirus strain, is running a high-stakes, real-world vaccine experiment
The findings will have implications for the world. Go to Source Author: By William Booth and Karla Adam
Oregon Republican Party falsely calls Capital riot a ‘false flag’ meant to ‘discredit President Trump’
In a resolution from the Oregon GOP, the party falsely claims that the entire Capitol riot was a “false flag” staged to undermine former president Donald Trump and silence his …
Tornado rips through Alabama, killing 1 and injuring at least 20
A tornado devastated Fultondale, Ala., just north of Birmingham, late Monday, killing at least 1 person and leaving at least 20 people injured, according to authorities. A tornado devastated Fultondale, …
Wealthy couple chartered a plane to the Yukon, took vaccines meant for Indigenous elders, authorities said
“I can’t believe I’ve ever seen or heard of such a despicable, disgusting sense of entitlement and lack of a moral compass,” British Columbia Solicitor-General Mike Farnworth said Monday, according …
Clashes in India’s capital as protesting farmers enter Delhi in fresh challenge to Modi
The tractor rally came after more than two months of protests at the city’s borders Go to Source Author: By Joanna Slater and Taniya Dutta
Beijing wiped out the democracy camp in Hong Kong. Now it’s replacing its friends.
As a new party emerges, the city’s voters face a choice of which China loyalists to support. Go to Source Author: By Shibani Mahtani and Theodora Yu
Unequal access to vaccines could cost trillions in global losses, says report
A new study funded by the International Chamber of Commerce says that advanced economies should ensure global access to vaccines. Go to Source Author: By Erin Cunningham
The tragic legacy of the Arab Spring
A decade since pro-democracy protesters gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the Arab world weighs the lessons of the 2011 uprisings. Go to Source Author: By Ishaan Tharoor
Violence erupts in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods over coronavirus restrictions
Rioters pelted police with stones and set a bus on fire as the government attempted to increase compliance in areas where infections are among the highest. Go to Source Author: …
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign, leaving nation without a stable government to guide pandemic response
Conte directed pandemic decision-making while trying to hold warring political factions together. Go to Source Author: By Chico Harlan
The pandemic destroyed 225 million jobs worldwide, but billionaires got richer, reports find
Hundreds of millions of full-time jobs disappeared last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report by the International Labor Organization. But the wealthiest people got even richer, …
Two days of total lockdown in a crowded Hong Kong neighborhood
Hong Kong on Monday lifted an unprecedented two-day lockdown on an area in Kowloon’s Yau Ma Tei and Jordan neighborhoods, which restricted some 10,000 people to an area of less …
Trump is threatening to form the Patriot Party. That name has already been used — by ‘hillbilly’ socialists.
The original Patriot Party was a group of socialist radicals who sought to stoke revolutionary fervor among poor and working-class White people, decking themselves out in Confederate flags while taking …
A Texas man who stormed the Capitol threatened to ‘assassinate’ Ocasio-Cortez, feds say
Garret A. Miller was arrested and charged with unlawful entry of the Capitol on Jan. 6, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, obstruction or impeding any official proceedings, …
Six shot dead, including pregnant woman, in ‘mass murder,’ Indianapolis officials say
Indianapolis Police Chief Randal Taylor said the crime was the community’s largest mass casualty shooting in more than a decade. Indianapolis Police Chief Randal Taylor said the crime was the …
Violence erupts in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods over covid restrictions
Rioters pelt police with stones, burn a bus, as government attempts to increase compliance in areas where infections are among the highest Go to Source Author: By Steve Hendrix and …