The World Health Organization announced the coronavirus “pandemic is accelerating,” in a tweet on Monday. There are now more than 300,000 cases of coronavirus around the world. As the number of cases continues to rise, here in the U.S., the National Guard has been […]
March 24, 2020 Edit China has announced it will lift the lockdown on Wuhan, the city at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, on April 8, marking a significant milestone in its battle against the deadly outbreak. The date comes more than two months after the […]
President Donald Trump’s increasingly urgent campaign to attack the coronavirus outbreak is having a notably meager impact in the immigration courts, where dramatic moves could undercut his signature policy of getting tough on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers. As state and federal courts around […]
The Trump administration has offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media have reported. The German government is trying to fight off what it sees as an aggressive takeover bid by the US, the […]
‘Tip of the iceberg’: is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19? March 18, 2020 Edit Mayibout 2 is not a healthy place. The 150 or so people who live in the village, which sits on the south bank of the Ivindo River, deep in the […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio was so intent on keeping city libraries open during the coronavirus outbreak that he went as far as making veiled threats about cutting their funding if they closed, according to multiple people familiar with the conversations. De Blasio and […]
China’s Communist Party wants more gratitude for its handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Speaking Friday, Wang Zhonglin, party chief of Wuhan, the virus-hit capital of Hubei province, said that people in the city — much of which remains on lockdown — were […]
The near-clean sweep by Joe Biden during the primary elections on Super Tuesday 2 may be the final nail in what has been shaping up as the coffin for Bernie Sanders’ campaign. But it was unclear when — or if — the senator from Vermont would […]
Protests against gender violence in Mexico have intensified in recent years amid an increase in killings of women and girls. The killings are often accompanied by sexual assault and sometimes grisly mutilations. Women are expected to express their outrage in a march in […]
Hours after the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, Americans were flooded with announcements from what seemed like every corner of the country. The President announced a sweeping ban on travel into the US. The NCAA barred fans from its annual tournament. The NBA suspended its season, altogether. […]
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