It’s official: After falling for more than two straight months, the average number of daily COVID-19 cases across the U.S. has begun — just barely — to rise again, inching up from a low of 54,059 earlier this week to 57,322 on Wednesday. In emerging hot spots such as Michigan, meanwhile, the pattern is more […]
Secret Service agents allegedly involved themselves in an incident in which Joe Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie threw a gun belonging to her husband Hunter Biden in the trash outside a grocery store, Politico reported Thursday. The alleged involvement of the Secret Service in the incident would be inappropriate given that the incident was investigated by Delaware […]
The New York Times 11 Years On, the Affordable Care Act Defies Opponents and Keeps Expanding WASHINGTON — More than 200,000 Americans flocked to the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplace to sign up for health insurance during the first two weeks of an open enrollment period created by President Joe Biden — a sign that […]
Derogatory tweets by the vice president of San Francisco’s Board of Education have recently resurfaced, prompting several San Franciscans to push for her resignation. Resurfaced Tweets: In a series of tweets from 2016, Vice President Alison Collins shared anti-Asian American sentiments, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Collins, who was elected to the San Francisco […]
A woman of Asian descent was violently assaulted in New York City on Sunday while she was traveling to a protest against anti-Asian violence in what police are calling a hate crime. The 37-year-old woman, who was not identified, was walking in lower Manhattan when a man approached her and snatched her protest sign, the […]
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The New York Times He Redefined ‘Racist.’ Now He’s Trying to Build a Newsroom BOSTON — Ibram X. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman met last summer when their big Boston institutions, Boston University and The Boston Globe, were grappling with protests over racial justice. Venkataraman, the editor of The Globe’s editorial page, asked Kendi, the author […]
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US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin – Brendan Smialowski/AFP The US defence secretary touched down in Kabul on Sunday in a surprise visit amid uncertainty around the May 1 deadline for the total withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. Lloyd Austin a retired army general, said the Biden administration wanted to see “a responsible end to […]