Category : World

Wealthy Californians have reportedly been getting their hands on vaccine access codes intended for residents of poor neighborhoods — helping them snag appointments for the coveted jabs. The special-access codes were provided to community organizers to distribute as part of a program to address vaccine inequality in black and Latino areas hard-hit b...

House Democrats will move forward with a vote Friday on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, regardless of if they are able to sway any Republicans between then and now. In a tweet sent Tuesday afternoon, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the body would vote at the end of the week on the legislation, saying, “T...

The Food and Drug Administration backed Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine as safe and effective on Wednesday as the agency weighs whether to clear the shot for emergency use. FDA staff affirmed J&J’s finding that the vaccine was 66 percent effective overall at preventing moderate and severe cases of COVID-19. While not as strong a...

Senator Mitt Romney said that President Donald Trump would win the GOP nomination “in a landslide” if he decided to make a run for The White House again in 2024. Romney (R – Utah) was speaking to the New York Times’ DealBook when he addressed Trump’s position in the future of the Republican Party. “He has by far the largest voice and a big impact i...

More than 200 coffins plummeted into the sea when the cliff near a cemetery in coastal Italy collapsed, according to reports. Workers at Camogli Cemetery, which was built over 100 years ago near the coast of Genoa, first noticed a crack along the cemetery wall on Saturday during some routine maintenance, according to Francesco Olivari, the mayor of...

An athlete at UCLA was booted from the cross country and track & field team after a video recording of him saying the N-word surfaced on social media. Head coach Avery Anderson announced on Monday that Chris Weiland, a senior at the Los Angeles university, had been kicked off the team. “Chris Weiland has been dismissed as a member of the cross coun...

Illinois is set to become the first state to eliminate cash bail. The state’s Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday signed into law a sweeping overhaul of policing and criminal justice that eliminates the system starting in January 2023. The bill also mandates that all police officers be equipped with body cameras and sets statewide standards on ...

A Texas man has been arrested after authorities found homemade explosives in his house Tuesday morning. John Christopher Crawson, 47, was busted around 8 a.m. after investigators searched his home in Williamson County and found several bombs, according to the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office. Crawson is charged with making a terroristic threat ag...

Tiger Woods may be one of the world’s best when it comes to golf but he’s had a series of troubles behind the wheel throughout his career — including two crashes that rattled his personal life.  Most infamously, in 2009 he smashed up his Cadillac Escalade when he crashed into a neighbor’s tree outside his Florida home — further exposing the explosi...

President Biden on Tuesday said that he and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to work together to counter China’s influence and to combat racism and global warming. Biden and Trudeau “met” virtually on Tuesday in what the White House billed as Biden’s first bilateral meeting with a world leader. But in comments after the virtual meeting...