Thursday, March 28, 2024

US

From Shops To Dining Out, NYC Reopening Hits ‘Biggest Piece’

NEW YORK (AP) — From Macy’s “Miracle on 34th Street” store to the World Trade Center's office towers, New York City hits a key point Monday in trying to rebound from the nation’s d...

Existing Home Sale Plunge 9.7% In 3rd Straight Monthly Drop

WASHINGTON (AP) — Existing home sales in the U.S. plunged 9.7% in May. It was the third straight monthly decline and further evidence of the harm the virus pandemic has done to the...

Netanyahu To Gantz: Sovereignty Or Elections

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent an unequivocal warning to Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz who has persistently refused to adopt the Trump plan inc...

Black Lives Matter wants to oust first Black Los Angeles DA

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — For nearly three years, Melina Abdullah has led dozens of demonstrators once a week outside the Hall of Justice to call for the ouster of Los Angeles County Dist...

Minority Officers Allege Discrimination Over Chauvin Booking

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Eight minority corrections officers who work at the jail holding a former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd allege that...

Tennessee Newspaper Investigating ‘Horrific’ End Of Times Ad

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NASHVILLE (AP) - A Tennessee newspaper said Sunday it is investigating what its editor called a “horrific” full-page advertisement from a religious group that predicts a terrorist ...

Did TikTok Teens, K-Pop Fans Punk Trump’s Comeback Rally?

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Did teens, TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music troll the president of the United States? For more than a week before Donald Trump’s first campaign r...

UK Study: Are Vitamin D Deficient Minorities More Vulnerable to COVID-19

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LONDON (Newsmax) - After being revealed 94% of United Kingdom doctors who died from COVID-19 infections were black, Asian, and minorities, a study is exploring whether vitamin D de...

George Soros Conspiracy Theories Surge As Protests Sweep Us

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WASHINGTON (AP) - They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass storefronts or at police. ...

2nd Wave Of Virus Cases? Experts Say We’re Still In The 1st

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NEW YORK (AP) - What's all this talk about a “second wave” of U.S. coronavirus cases? In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined ...

Trump Suggests US Slow Virus Testing To Avoid Bad Statistics

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he's asked his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because robust testing turns up too many cases of COVID-19. ...

Judge: Bolton Can Publish Book Despite Efforts To Block It

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former national security adviser John Bolton can move forward in publishing his tell-all book, a federal judge ruled Saturday, despite efforts by the Trump admini...

Shooting In Seattle Protest Zone Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured

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SEATTLE (AP) — A pre-dawn shooting in a park in Seattle's protest zone killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person, authorities said Saturday. The shooting ha...

Top Federal Prosecutor In Manhattan Steps Down After Attorney General William Barr Told Him Trump Had Fired Him

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An extraordinary standoff between Attorney General William Barr and Manhattan's top federal prosecutor ended Saturday when the prosecutor agreed to leave his job ...

Israeli Team Publishes Successful COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Could Start Human Trials Soon

NES TZIONA (VINnews) — The Institute For Biological Research in Nes Tziona published a 26-page manifesto in which it detailed the results of coronavirus vaccine trials on animals. ...

Court Says Trump Rally Attendees Don’t Have To Wear Masks

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request to require everyone attending President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa this weekend to wear a face mask a...

Tulsa Mayor Implements Curfew Around Site Of Trump Rally

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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has declared a civil emergency and set a curfew for the area around the site where President Donald Trump plans to hold a campaign...

Klobuchar Urges Biden To Pick Nonwhite Woman As Running Mate

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CHICAGO (AP) — Amy Klobuchar says she is dropping out of the running to be vice president and urging Democrat Joe Biden to select a woman of color instead. The white Minnesota s...

Trump Says He Will Renew Effort To End Daca Protections

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will renew his administration's effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after the Supreme Court blocked th...

Twitter Flags Trump’s Tweet Of Doctored ‘Racist Baby’ Video

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LONDON (AP) — Twitter has slapped another label on a tweet by President Donald Trump, this time warning that a video he shared was doctored and escalating the social media company'...