In a now-viral tweet thread, the former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services broke down how the country could beat the coronavirus. By Jenna Amatulli, HuffPost US The former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Barack Obama went viral with an extensive Twitter thread over […]
The New York congresswoman is pushing to block the troubled pipeline and similar oil and gas projects through an amendment to the budget bill. By Alexander C. Kaufman, HuffPost US Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidency in November 2016, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then a 27-year-old activist and bartender, hopped in a 1998 Subaru and roadtripped […]
Spain has said outbreaks of new Covid-19 cases are isolated and under control after the UK abruptly ordered people coming from the country to quarantine. Infections have risen sharply in Spain recently as restrictions were eased. Some regions have now imposed measures including making face masks mandatory. “Spain is safe for Spaniards and for tourists,” […]
North Korea has reported what it describes as the country’s first suspected case of coronavirus. State media said a person who defected to South Korea three years ago last week returned across the demarcation line with Covid-19 symptoms. Leader Kim Jong-un held an emergency meeting with top officials, imposing a lockdown in the border city […]
Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died at the age of 104. De Havilland’s career spanned more than 50 years and almost 50 feature films, and she was the last surviving star from Gone with the Wind (1939). The film earned her one of her […]
By Vikas Pandey BBC News, Delhi Rajesh Kumar, 45, started coughing in early June. Within days, he was running a high fever. He didn’t get tested for coronavirus. Instead he took anti-fever medication for five days. But the fever persisted, and soon he had difficulty breathing. His family asked him to get tested, but […]
A church volunteer has admitted starting a fire that devastated the cathedral in the French city of Nantes last week, his lawyer has said. The Rwandan refugee, who worked as a warden at the cathedral, was rearrested on Saturday night. No motive for the fire, which destroyed the cathedral’s 17th Century organ as well as […]
A major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. More than 50,000 people took part in the study, which was able to identify more details of the “genetic impact” the trade has had on present-day […]
Coronavirus pandemic Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES/AFP A Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China, the latest incident in a growing stand-off between Washington and Beijing. Jun Wei Yeo was charged with using his political consultancy in America as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence, US officials […]
The book, Finding Freedom – which is being serialised in the Times – has claimed the Sussexes and Cambridges were barely speaking by March. It also says friends of Prince Harry and Meghan referred to some Palace officials as “vipers”. A spokesman for the Sussexes, who now live in California, said they had not been interviewed for […]