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One person has died and several more are injured after a shooting disrupted a Fourth of July block party in Toledo, Ohio on Sunday. The Toledo Police Department responded to shots fired shortly after 10 p.m. local time near Lawrence Avenue and Detroit Avenue. Several victims were taken from the scene to local area hospitals. Lieutenant Paul Davis confirmed to Newsweek on Monday morning that 11 people were injured during the incident. Davis also said there were multiple shooter...

Florida's plan to use COVID-19 relief funding to provide $1,000 bonuses to nearly 180,000 educators could be at risk, after the Biden administration warned the proposal falls outside of the scope of how the money is supposed to be used. The U.S. Department of Education sent Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran a letter last week advising that the bonuses included in the budget Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law last month appear to fall outside federal g...

Indonesian police threw up roadblocks and more than 400 checkpoints on the islands of Java and Bali to ensure hundreds of millions of people stayed home on Saturday, the first day of stricter curbs on movement to limit the spread of COVID-19. As it battles one of Asia's worst coronavirus outbreaks, the world's fourth-most-populous nation has seen record new infections on eight of the past 12 days, with Friday bringing 25,830 cases and a high of 539 deaths. "We are setting u...

The World Health Organization is calling for urgent action to stem the rapid spread of COVID-19 across Africa, which is being fueled by a surge of more contagious variants of the disease. Latest reports say COVID-19 cases in Africa have been rising by 25% every week for the past six weeks, bringing reported cases there to more than 5.4 million, including 141,000 deaths. WHO regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, warns the rampant spread of the more contagious alpha, beta, and d...

Taliban insurgents have continued to make rapid territorial gains in Afghanistan as the United States said its last remaining troops are expected to withdraw from the conflict-torn country by the end of August. Multiple Afghan sources said Saturday the Taliban had pressured pro-government forces to retreat from at least a dozen districts in northeastern Badakhshan and Takhar border provinces in the past 24 hours. Pro-government forces in many areas are said to be surrendering and abandonin...

The simmering war in Afghanistan, if official accounts are to be accepted, has killed more people last month than in any other month since 2001, when the United States and NATO troops invaded the country. Battlefield violence between pro-Afghan government forces and the Taliban insurgency have particularly surged since May 1, when the last of the U.S.-led international forces formally began exiting the conflict-torn nation under orders from President Joe Biden. The Taliban have overrun ...

It is one of the dining capitals of the world, but Bangkok’s foodie reputation is now hanging by a thread as the coronavirus devastates the city’s restaurant scene - the damage seen in for sale signs on the street and desperate Facebook posts from chefs lamenting closures. Bo.lan, Chu and Soul Food Mahanakorn are city favorites all wiped out by a virus which bit deep into restaurant revenue during the first lockdown in April 2020, but 15 months later has killed off the business...

Thousands of people were being evacuated from villages around a rumbling volcano near the Philippine capital Friday, but officials said they faced another dilemma of ensuring emergency shelters will not turn into epicenters of COVID-19 infections. The alert was raised to three on a five-level scale after Taal Volcano blasted a dark gray plume into the sky Thursday. The five-minute steam- and gas-driven explosion was followed by four smaller emissions, but the volcano was generally calm on ...

Two more bodies were found at the site of a collapsed condominium building in the Miami area, raising the death toll to 20, the Associated Press reported. One of those bodies belonged to the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter, the Miami-Dade County mayor said. "It goes without saying that every night since this last Wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody and particularly the families that have been impacted," said Daniella Levine Cava. "But last...

Former Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana who served as ambassador to China under former President Obama, called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) Taiwan visit Tuesday a “provocation,” adding it made President Biden look “weak.”   Baucus in an interview Tuesday evening with CNN’s Jake Tapper repeatedly warned the trip by Pelosi was edging the U.S. closer to recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation — which the longtime senator su...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul dumped his stock in semiconductor firm Nvidia amid backlash just before the Senate passed the CHIPS bill to drum up domestic semiconductor chip production, according to a periodic report released Tuesday. On June 17 Paul Pelosi exercised call options to buy 20,000 shares worth between $1 million and $5 million, ahead of the vote on the CHIPS plus bill which would inject $52 billion into the semiconductor market. The move drew bipartisan backlas...

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with .08% blood alcohol level or higher causing injury, the Napa County District Attorney's Office said in a press release on Monday.  The charges stem from a crash on May 28, when a 2014 Jeep struck Pelosi's 2021 Porsche at an intersection around 10 p.m. that evening.  Pelosi, 8...

July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband sold his shares of chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Tuesday, days before the House is expected to consider legislation providing subsidies and tax credits worth over $70 billion to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry. In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365. Paul Pelosi freq...

July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband sold his shares of chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Tuesday, days before the House is expected to consider legislation providing subsidies and tax credits worth over $70 billion to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry. In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365. Paul Pelosi freq...

Democrats have carved out quite a niche for themselves as the party of the have-nots, even if it’s mostly a hypocritical marketing ploy. Bernie Sanders, the socialist, lives a pretty non-socialist life with a town house, a vacation home and all the comforts of the bourgeoisie while he claims to champion the proletariat. There’s no shortage of similar examples. Recall the late Massachusetts senator and liberal icon Teddy Kennedy’s support of forced busing while sending his...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband sold up to $5 million worth of shares of chipmaker Nvidia as the House prepares to vote on a bill focusing on the domestic chip manufacturing industry.  Pelosi completed a period transaction report signed on Tuesday that indicated that her husband, Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia at an average price of $165.05 with a total loss of $341,365. In total, the shares are worth between $1 million and $5 million. A separate...

Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly had a drug in his system, addressed officers with slurred speech, and tried to hand them a police courtesy card during his May arrest on DUI charges, according to court documents. Pelosi's 2021 Porsche and the other driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in a crash around 10:17 p.m. on May 28, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car ...

It’s been a decade since a law passed banning members of Congress from trading stocks based on insider information, yet some say the practice is still alive and well in Washington. Now, there is controversy over new financial disclosures from one of the most powerful people in Washington. Records show the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, invested between $1 and $5 million in the semiconductor company Nvidia, just weeks ahead of a vote scheduled on a bill that would...

Paul Pelosi was held after his Porsche was involved in a collision with another vehicle in Napa County on Saturday night. No-one was injured and the other driver was not arrested. Eighty-two-year-old Mr Pelosi was charged with two misdemeanours and had his bail set at $5,000. He is not listed as being currently in custody. The California Highway Patrol said Mr Pelosi had been attempting to cross State Route-29 when his car was struck by a 48-year-old man driving a Jeep. Califor...

After being arrested for a DUI, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband once again made headlines by controversially trading stock in a computer chip company ahead of a scheduled congressional vote on the semiconductor industry. FOX Business reports it reached out to Pelosi's office regarding her husband Paul's million-dollar purchase of stock in Nvidia, a semiconductor company known for its high-end graphics cards and processors for PCs, right as Congress is set to vote on up to ...

Former Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana who served as ambassador to China under former President Obama, called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) Taiwan visit Tuesday a “provocation,” adding it made President Biden look “weak.”   Baucus in an interview Tuesday evening with CNN’s Jake Tapper repeatedly warned the trip by Pelosi was edging the U.S. closer to recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation — which the longtime senator su...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul dumped his stock in semiconductor firm Nvidia amid backlash just before the Senate passed the CHIPS bill to drum up domestic semiconductor chip production, according to a periodic report released Tuesday. On June 17 Paul Pelosi exercised call options to buy 20,000 shares worth between $1 million and $5 million, ahead of the vote on the CHIPS plus bill which would inject $52 billion into the semiconductor market. The move drew bipartisan backlas...

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with .08% blood alcohol level or higher causing injury, the Napa County District Attorney's Office said in a press release on Monday.  The charges stem from a crash on May 28, when a 2014 Jeep struck Pelosi's 2021 Porsche at an intersection around 10 p.m. that evening.  Pelosi, 8...

July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband sold his shares of chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Tuesday, days before the House is expected to consider legislation providing subsidies and tax credits worth over $70 billion to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry. In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365. Paul Pelosi freq...

Democrats have carved out quite a niche for themselves as the party of the have-nots, even if it’s mostly a hypocritical marketing ploy. Bernie Sanders, the socialist, lives a pretty non-socialist life with a town house, a vacation home and all the comforts of the bourgeoisie while he claims to champion the proletariat. There’s no shortage of similar examples. Recall the late Massachusetts senator and liberal icon Teddy Kennedy’s support of forced busing while sending his...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband sold up to $5 million worth of shares of chipmaker Nvidia as the House prepares to vote on a bill focusing on the domestic chip manufacturing industry.  Pelosi completed a period transaction report signed on Tuesday that indicated that her husband, Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia at an average price of $165.05 with a total loss of $341,365. In total, the shares are worth between $1 million and $5 million. A separate...

Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly had a drug in his system, addressed officers with slurred speech, and tried to hand them a police courtesy card during his May arrest on DUI charges, according to court documents. Pelosi's 2021 Porsche and the other driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in a crash around 10:17 p.m. on May 28, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are now investigating the death of a 13-year-old Michigan boy, Jacob Clynick, who died a few days after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Martha Sharan, a public affairs officer for the CDC's COVID-19 vaccine task force, wrote in a statement to Newsweek that, "CDC is aware of a 13-year-old boy in Michigan who died after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. This case is currently under inv...

As the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to spread in the U.S., a handful of states have been hit harder than most amid fears of a fresh wave of infections over Fourth of July weekend. The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has analysed data collected from 25 U.S. states over four weeks to June 5, and concluded that the states with the highest proportions of the Delta variant—or B.1.617.2—are Missouri at 29.9 percent, Colorado...

The World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday that at least 3,800 metric tons of food had been blocked from reaching the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the Associated Press reported. A bridge over the Tekeze River used to help transport aid into the region was destroyed on Thursday. WFP said in a statement that no flights bringing United Nations or other aid to the region have been allowed by Ethiopia since June 22 and that another bridge was destroyed on Thursday, as well. WFP emer...

United States President Joe Biden is warning people to take precautions while celebrating the July 4 holiday this weekend, voicing concern that "people will die" after attending large gatherings in places where vaccination rates are low. "I am not concerned there's going to be a major outbreak, in other words, that we're gonna have another epidemic nationwide, but I'm concerned lives will be lost," Biden told reporters on Friday. More than 600,0...

Seventeen people, including police, were hurt when a large explosion rocked a Los Angeles neighborhood Wednesday evening as thousands of pounds of illegal fireworks were being seized, officials said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, police said. The blast happened about 7:30 p.m. local time (10:30 p.m. E.T.) as the bomb squad was detonating some of the explosives in a vehicle with a containment vessel designed to withstand blasts. "This vessel should have be...

With the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus spreading quickly across the globe, countries are racing against time to vaccinate their populations, with plans to reopen after lengthy lockdowns at risk. And while the United States and countries in western Europe are cautiously easing social restrictions, elsewhere nations that once enjoyed relative success containing the spread of the virus are now faltering. On Wednesday, France lifted its&nbs...

The number of Covid-19 cases in the United States rose 10 percent this week as the highly contagious delta variant gained further ground, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The country's lagging vaccination rate coupled with the "hypertransmissible delta variant," first detected in India, could account for the increase, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House briefing. The delta variant is about 60 percent more transmissible ...

Honolulu police officers were justified in their use of deadly force against Lindani Myeni and will face no charges, the city's prosecuting attorney has announced. Myeni, a 29-year-old citizen of South Africa, was shot dead during a struggle with officers after he entered a home in the Nuuanu neighborhood on April 14, prompting a female occupant to call 911. At a news conference on Wednesday, Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steve Alm shared the findings of a two-month investigation in...

Two adults and one child were shot to death in an apartment in Houston, on Wednesday night. A 10-year-old girl in the residence survived by playing dead and then calling her grandmother for help. Houston police responded to the shooting near West Houston Airport just after 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, where they discovered a 6-year-old girl, her mother and her father had been shot and killed. The couple had three other children in addition to the 6-year-old: an 8-year-old boy wh...

As the threat of the Delta COVID variant looms ahead of the July 4 celebrations, half of Americans fear the potential onset of a new wave of the virus, according to a poll released Thursday. The new survey of 1,115 adults in the U.S. aged 18 and older, conducted by the Marist Poll in partnership with NPR and PBS NewsHour, said 50 percent of Americans "express concern about the possibility of a new wave of the coronavirus." The poll was conducted by phone from Ju...

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are on their way to Surfside, Florida to meet with local officials and families of the victims of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse. Biden has a packed schedule for the trip. He will first have a briefing with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, other local leaders and first responders. Then he will thank the first responders and search-and-rescue teams, meet with families of the victims and missi...

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City's subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday that he met with Slim, and that the billionaire assured the President that his construction firm "will pay for everything" needed for the reconstruction of Mexico City's Subway...

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is worrying officials around the world. Four major Australian cities went into a four-day "circuit-breaker" lockdown this week to try and stop it from spreading. Australia's Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced looser vaccination policies to try to get more people immunized before the variant could spread. Ireland delayed plans to resume indoor service in bars and restaurants and US officials urged Americans to get vaccinated to stop its...

When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide. In November 2020, Abiy ordered a military offensive in the northern Tigray region and promised that the conflict would be resolved quickly. One year on, the fighting has left thousands dead, displaced more than 2 million peo...

Despite a desperate need for Covid-19 vaccines, Brazil is suspending a deal to purchase 20 million doses of the Indian-made Covaxin vaccines, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday, after questions were raised about a pricing increase. The ministry said the decision was made on the recommendation of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU). "According to the preliminary analysis of the CGU, there are no irregularities in the contract, but, due to compli...

Oxygen prices in Indonesia's capital had more than doubled and some suppliers reported shortages on Tuesday after a surge in Covid-19 cases that prompted the Red Cross to warn of a coronavirus "catastrophe" in Southeast Asia's biggest country. Indonesia has announced record daily Covid-19 infections of more than 20,000 in recent days, in a new wave fueled by the emergence of highly transmissible virus variants and increased mobility after the Muslim fasting mont...

Kim Jong Un fired several senior officials who failed to enforce North Korea's stringent Covid-19 prevention, a dereliction of duty which the young dictator said will have "grave consequences" for the impoverished and isolated nation, state media reported Wednesday. It is unclear who or exactly how many officials were responsible for the unspecified incident, which Kim called a "great crisis." But it appears some members of the upper echelons of the ruling...

There are additional restrictions in place for some south-east LGA’s including changes to face mask rules and visiting aged care facilities. There are also new mask rules for anyone across the state attending a stadium event. From Sunday 3 October, the Richmond Valley LGA will be part of the restricted border zone, joining the Kyogle LGA. And the Walgett Shire will no longer be part of the restricted border zone. From Wednesday 29 September, the Tweed shire and Byron shire LGAs...

Just 5,000 Australians in disability care – fewer than one in five people – have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 more than four months into the rollout, new data shows. The disability care industry has also warned some providers are again being forced to source their own vaccinations, rather than wait for commonwealth in-reach teams to turn up. The federal government placed disability care residents in the highest priority cohort for its vaccine program, but...

Galveston County Health District confirms at least 20 fully vaccinated residents who attended a church-sponsored summer camp event in League City last month have tested positive for COVID-19. Current data, as of Monday, July 19, is that out of the 450 plus people who attended this camp at Clear Creek Community Church, more than 130 of them have self-reported that they have tested positive for COVID. Galveston County health officials are doing their own testing and confirm 156 peopl...

It’s been a decade since a law passed banning members of Congress from trading stocks based on insider information, yet some say the practice is still alive and well in Washington. Now, there is controversy over new financial disclosures from one of the most powerful people in Washington. Records show the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, invested between $1 and $5 million in the semiconductor company Nvidia, just weeks ahead of a vote scheduled on a bill that would...

Former Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana who served as ambassador to China under former President Obama, called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) Taiwan visit Tuesday a “provocation,” adding it made President Biden look “weak.”   Baucus in an interview Tuesday evening with CNN’s Jake Tapper repeatedly warned the trip by Pelosi was edging the U.S. closer to recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation — which the longtime senator su...

Paul Pelosi was held after his Porsche was involved in a collision with another vehicle in Napa County on Saturday night. No-one was injured and the other driver was not arrested. Eighty-two-year-old Mr Pelosi was charged with two misdemeanours and had his bail set at $5,000. He is not listed as being currently in custody. The California Highway Patrol said Mr Pelosi had been attempting to cross State Route-29 when his car was struck by a 48-year-old man driving a Jeep. Califor...