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by Francois Picard with Issam Ahmed in Washington HOUSTON, United States (AFP) — Texas lifted its mask mandate and capacity restrictions on restaurants and other businesses Wednesday, despite experts warning the “100 percent” relaxation of coronavirus curbs will exacerbate the spread of worrying variants. The Lone Star State became the fifth to rescind its face covering order in a sign of increasing optimism about the pandemic in the world’s hardest hit country, where the infection […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The manager of an art venue where 36 people died in a fire in Oakland, California, in 2016 was formally sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison, but will serve out just 18 months of that from home with an electronic bracelet. “I am sick with shame. I am so sorry. My shame cannot stand as any defense against what I am responsible for,” Derick Almena, the leaseholder of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The FBI on Tuesday released new images of the man suspected of placing homemade pipe bombs in Washington on January 5 — the night before the assault on the US Capitol — in an effort to gather identifying information about him. The video, published on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s official YouTube channel, shows several angles of surveillance footage of the suspect as he walks along streets in the Capitol […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Disneyland is aiming to reopen in late April at limited capacity after California eased Covid-19 restrictions, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said Tuesday. The world’s second-most visited theme park has been closed for almost exactly a year, with the mega attraction near Los Angeles unable to reopen last summer even while other Disney resorts did so worldwide. “Here in California, we’re encouraged by the positive trends we’re seeing and we’re […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — For the first time in nearly three and a half months, the United States recorded fewer than 1,000 deaths in a day from Covid-19 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University. In 24 hours, 749 people died from the coronavirus, far below the peak of 4,473 deaths recorded on January 12. The daily US death toll has not been below the thousand mark since November 29, when 822 people died […]
MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Bearing a replica coffin covered in red roses, thousands of people marched Sunday in the US city of Minneapolis, the day before trial proceedings begin for the white police officer charged with killing George Floyd, a Black man. The diverse crowd mostly stayed silent, occasionally chanting “No justice, no peace!” Floyd was 46 when he died of asphyxiation, as then-officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes […]
by Andrew MARSZAL Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — California on Friday paved the way for Disneyland, other theme parks and outdoor stadiums to welcome guests back sooner than expected as it relaxed reopening criteria following a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases and pressure from operators. The move announced by the state health department will permit ballparks, stadiums and mega-attractions including Disneyland, Magic Mountain and Universal Studios to admit visitors from […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — California will set aside nearly half of its next batch of vaccines for people living in its most disadvantaged zip codes, as concern grows over a yawning gap in the pandemic’s impact on rich and poor, Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday. The policy comes as data shows low-income and minority groups in the nation’s most populous state are far more severely hit by Covid-19, and also substantially less likely […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States on Thursday tightened export controls on Myanmar, imposing its latest sanctions in response to the junta’s deadly violence against democracy protesters. Myanmar was reclassified into the same group as US adversaries Russia and China in the level of scrutiny for any sensitive technology or materials, with restrictions on any exports that could be put to military use. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was […]
by Heather SCOTT WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US labor market faces a lengthy recovery and the economy will not see maximum employment this year, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday. While he expressed hope about the restoration of jobs lost during the pandemic, Powell noted that millions of workers have left the labor force. “I think it’s not at all likely it would reach maximum employment this year. I think it’s going […]
https://youtu.be/daovqk-0geU Teachers and school employees in Pennsylvania are next in line to receive the one-dose Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Pennsylvania. In Swarthmore, EBC bureau chief Maila Simbulan has the story. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and the COVID-19 vaccine Task Force announced a plan to vaccinate the state’s Pre-K to 12 teachers and other school staff. Watch it in this Eagle News America report. (Eagle News Service)
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded on the ground Wednesday after carrying out what had seemed to be a successful flight and landing. It was the third straight flub involving the prototype of the Starship rocket, which SpaceX hopes one day to send to Mars. The last two test flights ended in crashes. “A beautiful soft landing,” a SpaceX commentator said on the live broadcast of the test flight, although flames […]
