Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera's continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I'm Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. The top medical expert in the US, Dr Anthony Fauci is warning that the country, which has been "hit badly" by the coronavirus, is facing a dangerous surge in new cases. The warning came as Arizona, Texas…
Biden campaign raises $81M in May CBS News projects Joe Biden is the winner of Tuesday's primaries in New York and Kentucky. CBS News estimates that as of Tuesday night, he now has 2,304 delegates, having surpassed the 1,991 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination earlier this month. Although Biden has been the only candidate…
A Baltimore restaurant group that has previously been accused of creating dress codes targeting nonwhite customers has apologized after a black woman posted a video showing a white manager refusing to seat her and her son because he said the boy violated a ban on athletic wear. The footage of the incident at Ouzo Bay in…
Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY Published 8:53 p.m. ET June 23, 2020 | Updated 10:29 p.m. ET June 23, 2020CLOSE What I'm Hearing: No deal was ever struck. Which is why Rob Manfred used his emergency powers to mandate a shortened MLB season. Bob Nightengale explains what this baseball will look like. USA TODAYWhile Major League…
Twitter slapped a label on another one of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Tuesday, concluding that it violated its rules about “abusive behavior.” Earlier in the day, Trump tweeted that “there will never be an ‘Autonomous Zone’ in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…