Los Angeles mayor dismisses Trump administration warning over ‘unlawful’ lockdown
LOS ANGELES: The mayor of Los Angeles Friday dismissed a Trump administration warning that the city’s continued lockdown due to coronavirus could be illegal, saying he would not be “pushed by politics.” Eric Garcetti, the Democratic leader of the United States’ second-largest city, was sent a letter earlier Friday by federal authorities that said long-term […]
Woman who confessed to killing her 9-year-old son pushed him into a canal in Florida
A mother who initially told police that her son was abducted admitted during an interrogation that she led him to a canal where the 9-year-old was later found dead, an arrest affidavit says. Patricia Ripley, 45, initially told Miami-Dade Police that two men side-swiped her car while she was driving with her son, Alejandro Ripley, […]
US pushing relations to ‘brink of new Cold War,’ China warns
The United States is pushing relations with China to “the brink of a new Cold War”, China’s foreign minster said on Sunday, rejecting US “lies” over the coronavirus while saying Beijing was open to an international effort to find its source. Keeping up the worsening war of words with Washington over the pandemic and a […]
US coronavirus death toll surpasses 100,000
The United States on Wednesday surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths as the country continues to ease lockdown and return to work. With the European Union unveiling a massive recovery plan to step up its emergence from the crisis, the US figure was a sobering reminder of the devastation being wreaked around the […]
4 Minneapolis officers fired, protest held after black man dies in police custody
Demonstrators gathered Wednesday for a second night of protests over the killing in the US city of Minneapolis of a handcuffed black man by a policeman who held him to the ground with a knee on his neck. As dusk fell, police formed a human barricade around the Third Precinct, where the officers accused of […]
Trump threatens social media after Twitter fact-checks him
US President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that he may regulate social media platforms after Twitter for the first time acted against his false tweets. Trump will sign an executive order “pertaining to social media” on Thursday, aides to the president said, without offering more detail about its contents. Twitter tagged two of his tweets […]
India wilts under heatwave as temperature hits 50 degrees Celsius
NEW DELHI: India has witnessed its hottest May day in nearly two decades with temperatures in places reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). Scorching weather is a growing menace in the world’s second-most populous nation, and the United Nations warned this week that the coronavirus pandemic increased the associated health risks. Indian meteorological officials […]
White woman fired after calling police on black man in NYC’s Central Park
NEW YORK: Denouncing “racism of any kind,” a global investment firm has fired a white woman after a viral video showed her calling police to say she felt threatened by an African-American man who asked her politely to leash her dog in New York’s Central Park. The video drew outrage on social media where it […]
Minnesota police arrest entire CNN TV crew covering George Floyd protests live on-air
WASHINGTON: The Minnesota State Patrol arrested a CNN reporter reporting live on television early Friday morning while covering the Minneapolis protests, without giving any reason, and led him and three crew members away in handcuffs. Black reporter Omar Jiminez had just shown a protester being arrested when about half a dozen white police officers surrounded […]
Twitter flags and hides Trump’s tweet that ‘glorified violence’
WASHINGTON: Twitter hid another tweet of US President Donald Trump on Friday after it violated their rules by”glorifying violence” in a message that stated that the Minneapolis protest looters would be shot. Twitter’s decision to step in, at a time of racially charged civil unrest in cities across the United States, escalates a feud between […]
