Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2020 | 12:11 AM
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP): Assembly Republicans were set to hand Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul another defeat yesterday, scheduling a vote on a bill creating sexual assault evidence kit testing protocols after tacking on divisive provisions...
Published:Wednesday | February 12, 2020 | 12:11 AM
PARIS (AP): Postal operators in the United States, China and elsewhere say the suspension of flights to slow the spread of a deadly new virus is having a major impact on global flows of letters and parcels. In a note seen by The Associated Press,...
BEIJING (AP) — The daily death toll in China from a new virus topped 100 for the first time, pushing the total fatalities above 1,000 Tuesday as the World Health Organization announced a new name for the disease caused by the virus. Despite...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of United States service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries has shot up to more than 100, the Pentagon said Monday, as more troops suffer the after effects of the Iranian ballistic missile attack...
BEIJING (AP) — China remained mostly closed for business Tuesday, as the daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time, pushing the total above 1,000. Despite the official end of the extended Lunar New Year holiday, many...
FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) Two police officers were wounded and a gunman killed in an exchange of gunfire at a Walmart store in eastern Arkansas yesterday morning, authorities said. Mayor Cedric Williams said at a news conference that the officers...
CAIRO (AP): Egypt’s legislature yesterday gave its initial approval for toughening up already-draconian antiterrorism laws, with amendments that include life sentences and capital punishment for funding terrorism, the state-run news agency said....
BERLIN (AP): German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent unexpectedly threw in the towel yesterday, plunging her conservative party into an even deeper crisis as it struggles to agree on its future political direction after losing votes to the...
JERUSALEM (AP): A leading Israeli opposition figure said yesterday that embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned a United States (US) initiative for ending conflict with the Palestinians into a campaign “stunt” by pushing for...
The government has received a blow to its plans to deport about 50 people to Jamaica after one of two legal actions to try to halt the scheduled flight succeeded. The UK Guardian is reporting that the Court of Appeal made the ruling in an...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia’s weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that a recent deluge in eastern parts of the country has drenched deadly fires and...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A Caribbean Princess cruise was cut short following a gastrointestinal outbreak aboard the ship caused it to be denied entry to at least one island before it headed to its home port in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on...
A high court judge has refused an emergency application to halt a charter flight scheduled to leave the United Kingdom on Tuesday with about 50 Jamaicans on-board. The UK Guardian reports that Justice Sir Nicholas Mostyn refused an application from...
CHICAGO (AP) — The day Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick applied for an Illinois driver’s license upended her life. When a clerk offered to register her to vote in 2005, the Peruvian citizen mistakenly accepted, leading to long legal...
DARIEN, Connecticut (AP) — A Connecticut man charged with killing a hotel worker he says attacked his family on the Caribbean island of Anguilla is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed against him. Scott Hapgood, of Darien, says a hotel...
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman was arrested after he ambushed police officers in the Bronx twice in 12 hours, authorities said, wounding two in attacks that brought outrage from officials who blamed the violence on an atmosphere of anti-police...
Opposition Spokesperson on Health Dr Morais Guy says the government needs to urgently activate a quarantine area in western Jamaica as it is a major gateway for travellers to the island in light of the Coronovirus epidemic. Guy argued that...
LONDON (AP) — Storm Ciara battered the United Kingdom and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains Sunday, halting flights and trains and producing heaving seas that closed down ports. Soccer games, farmers’...
WASHINGTON (CMC): Caribbean American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has joined her New York congressional colleague Kathleen Rice in leading a bipartisan letter to Acting US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf questioning the...
BEIJING (AP): China’s virus death toll rose by 89 on Sunday to 811, passing the number of fatalities in the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic, but fewer new cases were reported in a possible sign its spread may be slowing as other nations stepped up efforts...
HAMILTON (CMC): A ship at the centre of a scare over a killer strain of coronavirus is due to arrive in Bermuda today as health officials announced that 14 people on the island are being monitored as a precaution. Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the...
JOLIET, Illinois (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of spraying disinfectant inside a Walmart in suburban Chicago while announcing to startled customers that he was infected with the new coronavirus turned himself in to police. Tyler Wallace...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — W wreckage from the helicopter that crashed last month and killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven others did not show any outward evidence of engine failure, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday. Bryant...
LONDON (AP) — A British doctor who sexually assaulted two dozen female patients was sentenced to at least 15 years in prison Friday by a judge who accused him of wanting to “control and on occasions humiliate women.” Manish Shah...
Only 36 people have received Windrush compensation payments, 10 months after the scheme’s launch, the Home Office has revealed as it announced an extension to the claims deadline in response to widespread complaints. The UK Guardian reports...
