The UK government has no intention of taking forward proposed draft legislation that would give Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies representation in the British Parliament, Governor Martyn Roper has said. Roper, in responding to the Cayman Compass on Tuesday to queries about the Representation of the People, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories Bill, said the draft piece … Continued
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden turned 78 on Friday. In two months, he’ll take the reins of a politically fractured nation facing the worst public health crisis in a century, high unemployment and a reckoning on racial injustice. As he wrestles with those issues, Biden will be attempting to accomplish another feat: demonstrate to … Continued
NEW YORK (AP) — With the coronavirus surging out of control, the nation’s top public health agency pleaded with Americans on Thursday not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household. The Thanksgiving warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came as the White House … Continued
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his allies are taking increasingly frantic steps to subvert the results of the 2020 election, including summoning state legislators to the White House as part of a longshot bid to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. Among other last-ditch tactics: personally calling local election officials who are trying to rescind … Continued
Bobby Brown Jr, the son of singer Bobby Brown, was found dead at a Los Angeles home Wednesday. He was 28. Los Angeles Police spokesman Officer Jeff Lee said officers were responding to a medical emergency when they found Brown Jr’s body around 1:50pm at a home in Encino, The Los Angeles Times reported. Brown … Continued
Negative COVID-19 results serve as entry requirements for many states and countries, so it should come as no surprise that a black market has popped up in an attempt to give travelers what they need. In France, authorities recently arrested seven people for selling false-negative COVID-19 test results at Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport. According to … Continued
“Whatever you do won’t be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.” That was Barack Obama musing in Oslo, Norway, the night after theNobel Prize awards ceremony in which he was given the Nobel Peace Prize. He was reflecting on all the work still ahead of him, all the war and strife that still … Continued
Microsoft News With Pfizer Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine on track to be authorized as early as next month, Western governments are facing an enormous logistical challenge: getting enough people shots of new vaccines. While previous vaccination programs have spread over years and focused on specific demographics such as children or the elderly, governments are hoping to … Continued
A.P. The U.S. has surpassed 1 million new confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of November. The tally of cases in just 10 days shows the reach of the virus amid a strong fall surge. Several states posted new highs Tuesday, including 12,000 new cases in Illinois and more than 7,000 in Wisconsin, where the … Continued
Pfizer Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the company said on Monday, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed over a million people and battered the world’s economy. Experts welcomed the first successful interim data from a large-scale clinical test as a … Continued
