Saturday 3 December, 2022
A Russian court rejected an appeal against Griner’s nine-year sentence for drug possession last month.
Our columnist looks at the prohibitive cost of education in the US and Biden’s recent efforts to address this.
The Ukrainians killed at the Donetsk prison included troops captured during the fall of Mariupol.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he told his Russian counterpart that the world will not recognize annexation.
Thousands also rallied in Texas and Kentucky, and more protests were planned in other major cities as well as at hundreds of smaller events across the country.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki called for restraint after reports of demonstrations outside the homes of two Supreme Court justices.
Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter shot Wright during a traffic stop after she said she confused her gun for her Taser.
The defendant and the two men he killed were white but the case has been linked from the start to issues of race and the criminal justice system.
It is the second shooting at the university but is not thought to be linked.
The plane was a twin-engine Cessna C340, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Biden had ruled out mandates in the past but feels the action is now required as almost 70 million Americans remain unvaccinated.
His comments came after a whistleblower Frances Haugen, gave evidence to US politicians yesterday.
Ernest Lee Johnson, 61, was executed for the 1994 murders of three convenience store workers.
The coming days are expected to be the most critical yet for Biden’s presidency.
Almost 15,000 people – most of them Haitians – converged on the area just days earlier seeking asylum.
The SpaceX capsule carrying four space tourists landed in the Atlantic after three days in orbit.
The 78-year-old Durst will appeal against the conviction, which carries a mandatory life sentence.
Groves of gigantic sequoias could be in the path of the wildfires.
Marques had been arrested in Dublin and extradited to the US in 2019.
Most of the list of 40-odd challengers are Republicans.
Measures include all US-based employers with more than 100 workers will have to ensure employees are vaccinated.
The court voted 5-4 to deny an emergency appeal from abortion providers and others.
Two of RFK’s sons went against their siblings’ wishes to support the release of their father’s assassin.
“We will maintain existing travel restrictions at this point,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters.
Police said the victim was a white female shot in the shoulder, according to local reports.
The US President may remain infectious for much of the next week, according to his own administration’s guidelines.
Only five countries — Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Spain and Brazil — rank higher in Covid-19 deaths per capita.
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will pay their respects at the same memorial today.
Beijing claims most of the South China Sea through a vague delineation based on maps from the 1940s.
The former vice-president has called for $700 million to be spent on supporting manufacturing and technology firms.
Trump echoed comments he’d made the day before at Mount Rushmore.
There have been at least 126,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the United States so far.
A spokesperson for Trump later said he was not aware ‘white power’ was mentioned in the video.
Congress is examining whether he has inappropriately politicised the Justice Department.
The campaign was allegedly over a newsletter they published which was critical of the company.
The first of his rallies is due to take next Friday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
