The U.S. is set to borrow more money in the next 12 months than the previous 200+ years combined The U.S. national debt will swell to nearly $30 trillion if Democrats are able to ram through their COVID-19 relief package via budget reconciliation. The $1.9 trillion spending package will grow the U.S. budget deficit to $3.8…
8,800,000 Texans are still under boil water notices while 120,000 still have no water service at all. | Photo: Twitter/@NBCNews More than 30 percent of Texas residents, United States, are still without water service today, after the blackouts caused by the winter storm that left some 60 people dead throughout the country. The difficulties, aggravated…
Pressure grows on Alberto Fernández administration over ‘VIP vaccination’ scandal. Casa Rosada releases a list of Peronist leaders, officials, and their family members who received Sputnik jab. The Health Ministry has released the names of dozens of officials and political allies who secretly got vaccinated against Covid-19 in an apparent violation of the country’s guidelines,…
(CNN) After a devastating week for the Lone Star state, finally some relief. Temperatures Sunday will continue to warm, with most of the state expected to reach the 60s and 70s — much closer to the average temperatures residents expect during this time of year. But many Texans have only just begun recovering from the unprecedented devastation…
A Honduran migrant child is helped off a Guatemalan army truck after being returned to El Florido, Guatemala, one of the border points between Guatemala and Honduras, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan…
The nursing home scandal has dealt a harsh blow to the governor’s high favorability. Legal experts are warning that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s alleged undercounting of nursing-home deaths amid the COVID-19 pandemic may rise to the level of a criminal offense. Cuomo has found himself at the center of a federal investigation into whether his administration sought to hide the…
Israelis are furious that their taxes are funding vaccines for the enemy. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi, Russia September 12, 2019. (photo credit: REUTERS/SHAMIL ZHUMATOV) The current Israeli discourse revolves around two main issues regarding the saga of the…
BRUSSELS – With the rapid spread of new variants of the coronavirus, major powers are beginning to re-establish border control, a practice that has become a new European habit during the pandemic and is once abandoning the world’s largest free movement zone. Fearful of highly contagious new options first identified in the UK and South…
The increase comes just as schools are scheduled to reopen. The rise has been driven by new, more-infectious variants of the coronavirus. Many have called for teachers to be prioritized for vaccination New coronavirus infections rose again on Sunday, prompting fears ahead of a planned easing of restrictions. The Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases…
Essex County Council has set out answers to questions after the case was detected. Picture: PA The South African variant of Covid-19 has been detected in one part of Essex. As a result targeted testing will be offered to residents in the CM13 postcode in Brentwood. People are “strongly encouraged” to accept the offer of…