A patient is taken to Houston Methodist Hospital as storm clouds gather over the Texas Medical Center, amid the global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Houston, Texas, USA. USA, June 22, 2020. Callaghan O’Hare | Reuters The United States added more than 31,000 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday …
Read More »Yearly Archives: 2020
Trump to expand broad immigration restrictions, targeting work visas in a new order
The Trump administration announced Monday that it will suspend certain visas that allow foreigners to temporarily move to the United States to work, saying that broad restrictions will ease the economic impact of coronavirus and improve the prospects of Americans seeking employment during the pandemic. Several guest worker programs will …
Read More »No state has successfully exited the blockade with the right tools, says former CDC chief
As of Tuesday, 25 states have posted higher rates of new cases compared to last week: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Ohio , Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. And no state has effectively …
Read More »‘I’m suffocating’: the French driver’s last words echo the George Floyd case | France
A French delivery driver who died after being arrested in Paris stated: “I am suffocating” several times when the police kept him on the ground. Images have appeared of Cédric Chouviat, 42, saying he could not breathe seven times in 22 seconds when officers pinned him down. Four police officers …
Read More »Robert Johnson urges Black Lives Matter to form a political party
Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, told CNBC on Tuesday that African Americans should form their own political party to focus their electoral influence. “I have long been convinced that 40 million African-Americans who tend to vote en bloc in one of the two parties limit their influence to …
Read More »