Lily Damtew, owner of Abyssinia Market and Coffee House, reopens her small business in Alexandria, Virginia on Saturday, July 11, 2020. Lily Damtew, owner of Abyssinia Market and Coffee House, reopens her small business in Alexandria, Virginia on Saturday, July 11, 2020. Photo: Washington Post Photo of Marvin Joseph Photo: …
Read More »What you need to know about the coronavirus on Tuesday, July 14
That includes a vaccine. “We need to come to a sustainable situation where we have adequate control of this virus without completely shutting down our lives or shaking from one lockdown to another,” Ghebreyesus said Monday. But that is exactly what governments are required to do, as the pandemic continues …
Read More »Miami is now the epicenter of coronavirus as cases rise, expert says
With more than 2,000 hospitalized patients and hundreds in ICUs, “Miami is now the epicenter of the pandemic,” said an infectious disease expert, comparing the South Florida metropolitan area to the city where the pandemic originated. © Cristobal Herrera / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock Mandatory Credit: CRISTOBAL HERRERA / EPA-EFE / …
Read More »Daniel Lewis Lee executed for torturing and killing the Arkansas family in 1996, first federal execution in 17 years
A self-proclaimed white supremacist who tortured and killed an Arkansas family, including an 8-year-old girl, was executed Tuesday morning in Indiana. Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital at 8:07 a.m., just a few hours after the Supreme Court authorized the first federal execution since …
Read More »American Airlines reviews the photo of Ted Cruz flying without a mask
TOPLINE American Airlines has reviewed what led to a widely shared photo on social media showing that US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) was not wearing a face mask on a flight on Sunday morning, despite the airline requiring Cover all passengers’ faces, saying in a statement Monday that the company …
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