At least eight inmates on America’s largest death row have died of suspected coronavirus. On Tuesday, the child murderer John Beames, 67, became the last to die in San Quentin State Prison in California. Troy Ashmus, 58, a child rapist and murderer, was pronounced dead the day before. San Quentin …
Read More »Mexico flies blind because lack of evidence of Covid-19 baffles experts | Global development
Before traveling to Washington to meet Donald Trump earlier this month, the Mexican president had a coronavirus test. Until then, Andrés Manuel López Obrador had never been examined, arguing that it was not necessary, despite the fact that several cabinet members had been infected with Covid-19. The President, known as …
Read More »The legal folly of Trump’s free speech has simply emboldened his critics | Lloyd Green | Opinion
reTrump always had a problem with freedom of expression. In the past, he sued reporter Tim O’Brien and the New York Times for allegedly underestimating his wealth. Trump claimed he was worth billions, but O’Brien calculated the number at no more than $ 250 million, not shoddy, but not staggering, …
Read More »Israeli police use water cannon in protest against Netanyahu | World News
Israeli police deployed water cannons and arrested 55 people overnight in a protest in Jerusalem against the country’s accused prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A few thousand people had gathered in the city for what have become frequent protests against Benjamin Netanyahu. The …
Read More »Donald Trump cancels Republican convention speech for fear of viruses
yesThe illustrious philanthropist Bill Gates yesterday rejected some of the conspiracy theories that spread online accusing him of creating the coronavirus outbreak. “It’s a bad combination of pandemic and social media and people looking for a very simple explanation,” said the founder of Microsoft during an interview with CNN’s city …
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