AUGUST 4, 2021
US to require foreign travelers to be vaccinated when restrictions lift. - Getty Images
The Biden administration is currently developing a plan that would require most international travelers entering the U.S. from all countries to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, a White House official said Wednesday.
The U.S. is keeping international travel restrictions in place for the time...
AUGUST 3, 2021
Karsten Warholm smashed his own world record and ripped his shirt open with delight Tuesday.
The Norwegian athlete won 400 meter hurdles gold in Tokyo, becoming the greatest the event has ever seen.
One commentator described it as a Usain Bolt moment, such was the race's magnitude.
A 25-year-old had to smash the world record to win...
AUGUST 3, 2021
US intelligence analyst Gina Bennett. - David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images
Just one week out of the University of Virginia, with a degree in economics and foreign policy, Gina Bennett started working at the State Department as a clerk-typist in June 1988. After a couple of months, Bennett's boss told her, "Gina, you don't belong here. I'm going to...
AUGUST 2, 2021
Warren Buffett. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has made a $8 billion gain on American Express this year.
Berkshire spent $1.3 billion for a stake in the credit-card group worth $26 billion today.
Buffett's former partnership owned 5% of American Express in the mid-1960s.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has racked up an $8 billion gain...
AUGUST 2, 2021
Christen Press, left, and Lindsay Horan console each other after the U.S. lost to Canada in the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics. - Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports
KASHIMA, JAPAN — Canada got the best of the U.S. women when it really mattered.
The Canadians beat the USWNT for the first time since 2001 on Monday, and only fourth...
JULY 31, 2021
Karnataka government has asked local authorities to again go for micro-containment zones if the Covid-19 cases spike. (PTI)
With Kerala again turning into a hotbed of Covid-19 infection, bordering states Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have tightened restrictions as these two states too have reported a spike in the number of Covid-19 cases, albeit not as much as...
JULY 31, 2021
Handwritten notes from former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, released Friday by the House Oversight Committee, appear to show that former President Trump tried to pressure the Department of Justice to declare there was significant fraud tainting the 2020 presidential election.
The documents were obtained by the committee as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn...
JULY 31, 2021
The 37-year-old Chinese weightlifter became the oldest man to win an Olympic gold medal in the sport on Saturday after a tense finish in the men’s 81-kilogram category.
Wearing his signature shiny gold shoes, Lyu lifted 170kg in the snatch and 204kg in the clean and jerk for a total 374kg. That was 7kg more than Zacarias Bonnat...
JULY 31, 2021
Sindhu was looking to reach a second consecutive Olympic final but ended up falling to a relentless Tai Tzu Ying of Taiwan in straight games in the semi-final at the Musashino Forest Plaza in Tokyo. Sindhu, who was yet to drop a game throughout the tournament, said that she is said to have missed out on the...
JULY 30, 2021
A dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine being administered at a three-day clinic in Wilmington, Calif., on Thursday. - Mario Tama/Getty Images
In yet another unexpected and unwelcome twist in the nation’s pandemic, fully immunized people with so-called breakthrough infections of the Delta variant may spread the virus to others just as easily as unvaccinated people, the Centers for...
