DECEMBER 28, 2020
Dr. Hisam Goueli treated several psychotic patients who had never had mental health issues before, including a woman who told him she kept visualizing her children being murdered. “It was like she was experiencing a movie,” he said. - Tamayo /NY Times
Almost immediately, Dr. Hisam Goueli could tell that the patient who came to his psychiatric hospital...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The rare activist moment at China’s central bank was too late and too crude.
Jack Ma, billionaire and chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., wears a shirt with his initials, JMA, embroidered onto its sleeve, during a session on day three of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. World...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The House prepared to vote Monday on overriding President Trump’s veto of the annual defense policy bill, in a late flurry of congressional action that also includes the first test of the president’s call for $2,000 stimulus checks.
Mr. Trump signed a sweeping $900 billion pandemic-aid bill on Sunday night ending a standoff with Congress and...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Henry Jackson, right, an employee of Lee Health in the transportation services department is one of the first front line workers for Lee Health to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine was administered at Lee Health Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla. on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Administering the vaccines is nurse Edson Bezerra. On...
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The beginning of the Carmichael River, which will be cut by the void of the Carmichael Coal mine. - Tom Jefferson/Greenpeace
Deep in northeast Australia's outback, underneath grassy eucalypt woodlands and vast grazing lands scattered with cattle stations, lies one of the world's largest known untapped coal reserves.
Queensland's Galilee Basin, an area roughly the size of Britain,...
DECEMBER 27, 2020
President Trump on Sunday signed the government funding and coronavirus relief package, the White House said, averting a government shutdown and delivering economic aid as the pandemic worsens.
Trump signed off on the $2.3 trillion package from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., days after he expressed displeasure with the spending outlined in the omnibus and complained that the coronavirus relief...
DECEMBER 27, 2020
December is the deadliest month for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. has recorded more than 63,000 deaths so far this month. April was previously the deadliest month of the pandemic, with more than 55,000 deaths. According to the COVID Tracking Project, deaths surpassed that number just three...
DECEMBER 27, 2020
Former Trump aide Omarosa on Donald Trump's election loss Carlo. - Allegri/Reuters
In an interview with MSNBC's Alex Witt on Saturday, former Trump aid Omarosa Manigault Newman said that she thinks he's "going through a psychotic episode" over his election loss.
"I think that he has come to terms with his loss, but his arrogance, his...
DECEMBER 27, 2020
NEW DELHI, INDIA: In a strong retaliatory push, India has asked all airlines informally not to fly Chinese nationals into the country. This comes after China’s not-so-subtle move to stop Indians from flying into their country, something that has only tightened since November.
While flights between India and China are currently suspended, Chinese nationals eligible to travel as...
DECEMBER 27, 2020
When the U.S. Congress passed a pandemic aid bill on Monday, Meghan Meyer, a single mom from Lincoln, Nebraska, thought she would get some respite from the daily struggle to feed and house her two kids during an unprecedented health and economic crisis.
But the next day President Donald Trump declared the long-awaited relief package “a disgrace” and...
