SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
A handout photo released by Russian Healthcare ministry (Minzdrav) shows containers with a newly registered vaccine against coronavirus in Moscow, Russia. - Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg/Getty Images
A Covid-19 vaccine developed and tested in Russia generated neutralizing antibodies in dozens of study subjects, and while the vaccine often caused side effects such as fever, those side effects were mostly...
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump walks into the briefing room to speak at the White House on August 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump spoke on several topics including unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump is heading into the general election with the worst jobs numbers of any president,...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Cheryl Ann Schmidt, 65, reads the newspaper at 4:30 a.m. in her East Lansing, Mich., home — testament to the insomnia that has beset her since she was furloughed and then laid off from her job amid the pandemic. (Brittany Greeson for The Washington Post)
Sara Tibebu tried bubble baths. She curated playlists of low-fi beats, followed guided...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
President Donald Trump. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump described American Marines who lost their lives during a crucial World War I battle as "suckers" and "losers," The Atlantic reported.
"Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers," Trump reportedly told senior staff members before a scheduled visit to the...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, left, and his wife Jill walk to board a plane at New Castle Airport, in New Castle, Del., on Sept. 3, 2020, en route to Kenosha, Wis. - Carolyn Kaster, AP
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday met with relatives of Jacob Blake, whose shooting by police sparked violent protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Biden...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
"It has nothing to do with elections. This has to do with delivering safe, effective vaccines to the American people as quickly as possible and saving people's lives," Azar said.
Azar said the deadline was made by Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and other "career people" at the...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Image: An Indian Navy boat patrols in the waters of the Andaman Sea near Port Blair (Danish Siddiqui / Reuters file)
An indigenous tribe on India’s Andaman Islands, whose population hovers just over 50 people, is now threatened by the coronavirus and experts fear uncontacted people on nearby islands could be next.
At least 10 people from the...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Minneapolis Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant visits a COVID-19 testing event. (Craig Lassig/Associated Press)
Public health departments, which have struggled for months to test and trace everyone exposed to the novel coronavirus, are now being told to prepare to distribute COVID-19 vaccines as early as Nov. 1.
In a four-page memo sent last month, the Centers for Disease Control...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Amid heightened tensions, India and China today held another round of brigade commander level talks at Chushul/ Moldo to resolve the situation arising from the Saturday night incident in which the Indian Army thwarted a major attempt by Chinese troops to alter the status quo at the southern bank of the Pangong Tso Lake in eastern Ladakh.
Sources...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
The Information and Technology Ministry on Wednesday banned the hugely popular gaming app PUBG Mobile and 117 other Chinese-linked mobile applications. The banned apps include Baidu, Baidu Express Edition, Tencent Watchlist, FaceU, WeChat Reading and Tencent Weiyun, besides PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite, according to an official statement. In July, the government had banned 47 apps,...
