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.
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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,...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked security forces to remain vigilant amid India-China border tensions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Sources on Wednesday (September 2, 2020) said that the MHA has directed the security forces to remain on high alert on the India-China, India-Nepal and India-Bhutan borders.
The Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Dr. Scott W. Atlas is neither an epidemiologist nor an infectious disease expert, but his frequent appearances on Fox News Channel and his ideological surety caught the president’s eye. - Anna Moneymaker /NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dr. Scott W. Atlas has argued that the science of mask wearing is uncertain, that children cannot pass on the coronavirus...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Australia fell into its first recession in nearly 30 years as the nation battles a resurgence of the virus with a lockdown in its second-biggest city.
In the U.S., cases and hospitalizations continued to ease in hot spots such as California and Texas, while warnings grew of new outbreaks across America’s Midwest. Across the border, Mexico surpassed 600,000...
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
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