MAY 31, 2020
(Pictured) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken lifts off during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 30.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA — For President Trump, the launch of the sleek SpaceX rocket with...
MAY 31, 2020
Indian Commercial Pilot Association (ICPA), the pilot body of national carrier Air India, has demanded clarifications from the airline on the safety protocols with regard to Covid-19.
The pilot body has sought clarifications on the protocol to be followed by pilots when a positive case of Covid-19 is found on a flight in domestic operations and also when...
MAY 31, 2020
A photo on May 29, 2020 shows a sign of the World Health Organization at its headquarters in Geneva. - Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Global health experts and government officials joined in criticism Saturday over President Trump's plans to cut ties with the World Health Organization and funnel U.S. money elsewhere.
In the remarks made...
MAY 31, 2020
Protestors demonstrate in Columbia, S.C. on Saturday in response to the recent killing of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — In an on-camera address after a week of destructive protests, former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. pleaded with his audience to imagine life for black people in America. Imagine, he said,...
MAY 30, 2020
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, has recently delegated policy decisions, watching internal debate from the sidelines. Toby Melville/Reuters
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — Jack Dorsey was up late Thursday at his home in San Francisco talking online with his executives when their conversation was interrupted: President Trump had just posted another inflammatory message on Twitter.
Tensions between Twitter, where Mr....
MAY 30, 2020
President Donald Trump, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks with reporters while in air en route to Andrews Air Force Base Saturday, May 30, 2020, in flight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will postpone until the fall a meeting of Group of 7 nations...
MAY 30, 2020
A protester holds his hands up as police officers enter Lafayette Park during a demonstration against the death in Minneapolis police custody of African-American man George Floyd, as the officers keep demonstrators away from the White House during a protest in Washington, U.S. May 30, 2020. - REUTERS/Tom Brenner TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
WASHINGTON, D.C. -...
MAY 30, 2020
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - MAY 30: SpaceX founder Elon Musk jumps for joy at a gathering following NASA commercial crew astronauts Doug Hurley (L) and Bob Behnken blast off from historic Launch Complex 39A aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the crew Dragon capsule bound for the International Space Station. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington...
MAY 30, 2020
Protesters holding banners march from Capitol Hill toward the White House, in Washington, DC, on May 30.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been "greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous...
MAY 30, 2020
GENEVA — The first people arrived before 2 a.m.
By 4 a.m., more than 100 people stood waiting in the darkness outside the ice-hockey stadium.
By 7 a.m., the line stretched for more than a mile, heading north to the river, then west down the riverbank, then all around a sports center parking lot, then past the squash courts,...
