MAY 30, 2020
HANOI, VIETNAM - MAY 17: Local people shop for food at a market in the Old Quarter on May 17, 2020 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Though some restrictions remain in place, Vietnam has lifted the ban on certain entertainment facilities and non-essential businesses, including pubs, cinemas and spas & other tourist attractions to recover domestic tourism. On April...
MAY 30, 2020
Bollywood Actor Sonu Sood is actively working towards helping migrant workers reach their hometowns. Now, the actor has helped 177 girls who were migrants working in Kerala. They were flown back home to Orissa by Sonu Sood.
The Simmba actor was informed about the same by a friend. Sood arranged for permissions for the aircraft to be flown...
MAY 30, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. - Michael Kappeler/Pool photo via AP
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rebuffed Donald Trump’s invitation to attend a G7 summit, which the president is keen to portray as a symbol of a return to normality from the upheaval of the coronavirus crisis.
"The federal chancellor thanks President Trump for his invitation to the G7 summit...
MAY 30, 2020
Danielle Geathers will be the president of the Undergraduate Association at MIT where about 6 percent of the graduates are black and 47 percent women, according to the school. - Courtesy Wilson Louissaint
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have elected a black woman as president of the Undergraduate Association for the first time in the school's...
MAY 30, 2020
FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane carrying medical aid lands at Vnukovo airport in Moscow. - Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina
When U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to accept a shipment of ventilators from Russian President Vladimir Putin at the height of the coronavirus outbreak, the White House did not alert the FDA as it headed...
MAY 30, 2020
(Pictured) Demonstrators kneel before police on May 30 in Minneapolis.
Chaos spread across the country Friday night into Saturday morning as thousands of protesters descended on city streets, demanding justice in the wake of 46-year-old George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis earlier this week.
Several demonstrations escalated into violence as police cars were burned and scuffles broke out between law...
MAY 29, 2020
President Trump would have to issue an executive order to end the special relationship between Hong Kong and the United States entirely, but he can take piecemeal actions. - Erin Schaff/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump announced Friday that his administration would end almost all aspects of the American government’s special relationship with Hong Kong, including...
MAY 29, 2020
Stephen Lopez didn't think he needed to be admitted to the hospital, but he's glad his family convinced him otherwise. (Courtesy of Stephen Lopez)
For many people who've survived COVID-19, the experience with the virus creates long-lasting trauma, even though they're the fortunate ones.
Contracting the coronavirus can lead to social stigma, and symptoms can persist for...
MAY 29, 2020
North America Immigrant Agricultural Workers Critical To U.S. Food Security Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, - Photographer: Brent Stirton/Getty Images
All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for Covid-19 this month. In New Jersey, more than 50 workers had the virus at a farm in Gloucester County, adding to nearly 60 who fell...
MAY 29, 2020
President Trump on Friday accused Twitter of unfairly targeting himself and other Republicans, just hours after the social media giant said one of his tweets overnight violated the company's policies by glorifying violence.
Trump also called on Congress to revoke Section 230, a law passed two decades ago that offers platforms legal immunity for content posted by...
