United States President Donald Trump has backed calls from quarterback Trevor Lawrence for the college football season to come amid rising coronavirus cases in the country. Widespread reports suggest The Big Ten are leaning towards Pull the plug on his fall sports season, with the other Power 5 conferences – ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC – in discussions and …
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Explosion in Beirut: The entire Lebanese government must resign within a few hours due to a deadly explosion, says the minister
The entire Lebanese cabinet will resign after last week’s devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, which killed hundreds of people and injured thousands more. The news was originally announced by the country’s health minister, Hamad Hassan, who told reporters after a cabinet meeting that Prime Minister Hassan Diab would go to the presidential palace to “hand over the resignation …
Read More »California director of public health resigns due to data error in coronavirus testing
The California Department of Health director announced her surprise resignation on Sunday after the state exceeded 550,000 coronavirus cases. Dr. Sonia Angell’s departure comes amid news that technical issues have led to the coronavirus cases being under counted in California. CALIFORNIA TEEN DIES AFTER SUFFERING CORONAVIRUS SYMPTOMS, THE FAMILY SAY Angell gave no reason to resign in her resignation letter. …
Read More »Oil price rises 1% due to optimistic demand from Saudi Aramco. Production in Iraq was cut by Reuters
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun can be seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County From Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday, aided by Saudi optimism about Asian demand and Iraq’s promise to deepen supply cuts, amid uncertainty over a deal to support US economic recovery limited profits. US …
Read More »Puerto Rico had to partially suspend the primary election due to missing ballot papers: “It’s an embarrassment”
Puerto Rico was forced to partially suspend voting for primary elections hampered by missing ballot papers on Sunday when officials asked the President of the US Territory Election Commission to resign. Primaries for polling stations that did not receive ballots by early afternoon are expected to be postponed while voting continues elsewhere, the commission said. “I’ve never seen anything like …
Read More »According to Huawei, the chips for its smartphones are running out due to US sanctions
Huawei, the world’s largest smartphone vendor, says it is running out of processor chips due to US sanctions against the company. The Associated Press reported. And according to Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Unit, the Chinese phone maker will no longer be able to manufacture its own Kirin chipsets from next month due to ongoing economic pressure from …
Read More »Parts of the Upper West Side, Upper East Side and Harlem remain in the dark due to a power outage in NYC
MANHATTAN (WABC) – A brief blackout affected Manhattan early Friday, affecting the Upper West Side, Upper East Side and Harlem. The outage occurred shortly after 5:15 a.m. on Friday. A live camera from Eyewitness News appeared to be showing no power on the upper west side north of West 72nd Street. Con Edison’s online indicator rose from 67 outages to …
Read More »Josh Martinez removed from ‘Big Brother’ due to positive COVID-19 test
Exclusive “Big Brother” fans hope to see it Josh Martinez are disappointed with the new all-star season, but over-cautious producers pulled him out of the house over a potentially false positive COVID test. Season 22 of ‘BB’ premiered Wednesday night without Josh – season 19 winner – and TMZ learned he was ripped off the cast due to a positive …
Read More »Michelle Obama reveals that she suffers from “mild depression” due to a mixture of pandemic, racial injustice and Trump’s official acts
“I wake up in the middle of the night because I’m worried about something or because it’s difficult,” Obama said on Wednesday in her Michelle Obama podcast. “I try to make sure I train, even though there have been periods in this quarantine when I just felt too bad.” It’s a familiar feeling for many Americans. A Census Bureau survey …
Read More »Michelle Obama suffers from “mild depression” due to racial inequality, coronavirus
Former first lady Michelle Obama said that racial inequality given the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic made her feel like she had “some form of low-grade depression”. “Not only because of the quarantine, but also because of the racial struggles and it is daunting to see this government and watch the hypocrisy day after day,” she said in the latest …
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