‘Not safe’: Niagara Falls tour boats show US and Canada’s different responses to Covid-19 – video

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

Footage of Niagara Falls tour boats highlights the stark differences in physical distancing between Canadian and US-managed companies.

Canadian tour company Hornblower Niagara Cruises's ships can carry up to 700 people but Ontario’s strict rules to prevent the spread of coronavirus have permitted them to carry only six passengers at a time.

In contrast, the US-owned Maid of the Mist boats, which usually carry around 500 people, are operating at 50% capacity

US push for global alliance against China hampered by years of ‘America first’

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

Beijing is flexing its muscles on multiple fronts but Trump’s retreat from world leadership leaves it ill-placed to helm a fightback

The confrontation between the US and China is gathering pace with each passing week. In the past few days, the Chinese consulate in Houston has been shuttered amid allegations it was a spy hub, and the US mission in the south-western city of Chengdu was closed in retaliation, on similar grounds.

The FBI has started arresting Chinese researchers at US universities with suspected links to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), one of whom temporarily took refuge in the consulate in San Francisco, before surrendering.

China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close as tensions rise

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

Move by Beijing comes in response to the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston earlier this week and amid worsening relations between the countries

Beijing has ordered the closure of a US consulate in south-western China, in a move that escalates tensions between the two countries to a new level.

On Friday, China’s ministry of foreign affairs said it had ordered the US consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, to cease all operations. Authorities notified the US of China’s decision to revoke its consent for the consulate to operate, according to a notice on the ministry’s website.

Tech-enabled ‘terror capitalism’ is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

Terror capitalism uses tools such as facial recognition to extract profits from marginalized people. Big tech and governments are collaborating

When Gulzira Aeulkhan finally fled China for Kazakhstan early last year, she still suffered debilitating headaches and nausea. She didn’t know if this was a result of the guards at an internment camp hitting her in the head with an electric baton for spending more than two minutes on the toilet, or from the enforced starvation diet.

Maybe it was simply the horror she had witnessed – the sounds of women screaming when they were beaten, their silence when they returned to the cell.

Why smokers and vapers – and those around them – may face higher Covid-19 danger

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

New reports cast doubt on early claims smoking offered protection from disease

At the beginning of the pandemic, smokers may have thought they had little to worry about, as there was a sliver of good news for them: a study circulating on social media suggested smoking could be associated with a lower risk of contracting Covid-19. That’s not the full story.

A lively nursing director, an outspoken phlebotomist: US healthcare workers who died from Covid-19

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

We are documenting the lives of every US medical worker who dies helping patients during the pandemic. These are just a few of hundreds of cases

Help us document the US healthcare workers who die fighting coronavirus

Lost on the frontline is a collaboration between the Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the lives of healthcare workers in the US who die from Covid-19, and to understand why so many are falling victim to the pandemic.

Each week, we’re documenting new cases of healthcare workers who have died on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are their stories:

Trump is using federal agents as his ‘goon squad’, says Ice’s ex-acting head

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

John Sandweg says the deployment of homeland security officials is a ‘manufactured crisis’ stemming from ‘a failure of leadership’

The former acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which works under the Department of Homeland Security, has condemned the Trump administration’s handling of protests in Portland by deploying federal agents into the city.

Niagara Falls tour boats highlight US and Canada’s stark Covid-19 divide

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

New York state boats have ferried many more tourists than their Ontarian counterparts, where distancing has been far stricter

Every day, Mory DiMaurizio looks out his window at Niagara Falls and sighs in frustration.

Not at the sight of the falls – one of the most stunning natural wonders of the world – but rather at the prospect of US tour boats with blue-ponchoed Americans.

New Yorkers vote in special contest to reimagine famous Brooklyn Bridge

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

Six finalists chosen after city launched plan to rethink bridge that currently carries cars, trains, cyclists and pedestrians

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted much of New York City’s normal rhythms of travel, with many people now hopping on to bicycles rather than the subway. A design competition could now solidify these changes by offering up a revamped version of the famous Brooklyn Bridge.

Chad Wolf: who is the Trump official leading the crackdown in Portland?

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

Trump’s fifth homeland security secretary has denied there’s a systemic problem in US law enforcement and overseen extreme immigration restrictions

Chad Wolf wasn’t Donald Trump’s first pick for homeland security secretary – he wasn’t even his fifth or sixth.

But now he is the figurehead for the federal government’s intervention in Portland, where his department’s militarized agents have been recorded pushing protest ers into unmarked vehicles.

Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Admin

US company forced to shut down call centres, website and some other online services

Garmin down: how to still get your activities on to Strava

Garmin has been forced to shut down its call centres, website and some other online services after a ransomware attack encrypted the smartwatch maker’s internal network and some production systems.

The US company shut down services including the official Garmin website and all customer services, including phone lines, online chat and email.

Iranian passenger plane forced to change course as US fighter jets approached – report

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

Iran promises political response after several passengers were reportedly injured when Mahan Air plane quickly changed altitude

Two US fighter jets came close to an Iranian passenger plane over Syrian airspace, causing the pilot to change altitude quickly to avoid collision and injuring several passengers, Iran’s official IRIB news agency reported.

The agency initially said a single Israeli jet had come near the plane but later quoted the pilot as saying there were two jets that identified themselves as American.

Trump abandons plan for Republican convention events in Jacksonville, Florida – live

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

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Coronavirus live news: US cases top 4m as WHO chief chides Pompeo for ‘untrue’ claims

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

US Secretary of State’s reported comments ‘untrue, unacceptable and without foundation’ says WHO; Trump cancels Jacksonville RNC; Bolsonaro not distancing despite positive test. Follow the latest updates

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US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci has thrown out the first pitch at a Nationals-Yankees game, and it didn’t go amazingly well, but it did lead to some okay Covid-19 jokes:

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The US surpassed 4m coronavirus cases on Thursday, after more than 1,100 new Covid-19-related deaths were reported in a single day on Wednesday for the first time since late May.

As states continue to dial back reopening efforts, nearly every metric for tracking the outbreak has shown a worsening spread. The US politicians volunteering other people’s lives to fight Covid-19Read more

Coronavirus live news: record daily rise in global cases with almost 285,000 new infections

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

Biggest increases were from the US, Brazil, India and South Africa, according to the World Health Organization

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Brazil has registered an additional 1,156 deaths over the last 24 hours and another 55,891 confirmed cases, the health ministry has said. The South American nation has now registered 85,238 deaths and 2,343,366 total confirmed cases.

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Footage of Niagara Falls tour boats highlights the stark differences in physical distancing between Canadian and US-managed companies.

The Canadian tour company Hornblower Niagara Cruises’s ships can carry up to 700 people but Ontario’s strict rules have permitted them to carry only six passengers at a time.

DoJ to investigate federal forces’ tactics in US cities as mayors condemn Trump

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

Watchdog to look at use-of-force allegations in Portland and Washington as other mayors say: we don’t need your deployments

The justice department inspector general said on Thursday it would conduct a review of the conduct of federal agents who responded to unrest in Portland and Washington DC, following concerns from members of Congress and the public.

Ocasio-Cortez delivers powerful speech after Republican’s sexist remarks

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

Congresswoman condemned ‘violent language against women’ after Ted Yoho berated her on the House steps on Monday

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over a Republican lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor on Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women” whose adherents include Donald Trump.

A day after rejecting an offer of contrition from Republican congressman Ted Yoho for his language during this week’s Capitol steps confrontation, Ocasio-Cortez and more than a dozen colleagues cast the incident as all-too-common behavior by men, including the president and other Republicans.

Ocasio-Cortez speaks about ‘culture of violence against women’ after Republican’s insults – video

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

The New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the insults a Republican colleague was heard saying to her on the steps of the US Capitol on Monday are part of a larger problem faced by all women.

The Hill reported that Ocasio-Cortez was confronted by the Florida Republican congressman Ted Yoho. He apparently said she was 'disgusting' for saying of spiking gun violence in New York this month 'is a problem of a diseased society, which neglects its marginalized people … policing is not the solution to crime'.

Speaking on the House floor on Thursday morning, Ocasio-Cortez said: 'In front of reporters, Representative Yoho called me, and I quote, a "fucking bitch"'

'Bitches get stuff done': Ocasio-Cortez hits back after Republican's tirade

Ghislaine Maxwell case: ‘extremely personal’ documents to be unsealed

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

New York judge orders documents unsealed after Maxwell’s lawyers had tried to keep them secret

An extensive collection of “extremely personal” documents in civil litigation against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell can be unsealed, a Manhattan federal court judge ruled on Thursday.

The documents relate to Maxwell’s deposition in this litigation, as well as her early 2015 correspondence with her longterm associate, the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Portland mayor teargassed by federal agents during protest – video

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Admin

The mayor of Portland was teargassed by federal agents during protests against the presence of the agents sent by Donald Trump to quell unrest in the city.

Ted Wheeler, the Democratic mayor of the city in Oregon, said it was the first time he had been teargassed. Protesters had lit a large fire and armed agents launched teargas and stun grenades into the crowd.

Wheeler was mostly jeered by demonstrators who have clashed nightly with federal agents. The mayor has opposed the federal agents’ presence, but has faced harsh criticism for not taking more action to protect citizens

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‘Not safe’: Niagara Falls tour boats show US and Canada’s different responses to Covid-19 – video

US push for global alliance against China hampered by years of ‘America first’

China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close as tensions rise

Tech-enabled ‘terror capitalism’ is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped

Why smokers and vapers – and those around them – may face higher Covid-19 danger

A lively nursing director, an outspoken phlebotomist: US healthcare workers who died from Covid-19

Trump is using federal agents as his ‘goon squad’, says Ice’s ex-acting head

Niagara Falls tour boats highlight US and Canada’s stark Covid-19 divide

New Yorkers vote in special contest to reimagine famous Brooklyn Bridge

Chad Wolf: who is the Trump official leading the crackdown in Portland?

Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack

Iranian passenger plane forced to change course as US fighter jets approached – report

Trump abandons plan for Republican convention events in Jacksonville, Florida – live

Coronavirus live news: US cases top 4m as WHO chief chides Pompeo for ‘untrue’ claims

Coronavirus live news: record daily rise in global cases with almost 285,000 new infections

DoJ to investigate federal forces’ tactics in US cities as mayors condemn Trump

Ocasio-Cortez delivers powerful speech after Republican’s sexist remarks

Ocasio-Cortez speaks about ‘culture of violence against women’ after Republican’s insults – video

Ghislaine Maxwell case: ‘extremely personal’ documents to be unsealed

Portland mayor teargassed by federal agents during protest – video