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Month: January 2022

Biden says his administration will make free high-quality face masks available to all Americans

CNN By Kate Sullivan, Kaitlan Collins, Betsy Klein, Jeremy Diamond and Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his administration would make “high-quality masks” available to Americans for free, as the US struggles to contain the new surge of the Omicron variant and hospitalizations from Covid-19 reach new highs. The President also announced

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A Syrian colonel is jailed for life in a first torture trial for the Assad regime. It’s one step in a ‘long path to justice,’ say victims’ families

AFP, AMATEUR VIDEO, CAESER PHOTOS, CNN, RUPTLY POOL By Tamara Qiblawi, Jomana Karadsheh and Christian Streib, CNN A German court has sentenced a former Syrian army colonel to life in prison, in the first-ever torture trial against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Anwar Raslan, a senior regime official, headed the investigation unit at a notorious Damascus

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California 3rd-person political payments soared in pandemic

By DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom solicited donations totaling nearly $227 million from Facebook, Google, Blue Shield and other private California companies and organizations to combat the pandemic and help run parts of his administration. The report Thursday by the state’s political watchdog agency examines contributions solicited by an

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Despojan al príncipe Andrés de sus títulos militares y de sus obras de caridad en medio de la demanda por abuso sexual

Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El príncipe Andrés de Gran Bretaña fue despojado de sus títulos militares y de sus organizaciones benéficas, según anunció este jueves el Palacio de Buckingham. “Con la aprobación y el acuerdo de la reina, las afiliaciones militares y los patrocinios reales del duque de York fueron devueltos a la reina. El

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GOP congressman apologizes for comparing DC vaccine protocols to Nazi Germany

By Alex Rogers, CNN Ohio Republican Rep. Warren Davidson apologized on Thursday for comparing Washington, DC’s Covid-19 safety protocols to Nazi Germany. “Bad things happen when governments dehumanize people,” said Davidson in a tweet. “Sometimes, there is a next step—to systematically segregate them. Unfortunately, any reference to how the Nazis actually did that prevents a

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