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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declined Sunday to provide a timeline for when the Biden administration will open new facilities capable of handling the surge of unaccompanied children at the southern border. “We established three new facilities last week. … We are working on the system from beginning to end. We are working around the
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Jami Webb was planning to celebrate her mother’s 50th birthday last week. But Xiaojie Tan, the owner of Youngs Asian Massage in Acworth, Georgia, was killed Tuesday along with seven others at three Atlanta-area spas in a shooting rampage that has rattled the nation. “I just want to hold her tight,” Webb told CNN about
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When officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that they were relaxing the physical distancing guidelines for many schools, White House officials hailed it as another moment when the barriers to in-person instruction were falling. But the persistent tensions between White House officials and teachers’ unions immediately resurfaced, demonstrating the
Continue ReadingSen. Roy Blunt, a member of GOP leadership, argued on Sunday that Americans don’t need “alternative versions” of what occurred the day of the US Capitol insurrection, pushing back on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s comments that mischaracterize the riot and its participants. “We don’t need to try and explain away or come up with alternative
Continue ReadingMass vaccinations and natural protection from those already infected are likely to prevent a fourth wave of Covid-19 in the United States, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said Sunday. “We’re talking about some form of protective immunity in about 55% of the population,” Gottlieb said on CBS’s Face the
Continue ReadingSaudi Aramco had a rough 2020, just like every other oil company. But Aramco isn’t any ordinary oil company — it’s the world’s biggest, and the pandemic’s toll on its business had a decidedly adverse effect on the Saudi-owned business. The company announced Sunday that its net profit fell a whopping 44.4% to $49 billion
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump is coming back to social media — but this time with his own network, a Trump spokesperson told Fox News on Sunday. Jason Miller, a long-time adviser and spokesperson for Trump’s 2020 campaign told Howard Kurtz on Fox’s “MediaBuzz” that Trump will be “returning to social media in probably about two
Continue ReadingRep. Ilhan Omar wants the media to change the way it covers immigration. “I think that there are some failures that are taking place,” the Minnesota congresswoman told CNN’s Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter on “Reliable Sources” Sunday. “And it’s really important for us to show the basic humanity and treat the causes of migration
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Republican Julia Letlow will win the special election in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District, CNN projects. Letlow will take the seat that her late husband Luke, who won last year’s election but died in December after being diagnosed with Covid-19, was never able to hold. She will make history as the first Republican woman to represent
Continue ReadingNawal El Saadawi, a famous Egyptian feminist author, physician and psychiatrist, has died aged 89, state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday. El Saadawi was known as a defender of women’s rights and fought strongly against the widespread practice of female genital mutation. She was jailed and persecuted and received threats from conservatives throughout her life
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Arkansas’ Republican governor said Sunday that he signed a near-total abortion ban into law earlier this month because he wants the Supreme Court to eventually consider the legislation and overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized the procedure in the US. “That was the whole design of the law. It is not
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Julia Letlow, who is projected to make history Saturday as the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Louisiana, didn’t expect to be on a ballot this weekend. Three and half months ago, her husband had won the election for Louisiana’s 5th District in an early December runoff. But he never made it to Congress,
Continue ReadingDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin traveled to Afghanistan Sunday on his first visit to the country as the United States’ top defense official, meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and other officials. Austin landed in Kabul Sunday morning for a previously unannounced visit after a stop in India, according to the press pool traveling with the
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Conservative Supreme Court justices have demonstrated a desire to reverse prior decisions on abortion rights. The question, with Chief Justice John Roberts no longer the undisputed swing vote on abortion, is when and how far at least five justices will go to overturn rulings that support a constitutional right to end a pregnancy. The aims
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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said Sunday that he thinks he is “close” to securing the Republican votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster to advance a key immigration measure that would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. “I’ve been stopped by the filibuster
Continue ReadingSpring break is here and people suffering from a year of cabin fever are throwing caution to the wind. Saturday marked the 10th straight day on which more than 1 million passengers traveled through American airports. The TSA reported 1,369,180 travelers passed through security checkpoints Saturday, a day after air passengers set a new pandemic
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Reps. Young Kim and Michelle Steel never imagined that the first time they would testify before Congress as new lawmakers it would be to call out hate against their community. But the California Republicans eagerly joined other Asian American lawmakers as witnesses in a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week intended to put the spotlight
Continue ReadingThe scheduled first-round game between Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Oregon in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament has been declared a no-contest due to Covid-19 cases among the VCU team, the NCAA announced Saturday. The VCU team won’t be participating in the tournament after some Covid-19 tests came back positive recently, Ed McLaughlin,
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Where does the hate come from? That was the question on many people’s minds after the killing of women at three spas in Georgia on Tuesday drew even more attention to the targeting of Asian Americans in the year since the coronavirus pandemic was declared. A 21-year-old man was arrested and charged with shooting to
Continue ReadingMiami Beach Police fired pepper balls into crowds of partiers and arrested at least a dozen people as the city took extraordinary measures to crack down on spring breakers who officials have said are out of control. Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber declared a state of emergency and set an 8 p.m. curfew Saturday, saying
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