WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Chuck Schumer, the top U.S. Senate Democrat, expressed regret yesterday for remarks he made a day earlier that two Supreme Court justices appointed by President Donald Trump would “pay the price” if they rule in favor of abortion restrictions.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Flybe collapsed today after a plunge in travel demand, making the long-struggling regional airline one of the first big corporate casualties of the coronavirus outbreak.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The U.S. death toll from coronavirus infections rose to 11 yesterday as new cases emerged around New York City and Los Angeles, while Seattle-area health officials discouraged social gatherings amid the nation’s largest outbreak.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The global release of the new James Bond film “No Time to Die” was postponed yesterday by seven months amid the coronavirus disruption that has closed movie theaters in China and caused widespread headaches for other Hollywood productions.
SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Scientists in China studying the coronavirus outbreak said they had found two main types of the disease could be causing infections.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s president declared war on the coronavirus yesterday, ordering additional hospital beds and more face masks to be made available as the number of cases rose by 974 in the worst epidemic of any nation outside China.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A resurgent Joe Biden was projected to win seven large states yesterday, and front-runner Bernie Sanders captured two states with several others too close to call on the biggest day of voting in the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating race.
BISSAU, (Reuters) – A dozen soldiers have occupied the grounds of Guinea-Bissau’s Supreme Court, the court said yesterday, deepening a post-election crisis that has resulted in the appointment of rival presidents and the silencing of state media.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday widened the ability of states to use criminal laws against illegal immigrants and other people who do not have work authorization in the United States in a ruling involving identity theft prosecutions in Kansas.
(Reuters) – A tornado struck Nashville, Tennessee in the early hours of this morning, killing at least two people, destroying around 40 buildings and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
GENEVA/BEIJING, (Reuters) – The new coronavirus appears to now be spreading much more rapidly outside China than within, and airports in hard-hit countries were ramping up screening of travellers.
KIRKLAND, Wash., (Reuters) – Six people in the Seattle area have died of illness caused by the new coronavirus, health officials said yesterday, as authorities across the United States scrambled to prepare for more infections with an emphasis on increasing testing capacity.
(Reuters) – Longtime MSNBC cable news anchor Chris Matthews abruptly announced his retirement yesterday following controversial remarks to women and about Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled yesterday against legalizing abortions in up to the first 16 weeks of pregnancy and said the procedure would continue to be allowed in just three specific cases.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led yesterday in a cliffhanger election in Israel, but was still short of a governing majority in a third national ballot in less than a year, exit polls showed.
(Reuters) – Health officials in Washington state said yesterday a second person infected with the coronavirus had died there, while New York’s governor said his state confirmed its first case of the illness.