Eleven newborn have died after a fire that broke out in the neonatal department at the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, said the country’s president Macky Sall on Thursday. “I just learned, with pain and conternation, the death of 11 newborn babies,” Sall said in a tweet. … Read more
A Russian national flag above the headquarters of Bank Rossii, Russia’s central bank, in Moscow, Russia, on February 28. (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg/Getty Images) Russia slashed interest rates on Thursday as a resurgent ruble — buoyed by robust oil and gas revenues — takes some of the heat out of inflation. The Russian Central Bank cut interest … Read more
UVALDE, Texas – Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the mosque that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a US Border Patrol team. … Read more
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Residents say a prayer at the entrance of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., on May 25.IVAN PIERRE AGUIRRE/The New York Times News Service It is an all-too familiar litany: Columbine. Virginia Tech. Sandy Hook. Parkland. And now Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex., where on Tuesday yet another gunman struck, killing 19 children and … Read more
It’s breaking time for the United States Senate. A 10-day recess is scheduled for members who unironically refer to their workplace as the world’s greatest deliberative body. Barring a schedule change, they’ll be heading home for constituency meetings and Memorial Day barbecues and other activities that will not include passing a national gun law. Which … Read more
Storage silos and shipping cranes at the Port of Odesa in Ukraine, on January 22. (Christopher Occhicone/Bloomberg/Getty Images) Russia is trying to “blackmail” the international community with an offer to unblock Ukrainian sea ports if sanctions against it are lessened, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI – By now it’s as predictable as the calls for thoughts and prayers: A mass shooting leaves many dead, and wild conspiracy theories and misinformation about the carnage soon follow. It happened after Sandy Hook, after Parkland, after the Orlando nightclub shooting and after the deadly rampage earlier this month at a Buffalo … Read more
PORTLAND, Ore – A jury in Portland has convicted a self-published romance novelist – who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” – of fatally shooting her husband four years ago. The jury of seven women and five men found Nancy Crampton Brophy, 71, guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday after deliberating over … Read more
Steve Kerr, the head coach of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, made a passionate speech against gun violence in the wake of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Kerr was set to do a pregame press conference ahead of Game 4 in the … Read more
The executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in America, said Tuesday that they will release a secret internal database that identifies hundreds of church officials who are known or accused sexualrs. The decision was reached during a virtual meeting that was called in response to an explosive investigative report … Read more