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By Reuters Staff BEIJING, Aug 2 (Reuters) – China reported on Monday 98 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland for Aug. 1, compared with 75 a day earlier, according to the National Health Commission. Of the new infections, 55 were locally transmitted, the health authority said. That compares with…
Clockwise from upper left: LinkNYC kiosk. [courtesy Tdorante10 via Wikimedia under License CC Attribution 4.0] Warning, London Transport. [courtesy R/DV/RS via Flickr under License CC Attribution 2.0] Berlin Litfaßsäulen, with memoriam by Tina Zimmerman. [courtesy Tina Zimmerman] Berenice Abbott, Columbus Circle, Manhattan, 1938. [courtesy New York Public Library, public domain]…
By Reuters Staff BRASILIA, Aug 1 (Reuters) – Brazil has had 20,503 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 464 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Sunday. The South American country has now registered 19,938,358 cases since the pandemic began, while the…
Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears pathetically…
YouTube is no stranger to temporarily banning media outlets for spreading COVID-19 misinformation, but its latest crackdown might be its largest yet. The Guardian and BBC News say the video service has banned Sky News Australia from uploading new videos for a week over accusations it spread COVID-19 misinformation. Multiple…
REGINA — Saskatchewan reported 43 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing active cases in the province to 496. The province reported 26 new recoveries and no new deaths related to the virus. New cases are located in the Far Northwest (10), Far North Central (two), Far Northeast (one), Northwest (five),…
by Brenton Weyi This story was originally published at Prism. The struggle for equitable labor practices hasnt always included the work of artists and creatives. However, the racial reckoning that began in the summer of 2020 has pressed multiple industries to acknowledge the depth of their institutional inequities, including in…
CHICAGO (AP) – Rapper DaBaby was cut Sunday from Lollapalooza’s closing lineup following crude and homophobic remarks he made last week at a Miami-area music festival. The Grammy-nominated artist, whose name is Jonathan Kirk, had been scheduled as a closing act on the final night of the four-day music festival…
“YouTube has barred Sky News Australia from uploading new content for a week, saying it had breached rules on spreading Covid-19 misinformation,” writes the BBC. Long-time Slashdot reader Hope Thelps shares their report: YouTube issued a “strike” under its three-strike policy, the last of which means permanent removal. It did…
Crews on Edmonton Fire Rescue Services’ jet boats continued the search for a missing swimmer near Dawson Bridge on Sunday. Read more: Swimmer presumed dead after going missing in the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton On Saturday after 6 p.m., people reported that a male swimmer of an unknown age…
