Extreme heat causes more deaths in the US than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes combined. They contribute to about 1,500 deaths a year, and human rights activists estimate that about half of those are homeless.more
Scientific advisers of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unanimously recommended vaccinating children under 5 years of age against Covid-19. Thus, all Americans are eligible to receive the vaccine, with the exception of infants under 6 months of age.more
Nearly a quarter of Americans living abroad are "seriously considering" or "planning" to renounce their citizenship. The main reason is inconvenient tax regulations.more
Officials in the city of Uvalde, Texas, in the US, are exploiting loopholes and other laws in the state to keep documents from the recent shootout, which killed 21 people, not disclosed, US public radio NPR said today.more
Cosmetics maker Revlon has filed for bankruptcy in the US, as it says supply chain disruptions have driven up the cost of raw materials for its products. The 90-year-old firm says it has also been struggling with supplier payments, inflation and labour shortages.more
The arrested attacker, who shot three people with small arms in a church outside Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday turned out to be a 71-year-old man who is to be charged with the murders today. Older people were his victims.more
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US has been approved by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel. Mr Assange has 14 days to appeal the decision, the Home Office said.more
Ohio is set to enact a law that allows teachers and other staff to be armed with guns in schools once they have completed up to 24 hours of initial training.more
Temperatures in several inland areas of California reached triple digits last weekend, with a record high for 11 June of 122F (50C) reached in Death Valley.more
The US space agency NASA has announced it will be setting up an independent team to scientifically investigate "Unidentified Airborne Phenomena" (UAP), formerly known as UFOs. This is to be the first step in explaining mysterious phenomena.more
Tens of millions of Americans in the southern and western states of the United States (the Belt of the Sun) have received heat warnings. Record high temperatures are expected for the next few days, reaching even 45.5 degrees Celsius.more
There was a shooting today in the town of Smithsburg in the US state of Maryland. According to the police, at least three people were killed. The attacker was shot by officers and taken to hospital, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.more
A New York federal judge gave the go-ahead to the trial against Kevin Spacey, whom actor Anthony Rapp accused of sexual assault when Rapp was still a teenager. The trial begins on October 4. The decision came one week after the British Crown Prosecutor's Office announced that it had approved a prosecution against Kevin Spacey for four cases of sexual assault.more
"Russia is currently not willing to negotiate in good faith, and real talks on ending the war in Ukraine are still far away," said Karen Donfried, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia. She also said that for Europe the Russian invasion was what the attacks of September 11, 2001 were for America.more
Three fatalities and at least 11 injured were the result of a Saturday-Sunday night shooting in a busy street with bars and restaurants in Philadelphia in the east of the US. The police are still looking for the perpetrators.more
A small private airplane mistakenly entered restricted airspace near President Joe Biden's Delaware vacation home Saturday, prompting the brief evacuation of the president and first lady, the White House and the Secret Service said.more
Yesterday, the first LOT Boeing 787 Dreamliner from New York's Newark airport landed at Kraków Airport. Flights from Krakow to this airport were resumed after 11 years.more
New York's state legislature has put forward 10 bills to tighten control of firearms. The state of New York already has some of the strictest laws in this regard in the US.more
More infant formula from abroad is on its way to the US as part of the government's Operation Fly Formula program, including shipments next week from the UK and Australia.more
At least four people were killed and several injured in a shooting that occurred yesterday at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The perpetrator of the attack, who committed suicide, is dead.more
There were at least 14 mass shootings in the US over the past long weekend, i.e. shootings in which at least four people were injured, the Washington Post reported yesterday. At least nine people lost their lives, while 60 were wounded.more
A 10-year-old elementary school student in Cape Coral, Florida has been arrested for sending text messages threatening a mass shooting. This was reported by the police.more
The tragedy of a few days ago in one of the primary schools in the Texas city of Uvalde shocked the whole of America. Armed with two rifles, the 18-year-old shot 21 people - 19 children and two teachers. Many celebrities commented on the matter, calling on the country's authorities to take decisive action on the issue of access to weapons. Meghan Markle chose a different form of support.more
Joe Garcia, the husband of teacher Irma Garcia, who was gunned down in a massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, died of a heart attack in what the family described as a heartbroken death, the "New York Times" reports today.more
The EU, US and UK will create a special mechanism on war atrocities in Ukraine to provide coordination and support on the ground for efforts to account for crimes committed during the Russian invasion, a joint communique announced yesterday.more
