United States

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2020 - 07:48 UTC

  Cruise giants team up and present a scientific report on control of the pandemic on ships; CDC decision this week

  

  A panel of leading scientists and medical experts convened by two of the world's biggest cruise companies -- Royal Caribbean Group and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings -- has concluded that the public health risk associated with the pandemic can be controlled on a ship.

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  In honor of Justice Bader Ginsburg, donors smash fundraising records: US$ 90 million in 24 hours

  

  Democratic donors smashed fundraising records after the death on Friday of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, funneling more than US$90 million to candidates and progressive groups in just over 24 hours.

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 09:17 UTC

  Florida Senators sponsor bill to resume cruise lines and ports operations

  

  Florida State lawmakers have teamed up to introduce a bill that would allow cruise lines and ports to resume operations.

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  US election campaign turns into a Senate battle to fill a Supreme Court vacancy

  

  White House hopeful Joe Biden on Sunday branded Donald Trump's moves to fill a Supreme Court vacancy less than two months before the US presidential election an “abuse of power,” as some of the president's own party also objected.

• Saturday, September 19th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  US Supreme Court stalwart liberal has died, giving Trump a chance to expand the conservative majority

  

  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993, died on Friday at age 87, the court said, giving President Donald Trump a chance to expand its conservative majority with a third appointment at a time of deep divisions in America with a presidential election looming.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  The attraction of oil: first ever US Secretary of State visit to Suriname and Guyana

  

  Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first US secretary of state to visit Guyana and Suriname as the discovery of oil fuels a sudden new interest in the small South American nations.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Biden warns UK must honor Northern Ireland Good Friday 1998 peace agreement

  

  US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honour Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement as it withdraws from the European Union or there would be no separate U.S. trade deal.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Racial and ethnic minorities suffer the most adult obesity in the US

  

  Adult obesity is rising in the United States, with a greater impact on racial and ethnic minorities, a US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) report showed, at a time when the health condition is seen causing heightened risk for severe COVID-19.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Michigan state sprayed to contain outbreak of Eastern Equine Encephalitis

  

  After months of trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic, officials in Michigan intensified their fight on Thursday against a different and potentially deadlier disease: Eastern equine encephalitis, a brain infection transmitted by mosquitoes.

• Thursday, September 17th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Biden leads Trump by 9 points; the president's “law and order” message falls short

  

  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Republican President Donald Trump nationally among likely U.S. voters by 9 percentage points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that showed Trump’s “law and order” message falling short with its target audience of suburban voters.