Month: February 2020

At the center of San Francisco’s National LGBTQ Center for the Arts, two queer activists stood up and disrupted a private fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg after he received a question from the audience about his husband, Chasten. The packed room quickly booed down the activists, drowning out their pointed questions on Friday with chants of…

(Bloomberg) — South Africa’s second-biggest opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, disrupted the start of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state-of-the-nation address in parliament. EFF leader Julius Malema and the party’s lawmakers prevented Ramaphosa from speaking as they demanded he remove Pravin Gordhan as Public Enterprises Minister, citing the mismanagement of state-owned companies Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.…

After a five-year pause, Oklahoma will resume executing inmates on death row. There are 47 inmates on Oklahoma’s death row. The state put a hold on lethal injections after several botched executions; in 2014, an inmate flailed on the gurney after being injected with the drugs, and a year later, another inmate was executed with…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma plans to resume executing death-row inmates, five years after lethal injections were put on hold following a series of death-chamber mishaps, state officials announced Thursday. Gov. Kevin Stitt, Attorney General Mike Hunter and Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Scott Crow said in a joint news release that the state will…

  A baby with a serious heart condition has died after she received an infection from mould in a Seattle hospital’s operating room, her mother says. Elizabeth Hutt was born with a heart condition that she battled for the entirety of her six-month-long life. The young child underwent three open heart surgeries, and after the…

President Donald Trump demanded New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) drop all of New York state’s lawsuits against him prior to a meeting between the two on Thursday to discuss the suspension of travel programs that would benefit immigrants, along with other New Yorkers. “He must understand that National Security far exceeds politics,” Trump said…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) visited President Trump on Thursday afternoon to try and negotiate the reversal of his administration’s new ban on New Yorkers participating in the Global Entry and “trusted traveler” programs, which ease border crossings and airport security lines for enrolled travelers. Cuomo had low hopes, and they were met. The…

The policy of quarantining Spring Festival returnees for 14 days has extended through most of China as coronavirus surpasses 65,000 cases. At a news conference held by the State Council Information Office, He Qinghua, deputy director of the Bureau of Disease Prevention and Control, announced that Beijing would be imposing 14-day quarantines on anyone who…

Some top Sherpa guides are criticizing the Nepal government’s plan to have the army clean up 77,000 pounds of waste on Mount Everest, BBC Nepali reports. They say the army cannot reach the highest peaks of the Himalayas – that it’s something only they can do. “They collected garbage from lower altitudes,” said Kami Rita Sherpa,…

MUNICH (Reuters) – Russia has good ties with Turkey but will sometimes disagree, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey “We have very good relations with Turkey, that does not mean we have to agree on everything. Full agreement on all issues cannot be possible between any two countries,”…