UN: COVID-19 restrictions bring brief air-quality gains in 2020
Pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions caused dramatic but short-lived improvements in air quality and drops in pollution, the United Nations has said, but warned the blip was no substitute for…
Madagascar on the brink of first climate-induced famine, UN warns
A four-year drought has pushed at least 30,000 people in southern Madagascar to level five of famine, the UN warned. The island nation of Madagascar has endured four years of…
An historic number of jobs are going begging in the US. What gives?
The US economy had a record 10.9 million job openings on the last day of July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday. Jobs, jobs, everywhere. That’s what the…
Ida aftermath: New Orleans lifts curfew as more power restored
New Orleans has lifted a nightly curfew as the US city moves closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the…
Biden to tour in New York and New Jersey hit heavily by Hurricane Ida
The brilliant actor and “Wire” star Michael K Williams dead at 54
Black actor who starred in the iconic role of a gay Baltimore armed robber Omar Little was found dead in his New York apartment. American actor Michael K Williams, one…
Jean-Paul Belmondo, the legendary actor and Icon of the French Cinema, Dead at 88
Jean-Paul Belmondo, the charismatic actor whose singular performances in films like Breathless made him the face of the French New Wave, died on Monday at his home in Paris. He was 88….
Afghan President flees country as Taliban move into Kabul
The Taliban’s conquest in Afghanistan is virtually complete. President Ashraf Gani fled the country on Sunday. He joined thousands of his fellow citizens in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban….
Karine Jean-Pierre Is The 1st Black Woman In Decades To Brief White House Press
When Karine Jean-Pierre stepped behind the lectern to take reporters’ questions in the briefing room Wednesday, she was the first Black woman to speak for the White House in that…
