Covid 19 India: Even record death toll may hide extent of India’s Covid crisis

Data vs cremations Counting struggles Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records, underplaying the scale of a resurgence that is overwhelming the country’s medical system.Several cities across the South Asian nation have Continue reading

JD Vance Dragged For Hypocrisy After Drag Photo Surfaces

LOADING ERROR LOADING Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. JD Vance is getting dragged for hypocrisy after a photo from his law school days surfaced on social media, appearing to show him in a blonde wig and dress. The photo first came to light via X user Matt Bernstein, who said the pic dates Continue reading

Covid 19 India: Even record death toll may hide extent of India’s Covid crisis

Data vs cremations Counting struggles Bodies piling up at crematoriums and burial grounds across India are sparking concerns that the death toll from a ferocious new Covid-19 wave may be much higher than official records, underplaying the scale of a resurgence that is overwhelming the country’s medical system.Several cities across the South Asian nation have Continue reading

Mom fights back in grizzly bear attack: ‘I’m not ready to leave my daughter’

“I was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Vanessa Chaput, 24, of Yukon, Canada, told TODAY.com. Vanessa Chaput, 24, of Yukon, Canada, recovered in the hospital after a grizzly bear attack that required more than 30 stitches. Courtesy Dave Leegstra “I spotted the male that would attack me first … and two smaller Continue reading

Arizona certifies abortion-rights initiative for the November ballot

PHOENIX — Arizona’s ballot will include a major reproductive rights measure this fall alongside the presidential, Senate and other battleground races, putting a key issue directly before voters in the swing state. JP Martin, the deputy communications officer for the Arizona secretary of state’s office, told NBC News on Monday evening that the Arizona for Continue reading

Inquiry into Defence Forces failings ‘as soon as possible’, Varadkar says

Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images The Government is keen to have a statutory inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct, bullying and discrimination in the Defence Forces up and running “as soon as possible”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Speaking during Leaders’ Questions in the Dáil on Wednesday, the Taoiseach said a report on the Defence Forces Continue reading

Disney executive’s close friendship with Kamala Harris under scrutiny as ABC hosts critical debate

Dana Walden, a senior Disney executive whose portfolio includes ABC News, is one of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “extraordinary friends,” according to a report in the New York Times. NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST MAKES ‘CONSERVATIVE’ CASE TO VOTE KAMALA HARRIS ABC told the New York Times that Walden, who is Disney’s highest-ranking television executive, does Continue reading

JD Vance Dragged For Hypocrisy After Drag Photo Surfaces

LOADING ERROR LOADING Republican vice presidential candidate and Ohio Sen. JD Vance is getting dragged for hypocrisy after a photo from his law school days surfaced on social media, appearing to show him in a blonde wig and dress. The photo first came to light via X user Matt Bernstein, who said the pic dates Continue reading

Republican candidate in North Carolina called for a Trump coup on Jan. 6

A couple of months back, I wrote about the North Carolina GOP’s placing all of its bets on extreme candidates for statewide office, potentially creating an opening for moderate Democrats. But there’s also unabashedly bigoted gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson and Chad Brown, a lesser-known secretary of state candidate who has pushed the GOP’s bogus “election Continue reading

New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell, 87, readmitted to hospital just days after discharge

WASHINGTON — Longtime Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., was readmitted to the hospital Sunday night, just days after he was released from a weekslong hospital stay to a rehabilitation facility, a source close to Pascrell confirmed Monday. Pascrell is now receiving care at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, the source said. It is Continue reading