TIMEEast Bay (SF Bay Area) 1 Killed and 5 Wounded in Shooting Near Lake Merritt in Oakland TIMEOAKLAND, Calif. — A 22-year-old man was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting in Oakland near the city’s Juneteenth celebration, though it wasn’t known whether the violence was connected with...
TIMEVaccination U.S. Sends Taiwan 2.5 Million Vaccine Doses TIMETAIPEI, Taiwan — The U.S. sent 2.5 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan on Sunday, tripling an earlier pledge in a donation with both public health and geopolitical meaning. The shipment...
TIMENatural Disasters Alabama Car Crash 'Likely' Caused by Storm Kills 10: Official TIME - By JEFF AMY / APATLANTA — Tropical Depression Claudette claimed 12 lives in Alabama as the storm swept across the southeastern U.S., causing flash flooding and spurring tornadoes that destroyed dozens of homes. Ten people,...
TIMEUnited States Celebrity Cruises's CEO Lisa Lutoff-Perlo Navigates COVID-19, Vaccine Wars, as Travel Rebounds TIME(The interview below was delivered to the inbox of Leadership Brief subscribers on Sunday morning, June 20. To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and business decisionmakers,...
TIMEAfghanistan Afghanistan Running Out of Oxygen as COVID-19 Surge Worsens TIME - By Associated PressKABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s is racing to ramp up supplies of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID-19 worsens, a senior health official told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday. The...
TIMEPublic Health Guinea Declares End to Latest Ebola Outbreak That Killed 12 TIMEDAKAR, Senegal — Guinea has declared an end to an Ebola outbreak that emerged in February and killed 12 people, according to the World Health Organization. The latest outbreak was the first to emerge Guinea...
TIMENatural Disasters Tropical Storm Claudette Brings Rain and Floods to Gulf Coast TIME - By KEVIN McGILL and RUSS BYNUM / APNEW ORLEANS — Tropical Storm Claudette dumped heavy rain across coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as it chugged inland Saturday, threatening flash floods and possibly tornadoes along...
TIMEBioNTech Taiwan Recruits TSMC, Foxconn to Secure BioNTech Vaccines TIMETaiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen expanded efforts to buy vaccines from Germany’s BioNTech Friday, meeting with leaders of two tech giants in an attempt to reach a deal hindered by complications involving...
TIMECatholicism The Unorthodox Priest Leading Poland's Fight for LGBTQ Rights TIME - By Madeline RoacheThis year, like every year for the past 20, Szymon Niemiec will wear a rainbow-colored stole at the Equality Parade in the Polish capital of Warsaw on June 19. “I won’t have a banner because I will be...
TIMEEurope Americans Can Pack Bags for Europe, as EU Lifts Travel Curbs TIMEThe European Union lifted travel restrictions for U.S. residents, in the latest step toward a return to normal flying despite concerns over the spread of potentially dangerous coronavirus variants. Albania,...
TIMEnew movie news A Teenager in Normandy Feels the Heat of First Love in Summer of 85 TIME - By Stephanie ZacharekFrench filmmaker François Ozon is so prolific that his movies aren’t always easy to categorize. A woman-centric murder-mystery musical here, a post–World War I romance set in Germany there: Who knows he’ll...
