On Thursday, Governor Abbott issued an executive order suspending elective surgery in four populous counties to ensure that hospitals have the space to care for coronavirus patients. He also paused further business reopenings. William Presta, a barbershop owner in the Houston suburb of Bellaire, closed on March 22 and reopened …...Read More

A group of Extinction Rebellion activists launched their new political party in London today by shoplifting from a supermarket 'because poverty sucks'. Five members of the new Beyond Politics party walked out of a Sainsbury's store in Camden with trolleys laden with food. They claimed it was an attempt to …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday advanced an effort to expand the power of the Justice Department’s independent watchdog to investigate allegations of ethical violations and professional misconduct by department lawyers, overriding the objections of Attorney General William P. Barr. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 21 to 1 to …...Read More

Paper wasps 'eavesdrop' on rivals to asses their potential opponent's abilities before engaging in combat themselves, a new study reveals. Researchers uncovered this act of snooping by creating a fighting arena – two insects battled each other, while another couple observed from the outside. Bystander wasps were then paired with …...Read More

The Treasury Department gave COVID-19 stimulus dollars to nearly 1.1 million dead Americans, to the tune of $1.4 billion, an internal non-partisan government report found. The Government Accountability Office, which is Congressionally mandated to keep an eye on where the money from the CARES Act went, found that haste, a …...Read More

Former rugby league star Scott Bessant has died at the age of 37 - almost three years after a horror incident that left him with life-changing injuries. Bessant, who was a father of two, passed away on Thursday morning after suffering from complications with pneumonia. The ex-Wales Dragonhearts full back …...Read More

The Trump administration has fought for years to undermine and repeal the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislative achievement of President Barack Obama’s administration, in which Mr. Biden was vice president. In May, the Trump administration argued to a federal appeals court that the entire law was unconstitutional and should …...Read More

The year 2020 is giving one shocker after another. We had not even come to terms with the suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput and here’s another shocking news, which has left many in shock.16-year-old TikTok star, who gained popularity on the platform because of her dance videos, died by suicide …...Read More

A female prison officer has been jailed after becoming 'blinded by love' for an inmate lover who she let stay at her home when he escaped jail. Chloe Jones, 30, struck up an inappropriate relationship with Philip King after starting work at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool. The pair became lovers …...Read More

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Throughout his four decades as the first Muslim chaplain in the Texas prison system, Akbar Nurid-Din Shabazz somehow found a way to instill hope among inmates who were often without …...Read More