Crimes in Saudi Arabia will no longer be punished by flogging. The decision came from the kingdom’s supreme court, the Guardian reports. “This is a welcome change, but it should have happened years ago,” said a spokesman for Human Rights Watch. Rights groups have said flogging has
The coronavirus patients began arriving the last week of March, transferred to the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center under a New York state mandate requiring nursing homes to accept those recovering from COVID-19, even if they still might be contagious. At the time, the Long Island
When the clock struck noon, the masks came off. It was Nov. 21, 1918, and San Francisco residents gathered in the streets to celebrate not only the recent end of World War I and the Allies’ victory, but also the end of an onerous ordinance
Austin Wall left work with severe pain and knew something was not right. Wall, 42, a Caterpillar dealership parts coordinator in Irving, Texas, went to an urgent care clinic nearly a month ago and was quickly sent to the Medical City Hospital in Arlington —
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has talked to thousands of voters on hundreds of campaign rope lines during his career, but never from nearly 3,000 miles away. “How are you, man? I can see you clearly,” Biden said to Jason Kueper, a San Francisco resident and
Stuck inside during the coronavirus lockdown, 5-year-old Kian Assad was entertaining himself by dancing around his McAllen, Texas, house a few weeks ago when he fell, hitting his head on a door hinge. In normal circumstances, it was the type of injury that would likely merit
When Washington scrambled to rescue small businesses knocked down by the coronavirus crisis, there was no confusion about who was supposed to get a piece of the $349 billion from the new Paycheck Protection Program. “The PPP was intended to help small businesses that often don’t participate
The global coronavirus death toll surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, according to John Hopkins University data. The grim total was reached a day after presidents and prime ministers agreed to work together to develop new vaccines, tests and treatments at a virtual meeting with both the World Health Organization (WHO) and