NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

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Fauci, Paul clash on virus origins, trade charges of lying

11:33 pm July 20, 2021

Washington: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, angrily confronted Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday in testimony on Capitol Hill, rejecting Paul’s insinuation that the US helped fund research at a Chinese lab that could have sparked the COVID-19 outbreak. Paul suggested that Fauci had lied before Congress when in May he denied that the National Institutes of Health funded so-called “gain of function” […]

Largest wildfire in Oregon expands further; new evacuations

11:59 pm July 16, 2021

Portland (US): Firefighters scrambled on Friday to control a raging inferno in southeastern Oregon that’s spreading miles a day in windy conditions, one of numerous conflagrations across the US West that are straining resources. Authorities ordered a new round of evacuations Thursday amid worries the Bootleg Fire, which has already destroyed 21 homes, could merge […]

Indian-American family, child, among over 150 people missing after building collapse in US

8:05 pm June 28, 2021

Houston: An Indian-American couple and their one-year-old child are among more than 150 people who are still missing after the collapse of part of a 12-story residential building in the US state of Florida on Thursday, according to media reports on Monday. Search and rescue teams have been feverishly scouring the site since shortly after 55 of the building’s […]

Official: Crash, ‘likely’ due to storm, kills 10 in Alabama

11:59 pm June 20, 2021

Atlanta : An official tells local media that 10 people – including nine children – are dead after a two-vehicle crash in storm-drenched Alabama. Butler County Coroner Wayne Garlock says did not release the names of the victims in Saturday’s crash but said that vehicles likely hydroplaned on wet roads. Butler County Sheriff Danny Bond said multiple people were also injured. It […]

Teen wounded in shootout with Florida deputies ordered held

11:12 pm June 8, 2021

Deland: A14-year-old girl wounded in a shootout with Florida deputies last week after she and a 12-year-old boy escaped a juvenile facility and broke into a home with a cache of weapons was ordered on Tuesday to be held in detention for 21 days until she has another hearing. The teen made her first appearance before a […]