New York City Mayoral candidate Ray McGuire speaks during a press conference at the National Action Network’s House of Justice to denounce the rise of attacks against Asian Americans on March 18, 2021 in New York City.David Dee Delgado | Getty ImagesFormer Citigroup executive Ray McGuire, who is running to be mayor of New York,…
A group of Senate Republicans outlined their infrastructure plan Thursday, unveiling a much narrower vision for how to revamp U.S. transportation and broadband than the sweeping approach backed by President Joe Biden.The GOP package would cost $568 billion, only a fraction of the Democratic president’s more than $2 trillion package. It also would not address…
U.S stocks fell to session lows in a swift fashion on Thursday after reports that President Joe Biden is slated to propose much higher capital gains taxes for the rich.The Dow Jones Industrial Average last traded 300 points lower after dropping 400 points to its low of the day. The S&P 500 erased earlier gains…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is joined by fellow Democrats as he speaks at a news conference after the Senate passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 22, 2021.Erin Scott | ReutersThe Senate passed a bill Thursday designed to curb a spike in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans during…
Radoslav Zilinsky | Moment | Getty ImagesScientists at Texas A&M University’s Global Health Research Complex say they’ve detected a new Covid-19 variant that shows signs of a more contagious strain that causes more severe illness and appears to be resistant to antibodies.The new variant, BV-1, named after its Brazos Valley origin, was found during Texas A&M’s…
THE TALL TIMBER acts as a solid anchor point for every good rugby team. Cast the eye across the landscape of the four provinces and see them reach skyward. Connacht have a skyscrapers at 6’8″, Ulster have their captain standing 6′ 6, the same height as the explosive young talent in Leinster. Even if you’re…
A MAN WHO pulled down his mask and shouted “Coronavirus” at a security guard he also threatened to kill during a knife-point robbery has been jailed for three years. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard that Kevin Brosnan (40) “capitalised on the fears and anxieties of the general public during a pandemic” by mentioning the virus…
FOOTBALL HAS NEVER seen times like it. On Sunday evening stories began to break that a Super League announcement was pending. Europe’s biggest clubs were finally going to make good on a threat that they’d been making for years and form their own league, free from the shackles of UEFA who they all agreed was…
THE HIGH COURT has approved a survival plan for the troubled Norwegian Air airline and related companies. In a written decision Justice Michael Quinn said he was satisfied to approve the scheme put together by the airline’s examiner Kieran Wallace of KPMG. The airline’s Oslo-based parent company and several of its Irish registered subsidiaries had…
US PRESIDENT JOE Biden has warned world leaders this is the “decisive decade” to avoid the worst impacts of climate change as he outlined targets for the US to halve its emissions by 2030. Biden set out a new target to achieve a 50-52% reduction in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, as he hosted…
