New York Knicks trainer Tom Thibodeau wins NBA Coach of the Year Award
New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau is the recipient of the Red Auerbach Trophy as the 2020-21 NBA Coach of the Year, the NBA announced on Tuesday night. This is the second NBA Coach of the Year Award for Thibodeau, who earned the honour in the 2010-11 season with...
Researchers developing nasal spray to provide Covid protection and treatment
Since the early days of the pandemic, scientists have been developing antibodies as treatments for Covid-19. Today, several such antibodies are in late-stage clinical trials and a handful have been approved for emergency use by regulatory agencies in the United States and elsewhere. Among doctors, however, antibody treatments have not...
Colour bar: Raging coronavirus in the US demonstrates how race matters for health
The coronavirus pandemic has, once again, highlighted the complex links between inequality, racism and disease risk in America. According to Harvard public health scholar David Williams, although the pandemic affects everyone, but in the United States, communities of colour have recorded a disproportionate number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths. Dr...
Day Prince Harry said: It’s fine to feel low, it’s okay to cry, it’s okay to be sad; we’re all in this, we all do
Meghan Markle smiled through the pain of not being accepted by the royal family and made the right choice to walk away, her cookbook friend has revealed. Grenfell fire survivor Munira Mahmoud still hears from the Duchess of Sussex from Los Angeles and tells OK! “I’m so proud of her...
‘Tulsa Race Massacre events could be targeted by white supremacist groups’
The Tulsa Race Massacre’s centennial commemorations in Oklahoma could draw racial violence and white supremacist groups, the US Department of Homeland Security has warned in a bulletin. “We assess that upcoming commemoration events associated with the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma probably are attractive targets for...
US intelligence community rocked by insider threat – yet again
A federal grand jury has charged an FBI employee for stealing classified documents and keeping them in her home between 2004 and 2017, the FBI announced Friday. The employee, Kendra Kingsley, allegedly took documents that detailed the FBI’s sources and methods the FBI uses to counter cyber threats, as well...
America’s largest forestry research Africa can copy in its Great Green Wall plan
Despite lingering tensions among environmentalists and loggers, a plan to launch the largest forestry experiment in the United States – and perhaps the world – last month cleared a major hurdle. Controversially, the study would allow logging in a new research forest, in an attempt to answer a grand question:...
Was $735 million US arms sale to Israel meant for ongoing carnage in Gaza?
Some United States legislators are questioning whether a $735 million approved weapons sale to Israel by President Joe Biden’s administration could be used as leverage amid the continuing bombardment of the Gaza Strip, according The Washington Post has reported. The arms sale, which Congress was notified of on May 5,...
Trump-shaped hot potato that’s turning Facebook into a failed digital ‘country’
In 2020, Facebook appointed what it refers to as its “Supreme Court” – a quasi-independent council called the Facebook Oversight Board – to review controversial content moderation decisions. This week, the Oversight Board handed down its most important judgment to date: support for the company’s move to ban former US...
Facebook’s brazen ban of President Trump should concern every American
The Facebook Oversight Board’s decision upholding President Donald Trump’s Facebook ban undermines the First Amendment and free speech. The brazen ban of President Trump is already chilling the speech of other Facebook users and Internet users generally, who fairly worry about Facebook and Big Tech censoring and de-platforming them. I...
