White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki brushed off criticism of President Biden and his family being spotted without face masks at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday, saying the new administration…
Month: January 2021
No one was calling it a pandemic yet, at least publicly. Then came more troubling evidence about transmission, as the US ignored warning signs.
Around this time last year, Covid-19the disease that has so far killed more than 400,000 Americans and infected 25 million morestill seemed like someone elses problem. On the last day…
The coronavirus knocked my super fund off its perch in early 2020. But the performance over the calendar year was worth crowing about.
It is a mistake to panic in a crisis and sell everything. Markets always overshoot on the upside and the downside. As financial adviser, Charlie Viola at Pitcher Partners, says,…
In his first interview as trade minister, Dan Tehan says he wants good ties with China and will push the US to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
He inherits the trade portfolio after a year dominated by an escalating series of bans and punitive tariffs placed by China on a raft of Australian goods triggered after the…
“Some of the customers I’d been friendly with for years seemed to hold no respect not only for our policies but for our health and safety behind the coun…
I live in Montana, a red state with a deep core of Trump supporters. While my town has become a trendy mountain destination with residents who hold varying political views,…
One thing lawmakers of both parties appear to agree on is Trump’s second impeachment trial won’t need to go on as long as his first.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller confirmed Mr Bowers role as a Trump legal adviser on Thursday. Butch is well respected by both Republicans and Democrats and will do an excellent job…
The new measure targets two districts which cover a small, but densely populated part of the Kowloon Peninsula.
Hong Kong has placed thousands of its residents in a lockdown to contain a new outbreak of the coronavirus, the first such measure the Chinese-ruled city has taken since the…
A day after calling time on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the new President has suspended new drilling on federal land.
Building of the controversial, cross-border conduit that was first proposed more than a decade ago was authorised by President Donald Trump in 2017, just over a year after President Barack…