By Sanjeev Miglani and Swati Bhat NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s central bank slashed interest rates on Friday in an emergency move to counter the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic after the government locked down the country to slow the spread of infections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked India’s 1.3 billion people to […]
WASHINGTON — Representative Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, is known on Capitol Hill as a nurse, a pastor, a Black Lives Matter activist and a member of a “squad” of progressive women lawmakers. On Thursday, she told a House panel that she is also a rape survivor who had an abortion after she was […]
Many scientists welcomed President Biden’s call for a more rigorous investigation of a virus lab in Wuhan, China, though they said the so-called lab leak theory was still unlikely. On the heels of President Joe Biden’s abrupt order to US intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of the coronavirus, many scientists reacted positively, reflecting their […]
