all News of 05/25/20

White House Bans Travel To The U.S. From Brazil

WASHINGTON — The White House has announced a ban on travel to the U.S. from Brazil due to the spread of coronavirus in Latin America’s hardest-hit country. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says in a statement Sunday evening that the ban ...

The CDC's New 'Best Estimate' Implies A COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3%

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current " best estimate " for the fatality rate among Americans with COVID-19 symptoms is 0.4 percent. The CDC also estimates that 35 percent of people infected by the COVID-19 ...

Alligator Rumored To Have Been Hitler’S Pet Dies In Moscow Zoo

(MOSCOW) — An alligator that many people believe once belonged to Adolf Hitler has died in the Moscow Zoo. The zoo said the alligator, named Saturn, was about 84 years old when he died on Friday. According to the zoo, Saturn was born in the ...

Libertarian Party Picks Spike Cohen As Its Vice-Presidential Candidate

Spike Cohen, who runs Muddied Waters Media , won the Libertarian Party's nomination for vice-president today. On the online convention's third ballot, Cohen got 533 votes—52 percent of the total—narrowly edging out former presidential candidate ...

As Fashion Has Its Metaverse Moment, One App Looks To Bridge Real And Virtual Worlds For Sneakerheads

As fashion has its metaverse moment, one app looks to bridge real and virtual worlds for sneakerheads image Fashion is having its moment in the metaverse. A riot of luxury labels, music, and games are vying for attention in the virtual world. And as physical events and the entertainment industry that depends on them shuts down, virtual things have come to ...

First Of 5 Iranian Gas Tankers Reaches Venezuela With No Sign Of U.S. Interference

(CARACAS, Venezuela) — The first of five tankers loaded with gasoline sent from Iran reached Venezuelan waters late Saturday, expected to temporarily ease the South American nation’s fuel crunch while defying Trump administration sanctions ...

White House Fails To Meet Goal On Biweekly Testing Of Nursing Homes Residents And Staff

(RICHMOND, Va.) — Nearly two weeks ago the White House urged governors to ensure that every nursing home resident and staff member be tested for the coronavirus within 14 days. It’s not going to happen. A review by The Associated ...

China Roundup: A Blow To US-Listed Chinese Firms And TikTok’S New Global Face

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup , a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. It’s been a tumultuous week for Chinese tech firms abroad: ...

R&D Roundup: ‘Twisted Light’ Lasers, Prosthetic Vision Advances And Robot-Trained Dogs

R&D Roundup: ‘Twisted light’ lasers, prosthetic vision advances and robot-trained dogs image I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world of tech and startups. In this edition: a new type ...

Last British Governor Of Hong Kong Says The Territory Has Been ‘Betrayed By China’ Over Security Law Proposal

(HONG KONG) — The last British governor of Hong Kong said China has betrayed the semi-autonomous territory by tightening control over the city it had promised could keep freedoms not found on the mainland. “What we are seeing is a new ...

North Korea’S Kim Holds Meeting On Expanding Nuclear Capabilities In First Public Appearance In 20 Days

(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a key military meeting to discuss bolstering the country’s nuclear arsenal and putting its armed forces on high alert, state media reported Sunday, in Kim’s first known ...

Thousands Of Hong Kong Demonstrators Protest China’S Proposed Ban On Subversive Activity

(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong police fired tear gas and a water cannon at protesters in a popular shopping district Sunday, as thousands took to the streets to march against China’s move to impose national security legislation on the city. ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu Attacks Israel’S Justice System As His Corruption Trial Begins

(JERUSALEM) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday launched a tirade against the nation’s justice system as his long-awaited corruption trial got underway, accusing police and prosecutors of conspiring to ...

Living And Working In A Worsening World

Jon Evans Contributor Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010. ...

The Station: Hertz Files For Bankruptcy, Hailing “Self-Driving” Scooters, Memorial Day Travel

The Station: Hertz files for bankruptcy, hailing “self-driving” scooters, Memorial Day travel image The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.  Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox . Hi and welcome back to The Station. Memorial Day is this coming Monday, a ...

It's Going To Be Hard Enough To Get Kids Back To Day Care After COVID-19

As Americans emerge from their homes and try to return to some semblance of normal life, we have a small window of time to remove regulations that are nuisances in the best of times and deeply damaging in the worst. We can start with child care. As ...

Today In Supreme Court History: May 24, 1870

Today in Supreme Court History: May 24, 1870 image 5/24/1870: Justice Benjamin Cardozo's birthday. Justice Benjamin Cardozo

No, Segregationists Weren't The Driving Force Behind School Choice

Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement , by Steve Suitts, New South Books, 136 pages, $25.95 Public support for school vouchers is on the rise, with 58 percent of respondents in a 2019 Education Next ...

Hong Kong Police Fire Volleys Of Tear Gas At Protesters

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas in a popular shopping district as thousands took to the streets Sunday to march against China’s proposed tough national security legislation for the city. Pro-democracy ...

Jo Jorgensen Wins Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination

In a day-long virtual meeting , after four ballots, the 1,035 delegates assembled for the Libertarian Party's online convention selected Jo Jorgensen as their presidential candidate. She won with slightly over 51 percent of the vote (not every ...