On August 7, the U.S. ordered diplomats’ families, not the diplomats themselves, to leave Liberia in light of the current Ebola outbreak. The families are expected to return to the United States via commercial airline travel, the State Department tells
At what was at times a combative congressional hearing Thursday on the burgeoning Ebola crisis in West Africa, congressmen and Africa aid workers criticized both the United States and international response to the outbreak, asserting it has been insufficient to
Though there has been a decrease in the number of illegal immigrants who have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in the past month, the White House is preparing for another spike once the temperature starts to cool in the
Scottish banks would flee to the rest of the UK is Scotland became independent, according to a report from the National Institute of Social and Economic Research. The report also warns that the new state’s economy could be thrown into
This article originally appeared in The Independent: The health care system in Liberia is collapsing as hospitals shut down and medical workers flee from the Ebola epidemic, Liberia’s foreign minister has said. Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan said diseases such as malaria
LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) – The British government told its citizens to leave parts of Iraqi Kurdistan, including the regional capital Arbil, on Friday as the sweeping advance of Islamist militants brought them closer to Kurdish territory. The government said
KIEV (Reuters) – The head of NATO called on Russia to “step back from the brink” of war by pulling its troops back from the Ukrainian border and warned further intervention in Ukraine would bring it greater isolation in the
A gaggle of over 150 Canadian geese has been leaving its mark all over California’s Lodi Lake Park, which has locals and Lodi City Council members scratching their heads as to how to deal with the hazardous poop problem. The
Imagine if Republicans had responded to the push for Obamacare in 2009 by embracing the need for “comprehensive health care reform” while acceding to all Democrat premises concerning the foundations of health care policy. Ponder for a moment where we
Nearly six in 10 Americans, including 59% of independents, disapprove of President Barack Obama’s handling of immigration. A CBS poll found that 57% of Americans; including 85% of Republicans, 33% of Democrats, and 59% of independents; disapprove while 31%; including
Rapper Jay-Z turned a concert stage into a political soapbox this week, all in an effort to bolster California’s Proposition 47. The Obama supporter leveraged Tuesday’s concert at the Rose Bowl into a pitch for the legislation, which some say
Some journalists from international news outlets have reported being threatened or intimidated by Hamas while reporting from Gaza, reports The Jerusalem Post. In one example, Indian television station NDTV broadcast a report by Sreenivasan Jain on Tuesday showing rockets being
Last week, Aderemi Ibirogba, Nigeria’s commissioner for Information and Strategy, warned would-be scammers that selling false “Ebola cures” could land them in jail. The threat apparently did not work, as a separate Nigerian government agency repeated the threats and publicly paraded
The terrorist group Islamic State has taken over Qaraqosh, the largest remaining Christian enclave in Iraq. With the conquest of Qaraqosh and a further onslaught north into Assyrian territory, reports have surfaced that up to 200,000 Assyrian Christians have fled
With few resources to treat the infected, and even fewer to keep the virus from spreading, the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone have begun isolating large swaths of the country where the virus has spread uncontrollably, attempting to isolate
An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that illegal immigration threatens the country’s “beliefs and customs” while also placing a burden on the economy. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 70% of Americans, including 86% of Republicans, believe illegal immigrants “threaten
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government tightened control over popular instant messaging services Thursday after telling South Korea access to some foreign services was blocked because they were used to exchange terrorism-related information. The government announced that only established media companies
FREETOWN/MONROVIA (Reuters) – Police and soldiers in Sierra Leone blockaded rural areas hit by the deadly Ebola virus on Thursday, a senior officer said, after neighboring Liberia declared a state of emergency to tackle the worst-ever outbreak of the disease,
(Reuters) – A tourist seeking to take pictures of Yellowstone National Park crashed a camera-equipped drone into its largest hot spring, possibly damaging the prized geothermal feature, a park official said on Wednesday. The incident follows the crash earlier this
MOSCOW/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Russia will ban all imports of food from the United States and all fruit and vegetables from Europe, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, a sweeping response to Western sanctions imposed over its support for
Kandahar, a city in southeast Afghanistan with a population of roughly 500,000, is set to be without electricity once US troops complete their withdrawal from the country. According to a report by Reuters, when the United States leaves Kandahar in
A top doctor in Liberia has said that a large swath of Ebola cases are going largely unreported. The doctor, who works as a senior physician in a leading medical clinic in Liberia, told CBS News that there are likely
After previously threatening to do so, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has decided to push back against the will of many Escondido, California residents, who came out by the hundreds in June in opposition to the proposed installation of
Scientists agree that consumption of bushmeat–a collection of wild animal meat including rats and monkeys– triggered the Ebola outbreak in Guinea. That outbreak has since spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia, with fears of further contamination in Nigeria. Despite the
Media Trackers: WASHINGTON, D.C. – A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report
