LAHORE: Coronavirus cases are on the rise across Punjab as the province recorded 738 fresh COVID-19 infections and 15 deaths over the last 24 hours, The provincial tally of infections has climbed to 117,898 with addition of the fresh cases, the Primary and Secondary Health Department. Of the total new cases, 367 emerged in Lahore while 72 in Rawalpindi, the …

WASHINGTON: US health authorities will hold an emergency meeting next week to recommend that a coronavirus vaccine awaiting approval be given first to healthcare professionals and people in long-term care facilities. The meeting, announced on Friday by a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee on immunizations, suggests that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be close …

QUETTA: Another case of the crippling polio virus disease has surfaced in Balochistan, taking the tally of the cases for the current year to 21 in the province. Provincial health department has confirmed that a ten-month old baby girl, resident of Kharotabad near Quetta, tested positive for the virus. The health officials said that the samples of the child had …

A student is suing Southern Methodist University after it suspended him this semester following what the lawsuit calls an “innocent joke” involving a cut of poultry — a “cleaned and filleted dove breast” he left outside a neighbor’s door. The lawsuit, filed in a Dallas County district court Nov. 17, alleges that the university overreacted to the incident and then …

WASHINGTON — On paper, Rep. Joaquin Castro would seem to have little shot at leading the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The San Antonio Democrat lacks the seniority — often the predominant consideration — of the two others vying for the post: California Rep. Brad Sherman and New York Rep. Gregory Meeks. Even the history books are against Castro, as no …

Fourteen-year-old Israel Olivares logs into school from home most days. He’ll usually sit in his bed, staring at a screen for seven hours. Then, for a couple of treasured class periods each Friday afternoon, he explores the skies above Oak Cliff. Constable feels “disrespected” after office moved to basement near “NEGROES” sign Ellis County Constable Precinct 3 Curtis Polk Jr. …

Dallas Police Sgt. Eddie Reyes had to quickly adapt plans for the department’s Latino outreach efforts when the coronavirus pandemic made large in-person gatherings too risky. After its longtime supervisor retired in 2019, Reyes was tasked with revamping the Unidos program, which is the department’s community policing program aimed at Latinos that started in 2015. Constable feels “disrespected” after office moved to …

Former first lady Laura Bush is asking her fellow Texans and people across the country to help a little more than usual this holiday season following the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s clear this year the needs of Americans is great,” Bush said in taped comments posted on Thanksgiving to her social media accounts. “The pandemic of COVID-19 and its impact …

Mirabor Ofugara sat cross-legged on the floor of her Montessori classroom, considering a laminated card with a chocolate chip cookie on it. Was it living or non-living, the 4-year-old asked herself. Ofugara reasoned that she, a living being, often ate cookies, but she had never seen a cookie eat anything. A cookie was not alive, she declared, before placing it …

North Texas crossed a critical threshold in the number of hospital patients fighting COVID-19 that could trigger bar closings and lower occupancies at stores and restaurants if such cases don’t decrease within a week. With more than 2,300 patients testing positive for the coronavirus in the 19-county hospital region, 15.05% of all beds were occupied by a person with COVID-19, …