By AI HEPING in New York | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-08 09:36 Share CLOSE AR-15-style rifle barrels sit on a cart as workers assemble the gun at Davidson Defense Store in Utah on Thursday. [GEORGE FREY/AFP]
Fears from Capitol riot channeled into record-extending run of weapon sales We can t keep guns on the shelf, Charles Weston, owner of Drum Magazines in Kansas, Missouri, said of the rush on sales since the riot at the US Capitol on Jan 6 that left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
Gun sales in the United States hit a historic high of 2 million in January－also the month President Joe Biden took office. The figure extended a record-setting surge that began when the coronavirus pandemic took hold in early 2020.
Vaccine rollout has been confusing, chaotic in D.C., Maryland and Virginia
Julie Zauzmer, Gregory S. Schneider and Erin Cox, The Washington Post
Feb. 8, 2021
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1of3Ramona Cohen waits in line at a Giant grocery store in the District of Columbia in hope of getting a dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Jan. 15, 2021. Cohen, 76, has struggled to get an appointment to obtain a coronavirus vaccine.Photo for The Washington Post by Amanda Andrade-RhoadesShow MoreShow Less
2of3Mark Adamec gets a coronavirus vaccine in Silver Spring, Md., on Dec. 30, 2020.Washington Post photo by Bill O LearyShow MoreShow Less
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WASHINGTON - The first precious boxloads of the frozen elixir arrived in December, bearing great promise for curtailing the pandemic that has paralyzed the region and the world.
The White House expects the House of Representatives to track closely to President Joe Biden's coronavirus relief plan as it marks up its latest round of legislation to blunt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but expects lawmakers will tweak some elements, Press Secretary.
Vaughan Gething and Jane Hutt’s message to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities in Wales.
The Minister for Health and Social Services, Vaughan Gething today outlined the need to increase the up-take of vaccinations for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, to strongly refute misinformation about the vaccine and issue a plea for all ethnic communities to help in the fight against COVID-19.
Minster for Health and Social Services Vaughan Gething stated:
As we all know, Covid-19 is having a disproportionate impact on our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. This isn’t fiction, its fact. Our communities have experienced higher levels of illness and, sadly, death rates have been higher than among the white population.
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Book World: Walter Mosley s new Easy Rawlins book is a masterful mix of mystery and social commentary
Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post
Feb. 8, 2021
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There comes a moment in every Easy Rawlins mystery I ve read, where I realize I have no idea what s going on. The plot picks up speed, becoming a hectic Tilt-a-Whirl ride where dead bodies, cold-stone killers, femmes fatales, crooked cops and lost spaces in Los Angeles whiz by at top velocity. It s at this moment - when I m most exasperated with Walter Mosley as a writer - that I m also most admiring. Because, once again, I realize that I don t care all that much that I can t keep track of what s going on - no more than I care that I can t keep track of what s going on in The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep or Cotton Comes to Harlem.