[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Claude Joseph, who has nominally led Haiti as acting prime minister since the July 7 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, said in a Washington Post interview published on Monday he has agreed to step down, handing power to a challenger backed by the international community. The announcement appears to end a power struggle in the […]

On Thursday California’s lawmakers approved the creation of a state-funded guaranteed-income plan that will cost $35 million dollars of the state budget. The plan will be entirely taxpayer funded, and is the first of its kind in the U.S. It passed both chambers with no opposition, as final counts showed 36-0 votes in the state’s Senate and 64-0 votes in the state’s Assembly.

The Olympic Village, the area that houses the athletes and staff participating in the Olympics, has recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Saturday. This comes only six days prior to opening ceremonies when the games begin. The Japanese government has not released who contracted the disease but did indicate that it was a foreign national and not an athlete.