Iran’s supreme leader says the offers being made at the Vienna talks over his country’s tattered nuclear deal “are not worth looking at.”.

Segre's efforts to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine as she did have triggered a wave of anti-Semitic comments and other invective on social media. (Yara Nardi/pool photo via AP, file)ROME – An Italian Holocaust survivor’s attempt to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine has triggered a wave of anti-Semitic comments and other invective on social media. Liliana Segre, 90, received the first of the two-shot vaccine series in Milan on Thursday. She urged people who reach her age “to not be afraid and to take the vaccine.”“I’m not afraid of the vaccine, I’m afraid of the illness," Segre remarked. Segre was one of the few Italian children to survive deportation to a Nazi death camp.

HOUSTON – A Clear Lake couple has made it their mission to go beyond the numbers to show you the faces of COVID-19. “I think the normal human being can’t picture that,” Ruth Nasrullah said. So, Ruth Nasrullah and her husband, Mohammad Nasrullah, set out to humanize the statistic by launching the website. “I think the best way to bring those numbers to life is to see the faces of the victims,” Ruth Nasrullah said. While collecting obituaries one of their volunteers lost a family member to the coronavirus.

DALLAS – Three months into the coronavirus outbreak in Texas, black lawmakers say Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and state health officials have fallen short in addressing their pleas for better racial data and efforts to decrease COVD-19's decidedly deadly toll on black Americans. Texas has struggled to track racial health disparities. But with so much of that data completed as “unknown,” the actual number of black cases could be much higher than the state’s. Rep. James White, the only black Republican in the Legislature, said collecting racial data is necessary to respond to the pandemic.