Some outlandish rumors persist. To adherents of such beliefs, it’s a dastardly bioweapon designed to wreak economic armageddon on the West or a left-wing conspiracy to damage the re-election prospects of President Donald Trump. (Photo: MarketWatch photo illustration/Getty Images, iStockphoto.) Does anyone know what’s real anymore? Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, some people are […]
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President Donald Trump speaks to the press Tuesday at the White House. AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump railed again Joe Biden’s newly named running mate, Kamala Harris, during his daily coronavirus press briefing on Tuesday. “She was my No. 1 draft pick,” Trump said. “She did very very poorly in the primaries, as […]
Shares of Tesla Inc. surged more than 7% in the extended session Tuesday after the Silicon Valley car maker’s board approved a five-for-one split of the company’s stock. The move was geared to “make stock ownership more accessible to employees and investors,” the company said. Tesla TSLA, -3.11% shares have more than tripled so far […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Washington appeared inclined Tuesday to let a judge decide on his own whether to grant the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn. Many members of the court expressed repeated skepticism at arguments from the Justice Department […]
President Trump on Tuesday said he had been “sailing” to reelection before the coronavirus pandemic struck the United States and could have won reelection even if he were running against George Washington. “George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in, before the China plague,” Trump said in an […]
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best has resigned her post after the city council imposed cuts on the force’s budget: AP The head of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) has abruptly stepped down after the city council voted 7-1 to cut the police budget – by less than 1 per cent. Carmen Best, the first black […]
The U.S. reached another dire milestone on Monday in confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, as the new case tally topped 5 million, which is more than one-quarter of the global total of more than 20 million cases, as uncertainties over the U.S. response continue to grow. The continued climb in cases comes […]
The Federal Reserve building in Washington in 2017. AFP/Getty Images The Federal Reserve this summer vowed not to run “like an elephant” through the U.S. corporate bond market, roughly a month after making its historic leap into buying corporate debt for the first time ever. The Fed’s latest holdings, pegged at $3.6 billion worth of […]
Police in Chicago said 100 people were arrested and 13 officers were injured after hundreds smashed windows, stole from stores and clashed with police early Monday in Chicago’s Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of the city’s downtown. About 400 officers were dispatched to Chicago’s downtown area after seeing posts on social media encouraging […]