NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Federal Judge Esther Salas has spoken for the first time publicly about a shooting at her township home last month in which authorities say a disgruntled lawyer killed her son and seriously wounded her husband. In a video statement issued Monday, Salas called for more privacy for federal judges in the […]
Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, running for reelection, holds a 6-point lead against Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock in a race that will help decide the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, according to a poll released Monday by Emerson College. Daines received 50 percent support in the poll, while 44 percent said they would […]
Iranians, some wearing face masks, walk along a street in Tehran on June 3, 2020. AFP/Getty Images The number of people who have died with COVID-19 in Iran is far higher than the government has publicly admitted, according to figures leaked to BBC Persian. These figures say 42,000 people had died with the virus as of […]
FILE PHOTO: FDA Commissioner Gottlieb speaks during an interview with Reuters in New York Reuters Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, warned that the Northeast could see another wave of coronavirus cases as the virus continues to “rotate through different parts of the country.” “I think we’re likely to […]
Fuel maker Marathon Petroleum Corp. said it has agreed to sell its gas stations to the owners of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain for $21 billion in the largest U.S. energy deal of the year. The all-cash agreement with 7-Eleven Inc. comes less than a year after Marathon agreed to spin off its convenience-store chain, […]
The stock market’s ability to shrug off the economic destruction and gloomy coronavirus headlines continues to enrich emboldened bulls and baffle even some of the savviest Wall Street pros. A big dose of reality, however, looms large, if Andrew Lapthorne, the global head of quantitative research at Societe Generale, has it right with his recent […]
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House’s coronavirus task force, warned Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic has entered a “new phase,” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has no confidence in Birx. Speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Birx said the coronavirus is much more widespread than it was months […]
“ ‘At no point in my career or life have I felt our nation’s values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment.’ ” That’s Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, former director for European Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council, unloading on the Trump administration in an op-ed in the Washington Post. […]
Anthony Fauci and President Trump are still at odds. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decade who has worked on the front lines of the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s and 1990s, the Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016 and the anthrax attacks two decades ago, testified before […]
Members of Moms United for Black Lives Matter brace themselves against tear gas fired by federal officers in Portland, Oregon: Getty Images A US intelligence official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been reassigned following revelations that his office compiled “intelligence reports” on journalists and analysed communications between protesters amid ongoing demonstrations in […]