White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany came to her press briefing on Monday prepared to defend President Trump’s claim over the weekend that “99 percent” of U.S. coronavirus cases are “totally harmless” with two charts illustrating the country’s COVID-19 death rate. But McEnany’s slides showed a case fatality rate — the percentage of confirmed cases […]
Getty Images Seven men have been arrested after an alleged racist incident on the Fourth of July in an Oregon beach town. Police said that the men allegedly yelled racial slurs at a black family and used Nazi salutes while people spent Independence Day on the beach in Lincoln City, southwest of Portland. The men […]
NAPLES, Fla. — An amoeba that destroys brain tissue has been confirmed in an unidentified person in Florida, health officials say. The Hillsborough County Department of Health announced the infection Friday. The infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly referred to as the “brain-eating amoeba,” is a microscopic single-celled living amoeba. The amoeba can cause a rare […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Florida reported 10,059 new cases Sunday after reporting 11,458 new cases Saturday, which was second only to the daily peak of 11,571 in New York last April. See full story. Elon Musk throws his ‘full support’ behind Kanye West for president Rapper icon Kanye West, as he has teased several times before, […]
Rapper icon Kanye West, as he has teased several times before, said in a tweet on Saturday night that he’s “running for president” in the 2020 election. As absurd as that may sound, Tesla’s TSLA, +7.95% Elon Musk seems to be on board: The “announcement” follows closely on the heels of another, perhaps more realistic, […]
A cartoon posted on a local newspaper’s Facebook page is using the Holocaust to criticize Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s order requiring masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus. “Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask … and step onto the cattle car,” the caption reads. Dane Hicks, chairman of Kansas’s Anderson County Republican Party, […]
The builders of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are pulling the plug on the project as companies continue to meet mounting environmental opposition to new fossil fuel conduits in the U.S. Duke Energy Corp. DUK, -0.11% and Dominion Energy Inc. D, +0.41% said Sunday that they were abandoning the proposed $8 billion pipeline — which aimed […]
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Ready for today’s investment pop quiz? Which of the following is the Russell 2000’s RUT, price/earnings ratio when calculated based on trailing 12-month earnings? a. 17.5 b. 14.1 c. meaningless I bet that hardly any of you answered “c.” After all, the benchmark is down 15% for year-to-date performance. You’d be […]
The US embassy compound in Baghdad, seen here in January, has been repeatedly targeted by militants (AFP Photo/Sgt. Kyle Tabot) Baghdad (AFP) – Two rocket attacks targeted American diplomatic and military installations overnight, Iraq’s security forces said Sunday, a little over a week since unprecedented arrests prevented a similar incident. Since October, US diplomats and […]
Click here to read the full article. Key Point: Submarines are an important part of maintaining a balance of power in the Western Pacific region. This month the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet submarine force announced that all of its forward-deployed submarines were simultaneously conducting “contingency response operations” in the Western Pacific in support of the Pentagon’s “free […]