Billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos is honoring Juneeteeth on Friday as a day of edification at Amazon.com and urging employees to attend “learnings opportunities,” to recognize the end of slavery in America. Juneteenth, which is celebrated annually by many on June 19, is a day commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865. It […]
Where’s my mask and hand sanitizer? Can I get curbside assistance? These are some of the questions people face before performing even basic tasks and activities in the new version of normalcy during a global pandemic. Increasingly, they also have to ask themselves, ‘Should I sign this liability waiver?’ As more states ease social distancing […]
“ ‘More police officers are shot and killed by blacks than police officers kill African-Americans.’ ” That’s former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani offering his perspective to Fox News on rising concerns that police disproportionately kill black Americans. “The unarmed shootings — which are the ones that are the troublesome ones — there are only […]
“ ‘My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is, in fact, becoming the fourth, real McCoy, bubble of my investment career. The great bubbles can go on a long time and inflict a lot of pain but at least I think we know now that we’re in one. And the chutzpah involved in having […]
Zoom Video Communications Inc. reversed course Wednesday, announcing it would offer end-to-end encryption to all of its users, not just those on its premium tier. The videoconferencing company, which boomed to prominence early in the coronavirus shutdown, said in a blog post Wednesday that all users, including those on its free/basic tier, will soon receive […]
Renault Verona, right, and other area residents clean up the site Sunday, June 14, 2020 where protestors on Saturday set fire to the Atlanta Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by Atlanta police Friday evening during a struggle in a Wendy’s drive-thru line. (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) Associated […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump is hurting the electoral chances of Republican politicians in the fall elections, and likely even his own, by making false claims that voting by mail is not secure, a Republican former governor and top homeland security official said. “You’ve got Republican incumbents and challengers who are going to be using [mail-in […]
WASHINGTON — Even as Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday that coronavirus cases in the U.S. “have stabilized,” a document produced that same day by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and circulated to the other government agencies warns that infections in the U.S. have increased more […]
A US Air Force F-22 intercepting a Russian Tu-95 bomber NORAD photo US fighter aircraft have been called out to intercept eight Russian bomber aircraft in the past week, according to information from North American Aerospace Defense Command. A total of four intercepts have taken place, with two occurring last Wednesday and another two happening […]
The U.K. government has approved the use of dexamethasone — the first coronavirus drug that scientists says has been shown to save lives — and it costs just £5 ($6) per patient. A trial led by Oxford University found that the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone cut the risk of death by a third for patients […]