“More people are gonna die,” Rebekah Jones wrote to her mother and sisters on Facebook. It was April 26, a warm spring Sunday in Tallahassee, Fla., and she was just finishing work at the Florida Department of Health, where she was managing the state’s much-praised coronavirus dashboard, which she had also created. “I feel sick,” […]
An Afghan girl has been hailed on social media for her “heroism” after fighting back against Taliban militants who reportedly killed her parents. The girl took the family’s AK-47 assault rifle, shot dead two of the gunmen and wounded several others, local officials in Ghor province said. Officials say the Taliban attacked as her father […]
An image from video footage appearing to show documents being burned in the courtyard of China’s Houston consulate. Twitter/ KPRC2Tulsi/Breaking 911 People were seen burning documents at the Chinese Consulate in Houston, and fire services were called to the scene. The police told multiple outlets that people were burning documents in what appeared to be […]
Be our guest — with some exceptions. That seems to be Disney World’s pandemic motto, as the beloved theme park struggles to keep visitors safe and socially-distanced while still providing a fun and memorable experience after partially reopening on July 11. Some restaurants and attractions remain closed in the Walt Disney Co.’s DIS, +0.70% Orlando, […]
Snap Inc.’s losses widened in the second quarter as Snapchat’s parent company dealt with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, sending shares lower in after-hours trading Tuesday afternoon. Snap SNAP, -2.09% shares were down 11% immediately after the report was released Tuesday, before recovering somewhat to a 4% loss after an optimistic peek at Q3. […]
President Trump’s resolve may be cracking — at least when it comes to face masks. At Tuesday’s 5 p.m. daily presser, Trump said, “I have no problems with the masks. If you’re close together, I would put on the mask.” In response to a question about whether he’d experienced a sudden a change of heart […]
President Donald Trump said Tuesday the coronavirus pandemic would probably worsen before improving, but said getting a vaccine is a “top priority” as he appeared at a White House virus briefing for the first time since April. In a rare acknowledgment of potential bad news, Trump said the pandemic “will probably, unfortunately, get worse before […]
Dear Moneyist, I have rented a house behind my own home to someone in the service industry who is out of a job because of COVID-19, and now he can’t pay the full rent. I am fortunate enough to still have a job, but I am heavily in debt with student loans, my mortgage, and […]
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and President Donald Trump. Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS Defense Secretary Mark Esper has made the Trump administration aware of his concerns with the appropriation of the US military’s uniform by law-enforcement agencies. “We saw this take place back in June, when there were some law enforcement that wore uniforms that make […]
WASHINGTON — Amid a moment of national reckoning on racial issues and the mourning of one of the country’s most revered civil rights leaders, new numbers from the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll show that American voters have become significantly more aware of racial discrimination and more sympathetic to those protesting to end it, even […]