The two anonymous members of the grand jury in the Breonna Taylor case who spoke out this week about the deliberations had no agenda other than to pursue the truth, their lawyer told Yahoo News on Friday. But their disclosures have spurred calls for a new prosecutor who, attorneys for Taylor’s family hope, will handle […]
Maria Negrete-Gruson, manager of the Artisan Sustainable Emerging Markets Fund. Can doing well in the stock market be as simple as making sure you have a lot of women fund managers working for you? I’m skeptical, because it’s always dangerous to embrace generalities about demographic groups, flattering or pejorative. But research keeps popping up that […]
A new study suggests that Americans will owe billions of dollars in unpaid rent by December — but that could mean that the nation’s worst fears about the eviction crisis may not come to fruition. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia used payroll, joblessness and unemployment insurance data to create a more precise […]
Rudy Giuliani President Donald Trump’s lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to journalists outside the White House West Wing July 01, 2020 in Washington, DC Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This article originally appeared [here on Salon.com] Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Donald Trump, was approached by someone offering allegedly compromising emails and […]
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate Thursday in in Nashville, Tenn, AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump at Thursday night’s debate attacked Joe Biden over his plans for the energy industry, while the Democratic challenger said they are long-range proposals and Trump was taking “everything out of context.” When the […]
Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. must classify their drivers as employees, California judges have ruled. AFP via Getty Images Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. must classify their drivers in California as employees, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, leaving the companies even more dependent on a ballot measure in the upcoming election to […]
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday. AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden attacked each other over the coronavirus, the stock market and the economy on Thursday night, in their last debate before they face voters on […]
(EPA) After photos showing his hand discoloured and bandaged went viral earlier this week, Mitch McConnell denied that he had any health issues. The Republican Senate Majority Leader was pictured reaching down to pick up a face mask he had dropped, showing the skin on his right hand much darker than the rest of his […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck, but the more serious second-degree murder charge remains. Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill’s ruling was dated Wednesday and made public Thursday. Cahill said there was enough probable […]
(Getty Images) Donald Trump has reignited his feud with Barack Obama, mocking the former president‘s 2016 campaign efforts for the then-Democratic nominee, Hilary Clinton in a rambling Wednesday night address that had racist undertones. “You know Obama’s now campaigning,” Mr Trump, told thousands of his supporters crammed into the Gastonia Municipal Airport in North Carolina, […]