A pedestrian wearing a face mask as a precaution against the transmission of the new coronavirus walks past a boarded up office space in east London on October 13, 2020. justin tallis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday scaled back its expectations for 2021, and that is the outlook that a trio of […]
For many Americans across the country, the prospect of getting a second stimulus check from the government is a matter of life and death. With millions of people out of work due to layoffs and cuts caused by the coronavirus pandemic, many households have been forced to depend on government aid to help pay for […]
Campaign material with the KKK’s name have appeared in Tennessee (Getty Images) Joe Biden supporters in Tennessee have been targeted with Ku Klux Klan business cards in an apparent attempt at voter intimidation. Speaking to local radio station WPLN News, Shelbyville resident Breana Green said she noticed the disturbance outside her neighbour’s home, who supports […]
A wide range of items will be on sale this week during Amazon’s Prime Day sales event, but not all of the discounts are competitive. Amazon Amazon’s Prime Day sales event is here, and with discounts galore, Americans are expected to spend billions of dollars as they get a jumpstart on their holiday shopping. Prime […]
Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. iStockphoto Live and work in Colorado, but retire in Florida. That’s the message from the latest U.S. New & World Reports rankings of the best places to live and the best places to retire in America. Colorado scored four metro areas in the top 10 rankings of best cities to live, […]
A woman receives an injection during phase 3 testing for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine candidate. Johnson & Johnson via AP Johnson & Johnson has paused clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate after an unexplained illness by a participant The drug maker announced Monday night that the 60,000-patient, late-stage trials have been put on […]
A Nevada man became the first published case of COVID-19 reinfection in the U.S., adding to a growing number of examples worldwide signaling that patients who have recovered from the viral disease may still be at risk of getting it again. In a paper in the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, a group of authors […]
MarketWatch illustration/iStockphoto The demands of at-home schooling and work amid the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the personal-computer market to its strongest growth in more than a decade, according to third-party analyses released Monday. Gartner Inc. and IDC reported that PC shipments enjoyed their second consecutive quarter of strong growth after years of struggle for a form […]
With just weeks to go before the November election, a sleeper U.S. Senate race in a deeply Republican state is starting to garner some attention. A poll released on Sept. 28 showed Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan with a razor-thin 1 point lead over his main challenger, Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon. While Gross is […]
Why do Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to give a straightforward yes or no answer when asked whether they intend to “pack the Court” and expand it to a number larger than the nine justices that have been on the Court for the past 150 years? Because a considerable portion of the Democratic Party […]