Former Secretary of State and first lady Hillary Clinton, seen in a March file photo. AFP/Getty Images Some House Republicans celebrated Monday night’s Senate confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court by taunting Hillary Clinton, whose election loss to Donald Trump four years ago opened the door to three conservative appointments to the […]
Sen. Richard Shelby, R.-Ala., speaks to a reporter as he departs from the U.S. Capitol on Friday. (Getty Images) With the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its biggest single-day drop since early September and the coronavirus pandemic picking up steam, Washington threw in the towel Monday on efforts to help the economy. The Senate, after […]
Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Getty Images The Senate voted Monday evening to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, overcoming fierce partisan opposition to the vote and marking the third justice President Donald Trump has appointed to the nation’s highest court in just four years. The vote was […]
The Palazzo Las Vegas and The Venetian Las Vegas are seen in May in Las Vegas, Nev. Getty Images Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. is considering a sale of its Las Vegas Strip operations, including two resorts and a huge convention hall, a company spokesman said. The company is in early discussions and no final […]
A Charles Schwab sign on an office in Lexington Mass. Getty Images Just weeks after closing its acquisition of TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab Corp. announced Monday it will lay off about 1,000 employees, or 3% of its combined workforce. “Today, we are taking further steps to bring our companies together —streamlining our structure and reshaping […]
Heading into the final week of the 2020 presidential campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden now holds his largest-ever lead over President Trump, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a 12-point margin that’s four times the size of Hillary Clinton’s national advantage over Trump at this point in 2016. The survey, which was […]
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Villagers are volunteering to fight to repel Azerbaijani troops from moving to the strategic Lachin corridor Wearing camouflage and holding Kalashnikov rifles, volunteer villagers patrol a winding river in a Nagorno-Karabakh valley, defending a strategic area between the disputed region’s capital and Armenia. Cannons are heard firing nearby at regular intervals as they too stand […]
Scientists in Washington state fitted a tracking device to the insects using dental floss The first nest of Asian giant hornets found in the US has successfully been destroyed by scientists. The nest, in the state of Washington, was found by putting tracker devices on the hornets and it was sucked out of a tree […]
Everett Collection “ ‘No one knows the future, but given the general lack of investor confidence amid a pandemic and political polarization, there is a chance that a negative, self-fulfilling prophecy will flourish. This highlights the importance of being well diversified in asset classes — including Treasury securities, which are safe — and not overexposed […]