Here’s how active this year’s Atlantic hurricane season has been: When Tropical Storm Wilfred formed on Sept. 18, the National Hurricane Center exhausted its list of storm names for only the second time since naming began in 1950. Within hours, two more storm had formed — now known as Alpha and Beta. Even more surprising […]
Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images (5), AP As Hurricane Higos blew in from the Pacific, Stephen Stanek, a covert CIA operative, faced a decision. It was time to either cancel the operation he was running or go forward with it. The hurricane was barreling through the Philippines but was then projected to veer […]
When he nominated Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, President Bill Clinton compared her legal work on behalf of women to the epochal work of Thurgood Marshall on behalf of African-Americans. The comparison was entirely appropriate: As Marshall oversaw the legal strategy that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 case […]
President Trump wants to Make America #Woke Again. Viewers who watch the Trump campaign’s online programming aimed at Black audiences are encouraged to tweet the hashtag #Woke when announcing their support for the president. Viewers are also asked to text the word to a number that will sign them up for updates and allow the […]
“ ‘Trump Cards.’ ” That was the branding some participants in drug-price negotiations between the pharmaceutical industry and the Trump administration reportedly slapped on the prepaid cards that President Donald Trump’s team insisted the drug companies send to U.S. seniors as part of an agreement. It turned out to be a deal breaker, according to […]
Military imaging reconnaissance satellite in Earth orbit. (ImageBank/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Over recent days, officials from the newly minted U.S. Space Force and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence briefed multiple congressional committees on an “uptick” in Russian military activity in space targeting U.S. defense and intelligence satellites, according to two sources familiar […]
As the importance of cloud software has grown in the global pandemic, cloud-software companies have become the most stark example of initial public offerings reaching dot-com-boom levels — and beyond. This week saw stunning performance of four big software IPOs. On Wednesday, two cloud-software companies debuted on a storied day on Wall Street, ringing the […]
Unity Software Inc. Chief Executive John Riccitiello rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange remotely from the company’s San Francisco headquarters Friday morning. “The virtual bell ringing is a manifestation of the world moving to real-time interactive 3-D,” he told MarketWatch. NYSE The software IPO market remained hot Friday as Unity Software […]
Democratic challenger Joe Biden and President Donald Trump both were campaigning on Friday in Minnesota, with Biden speaking at a union training center in the afternoon and Trump scheduled to appear at a rally in the evening. Trump’s re-election campaign has characterized Minnesota as a battleground state that it hopes to win, after the president […]