WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden is “healthy, vigorous” and “fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” according to a doctor’s report released Tuesday by the 77-year-old former vice president. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who has been Biden’s primary care physician since 2009, writes in a three-page note that the Democratic presidential candidate is in […]
Getty Images The U.S. economy is getting more good news just in time for the holiday season. The numbers: The U.S. economy appeared to stabilize just before the holiday season after a late-summer swoon, according to an index that measures the nation’s health. The leading economic index was flat in November, breaking a string of […]
Investors don’t care about impeachment — and that is unlikely to change unless there is a shift in widely held expectations that President Donald Trump will remain in office. Trump late Wednesday became the third U.S. president in history to be impeached, as the Democratic-led House of Representatives approved abuse-of-power and obstruction-of-Congress charges against the […]
The headlines are all about President Donald Trump’s impeachment, but the stock markets don’t care. And unless investors begin to think a Republican-controlled Senate will vote to remove him, that attitude won’t change. With just eight trading days left to go in the year, it’s tough to get markets excited about much right now, whereas […]
An estimated half of U.S. workers say they didn’t get a raise in the past year, a new Bankrate survey shows — a marked improvement over the previous year’s figure of 62%. Some 49% of workers reported having received a pay increase in some form, including 28% who got a pay bump, 12% who got […]
Gold futures climb on Thursday in the wake of President Donald Trump’s impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives, but price moves are modest as benchmark bond yields push higher amid an easing of U.S.-China trade tensions. “The gold market has lacked definitive direction this week as safe haven issues have been moderated at the […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Chinese national trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club Wednesday and was arrested when she refused to leave, police said, the second time this year a woman from that country has been charged with illicitly entering the Florida resort. Jing Lu, 56, was confronted by the private club’s security […]
McDonald’s closed its restaurants across Peru for two days this week to mourn the deaths of two teenage workers, the company announced on Twitter. The teens, Alexandra Porras Inga and Gabriel Campos Zapata, died in an “accident” at a restaurant in the capital of Lima, the company that runs McDonald’s restaurants in Latin America told CBS […]
WASHINGTON — On the House floor, impeachment is all but certain, with a sizable Democratic majority in the chamber assuring that both articles against President Trump — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — will be endorsed. Yet the starkly partisan nature of the vote has forced Democrats to explain why no Republicans are […]
Key Point: Pairing a supersonic missile with a jet fighter strengthens one leg of India’s nuclear triad. India’s nuclear command has begun receiving fighter jets armed with the country’s most advanced, supersonic cruise missile. According to media reports, India’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) has begun receiving 42 Su-30MKI air dominance fighters modified to carry air-launched […]