A Guatemalan woman and her unborn baby died after attempting to scale a border wall. EL PASO, Texas –A 19-year-old pregnant Guatemalan who fell attempting to scale the border barrier near El Paso, Texas, has died, the Guatemalan consulate said Thursday. Her fetus did not survive. Miriam Estefany Girón Luna, who was seven or eight months […]
Cryptocurrencies were not immune to the coronavirus-related selloff on Wall Street on Thursday, as the price of bitcoin plummeted 26%, its worst daily selloff in seven years. Bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.66% was recently trading below $5,700, as the world’s largest digital currency by market cap has lost nearly a third of its value in the […]
Coronavirus is officially a pandemic — and job experts say that news may spell trouble for some U.S. workers more than others. The agency said the number of cases outside China had increased tenfold and the number of countries affected has tripled. “We expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths, and […]
Thousands of Americans have been asked to self-quarantine or to self-monitor over coronavirus fears, including lawmakers Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R., Ariz.), and the next White House chief of staff, Rep. Mark Meadows (R., N.C.). So is the head of Port Authority for New York and New Jersey, Rick Cotton, […]
It’s the end of a bullish era for the stock market and the beginning of a new phase of bearishness, after a sharp plunge for risk assets on Wednesday pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average into bear-market territory for the first time in more than a decade. Equties deepened their slide on Thursday. U.S. stock […]
President Trump said Thursday that travel restrictions to California and Washington, two states hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, were possible “if an area gets too hot.” One day after announcing a 30-day suspension of travel from the European Union to the United States, Trump was asked by a reporter in the Oval Office whether […]
(Bloomberg) — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the country’s coronavirus outbreak could be part of a biological attack on the Islamic Republic, as he called on the armed forces to bolster the government’s fight against the disease, according to a statement published by the semi-official Fars News agency. In a letter addressed to […]
WASHINGTON — Despite insistent promises from the Trump administration, coronavirus testing in the United States appears to be proceeding with a marked lack of urgency. An examination of state and federal records by Yahoo News finds that American states are, on average, testing fewer than 100 people per day — while the Centers for Disease […]
President Trump announced Wednesday that he was ordering a suspension of travel to the United States from Europe for a period of 30 days in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus. “After consulting with our top government health officials, I have decided to take several strong but necessary actions to protect the health […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont is forever railing against “millionaires and billionaires.” “I don’t think that billionaires should exist,” Sanders said when he unveiled his wealth-tax proposal in September. Just think of all those n’er-do-well rich folks who have taken the Giving Pledge, committing themselves to donating the majority of […]