Getty Images If investors are freaking out about the election and the stock market, you certainly wouldn’t know it from the latest bull run, which saw Wall Street turn in its best weekly performance since April. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.23% rallied 6.9% over the five-day period, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.02% […]
California voted to reject Proposition 16, which called to allow affirmative action in public employers and education institutions. Proponents of affirmative action have advocated for the need to expand equal opportunity. Student leaders from the University of California told Business Insider why they were “deeply disappointed” to see the rejection of Proposition 16 in California, […]
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Dr. Neal Kassell was standing by the door to the operating room when then-Sen. Joe Biden was wheeled in for a second aneurysm operation in May 1988. Biden reached up from the gurney and grabbed the neurosurgeon’s arm. “He looked me in the eye and said, ‘Doc, […]
Joe Biden was projected Saturday to become the nation’s next president, according to the Associated Press, after campaigning on an ambitious domestic agenda he hopes will improve voters’ finances and invigorate an economy battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Tax hikes for the rich, broadened health care coverage and student loan forgiveness were some of the […]
President-elect Joe Biden gestures on stage after speaking Saturday night in Wilmington, Del. Associated Press Joe Biden’s calendar is already filling up. The Democrat had not been president-elect for a full day before the Washington Nationals extended an invitation for him to throw out the first pitch of their baseball season. “We’re excited to continue […]
Joe Biden speaks Saturday evening outside the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del. Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Joe Biden on Saturday vowed to work to unify the nation after a bitterly fought campaign against Donald Trump, telling Americans in a spirited victory speech that he would be a president for all. “I pledge to be a […]
AP The U.S. case tally from the coronavirus illness COVID-19 rose by a record of almost 133,000 on Friday, a third straight record-setting single-day case tally, as hospitals in rural areas of the Midwest and southern states including Texas and Florida continued to feel the strain. President-elect Joe Biden, the Democrat whose victory was projected […]
President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Thursday. Associated Press Along with his time in the White House, President Donald Trump’s special status on Twitter will soon end. As a world leader, Trump’s tweets have been allowed to violate some of Twitter Inc.’s TWTR, -1.35% policies that would have gotten regular users suspended […]
The question of what happens to the Republican Party after the Trump presidency is not one that will be resolved by think tanks, symposiums or tidy theories. Rather, it will be hashed out by the men and women who vie with each other to lead the party in the next presidential election. It will be […]
Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, the Associated Press projected Saturday, sending President Trump to a bitter defeat four years after he shocked the world by winning the White House with victory over Hillary Clinton. Yahoo News is providing complete coverage, with live updates and reaction to Biden’s historic win. Live Updates D […]