A USPS employee in Santa Monica, California, during the coronavirus pandemic. Mario Tama/Getty Images The US Postal Service’s new Postmaster General has established new cost-saving policies that could slow down mail service. Mail carriers are being told to leave mail behind at distribution centers rather than taking late trips, taking extra trips, or logging overtime, […]
Moderna Inc. stock skyrocketed in the extended session Tuesday after the biotech company said its experimental coronavirus vaccine produced a “robust” immune-system response in a larger group of people and the study will move to a larger clinical trial in July. Results published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that a two-dose vaccination […]
U.S. investors who been running up equity market values, have been right, at least so far, said St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Tuesday. “Equity markets are something we don’t usually talk about at the Fed. I think they have been optimistic and they have been right, I think, up to now anyway,” Bullard […]
Burger King is adding lemongrass to rebalance the diet of some of the beef herd used for its Whoppers in order to limit the methane emissions that contribute to climate change. The restaurant chain on Tuesday began selling its reduced methane emissions beef Whopper in select restaurants in Miami, New York, Austin, Portland and Los […]
A new crop of day traders are learning they have to think fast about buying, selling and holding stock — and they might need to think quickly about tax planning strategies for next season as well. July 15 isn’t just the deadline to file federal income taxes. It’s the deadline when people trying to make […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised the possibility that House lawmakers will hold off on their August break until a deal is reached on a new coronavirus relief bill, including an extension of more-generous jobless benefits. Appearing on CNN Tuesday, Pelosi was asked if she was willing to forego or delay that break. The California Democrat […]
William Marcus “Marc” Wilson believed he was standing his ground when he fired at a pickup truck he says was trying to run his car off the road as he drove home with his girlfriend one night last month. He had a licensed handgun with him, and he might have assumed that he was covered […]
juvenile detention Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was co-published with the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Magazine. Grace, 15, was sentenced to juvenile detention in May for […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has executed a former employee of the defense ministry who was convicted of spying on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, the country’s judiciary said Tuesday. It was the second such execution in the past month. The report said Reza Asgari was executed last week. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said […]
In mid-May, assets in the Vanguard Information Technology ETF VGT, -2.28% overtook those in a competing fund from the company that’s long dominated exchange-traded fund sector investing, the SPDR suite from State Street Global Advisors. It was a small industry shift that perhaps only an ETF enthusiast would have noticed, yet it may speak volumes […]