CARMEL, Ind. (AP) — A bishop suspended a suburban Indianapolis Catholic priest from public ministry on Wednesday for comparing the Black Lives Matter movement and its organizers to “maggots and parasites” in a recent church bulletin. Bishop Timothy Doherty, of the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana, took the action against the Rev. Theodore Rothrock, of St. Elizabeth […]
ALBANY, N.Y. — The 75-year-old man who fell to the ground after being pushed by Buffalo police officers in June was released Tuesday from a local hospital. Martin Gugino sustained a brain injury and a fractured skull related to the June 4 incident that prompted a national outcry, leading to the arrest of two officers on charges of assault […]
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh held a press conference call with reporters on Tuesday where he said the president is “eager to return to the campaign trail and to keep campaigning and keep connecting with Americans.” The phone call came just as CNN reported that the Trump campaign had canceled plans to hold a […]
It has been the best of times and the worst of times for U.S. equity benchmarks over the past two quarters, and that is, perhaps, why Wall Street analysts are facing their most befuddling challenge yet. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.84% and the S&P 500 SPX, +1.54% just put in their best quarterly […]
FedEx Corp. stock rallied late Tuesday after the deliveries and logistics company reported better-than-expected adjusted profit and sales as the surge in online buying amid the coronavirus pandemic offset higher costs and thinner margins. FedEx FDX, +4.21% reported a loss of $334 million, or $1.28 a share, in the quarter, compared with a loss of […]
Two exchange-traded funds with heavy exposure to Biogen Inc. BIIB, +2.76% were higher Thursday afternoon, even as shares of the pharmaceutical company dropped toward an eight-month low after a court ruling invalidated a patent on its multiple sclerosis treatment. That was just one quirk among many in the popular biotech ETF space, a subsector that’s […]
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades and one of the leading experts on pandemics in the U.S. for the last four decades, on Tuesday made a dire warning for the U.S. in the ongoing battle to control the spread of COVID-19. Fauci said SARS-CoV-2, the official […]
A husband and wife brandished firearms at protesters outside their St. Louis home during a demonstration protesting both police brutality and recent actions by Mayor Lyda Krewson, authorities said Monday. Image: A man holds a firearm as protesters walk through his neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 28, 2020. (Lawrence Bryant / Reuters) The […]
For the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic, health and government officials assured the public that young people were at little or no risk of falling seriously ill from COVID-19. But many young people who have contracted the virus tell a very different story, one that should serve as a warning to young adults […]
Micron Technology Inc. shares jumped in after-hours trading Monday after the memory-chip maker said sales jumped in the third quarter and are expected to exceed expectations in the final period of its fiscal year. Micron MU, +1.35% reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $803 million, or 71 cents a share, compared with $840 million, or […]