President Trump said Thursday that he had seen evidence to prove that the coronavirus pandemic had spread from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but he declined to detail what that evidence was. “I’m not allowed to tell you that,” he said at a White House news conference at which he repeatedly accused China’s government of […]
Relatives of a black man gunned down while jogging in southeast Georgia by white men who chased him believing he was a burglar said Thursday they’re discouraged by the lack of charges in the case. Ahmaud Arbery’s relatives say the 25-year-old was a victim of “racial violence.” Arbery was killed in Brunswick, a coastal city […]
A federal judge late Wednesday unsealed a new set of documents provided to lawyers for Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who is seeking to withdraw his guilty plea, that could provide them with new ammunition to attack the FBI’s handling of the case. One of the pages is a handwritten note, apparently […]
Police found dozens of bodies being stored in unrefrigerated trucks outside a Brooklyn funeral home and lying on the facility’s floor Wednesday, law enforcement sources told The Post. Between 40 to 60 bodies were discovered either stacked up in U-Haul box trucks outside Andrew Cleckley Funeral Services in Flatlands or on the building’s floor, after […]
Mark Zuckerberg has spent much of the past two years facing widespread vitriol about Facebook Inc.’s huge privacy lapses, while Elon Musk has bathed in rabid fans’ lionization of him as a genius who will change the world. When confronted with the most dangerous crisis either Facebook FB, +6.16% or Tesla Inc. TSLA, +4.08% has […]
Earnings conference calls are generally dull affairs that involve a lot of talk about gross margins and average selling prices. Then there are Tesla Inc. TSLA, +4.08% earnings calls, in which anything can happen. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk used his conference call Wednesday afternoon to rail against shelter-in-place restrictions put in place to staunch […]
Coronavirus appears to linger longer in certain public spaces. As of Wednesday, 6 million people had been tested in the U.S. for SARS-CoV-2, with 1,038,451 confirmed cases, and 60,853 deaths, of which 18,076 were in New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. Worldwide, there were 3,189,017 confirmed cases and 227,368 deaths, […]
Tesla Inc. late Wednesday surprised Wall Street by posting a first-quarter profit amid the broad economic destruction wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Tesla TSLA, +4.08% Chief Executive Elon Musk kept the surprises going on a post-results call with analysts, veering off script to condemn the ongoing restrictions put in place to curb the spread of […]
Over the last week, new reporting has provided corroborating evidence for a decades-old allegation of sexual assault against former Vice President Joe Biden, a charge that has been denied by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign. Timeline of the allegations In March, former Biden congressional staffer Tara Reade told podcaster Katie Halper that in the […]
The United States passed 60,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, more than three months earlier than had been predicted by a model the White House has frequently used. Until recently, the 60,000 mark was touted by President Trump as a measure of success. Just 10 days ago, Trump said […]