Tagged: SCOTUS

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran’s parliament speaker said Wednesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, joining a growing list of top Iranian officials infected in the Middle East’s worst outbreak. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf tweeted that he received the news after one of his colleagues tested positive for the ...

TOKYO (AP) - Profit at Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. more than doubled in the last quarter on healthy gains in its video game sector, as people stayed home during the pandemic, the company said Wednesday. Tokyo-based Sony reported a 459.6 billion yen ($4.4 billion) profit in July-September, ...

LONDON (AP) - London’s Heathrow Airport says it has lost its place as Europe’s busiest air hub to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris after the COVID-19 pandemic grounded flights and Britain failed to approve passenger testing that could scale back quarantine requirements. Heathrow said Wednesday that it expects passenger ...

LONDON (AP) - David Wiseman heard Kath Ryan before he met her. He was at the far end of Ward S-4 at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham when shouts of “Cake Lady’s here! Cake Lady’s here!” began rolling through the room full of wounded soldiers, bed by bed. Who was ...

Oct. 28 - Trading resumes. Nov. 1 - Deadline for teams to make qualifying offers to their eligible former players who became free agents. Nov. 2 - BBWAA awards finalists announced. Nov. 9 - Rookies of the Year announced. Nov. 10 - Managers of the Year announced. Nov. 11 - ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Zeta re-strengthens into a hurricane, forecast to bring life-threatening storm surge, high winds.

Rays manager Kevin Cash stepped out of the dugout, and Blake Snell turned his head to curse. So too, no doubt, did fans watching on TV back in Tampa, Florida. Cash pulled Snell after 73 pitches and 5 1/3 sterling innings Tuesday night, turning Game 6 of the World Series ...

BERLIN (AP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing for a partial lockdown as the number of newly recorded infections in the country hit another record high Wednesday. The Robert Koch Institute, Germany's disease control agency, said 14,964 new cases were recorded across the country in the past days, taking ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky National Guard is preparing to assist local officials at polling locations in 38 counties on Election Day. About 280 guardsmen will provide logistical and administrative support next Tuesday, Guard officials said. They are stepping in because many poll workers and volunteers are typically in ...

PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) - Transportation officials are advising motorists to be on alert this week as crews begin to mow and pick up litter along Interstate 24 and connecting highways. Plans call for crews to start working near the Ohio River Bridge and move eastward to the 70 mile marker, ...

U.S. stock futures fell sharply early Wednesday following a mixed session in which traders weighed a recent uptick in coronavirus infections.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was on a visit to India, hit out at China for being "no friend to democracy."

Deutsche Bank on Wednesday reported a net profit of 182 million euros ($214 million) for the third quarter, as Germany's largest lender looks to emerge from the coronavirus crisis.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and India's defense minister, Rajnath Singh, announced the signing of the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) between the two countries.

A new remote work program is inviting high-earning travelers and their families to live and work in the Cayman Islands for up to two years. It's one of the few ways people can access the Cayman Islands, since the territory has not reopened to tourists.

Many Chinese consumers say they'll be shopping for domestic brands during Singles Day on Nov. 11, the global consulting firm AlixPartners found.

As parts of the world brace for a second wave of Covid-19 infections, the economic impact on Asia will likely be "limited" as the region remains resilient, according to a Credit Suisse strategist.

The three members of the Biden "A-team" — Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and President Barack Obama — are each delivering a slightly different message aimed at key voting blocs.

Microsoft beat across the board but fell short on revenue guidance as it predicted enduring challenges on selling Windows for business use.

"Lisa Su's trying to build a semiconductor titan with aspirations well beyond the PC, gaming and the datacenter," the "Mad Money" host said.

Matriarch has produced a viral music video that extols Trump's work on trafficking, but she gets her facts wrong.

A misleading clip pushed by the RNC went viral. But the story it told was false.

Joe Biden keeps saying he will raise taxes on people making more than $400,000, so this ad clips out the number over and over.

Here's our round-up of 25 dubious claims in the second debate clash between President Trump and Joe Biden, with the lion's share from Trump.

Trump is a fanatically competitive man and a political force that nobody quite understands. He is also a magnificent finisher

Dean Obeidallah writes that while Americans have many reasons to vote Donald Trump out of office, former President Barack Obama came up with another compelling argument to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: It won't be so exhausting.

'I just don't see, given the history here and the facts, how Joe can't be influenced in some manner based on the history that they have,' said Bobulinski.

For those who have only ever known America as a champion of democracy and the rule of law, it has been tragic to witness the country's descent into corruption and bad-faith partisanship. And nowhere is the rule of

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Donald Trump's Middle East diplomacy began life with implausible grandiosity. He announced his intention not only to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians, but also to resolve the century-long conflict between the Jews and the Arabs.Foreign policy experts scoffed. Better men than Trump had tried and failed to resolve the issue […]

The United States may be the first country in history to tell a

MARTINSBURG, Pennsylvania - When I saw the U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft fly in, one after another, followed by two Marine choppers, including Marine One, I honestly took some offense. This is all spectacle and, frankly, inappropriate.

Republicans were always going to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The hearings were theater; the result, predetermined. Barrett will now have 39 years to reimagine the Constitution to her satisfaction if she lives as long as her predecessor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. That means I'll spend about half my life with Barrett on […]

A senior Trump administration official has tested positive for the coronavirus after a trip to Europe, sparking concerns over transmission of the virus among government personnel.Peter Berkowitz, the director of po...

President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani went off on a Fox Business host on Tuesday after she compared him to Christopher Steele.Giuliani ...

President Trump on Tuesday campaigned in traditionally red Nebraska, capping off a day of three campaign rallies in states he won in 2016 but where he now finds himself on defense.The stop doubled as an opportunity...

A judge in Virginia ruled this week that Gov. Ralph Northam (D) can take down a controversial statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was erected in Richmond ...

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a ruling backing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) order to limit the state's counties to one mail-in ballot drop box each, a policy that will largely impact larger, urban and more Dem...

Danny Moloshok/ReutersIf social-media influencer and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian thought her 67.1 million followers would be happy that she got to celebrate her 40th birthday with close friends on a private island during the worst of the pandemic, she was dead wrong. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star tweeted a string of glitzy photos of […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Scouted/VendorsWhether you like to cook or know someone who does, odds are you or they have been doing it more frequently this year. This holiday season is an excellent time to give them something to upgrade their kitchen. Whether that’s olive oil, a feast of steaks, new spices, or something […]

Legent BourbonWhat is the all-time best dive bar jukebox song? “Anything by Johnny Cash.”Name the first good drink you ever drank and where you had it. “I remember visiting the King Cole Bar inside the St. Regis Hotel. I had the Midtown Spice Cocktail, which called for bourbon, apple liqueur, Domaine de Canton and Angostura […]

Drew AngererProgressives are just keeping their tongue-biting promise to help Joe Biden deliver, presenting the former vice president to their supporters, once and for all, as the last chance of demolishing Donald Trump’s stronghold on Washington.But that courtesy is not likely to extend much longer if Trump loses re-election next week, according to interviews with […]

Ulrich Perrey/GettyWhen it comes to treating serious cases of COVID-19, the antiviral drug Remdesivir helps. So do steroids, which can serve to reduce inflammation. And supplemental oxygen, as most Americans familiar with the basics of the coronavirus pandemic might guess, can ease shortness of breath.The jury’s still out on convalescent plasma, however, despite plenty of […]

GettyHONG KONG—When Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping visited a military base in Southeast China this month, he told members of the party’s Marine Corps to “focus your minds and energy on preparing to go to war.” His speech came shortly after the Trump administration said it would move forward with a $7 billion […]

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos GettyAt least there is no coffin race.On previous Halloweens, the annual Deadweird gathering in the historic South Dakota town of Deadwood has featured not only a costume contest but a race where quartets of pallbearers pushed wheeled caskets 350 feet down the main street.But the sight […]

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast / Photos Getty/AP/ReutersAbout a year before Donald Trump’s shocking presidential victory, the real-estate mogul made a promise: If elected, he would surround himself “only with the best people.”“I’m going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people,” Trump told The Washington Post in August 2015. […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyConservative meme-maker Benny Johnson took to Twitter in June with an announcement. After amassing hundreds of thousands of followers on the platform, he was done with it, having come to see Twitter as a “communist gulag dumpster fire.”“10 years on Twitter,” Johnson tweeted. “I’m done. Disgusted with the censorship on […]

HENNY RAY ABRAMS/AFP via GettyDemocratic senators should have refused to participate in the absurdly rushed effort to pack Amy Coney Barrett on to the Supreme Court in the midst of the election, instead of giving Republicans’ partisan power play the veneer of legitimacy.But that ship has sailed and now, with Justice Barrett officially on the […]