Tagged: The United States

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police continue to search for a suspect in a fatal stabbing in the central Las Vegas valley. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said they got a report of an unresponsive man lying on a sidewalk around 8 p.m. Friday. Arriving officers found the man suffering from an ...

PARIS (AP) - There is a ray of light for Parisians who, like the rest of the French nation this weekend, begin to observe a tightened coronavirus curfew: The famous Rodin Museum sculpture gardens is reopening to visitors. Though the rococo museum, showcasing the world’s largest collection of Rodin sculptures, ...

MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich opened up a four-point lead in the Bundesliga on Sunday as the German champion beat Freiburg 2-1 to return to winning ways after two rare defeats. Thomas Müller knocked in the winning goal in the 74th minute on a snowy day in Munich to avoid ...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli authorities on Sunday advanced plans to build an additional 780 homes in West Bank settlements, an anti-settlement monitoring group said, in a last-minute surge of approvals before the friendly Trump administration leaves office later this week. Peace Now said that over 90% of the homes lay ...

Republican voters are split on whether they want their party leaders in Washington to work with President-elect Joseph R. Biden. A CBS News poll conducted with YouGov published Sunday shows that 50% of GOP voters want congressional Republicans to find common ground with Mr. Biden and 50% want party leaders ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Gene Stallings, the last University of Alabama football coach to win a national championship before Nick Saban entered the picture, joined former player Martin Houston as the one-time running back announced his campaign for mayor. Stallings, who lives in Texas but came to Tuscaloosa for the ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) - Tall stacks of logs left over from a forest thinning project in mountains overlooking Flagstaff are being processed into thousands of cords of free firewood to provide a winter heat source for northern Arizonans, including residents of the Navajo and Hopi reservations. “It’s cold, it’s ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Phil Spector, the eccentric and revolutionary music producer who transformed rock music with his “Wall of Sound” method and who later was convicted of murder, has died. He was 81. California state prison officials said he died Saturday of natural causes at a hospital. ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - A southeast Alabama city is trying to increase tourism revenues with sporting events in hopes that more people will travel this year than in 2020, when the pandemic affected the economy. Officials with Visit Dothan said visitors lured to the city by events like softball and ...

SHEFFIELD, England (AP) - Tanguy Ndombele's audacious hooked shot completed Tottenham's 3-1 victory at Sheffield United on Sunday, giving Jose Mourinho's side a first away success in the Premier League in two months. Played in by a Steven Bergwijn chipped pass, Ndombele used the outside of his boot to lob ...

The NFL lineman has been close to the "Oracle of Omaha" since 2009, when he attended the University of Nebraska.

For four years, the easiest trade in the world has been to buy the Nasdaq. That could be about to change, argues BK Asset Management's Boris Schlossberg.

Trump retains overwhelming support from Republican voters in the final days of his term, an NBC News poll shows.

Between both the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, about $1.5 billion is up for grabs in the next drawings.

The market set a new record even as rioters storming the Capitol shocked the nation. Stock history shows extremes in politics don't often shake investors.

You can track more than just your steps with your iPhone, including headphone audio levels, your menstruation cycle, mindful minutes and more.

Suarez's schedule and phone have blown up since he accidentally launched a Twitter campaign to make Miami the latest innovation hub in early December.

The insurrection—and the political backlash —has increased Biden's odds at becoming one of those rarest of political creatures, a U.S. president of historic consequence.

TipRanks analyst ranking service pinpoints Wall Street's best-performing stocks, like Intel and BioMarin.

Apple adds ESG as bonus metric for executives. It's not the first, but it is the market's largest company and could be a sign of the future of big pay packages.

The president-elect said "mom-and-pop" small businesses employ more than big corporations. That might be a stretch depending on the metric you use.

Five claims caught our attention. The Biden team quickly provided citations and back-up.

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It is an article of faith for many Americans that the Donald Trump years were an aberration and that Joe Biden will usher in something close to normalcy. I'll take the other side of that bet. I bel...

One of the beauties of commerce and markets is that they require us to work alongside people with whom we disagree.

The decision caps the outgoing administration's efforts to build a regional defense arrangement to counter Iran.

A poll released by NBC News Sunday morning found that President Tr...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday blamed a "massive intelligence and security failure" for the seizure of the U.S. Capitol for hours earlier this month by a violent riot, and vowed tha...

Multiple guests appeared on the Sunday morning political talk shows to discuss President-elect Biden's inauguration on Wednesday amid fears of violence in Washington, D.C. and in state capitols across the country.The historic House vote las...

Newly-seated Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said Sunday that President Trump "put all of our lives at risk" with his rhetoric before the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.Mace made the comment while discussing a bipart...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Sunday that the Senate has an "obligation" to conduct President Trump's second impeachment trial even after he leaves office.Asked to respond to Sen. Tom Cotton's (R-Ark.) claim that...

Fox NewsFox News contributor Karl Rove lamented on Sunday that if Rudy Giuliani leads President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense in the Senate, there is a “strong likelihood” the president will be convicted.Over the weekend, Giuliani—who infamously called for “trial by combat” hours before the Capitol riot—told ABC News that he’s on the president’s second impeachment […]

REUTERSMOSCOW—Five months after surviving an assassination attempt, the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, arrived back in Russia on Sunday amid chaotic scenes as cops—some of who were dressed in riot gear—arrested supporters and tried to prevent people entering the airport where their returning hero was scheduled to land.A German medical rescue plane had evacuated Navalny […]

Leah Millis/ReutersA U.S. Army reservist with a secret-level security clearance and “access to a variety of munitions” has been charged with taking part in the violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli of Colts Neck, New Jersey, works as a contractor at Cape May’s Naval Weapons Station Earle, according to an FBI affidavit filed Friday. […]

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Scouted/Getty ImagesThe key to a good night’s sleep is a good mattress. If you don’t already have a mattress you love so much you never want to leave it, it’s time for a new one. Thankfully, MLK day is a great time to shop for a new one. We’ve tried […]

CNNRep. Jamie Raskin (R-MS) paid tribute to his late son on Sunday while contrasting that tragedy with the insurrectionist riot incited by President Donald Trump, emotionally declaring, “I’m not going to lose my son in 2020 and lose my republic in 2021.”On New Year’s Eve, the Maryland lawmaker’s 25-year-old son, Tommy—who was a Harvard law […]

California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation via ReutersLegendary music producer-turned-murderer Phil Spector has died of COVID-19 complications at the age of 81, according to the California Department of Corrections. Before being convicted in 2009 of murdering American Barbarian Queen actress and fashion model Lana Clarkson in 2003, Spector was a prolific producer, working with the […]

Phil Harris - WPA Pool/Getty ImagesfIf you love The Daily Beast’s royal coverage, then we hope you’ll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday.“A lot of hurt on both sides” in Harry/royal family riftPerhaps Prince Harry and Prince William don’t mind their buddy Tom […]

NetflixPanning opening scenes of South Korean high-rises and spaghetti highways to the lush hills of North Korea, Crash Landing on You’s cinematography draws the viewer in before a human character appears.The South Korean drama, released last year on Netflix, was a cultural phenomenon in its home country, becoming the second-highest-rated cable drama in South Korea, […]

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyWe all watched in shock and horror the Jan. 6 attack on our nation by right-wing militants with insider knowledge of Capitol building security. Many were surprised and rightly disheartened to see several veterans and members of law enforcement among the ranks of the insurrectionists and white nationalists. Unfortunately, […]

Win McNamee/GettyPulitzer-prize winning historian David McCullough delivered this speech to the U.S. Capitol Historical Society in 2016, and it was subsequently collected in The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For, from which it is reprinted here.So here we are in the Capitol of the United States of America on Capitol Hill, […]