Tagged: The United States

NICE, France (AP) - A new suspect is in custody Friday in the investigation into a gruesome attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church, as France heightened its security alert amid religious and geopolitical tensions around cartoons mocking the Muslim prophet. The suspect is ...

PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) - The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, which led months of protests against the small Balkan state’s pro-Western government that was voted out of power at elections in August, has died in hospital after contracting the coronavirus, the church said Friday. The condition of ...

ISTANBUL (AP) - Mesut Yilmaz, a former Turkish prime minister and veteran politician who served as premier three times during a tumultuous political era in his country, died Friday at age 72, the official Anadolu news agency reported. Yilmaz led the now-defunct center-right Motherland Party or ANAP from 1991 to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A company that makes handgun accessories and parts plans to invest $7 million in a new Tennessee headquarters, which is expected to create 110 new jobs. The state Department of Economic and Community Development says GS Performance LLC will relocate its headquarters, manufacturing and distribution ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky pharmacy owner has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of distributing a prescription drug without a license. Jeremy Delk owns Tailor Made Compounding LLC in Nicholasville, a compounding pharmacy, according to a release from Eastern District U.S. Attorney Robert Duncan Jr. The release ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary- The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Hungary rose to an all-time high on Friday, prompting the government to tighten oversight over compliance with regulations to stem the spread of infections. Hungarian health authorities reported that 65 patients died over the past 24 hours, while the number of ...

BERLIN (AP) - German media report that a fugitive former top executive of payment company Wirecard was an informant for the Austrian spy agency BVT. Jan Marsalek, the former chief operating officer of Wirecard, faces allegations of fraud and other charges in connection with the company's sudden bankruptcy earlier this ...

TOKYO (AP) - Fans living in Japan who bought tickets for the postponed Tokyo Olympics have been guaranteed refunds, the local organizing committee said Friday. This does not apply to fans who have purchased tickets outside Japan through so-called Authorized Ticket Resellers appointed by national Olympic committees. Many have already ...

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Tamarack is temporarily closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. The West Virginia Parkways Authority, which manages the popular Beckley tourist attraction, announced the closure on Thursday. Tamarack will undergo a deep cleaning and will reopen when it is safe to do ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A steel processor is expected to create 110 full-time jobs in coming years at a tube manufacturing plant it plans to open in south-central Kentucky, state officials said. The $70 million project in Bowling Green was announced Thursday by Nova Steel USA Inc. Company executives bought ...

The euro zone economy bounced back in the third quarter as the region profited from a summer period with few social restrictions.

Major averages are on pace to post their worst weekly performance in months.

The coronavirus pandemic is making Silicon Valley tech investors more global in their outlook, according to Salesforce VC Alex Kayyal.

When asked what he thought could be done to unite people in the U.S. following the death of George Floyd, Shaquille O'Neal said "a lot of things need to change."

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, China's latest graduating class of 2020 is having a harder time finding jobs than those before them.

The World Gold Council said global demand for gold declined 19% year-on-year to 892 tonnes for the July-September quarter — it was the lowest quarterly total since 2009.

With fewer Chinese going abroad, foreign brands are likely to be a big hit on the annual Singles Day shopping festival, an Alibaba executive told CNBC.

Huawei's smartphone shipments plunged in the third quarter of 2020 as U.S. sanctions that have cut it off from Google's Android continue to hurt.

UBS Global Wealth Management's Dominic Schnider says "the stars are really lining up" for the Chinese yuan to strengthen against the dollar.

Facebook on Thursday acknowledged that a technical error in its systems caused a number of ads from both political parties to be improperly paused.

Here are some of the lowlights of the 2020 campaign.

The United States is not “rounding the turn.” Coronavirus cases are spiking across the country. But Trump keeps arguing the opposite.

The New York Post claims it discovered a "smoking-gun" email about Hunter Biden and his father. Here's a rundown of the facts.

Just under a century ago, confronting an antagonistic press that opposed him at every turn, President Franklin Roosevelt turned to the then-nascent technology of radio to bypass the media and speak...

Facing a seemingly endless pandemic and an election that has little hope of going smoothly, we're all on a grim, existential roller coaster now.

America is not immune to hubris, overstep, decline. It Can Happen Here, no matter how much we're tempted to think otherwise

The latest US GDP figures have given Trump something to crow about but that will ring hollow for poor people, minorities, women and the young

Unemployment data as of mid-October suggest we are on a fast track to full recovery by year-end.

Bigfoot conspiracy theorists and flat-earthers on Wednesday sought distance between themselves and those claiming the Hunter Biden pay-for-play scandal is Russian disinformation.

Pennsylvania Republicans believe rioting in Philadelphia could lend President Trump badly-needed support among frightened suburban voters in a contest so close that every vote in the state will count.

Republicans are facing a post-election reckoning about how they cultivate small-dollar donors.Regardless of who wins on Nov. 3, GOP lawmakers and officials say there needs to be a party-wide disc...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday that he learned about a letter Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sent to him about coronavirus stimulus talks "in the press.""I woke up this morni...

Vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is slated to travel to Texas on Friday as recent polls have shown former Vice President Joe Biden closing in on President Trump in the Lone Star State.The Coo...

The conservative group One Million Moms has accused UberEats "of glamorizing a LBGTQ lifestyle" over its new ad campaign featuring "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness. The Christian group, which is a br...

Nearly a dozen attendees at President Trump's rally in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday were sent to the hospital after waiting for hours in the steamy heat. Both the president and Democratic presidential nomi...

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyWhat’s going to happen next week? Is the Trump-stacked Supreme Court going to hand this election to the Republicans? Is democracy doomed?Here’s my sophisticated, Yale-JD-Supreme-Court-Columnist expert assessment: Probably not.But maybe. But I doubt it. Let’s game out the possibilities—four of them, to be precise.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyLately, when I talk about this election, I sound like Debbie Downer. With polls showing Biden with a lead in most battleground states, why don’t I have champagne on ice ready to celebrate the blowout a few days away?Many political analysts, and a fair number of psychiatrists, say folks […]

OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty ImagesIf the polls are to be believed, Joe Biden is about to be elected president. And if history is any indicator, Democrats will assume they have a mandate. Parties and movements that win power almost always assume the public endorses what they think have been selling. They usually don’t. Bill Clinton […]

Courtesy Katrina RaysbyEven as South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem continued to dismiss calls for a mask mandate, declared the pandemic under control, and insisted the state’s hospitals have plenty of room, Doug Raysby of Sioux Falls died of COVID-19 without getting the ICU bed his doctor said he needed.“I think that people really recognize that […]

Courtesy of SHOWTIMEWhen one thinks about scientific study, the images that spring to mind generally involve studious men and women in lab coats performing careful research in sterile environments. Those notions don’t pertain to biohackers, however, who carry out cutting-edge—and often legally and morally dubious—DIY experiments on themselves and others in the name of pushing […]

Michelle Hanks/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThreats to tarnish or steal Trump campaign signs, both real and fictional, have come to occupy a deep place in the right-wing imagination this election cycle.For some, the go-to solution to protecting the signs from thieves has been booby-traps. A city worker in Michigan, for example, cut his hand open after […]

Sloan Science on ScreenAs millions of Americans cast their votes for the next president of the United States, all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and 35 contested seats in the U.S. Senate, it’s important to remember just how slim the margin of victory was in 2016, with the election decided by roughly […]

AP Photo/Palm Beach PostWhen Marijke Chartouni found the woman who recruited her for Jeffrey Epstein 20 years ago, she felt a sense of closure and relief. Here was someone who could confirm that the perverted financier sexually assaulted Chartouni, not only because she was a witness but because she participated in the disturbing encounter.But confronting […]

VICTORIA JONES/AFP via Getty ImagesMeghan Markle has won a small victory in her ongoing battle against Associated Newspapers, owners of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, and MailOnline. A U.K. High Court judge yesterday agreed to Meghan’s request that the trial be delayed from Jan. 2021 to sometime next autumn on “a confidential ground.” So, […]

Drew Angerer/GettyFormer Vice President Joe Biden has outlined an ambitious agenda for voters as they head to the polls this Tuesday. But if elected, his success will largely be determined by his ability to tackle one issue alone: a virus that has infected millions, killed more than 225,000 people and which could infect as many […]