Here's the latest for Wednesday June 16th; Biden to meet with Putin; Israeliairstrike in Gaza; Number of US dead from COVID-19 tops 600,000; New York state hits vaccination goal and celebrates with fireworks.
President Donald Trump before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, en route to West Palm Beach, Fla., on Feb. 16. 2018. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
One of the richest women of the world and former wife of amazon.com tycoon Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott is renowned for her far-reaching charity efforts. In 2019, she joined the Giving Pledge initiative, that aims to encourage wealthy people around the world to allocate the majority of their fortune to charity.
Democrats are pushing for investigations into Trump’s justicedepartment for data seizures from Eric Swalwell and Adam SchiffTop Republicans are moving to block a Senate inquiry into the Trump justicedepartment’s secret seizure of data from Democrats to hunt down leaks of classified ...
Chesley B. Sullenberger III, who gained fame as the pilot who safely landed a plane in the Hudson River, was among President Biden’s long-awaited first slate of ambassadors.
Democratic tensions over infrastructure and the Biden agenda showed signs of boiling over Tuesday as one progressive lawmaker after another blasted a bipartisan framework negotiated by centrists in both parties.The...
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison arrive to give a statement in the garden of 10 Downing street in central London on June 15, 2021. (DominicLipinski/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Lina Khan was once at the leftmost fringe of US antitrust thought. Yesterday, a bipartisan group of 69 senators—included 21 Republicans—confirmed her appointment to a top job at the Federal Trade Commission.
The Interior Department said it would “comply with the decision,” signaling that lease sales to drill in Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico will likely resume — at least for now.
Brooklyn lead best-of-seven series 3-2 after Tuesday’s victoryNets have been dealing with injuries to key playersTheBrooklyn Nets needed much more than points Tuesday night, so Kevin Durant gave them one of the most spectacular performances in postseason history.Durant ...
ChrissyTeigen made light of speaking out against former president Donald Trump on Instagram not long after sharing an apology for her cyberbullying scandal.
Once one of the most powerful Hollywood producers and now a convicted sex offender, HarveyWeinstein now faces additional chargessexual misconduct that could extend his 23-year prison sentence.
Tuesday on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront," Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) called out the 21 Republican House members who voted against legislation to award Congressional Gold Medals to Capitol police officers who responded to the riots on January 6.
Authorities say that gunfire broke out at a Mueller Co. factory in Albertville, Alabama, around 2:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday. After killing two people and injuring two others, the suspectedgunman fled the fire hydrantfactory, which employs more ...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Tuesday that the people who sent funding to the Wuhan lab, including Peter Daszak and Dr. Anthony Fauci, cannot be a part of a future WHO-led investigation.
A SouthwestAirlines Boeing 737-800 plane is seen at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the Greater Los Angeles Area, Calif., on April 10, 2017. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)
Alabama pastor Ed Litton will be the next president of the SouthernBaptistConvention following a narrow election win Tuesday -- a victory for the more moderate establishment against a conservative insurgency in an ongoing fight within the nation's largest Protestant ...
Lordstown said last week that it needed to raise more money and might not survive. Now, the company’s new executivechairwoman has said “It’s a new day at LordstownMotors.”
WHO 'Highly Compromised', Unfit To Lead COVID-19 Investigation According To Former CDC Director The World Health Organization is "highly compromised" and unfit to lead an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, according to former CDC head RobertRedfield. "Clearly, they were incapable of ...
It’s been a while since we had an 'Advance Wars' game, but the good news is that we are getting some very shiny remakes for the Switch later this year.
Beauty products are displayed backstage ahead of the Stella Jean show during Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016 in Milan, Italy on Sept. 23, 2015. (S. Alemdar/Getty Images)
One of the biggest surprises from Nintendo at this year’s E3 was the announcement of 'Metroid Dread'. The first mainline 2D game in the series in 19 years, its development history is also surprisingly involved.
Following the great 'Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros.' release, we now have a similarly themed version to commemorate the 35th anniversary of 'The Legend of Zelda'.
Harris, famous for his roles as ‘Doogie Howser M.D.’, and the sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’, shared how taking the role of spokesperson and partnering with CoinFlip is connected to his own discovery of Bitcoin and hope others are able to adopt the cryptocurrency as well.
The legislation restricts content from broadcasters, advertisers and media organizations from depicting individuals who are gay or who no longer identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are the latest to push new state-level voting restrictions, with a key state House committee on Tuesday advancing a major electionoverhaul bill that the state's Democratic governor blasted as "extreme."
Pitchers caught using sticky substances like Spider Tack will be ejected and suspended for ten games. But pundits and former players wonder whether baseball's new rules are feasible and whether they will hurt the pace of play or the balance of the game.
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft will let Xbox One owners play next-gen Xbox games through its xCloud service. The news was buried in a blog post recapping Microsoft’s Xbox + Bethesda showcase, with the company confirming plans to leverage Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) for Xbox One consoles. That ...
Season two of the FXX hit 'Dave' premieres tonight. Star/co-creator Dave Burd says just making season one was a dream come true. And now with season two he gets to enjoy the success with all he learned about TV, big guest stars and more. I spoke with him about this season and making new music.
Cambridge QuantumComputing, a leading U.K. quantum software firm, has combined forces with U.S. hardware giant Honeywell to create the world’s most advanced, fully integrated quantumcomputing company to help better predict the future through advanced ...
The 10 richestdynasties, such as those behind Walmart and Mars, grew their net worth by $136bn during the pandemic,report findsSelf-made billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk made huge profits during the Covid-19 pandemic but a new report ...
Earlier in the week, a reporter for Fox 26, Ivory Hecker, announced live on air that she had been recording the network's officials and stated her intention to share her story with Project Veritas on what she claims is "censorship" by the media corporation.
ShelbyHoulihan crosses the finish line to win the Women's 3000 M during the 2020 Toyota USATF Indoor Championships at Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N. M., on Feb. 14, 2020. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Antibody tests of blood samples in Italy have found evidence of COVID-19 infections as early as September 2019, six months before the first known cases in Italy. However, the US government continues to push the theory that the virus escaped from a Chinese biolab in late 2019.
Authorities said an argument over a customer being asked to wear a COVID-19 mask led to a fatal shootout in Georgia. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation...
The White House will host a 1,000-person celebration on the South Lawn, even though President Biden is not on track to meet his goal of vaccinating 70 percent of Americans by July 4.
Last month, the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led political movement against climate change, kicked off a series of 'Generation on Fire' marches in California and the Gulf Coast. Since then, members of the group have marched hundreds of miles and held a demonstration in Paradise, California, the site of a 2018 fire that displaced nearly ...
On the 9th anniversary of the Obama-era DACA program, Vice President Kamala Harris pledged the Biden administration would "protect our Dreamers" and called for a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants. (June 15)
Copper Futures Plunge To Seven-Week Low As Base Metals Slip-On Fed, China Demand Woes ...time to ignore Dr.Copper once again!? Copperprices plunged on Tuesday to their lowest levels in seven weeks over concerns about Federal Reserve's monetary tightening and a pull-back ...
The manager has filed a federal defamation suit over the incident, during which he says he was arrested, interrogated, and "taunted" by police for hours.View Entire Post ›
The latest toll from Johns HopkinsUniversity comes nearly four months after the nation crossed the half-million mark for deaths from the coronavirus pandemic.
