There’s no Confederate flag there now. National Guard troops protected Congress on Wednesday as the House of Representatives moved to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting a violent mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol complex a week earlier. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi personally thanked a group of the troops standing at...
Is tomorrow the day you can walk off the job forever and start spending your massive new Mega Millions lottery jackpot winnings? Almost certainly not. But the very slim chance of winning an estimated $625 million prize was enough to get you to buy a ticket and go looking...
A new variant of coronavirus has been detected in four travellers arriving in Tokyo from Brazil, Japan's Health Ministry announced on Sunday. The mutation, which is different from those already documented in the UK and South Africa, is the latest incidence of the virus evolving. The news comes as several regional...
Experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Monday. The experts will arrive on Thursday and meet with Chinese counterparts, the National Health Commission said in a one-sentence statement that...
Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s value has soared since its June bankruptcy filing, the U.S. judge overseeing the natural gas producer's trial indicated, and is worth $5.13 billion, far above the shale gas pioneer's estimate. Chesapeake sought protection from creditors, weighed down by $11.8 billion in debt, after a decade of aggressive...
A statement the White House released from first lady Melania Trump has sparked swift backlash after she painted herself as a victim of “unwarranted personal attacks” in the wake of the deadly riots at the Capitol in support of her husband. The first lady said she was “disappointed and disheartened...
Michael Avenatti will be sentenced in May for his conviction on charges of trying to extort US$25 million from Nike, a judge said Monday. Judge Paul G. Gardephe in Manhattan set the May 7 date for the once fast-rising lawyer known for combative online clashes with President Donald Trump while...
One in five residents of Los Angeles have tested positive for COVID-19, and you can count Grimes among them. On Saturday, the art-pop musician shared her positive diagnosis via an Instagram Story. “Finally got COVID,” she wrote, “but weirdly enjoying the DayQuil fever dream … 2021.” She posted the text alongside...
New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information. A third party file sharing service used by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to share and store sensitive information had been illegally...
The FBI has shared a photo of the person responsible for placing the suspected explosive devices outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee Wednesday, prior to the U.S. Capitol protests. On Thursday night, the FBI tweeted a photo of the suspect and posted a reward of up to...