Floor trading reopened at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell, and traders exulted in cheers. It was the perfect setting for investors’ unbridled enthusiasm about the markets. The stock market rallied at the start of the shortened week after markets were closed for Memorial Day on
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — After a surprising Monday that saw no new coronavirus deaths or cases in the city of Juárez, Tuesday’s reporting from Chihuahua state health leaders reflected a significant spike. The number of Juárez deaths jumped by 19 and cases by 33 on Tuesday. That brought the fatality total to 229 and the
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[Breaking news update] Four Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of a black man who was held down as he protested that he couldn’t breathe have been fired as the FBI looks into the incident, police said Tuesday. Four officers involved in the incident were “separated from employment,” according to Officer Garrett Parten, a
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In 1968, the pioneering Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission lifted America’s morale in a bitter year of political assassinations, race and anti-war riots, the fading presidency of Lyndon Johnson and a hardening Cold War. On Wednesday, US astronauts are again due to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in another landmark for US
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President Donald Trump has never been a big fan of wearing a mask to protect himself — and others — from the spread of the coronavirus. “I don’t think I’m going to be doing it,” Trump said of wearing a mask in the April press conference in which he announced the new CDC guidelines making
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Four Minneapolis officers involved in the arrest of a black man who died in police custody were fired Tuesday, hours after a bystander’s video provoked widespread outrage with footage that showed the man pleading that he could not breathe as a white officer knelt on his neck. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey tweeted
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — After more than two hours of heated debate from Doña Ana County Commissioners and the public’s email input, commissioners voted 3-2 on Tuesday to require face masks in Doña Ana County as a public health measure to help combat the spread of the coronavirus. The ordinance, which goes into effect
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There’s a “new beast” lurking out there in the universe. It first showed itself four years ago, when astronomers observed a bright burst of light coming from a tiny galaxy about 500 million light-years from Earth. Now, they know it was a fast blue optical transient, captured in radio waves and X-rays. It produced one
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Latin America has surpassed Europe and the United States in the daily number of reported Covid-19 infections, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Tuesday, putting the region at the center of the global outbreak. There have been more than 2.4 million cases and more than 143,000 deaths in all of the
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Click here for updates on this story DENVER (KDVR/KWGN) — It’s been a rough couple of months for bars and restaurants in the LoDo area, to say the least. “We really relied on the money from the Rockies season to supplement our rent and bills and income,” said Forage Server and Bartender Jennifer Sweet. “With
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[Breaking news update] The white woman who called police on a black man in Central Park after a dispute about her unleashed dog has been fired from her job, her employer said Tuesday. “Following our internal review of the incident in Central Park yesterday, we have made the decision to terminate the employee involved, effective
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The decision to wear a face mask in public — already at the center of a national cultural battle over individual responsibility in the pandemic — emerged as a political wedge this weekend after the two men vying in this year’s presidential contest took divergent approaches on Memorial Day. The unmasked and masked public appearances
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“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the show that keeps on giving. FX has renewed the series for a record 15th season, making “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” the longest-running live-action American sitcom, according to the network. (“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” ran 14 seasons.) The series, about a group of friends who run
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Floor trading reopened at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rang the opening bell, and traders exulted in cheers. It was the perfect setting for investors’ unbridled enthusiasm about the markets. The stock market rallied at the start of the shortened week, after markets were closed for Memorial Day Monday.
Continue Reading One retired United States Marine spent Memorial Day weekend honoring fallen veterans by standing on a Washington, DC median for 24 hours and saluting. Retired US Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Tim Chambers stood at the corner of Constitution Avenue and 23rd Street Northwest for 24 hours and saluted in order to raise awareness about veteran
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A white woman has apologized for calling police on a black man bird-watching in Central Park on Monday morning after the two argued about her unleashed dog. Amy Cooper told CNN she wanted to “publicly apologize to everyone.” “I’m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,” she said,
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NEW YORK, NY — Stocks closed sharply higher on Tuesday on optimism about a potential Covid-19 vaccine and the further reopening of the economy. The stock market rallied at the start of the shortened week after markets were closed for Memorial Day on Monday, with all three major indexes finishing higher. But they each finished below their
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Virgin Orbit experienced a hiccup Monday with the launch demo of its two-stage orbital rocket from a 747 aircraft. The test saw the rocket — Launcher One — “ignite its engine mid-air for the first time,” according to a news release, but the rocket experienced an issue after launch. “We’ve confirmed a clean release from
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (WSMV) — A 100-year-old woman celebrates Memorial Day at a senior living home in Brentwood where gardening, patriotism and a long life meet. Miss Geraldine was just 25 years old when World War II started 75 years ago. On this Memorial Day, she’s as patriotic as
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story CASS CITY, Mich. (WNEM) — Americans everywhere are honoring our nation’s fallen heroes. Deborah Robinson, of Cass City, made it a point to honor our fallen heroes during the pandemic. “That honor is still there even though we can’t assemble in groups of people,” Robinson said. Robinson is
Continue Reading The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from the northeast at a steep angle, maximizing the amount of climate-changing gases unleashed into the atmosphere, a new study has found. That the 200 kilometer (125 mile) wide Chicxulub crater in present-day Mexico was formed when the
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WASHINGTON, DC — White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday afternoon urged Americans to follow social distancing guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while also maintaining that President Trump “wants to see society reopened.” After defending spending part of his Memorial Day weekend golfing as “exercise” and re-tweeting a snide
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story JACKSON, Miss. (WAPT) — A University of Mississippi musical theater major is going viral on TikTok for her makeup tutorials and her original segment “How to Catfish a Man”. Lydia Myers started the segment as a satirical joke on men dating women that enjoy makeup. She said she
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Your head is pounding yet again. You grab another round of pain meds, only to find they no longer work. You may be suffering from a MOH — a medication overuse headache — brought on when the very medications you relied on for relief suddenly become the enemy. Some 60 million people around the world
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story WILKESBORO, N.C. (WXII) — The first thing anyone sees when walking into this SmartCuts in Wilkesboro is this sign saying if you work at the Tyson Plant in town, you can’t come in. A decision the owner says was in the best interest of his employees and the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (WPTZ) — Protesters in the Tri-Lakes area hope to discourage tourists from coming to the region, saying lives are more important than business. Kelly Lynn Thorsdottir is worried about COVID-19 cases spreading to rural communities across the globe, and says places like Lake Placid shouldn’t
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBAL) — Amid the coronavirus pandemic, an Anne Arundel County man hopes to help those in need, one box of cookies at a time. Bryson Popham said he thought 75 boxes of Girl Scout cookies could help make life a little sweeter after hearing about the
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) — Organizations in the Portland area are working on plans to keep kids active and safe this year. The governor gave the ok for summer camps, but only day camps and with certain rules. Some of the state’s guidance includes keeping kids in the same
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — Schedules wiped clean over the last three months for wedding vendors across the St. Louis area. Now, vendors are asking couples to get creative so they can help support their special day Florists, photographers, DJs and make up artists in the wedding industry prepared
Continue Reading Lockdowns and social distancing restrictions have pushed couples apart around the world. But Denmark is now allowing some citizens in cross-border relationships to reunite with their partners. The government eased coronavirus restrictions on Monday, allowing the fiancés and partners of some citizens to enter Denmark from neighboring countries, police and justice officials told CNN. The
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