JUNE 30, 202
Veteran challenging AOC for House seat, slams her 'disgraceful' remark on…
In what looks like a celestial version of "Pac-Man," scientists have detected black holes gobbling up neutron stars — marking the observation of collisions between the two most extreme objects in the universe for the very first time.
And the hefty feasts occurred one billion years ago.
Within a...
JUNE 29, 2021
New Delhi: South Asia’s reliance on state-led development is concealing vulnerabilities to growing levels of unsustainable debt that could lead to financial crises, the World Bank warned.
Governments in the region, including India and Pakistan, are exposed to the risk of “hidden debt” via funding guarantees by state-owned banks and enterprises, as well as public-private partnerships, the World...
JUNE 29, 2021
American taxpayers are set to foot most of the bill for Biogen’s new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, and investors are nervous.
The Food and Drug Administration approved Aduhelm earlier this month despite significant controversy; several prominent experts have blasted regulators for allowing the sale of an ineffective drug.
Those arguments didn’t persuade the FDA, but the spat raises the...
JUNE 28, 2021
Nurse Jody Berry draws a syringe full of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccine clinic at Mother's Brewing Company in Springfield, Mo. on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Greene County, Mo., where Mother's Brewing is located, is seeing an average of 94 new COVID-19 cases per day, 93 percent of which are the Delta Variant....
JUNE 28, 2021
A person walks out of Trump Tower in New York. - Reuters/CARLO ALLEGRI
WASHINGTON, D.C. - New York prosecutors investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump's business practices are likely to issue one or more criminal indictments this week – but not against Trump himself, according to people involved in the case.
Ronald Fischetti, an attorney representing Trump, said...
JUNE 28, 2021
President Joe Biden meets with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden sought to assure Israel that he would not tolerate a nuclear Iran as he met with outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on...
JUNE 28, 2021
Yasuhide Nakayama. - Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Japan’s No. 2 defense official laid out the increasing threats he sees from a more assertive China, including longer-range missiles and more frequent airspace incursions, as the U.S. ally moves to boost defense spending to help counter Beijing.
“It’s already possible for them to aim at the East Coast and the...
JUNE 28, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the screen, via video conference in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 28, 2021. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
MOSCOW, RUSSIA — The leaders of Russia and China on Monday hailed increasingly close ties between their countries and announced the extension of a 20-year-old friendship...
JUNE 27, 2021
The drought in the West is reaching new peaks. NOAA
The megadrought in the western United States, including Arizona, Utah and California -- the country's most populous state and a major source of produce -- is getting biblical. Record-toppling, early-season heat waves well into the triple digits -- Portland hit an all-time high of 112 degrees Sunday -- has some...
JUNE 27, 2021
The investigation into what may be the deadliest accidental building collapse in American history has just begun, but experts who have examined video footage of the disaster outside Miami are focusing on a spot in the lowest part of the condominium complex — possibly in or below the underground parking garage — where an initial failure could...
