MAY 3, 2021
A sprawling dumpsite off the Los Angeles coast, littered with barrels of waste, had been mostly hidden from the public eye for over half a century. Now, marine scientists revealed the field of submerged waste, some of it likely toxic.
They detected around 27,000 barrels.
Over two weeks in March, scientists with NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
MAY 2, 2021
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) scored an emphatic win in the keenly watched assembly elections in West Bengal, MK Stalin’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) returned to power in Tamil Nadu after a decade, and Kerala’s Left government scripted history by winning two consecutive terms on Sunday, putting an end to a month-long polling exercise that...
MAY 2, 2021
A doctor in her office vaccinates a patient with a coronavirus vaccine. - Getty Images
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) have been close rivals in the COVID-19 vaccine race ever since they announced the starts of their phase 3 vaccine trials -- on the very same day back in July. But Pfizer edged ahead en route...
MAY 2, 2021
Over the decades, a spot in the middle class has felt increasingly vulnerable. - Christopher Lee / NY Times
Perhaps the most striking difference between the middle class of 50 years ago and the middle class today is a loss of confidence — the confidence that you were doing better than your parents and that your children...
APRIL 30, 2021
A portion of U.S.-Mexico border wall stands unfinished, April 14, 2021, near La Joya, Texas. - John Moore/Getty Images
The Biden administration is returning to the Pentagon billions in funds diverted by President Donald Trump to build the wall at the southwestern border, and plans to cancel all related construction contracts, an administration official told ABC News on...
APRIL 30, 2021
Household income rose at a record pace of 21.1% in March as federal-stimulus checks helped fuel an economic revival that is poised to endure with an easing pandemic.
The 21.1% March surge in income was the largest monthly increase for government records tracing back to 1959, largely reflecting $1,400 stimulus checks included in President Biden’s fiscal relief package...
APRIL 27, 2021
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, attendance for President Joe Biden’s speech will be limited to 200 lawmakers. - Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images
There won’t be a designated survivor for President Joe Biden’s first joint address to Congress Wednesday night, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday.
Typically, presidents designate a top official to camp out in a secure location...
APRIL 26, 2021
People getting vaccinated at a government hospital in Mumbai, India, this month. - Atul Loke /NY Times
The Biden administration, under intense pressure to address the devastating coronavirus crisis in India, intends to share up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other nations, so long as the doses clear a safety review conducted by the...
APRIL 26, 2021
The first 100 days of Joe Biden’s presidency, a milestone he will reach this week, were largely about fighting the coronavirus and stimulating the domestic economy.
For the second 100 days, the rest of the world is closing in.
China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban in Afghanistan all are set to test the president, or already are...
APRIL 26, 2021
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 1, 2020 file photo, Marcel Schmetz raises the US flag next to a WWII American Sherman tank at his Remember Museum 39-45 in Thimister-Clermont, Belgium. Tourists from the United States who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 could be able to travel across the European Union this summer, officials from the 27-nation...
