JULY 4, 2021
US President Biden at King Orchards cherry farm in Central Lake, Mich., on Saturday. The visit was part of a tour by the administration to highlight progress against the pandemic. - Sarahbeth Maney/NY Times
WASHINGTON — On the day that President Biden had long anticipated as a milestone in the fight against the coronavirus, the White House...
JULY 2, 2021
The U.S. economy gained 850,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate rose to 5.9 percent from 5.8 percent, a sign that the recovery of the world’s largest economy is building momentum after downside misses in April and May.
Economists had expected gains of roughly 700,000 jobs and a drop of between 1 and 2 percent in the...
JULY 1, 2021
President Joe Biden attends a briefing in Miami Beach, Fla., with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on July 1, 2021. - Susan Walsh/AP Photo
This 65-year-old retiree left the U.S. for Mexico—and spends $160 per month…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday praised President Joe Biden's federal response to the collapse of a condo building in the coastal suburb of...
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...
