JUNE 29, 2020
The Supreme Court on Monday said the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Board violates the Constitution.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion.
At oral argument, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the question before the court had an “academic quality” to it. Does it intrude on the president’s constitutional authority to direct the executive branch...
JUNE 29, 2020
Banks have pulled back sharply on lending to U.S. consumers during the coronavirus crisis. One reason: They can’t tell who is creditworthy anymore.
Millions of Americans are out of work and behind on their debts. But in many cases the missed payments aren’t reflected in their credit scores, nor are they uniformly recorded on borrowers’ credit reports.
The...
JUNE 29, 2020
A lab technicians holds the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treatment drug "Remdesivir" at Eva Pharma Facility in Cairo, Egypt June 25, 2020. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Gilead Sciences Inc. has priced its COVID-19 drug candidate remdesivir at $390 per vial for the United States and governments of other developed countries, it said on Monday, setting the price of a...
JUNE 29, 2020
Three months after the coronavirus pandemic shut down offices, corporate America has concluded that working from home is working out. Many employees will be tethered to Zoom and Slack for the rest of their careers, their commute accomplished in seconds.
Richard Laermer has some advice for all the companies rushing pell-mell into this remote future: Don’t be...
JUNE 28, 2020
FILE - In this June 23, 2020, file photo voting stations are set up in the South Wing of the Kentucky Exposition Center for voters to cast their ballot in the Kentucky primary in Louisville, Ky. Just over four months before Election Day, President Donald Trump is escalating his efforts to delegitimize the upcoming presidential election. Last...
JUNE 28, 2020
Former President Barack Obama walked along the colonnade from the residence to the Oval Office of the White House in 2016. - Al Drago
Just after Donald Trump was elected president, Barack Obama slumped in his chair in the Oval Office and addressed an aide standing near a conspicuously placed bowl of apples, emblem of a healthy-snacking policy...
JUNE 28, 2020
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters. - Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
Amid the outrage against the alleged custodial death of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu’s Tuticorin district, the state government on Sunday decided to transfer the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chief Minister K Palaniswami said today.
The government's decision will be...
JUNE 28, 2020
China reinforced its troops near the Indian border with mountain climbers and martial arts fighters shortly before a deadly clash this month, Chinese state media reported.
Tensions are common between the two nuclear-armed neighbours in the mountainous border terrain, but this month's fighting was the deadliest encounter between India and China in over 50 years.
Five new militia divisions...
JUNE 28, 2020
China has recruited a squad of mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters into its border militia ranks, months into its escalated stand-off with India, and nearly two weeks after the hand-to-hand clash in Galwan Valley that left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
Twenty MMA fighters from the Enbo Fight Club in the country’s Sichuan province have been enlisted to form the...
JUNE 27, 2020
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence honored soldiers killed in Afghanistan earlier this year. - Doug Mills/NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. assailed President Trump on Saturday for failing to punish Russia for offering bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan, while the White House denied...
