MAY 27, 2020
President Trump is not happy with Twitter. - Getty Images
President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on social-media companies Thursday, escalating his war on Twitter Inc., although it remains unclear what it will entail.
A White House spokesperson confirmed the order late Wednesday, a day after Twitter (TWTR) issued its first fact-checking warning label to...
MAY 27, 2020
Taylor Williams, left, and other shoppers what in line to enter a Traders Joes store, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Woodmere Village, Ohio. Only 25 customers are allowed in the store at one time. - Tony Dejak/AP
With the number of people in the United States who have died from the novel coronavirus on the verge of...
MAY 27, 2020
The persistence of the novel coronavirus is one of the few things we can count on. In New York, after subway ridership plummeted more than 90 percent, commuters are slowly returning, albeit with masks. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
There’s a good chance the coronavirus will never go away.
Even after a vaccine is discovered and deployed, the coronavirus will likely...
MAY 27, 2020
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on protecting seniors with diabetes during a event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. - BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump is threatening to "strongly regulate" or "close down" social media platforms a day after Twitter added a "fact check" label to two of...
MAY 26, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping (Reuters photo)
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday directed China's armed forces to strengthen training of troops and to be ready for war amid coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic's visible impact on the world's most populous country's national security.
State media reports quoted the Chinese premier as saying that it was important to "comprehensively strengthen...
MAY 26, 2020
IndiGo on Tuesday grounded the crew of Chennai-Coimbatore flight after a passenger travelling on-board was found to be coronavirus positive.
This is the first case of a passenger testing positive for Covid-19 after the domestic flight services resumed on Monday.
The passenger, who was on-board the Chennai-Coimbatore IndiGo flight 6E 381, has been sent on quarantine at ESI...
MAY 26, 2020
A cicada is seen on a branch in Virginia in this stock photo. - STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images
Americans won't be the only ones emerging from their isolation this summer; so too will millions of insects that have been underground for nearly two decades.
A species of cicadas will buzz around in southwest Virginia, parts of North Carolina and...
MAY 26, 2020
Pump jacks operate in front of a drilling rig in an oil field in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford
A U.S. ban on new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which presidential hopeful Joe Biden promised to enact if elected, would lead to hundreds of thousands of job losses...
MAY 25, 2020
Dr. Greg Gulbransen performs a medical checkup on a 72-year-old man with Leukemia who is presumed to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while at his pediatric practice in Oyster Bay, New York, U.S., April 13, 2020.
Dr. Rafael Guillen spends a lot of time on the phone these days. His practice in the Bronx closed its doors...
MAY 25, 2020
Joe Biden is taking on President Trump over the economy.
The former vice president's campaign believes he has an opening with voters on an issue that has been a strength of Trump's given the economic harm caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which has locked down businesses and led to skyrocketing unemployment.
They plan to argue that Trump handled...
