MAY 8, 2020
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent in April, the highest level since the Great Depression, as most businesses shut down or severely curtailed operations to fight the deadly coronavirus.
Over 20 million people lost their jobs in April, the Labor Department said Friday, wiping out a decade of job gains in a single month. The staggering...
MAY 7, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill on April 10, 2018. Andrew Harnik/AP
Facebook named the first 20 members of a new oversight board Wednesday. The oversight board has been called a "Supreme Court" for users of the giant social network and its Instagram app to appeal content moderation decisions made by Facebook.
Who’s on the oversight board?
Denmark’s first...
MAY 7, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Trump rushes to reopen the economy, a battle has erupted between the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the agency’s detailed guidelines to help schools, restaurants, churches and other establishments safely reopen.
A copy of the C.D.C. guidance obtained by The New York Times includes sections for child...
MAY 7, 2020
Twitter users are wondering if Team Trump has actually seen “Star Wars.”
Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale - Getty Images
If a planet-destroying death machine doesn’t inspire confidence in the American people, what will, right?
On Thursday, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale caused a great disturbance in the Force by tweeting about the president’s “juggernaut” of a reelection bid, calling...
MAY 7, 2020
Couples wearing face masks amid concerns over the COVID-19 novel coronavirus walks through a market in Seoul on April 22, 2020.
The tulips were blooming in Seoul and Dr. Jerome Kim was strolling in his government-issued KF-94 mask with his wife when he got a text message alerting him to a confirmed coronavirus infection in his neighborhood.
It was...
MAY 7, 2020
The first evacuation flight carrying stranded Indian citizens from Abu Dhabi landed at the Kochi airport on Thursday night amid the suspension of international travel over the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is the first of 64 planned evacuation flights as India has launched its biggest ever repatriation exercise to bring back its nationals stranded abroad.
The Air India Express flight IX...
MAY 7, 2020
The race to see who will be the next President of the United States is well underway. Here's a look at the steps along the way that lead to Election Day on Nov. 3, 2020.
President Donald Trump is leading Joe Biden by two points in six battlegrounds states, a new poll has found.
The latest survey by Change...
MAY 7, 2020
FILE - In this July 10, 2018, file photo, former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, following a status hearing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning...
MAY 7, 2020
The setting sun shines on the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sunday. - Patrick Semansky/AP
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to temporarily block a ruling that requires the Justice Department to give Congress certain secret grand jury material from the investigation conducted by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
The U.S. Court...
MAY 7, 2020
A 10-foot tiger shark fitted with a satellite tracker has stunned researchers by proving the species is capable of crossing entire oceans.
The nonprofit OCEARCH, which documented the trek, says the female shark named Sereia made a 4,000-mile transoceanic journey from Africa, across the Indian Ocean, to within 800 miles of Indonesia’s coast.
In doing so, she showed “the...
