MARCH 1, 2020
Brief Scorecard: India 242 and 90 for 6 (Boult 3-12) lead New Zealand 235 (Latham 52, Jamieson 49, Shami 4-81, Bumrah 3-62) by 97 runs
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - India began the second day needing a big effort just to stay alive in the Christchurch Test, but so big was their bowling effort they ended up with a...
MARCH 1, 2020
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke during a press conference. - WAKIL KOHSAR
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Afghanistan’s president said Sunday that he will not free thousands of Taliban prisoners ahead of all-Afghan power-sharing talks set for next week, publicly disagreeing with a timetable for a speedy prisoner release laid out just a day earlier in a U.S.-Taliban peace agreement.
President...
MARCH 1, 2020
The number of infected in Iran jumped to nearly 1,000 overnight.
The global death toll of coronavirus has reached nearly 3,000 people as countries around the world continue to report their findings to the World Health Organization.
At least 70 cases and one death have been detected in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here...
MARCH 1, 2020
COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina on Saturday became the fourth state to make its voice heard in the Democratic presidential race.
Who were the big winners and losers?
WINNERS
Former Vice President Joe Biden
It was a huge night for Biden.
He needed a blowout win and got one - with an even bigger margin of victory than almost anyone had...
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 63 for 0 trail India 242 (Vihari 55, Shaw 54, Pujara 54, Jamieson 5-45) by 179 runs
Kyle Jamieson rattled India again. - Getty Images
The depth in New Zealand's five-man seam attack pulled India back from positions of strength on two occasions to leave them bowled out for 242, and...
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, one of the country’s most successful athletes ever, was slapped with an incredible eight-year ban on Friday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. And that means not only will the 28-year-old two-time Olympian will miss the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer, but he’ll also be excluded from the next Summer Olympics, the...
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Party and politics aren’t all that distinguish the billionaire New Yorker in the White House from the one seeking to displace him.
President Trump’s Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan’s Trump Tower feels “like you’re walking into a casino. Very lavish. A lot of gold,” said John Catsimatidis, another billionaire New Yorker. He also has visited Michael Bloomberg’s New...
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
The U.S. stock-market rally has unraveled, with a period of historic gains coming to a screeching halt, as fear that the coronavirus epidemic may reach America rattles Wall Street.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell into correction on Thursday, widely defined as a drop of at least 10%, but no more than 20%, from a recent peak. The...
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Stocks ended sharply lower after a volatile session Thursday as traders worried that the coronavirus might be spreading in the U.S. A slew of corporate and analyst warnings on the virus also dragged down the major averages.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 1,190 points, or 4.4%. The S&P 500 also plunged 4.4%, while the Nasdaq Composite sank 4.6%.
Those losses put...
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman called TikTok “fundamentally parasitic” due to concerns over privacy during an appearance at the Social 2030 venture capital conference this week (via TechCrunch). Huffman specifically called out TikTok’s practice of fingerprinting to track devices as being of particular concern.
“Maybe I’m going to regret this, but I can’t even get to that...
