MARCH 11, 2019
The full gamut of symptoms Parkinson’s disease can cause doesn’t typically arrive all at once. If you have Parkinson’s disease, you likely first noticed a mild symptom or two, and thought, “Huh… what’s that all about?” Though Parkinson’s is often thought of as mainly affecting older people, the disease can arise at younger ages, too, and it...
MARCH 11, 2019
A congressional staffer holds up a copy of volume one of President Trump's budget for the fiscal year 2020. The budget is considered dead on arrival in the House, which is led by Democrats. (Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
President Trump unveiled his 2020 budget Monday that basically has no chance of getting enacted. Even Republicans balk at some...
MARCH 11, 2019
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during the CNN Democratic Presidential Town Hall at SXSW at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin, Tex., on March 10, 2019. (Tamir Kalifa for CNN)
AUSTIN, TEXAS - South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg lambasted Mike Pence -- a man he used to work directly with during Pence's time...
MARCH 11, 2019
A paramilitary trooper seen standing guard outside the Grand Mosque during restrictions in old city of Srinagar, Kashmir, India on March 10. - Saqib Majeed/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
The US State Department issued a travel warning for India due to crime and terrorism after a troubling rise of terror attacks and sexual assault.
The State...
MARCH 11, 2019
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell - Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell hasn’t said much about President Donald Trump’s frequent criticism of the central bank. But in a new interview, Powell made clear there’s one thing Trump can’t say to him: “You’re fired.”
“The law is clear that I have a four-year term,” Powell...
MARCH 10, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressional Democrats refused President Donald Trump's newest request for border wall funding even before the White House officially made it.
In response to media reports Sunday that the president plans to ask Congress for an additional $8.6 billion in funding for construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader...
MARCH 10, 2019
BRIEF SCORECARD: Australia 359 for 6 (Handscomb 117, Khawaja 91, Turner 84*) beat India 358 for 9 (Dhawan 143, Rohit 93, Cummins 5-70) by 4 wickets
CHANDIGARH - Indian crowds usually tell a story. Between stunned silence at every big shot from Australian bats and booing of their own, Rishabh Pant, for a missed stumping, they narrated a...
MARCH 10, 2019
FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Zuckerberg’s new “privacy-focused vision” for Facebook looks like a transformative mission statement for the much-criticized social network. But critics say the announcement obscures Facebook’s deeper motivations: To expand lucrative...
MARCH 9, 2019
Donald Trump (Photo: Mark Wilson, Getty Images)
Cindy (Li) Yang, a Florida entrepreneur who founded a chain of spas and massage parlors that included the one where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was arrested recently for allegedly soliciting prostitution, also runs a consulting business that has offered to sell Chinese clients access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago,...
MARCH 9, 2019
Plastic, paper, glass, and cardboard at a Recology facility in San Francisco - Robert Galbraith / Reuters
Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.
After decades of earnest public-information campaigns, Americans are finally recycling. Airports, malls, schools, and office buildings across the country...
