DECEMBER 29, 2018
The 2018 casualty list in markets is long. Hedge funds, Apple and Amazon’s trillion-dollar price tags, trading results everywhere. Not even Christmas was spared the wrath of cascading stocks. It has felt unprecedented, like Armageddon, or maybe even the robot apocalypse. It wasn’t.
While any 20 percent sell-off hurts, the one happening now is far from unheard of...
DECEMBER 29, 2018
WASHINGTON D.C. - When the government shutdown began a week ago, many federal workers were more irked than anxious.
They’re really anxious now. What at first seemed like ho-hum political brinkmanship is looking more like a prolonged, punishing shutdown, more akin to the 27-day funding lapse in 1995 and 1996 than the blink-and-miss-it shutdowns earlier this year.
“This one...
DECEMBER 28, 2018
One of the journalists who reported on the Watergate scandal wrote in an op-ed Thursday about the "inevitability of impeachment" for President Trump.
"An impeachment process against President Trump now seems inescapable. Unless the president resigns, the pressure by the public on the Democratic leaders to begin an impeachment process next year will only increase," journalist Elizabeth Drew...
DECEMBER 28, 2018
President Trump greets members of the five branches of the military by video conference on Christmas Day, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018, in the Oval Office of the White House. - Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Washington all but gave up Thursday on resolving the partial government shutdown before the New Year, as lawmakers were told not to expect votes this week...
DECEMBER 27, 2018
Brief Scorecard: Australia 8 for no loss (Harris 5*, Finch 3*) trail India 7 for 443 dec (Pujara 106, Kohli 82, Agarwal 76, Rohit 63*, Cummins 3-72) by 435 runs.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - On a day when the bowlers found no real purchase - barring the occasional uneven bounce - from the MCG surface, India continued their batting...
DECEMBER 27, 2018
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 19: Former first lady Michelle Obama discusses her book "Becoming" at Barclays Center on December 19, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - Former first lady Michelle Obama was voted the woman most admired by Americans this year, knocking Hillary Clinton from the top spot...
DECEMBER 27, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by National Security Adviser John Bolton, first lady Melania Trump and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Doug Silliman, during an unannounced visit to Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, December 26, 2018. - Reuters
President and first lady surprise troops in Iraq for Christmas
Iraqi lawmakers Thursday demanded U.S. forces leave the country in the...
DECEMBER 26, 2018
Sastrugi are hard wave-like ridges in the ice that can be extremely difficult to navigate. - Getty Images
A 33-year-old American man has become the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unassisted.
Explorer Colin O'Brady finished in 53 days, ahead of British Army Captain Louis Rudd, 49, after an epic race across the ice.
Both men set out...
DECEMBER 26, 2018
DECEMBER 26, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 2 for 215 (Agarwal 76, Pujara 68*, Kohli 47*) v Australia
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Definitive judgments should wait for another few days, but the early signs are that there has been no magical solution to the MCG's pitch problem. After the challenges of Adelaide and especially Perth, this was a more docile affair...
DECEMBER 26, 2018
A freight train that carries coal to the W.A. Parish power plant in Thompsons, Texas. - Gabriella Demczuk / NY Times
For nearly two years, President Trump has pursued an aggressive, far-reaching effort, lobbied for and cheered on by industry, to free American business from what he and many of his supporters view as excessive environmental regulation.
The consequences...
