U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday said talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made progress on COVID19 relief legislation, and the House of Representatives postponed a vote on a $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus plan to allow more time for a bipartisan deal to come together.
Just under 400 jobs will be affected, according to a source familiar with the matter, a number equal to around one percent of the company's employees.
A Russian man convicted of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and Formspring and stealing the personal information of more than 100 million customers was sentenced Wednesday to more than seven years in federal prison.November's elections are too close for Texas to make changes now and restore a straightticket voting option that was sought by Democrats, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Lawyers for Takahiro Shiraishi, 29, argued the charges should be reduced because the victims -- who had expressed suicidal thoughts -- gave their consent to be killed.
Public opinion polls have shown strong support for Suga since he took office, prompting speculation that he could take advantage of it and call a snap election soon.Security was tight in Hong Kong early on Thursday with police vans dotting the streets ahead of an expected China national day march by prodemocracy protesters, despite authorities banning the demonstration.
Singapore will allow entry to travelers from Vietnam and Australia, excluding its coronavirus hot spot Victoria state, beginning next week.
President Donald Trump's former campaign manager is stepping away from the reelection campaign days after he was hospitalized after Florida law enforcement officials said threatened to harm himself.
Timothy Ray Brown was considered cured of his HIV infection in 2008. In the year prior, Brown received a bone marrow transplant in Berlin, Germany, to treat a separate disease he had been diagnosed with: acute myeloid leukemia (AML).A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to save more than 9,000 U.S. slots for visa lottery winners affected by the governments freeze on green cards earlier this year. But tens of thousands of other visa lottery winners will be out of luck.
Facebook has been under fire for refusing to fact-check political ads more broadly and for rampant organic misinformation.
Facebook Inc identified an "uptick" in content related to the farright Proud Boys on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump declined to condemn the group during Tuesday night's presidential debate, a company executive said on Twitter.
Trump, whose approval has taken a hit over his handling of the Covid-19 crisis, has frequently hinted a vaccine could be ready before the November 3 vote.The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal dispute, paving the way to coordinated U.S. and EU sanctions, four sources said on Wednesday.A prosecutor said two onduty white Alabama officers brutally beat a Black man five months ago after the victim got into a roadrage incident with the wife of one of the officers.
A popular opposition politician in Venezuela urged authorities on Wednesday to delay upcoming congressional elections, saying it's the only way to create free and fair conditions for the vote.European Union leaders will try to break a stalemate over Belarus on Thursday by untangling a separate standoff with Turkey that has exposed the paralysis in the bloc's decisionmaking.A Black deathrow inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a Texas teenager in 1994 has been scheduled for execution in November, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.The prevalence of COVID19 infections in England is much higher than it was at the end of August but there are signs that growth in infection rate is slowing, a study by Imperial College said on Thursday.The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal dispute, paving the way to coordinated U.S. and EU sanctions, four sources said on Wednesday.
There was no handshake as the two men took the stage and while this was due to Covid-19 restrictions, the absence of the traditional greeting symbolized the bitterness engulfing the country in the final countdown to November 3.
Wang's sentence comes amid fresh allegations of the mistreatment of children at a kindergarten in northern China. Eight parents claimed to have found unknown needle marks on their children's heads and bodies after they returned from Zhaojun Dingqi Kindergarten in Hohhot, in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, state media Xinhua said.
South Korea has reported 113 new cases of COVID19, its first daily increase over 100 in five days, as the country entered a holiday break that officials fear would possibly worsen transmissions.
President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden sparred Tuesday in their first of three debates, hoping to sway undecided voters planning to cast ballots by mail and in person in the final weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 election.President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, are meeting in Cleveland on Tuesday for the first of three debates ahead of the Nov. 3 election, when Trump is seeking a second term in office.
President Donald Trumps nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head of the family and faith. Former members of the group, called People of Praise, say it teaches that wives must submit to the will of their husbands.Apple Inc on Tuesday granted CEO Tim Cook 333,987 restricted stock units, with a possibility to earn as many as 667,974 more if he hits performance targets, in the executive's first stock grant since 2011.The U.S. Justice Department is expected to sue Alphabet's Google as soon as next week, and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit, according to three sources familiar with the process.Micron Technology Inc has not yet obtained new licenses needed to sell its memory chips to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which will cut its sales over the next two quarters, company executives said on Tuesday.
After more than a year of circling each other, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio.
US Presidential Debate 2020 LIVE Updates: Democratic challenger Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a liar and told him to "shut up" as the pair clashed in a bad-tempered start to their first televised US Presidential debate.Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden did not shake hands or wear masks as they entered their first White House debate on Tuesday, adhering to protocols on social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Trump administration's top intelligence official said Tuesday that he has declassified Russian intelligence alleging damaging information about Democrats during the 2016 election even though he acknowledged it might not be true.President Donald Trump on Tuesday approved a permit for a proposed rail line connecting Alaska and Canada.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce parted ways Tuesday with its longtime political strategist, as the organization, once a Republican stalwart, has demonstrated a more bipartisan spending streak in the Donald Trump era.Prosecutors in Mexicos most violent state said they have found skeletal remains that may belong to the bodies of about 15 people near the city of Irapuato.The U.N. Security Council called on Armenia and Azerbaijan Tuesday to immediately halt fighting over the separatist territory of NagornoKarabakh and urgently resume talks without preconditions.A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a sixday extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsins presidential election, handing Democrats a victory in their fight to deliver the key battleground state for Joe Biden in November.
The United Nations says talks between Libyan rivals in Egypt have concluded with preliminary agreements to exchange prisoners and open up air and land transit across the country's divided territory.
A bill to fund the federal government cleared a key Senate procedural hurdle Tuesday as lawmakers sought to accomplish the bare minimum before they depart Washington to campaign preventing a shutdown when the new fiscal year begins.Republican senators meeting with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday praised President Donald Trump's pick for the lifetime post, rejecting Democrats' assertion that she should recuse herself from potential electionrelated cases.
South Koreas daily coronavirus increase was the lowest in about 50 days Tuesday as new infections trend lower.
Democrats are confronting the limits of their power as they fight against the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett with a strategy aimed at avoiding costly mistakes that could hurt the party's candidates in November.On a Thursday night in early January, the disease that would become known as COVID-19 claimed its first victim, a 61-year-old man who succumbed to the newly identified coronavirus in the city of Wuhan, in the Peoples Republic of China.Veterinarians caring for 15 bulldog puppies rescued from a warehouse at Chicagos OHare International Airport on Monday refused to send the dogs back to the Middle East country from which they came.Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Sara Gideon clashed Monday over the Supreme Court and the response to the pandemic during their second debate in the closely watched Senate race.
Mexico upped its estimated COVID19 deaths to 89,612 on Monday, and boosted estimates of its total number of cases to 870,699, almost 137,000 more than it previously recognized.Mexico launched a special government guard force for mining operations Monday, admitting that drug cartels have preyed on the companies, many of which are foreign.
The coronavirus forced 84yearold Chung Seongran to do something new to celebrate South Korea's Thanksgiving holiday instead of being visited by her daughter.
