Tag: fears

It has been a chaotic first six weeks for Biden and his new administration. With ex-President Trump's impeachment trial and a partisan split over...

Republican legislators in Oklahoma and Iowa have passed bills granting immunity to drivers whose vehicles strike and injure protesters in public streets. And in Florida, Gov....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren made fighting corruption her top priority during the 2020 Democratic primary. It may not have appeared that way in the press,...

The G7 group of major global economies announced over the weekend that it had reached an agreement to levy a 15% minimum tax on...

Vice President Kamala Harris defended her job performance in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America" Co-Anchor George Stephanopoulos, insisting that she and President...

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a Washington regulator that almost no one has heard of, is suddenly gaining a lot of attention—and for...

Night after night, tear gas has hung like a cloud over the Sterling Square Apartments, just across the street from the Brooklyn Center Police...

Americans may soon have greater access to retirement plans and may be able to postpone withdrawing their savings as a result of new legislation...

According to people familiar with the matter, the indictment of a far-right internet activist on charges of interfering with the 2016 U.S. election reflects...

In a rare criminal case involving the Kingpin Act, a U.S. judge sentenced the daughter of Mexican drug lord "El Mencho" to two years...

He's a legend in New Jersey high school – and a mystery in the stock market. Paul Morina, the principal of Paulsboro, New Jersey, High...

A ring of fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico caused by a ruptured gas pipeline has renewed concern about the state...

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down on Monday, adding to Facebook's woes as it deals with Senate hearings on child safety, a high-profile...

We've seen Aaron Rodgers as guest host of the legendary quiz show "Jeopardy" for nearly two weeks now. He's a self-admitted superfan of the...

As is customary at the start of Small Business Week, the White House offered platitudes. The “engines of our economic progress” are small businesses....

After growing frustration with the direction of the GOP and the Trump Administration, more than 100 former Republican officials are considering forming a conservative...

Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, could be in for a rough ride on Thursday when he testifies to Congress for the first time...

The House of Representatives is poised this week to pass President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan with $1,400 checks, billions for vaccines,...

According to the platform targeted in the hack, hackers have returned nearly all of the $600 million stolen in one of the largest cryptocurrency...

Thousands of curious onlookers have flocked to an erupting volcano in Iceland to marvel at the hypnotic display of glowing red lava, the bravest...

Brazil’s rampant coronavirus outbreak has become a global threat that risks spawning new and even more lethal variants, one of the South American country’s...

When the United States Catholic Bishops meet in June, they will decide whether to send a tougher-than-ever message to President Joe Biden and other...

Across the world 800 million children are still not fully back in school, UNICEF is warning, with many at risk of never returning to...

In a wave of communal unrest, rival Arab and Jewish mobs carried out beatings and torching cars on the streets of Israel late Wednesday. As...

The US Embassy in Beijing has apologized after a social media post meant to herald the removal of some pandemic barriers between the two...

The Justice Department will ask the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday to reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, despite...

One of the Biden Administration's top priorities is getting the president's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan through Congress in its entirety. This would be a...

Google announced today that it will postpone plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser until 2023, a year or so later...

American politics is in a state of flux, and both parties are desperately seeking, albeit painfully, balance. Democrats are clinging to razor-thin majorities in the...

There has been a recent surge of parents choosing to enroll their kids in private schools due to the lack of face-to-face contact in...

Chrissy Teigen is reflecting on herself following her cyberbullying scandal. During an appearance on the Today show on Tuesday morning, the 35-year-old author of Cravings:...

For the last seven weeks, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, have been voting by mail on whether to unionize. Their ballots...

Beginning November, the Biden administration will lift travel restrictions on foreigners who have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, reopening the country to thousands...

On Wednesday, the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a warning to U.S. organizations about...

On Sunday, Moscow had the highest daily coronavirus death toll for a Russian city, as countries across the Asia-Pacific region extended or reimposed restrictions...

In the United States, there is a direct relationship between education and income. People earn more money on average with each degree they obtain,...

A framed photo on the wall of Travis Riddle's soul food restaurant shows the local sheriff arresting a gray-bearded white man with his hands...

Consumer staple stocks, such as PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP), can be a great addition to any long-term portfolio because they are known to perform well during...

A Moscow court has denied an appeal by one of two former Marines whom US officials believe Russia is holding hostage and whose cases...

Scientists reported in a new study published Thursday that human-caused climate change has disrupted a large system of ocean currents in the Atlantic, including...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Saturday that the lower chamber is "hard at work" to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill as well...

After Ida's remnants swept through the East Coast, killing at least 48 people, New York's mayor said the heavy rains should cause everyone to...

Heavy-armed commandos kidnapped the princess on a yacht in the Indian Ocean. Despite her pleas, which were confirmed by two eyewitnesses aboard the US-flagged yacht...

Some of the world's most famous people gathered in London on Sunday night for the first-ever "Earthshot Prize" awards ceremony, hosted by Britain's Prince...

Millions of people will lose their unemployment benefits this weekend, as federal pandemic-era policies come to an end. In March 2020, Congress authorized a historic...

The House of Representatives is currently preparing to send over articles of impeachment to the Senate on Monday morning, and as that takes place,...

Xiaomi Corp. plans to invest about $10 billion over the next decade to manufacture electric cars, embarking on its biggest-ever overhaul to enter China’s...

A Michigan prosecutor will hold a news conference on Friday to discuss whether or not to charge the parents of the 15-year-old accused of...

  President Joe Biden and his administration are planning to share with the public Tuesday that they will begin distributing a limited number of COVID-19 vaccines straight...

A member of a men's chorus group in South Florida unintentionally slammed into fellow chorists at the start of a Pride parade, killing one...

The preseason is called that for a reason. Both teams are testing lineups and systems, gradually working their stars into game shape, and taking...

According to a new study, two out of every five people with compromised immune systems have a “low or undetectable” antibody response after receiving...

Europe reported its first case of the rapidly spreading new coronavirus variant, and dozens of countries restricted travel to and from southern Africa, where...

Cloning is described as the intentional creation of genetically exact duplicates of an organism. Each resulting individual is a copy of the original. It...

The B.1.617 coronavirus variant that is currently wreaking havoc in India has made its way to the United States. Experts believe it is unlikely...

Sir Richard Branson has been granted the permission he requires to fly paying customers to the edge of space in his Virgin Galactic rocket...

Some Republican states are expanding unemployment benefits for employees who were fired or quit due to vaccine mandates, a move that critics say effectively...

Thousands of Afghans who assisted the US military or who are vulnerable in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan are arriving in the US, where they are staying...

The massive cyberattack on US software company Kaseya, which could affect up to 1,500 businesses, is heightening tensions between Washington and Moscow less than...

Microsoft announced last year that it will be carbon-negative by 2030. “Science tells us that the results will be catastrophic if we do not...

When it comes time to start comparing car insurance prices and rates, there are two primary ways to do so. You could use an...

The United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) reported that 560,826 mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2020 presidential election. The Election Administration Commission (EAC)...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' space company, filed a lawsuit against NASA's Moon program in federal court on Monday. The complaint escalates the company's months-long...

After warnings that a tropical storm could make the site unsafe, demolition crews used explosives to bring down the remaining structure left behind after...

Last year, Shannon Keeler was on a weekend getaway with her boyfriend when she checked her Facebook messages for the first time in ages....

A group of astronauts who are trailblazers for their respective ethnicities are now true "rock stars," having asteroids named for them. The International Astronomical Union...

Lilibet is a reference to Queen Elizabeth's childhood, when she struggled to pronounce her own name. "Lilibet is my pride; Margaret is my joy,"...

Last week, politicians and leaders gathered in Glasgow for COP26 to work out policies to address the climate crisis. Because the need for energy...

Dawn Beasley received a phone call in January 2020 that changed her life — and the course of a murder trial. Carl Harris was about...

President Biden plans to sign an executive order aimed at addressing the global semiconductor chip shortage which has forced U.S. automakers and other manufacturers...

Francis slammed the spread of the old Latin Mass on Friday, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to...

A new study found that people with high blood pressure who used a smartphone app and an at-home monitor were able to lower their...

South Africa, with its rolling vineyards, abundant big game, the iconic Table Mountain, endless sandy beaches, and vast cultural riches, would have expected to...

President Joe Biden began his first overseas trip as president on Wednesday, seeking to reaffirm the United States' standing on the world stage with...

Derek Chauvin invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify on Thursday and the defense rested its case as the trial of George Floyd's...

Criminal organizations trafficking women, children, families and single adults over the U.S.- Mexico Border earned as much as $14 million a day in February, according...

Su Hua, the founder of a Chinese startup called Kuaishou Technology, was on the verge of closing the biggest deal of his career in...

China's "wolf warrior" diplomats are back after a brief lull, firing insults over Twitter, smearing critics and suggesting conspiracies. The hyperactivity of the envoys...

Today, the average senior on Social Security receives $1,543 per month. When combined with withdrawals from a retirement plan or ongoing pension payments, that...

A transgender South Korean soldier who was forcibly discharged from the army after gender-reassignment surgery has been found dead, police said, prompting anger Thursday...