NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has been steadily climbing in popularity this year and is now tied with former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination among registered voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national poll. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates (L-R) former Vice President Joe Biden greeets
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is expected to report on Friday that economic growth slowed to its weakest in nearly three decades in 2019 amid a bruising trade war with the United States, and more stimulus steps are expected this year to help avert sharper slowdown. FILE PHOTO: A teller counts yuan banknotes at a China
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Intense thunderstorms with heavy rains dampened bushfires on Australia east coast on Friday and brought relief to farmers in three states battling a drought which has left much of the country tinder dry. FILE PHOTO: A buggy pulls people, sliding around in the mud, as they celebrate the rainfall in Winton, Queensland,
FILE PHOTO: Yosemite Valley is seen in Yosemite National Park, California, U.S., March 30, 2019. National Park Week begins April 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (Reuters) – Some 170 people who have spent time in Yosemite National Park in recent weeks have suffered from a gastrointestinal ailment “consistent with norovirus” and two have been diagnosed with
Pascal Le SegretainGetty Images Posing for photos is an awkward undertaking, so how do celebs make it look easy? It turns out red carpet pros have an arsenal of poses for getting the perfect shot, but even the most effortless-looking photo-ops take some practice. Celebrity stylist Micaela Erlanger, who dresses red carpet darlings like Lupita
Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae are on the run in the first trailer for Michael Showalter’s The Lovebirds. The highly anticipated follow-up to 2017’s The Big Sick finds the filmmaker revisiting his more tongue-in-cheek comedic roots, particularly his time with Stella. Written by Aaron Abrams, Brendan Gall, and Martin Gero, the film follows two lovers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A microorganism scooped up in deep-sea mud off Japan’s coast has helped scientists unlock the mystery of one of the watershed evolutionary events for life on Earth: the transition from the simple cells that first colonized the planet to complex cellular life – fungi, plants and animals including people. A scanning electron
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to send two formal charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate, clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a U.S. president to begin in earnest next week. Lawmakers voted 228 to 193 to give the Senate, controlled by Trump’s fellow
FILE PHOTO: Grounded Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft are shown parked at Victorville Airport in Victorville, California, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N) said on Thursday it would extend cancellations of 737 MAX flights through June 6, as the grounding of the Boeing Co (BA.N) jet
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg will blitz Iowa before the state kicks off the party’s nominating contest on Feb. 3, while their key rivals will be largely unable to campaign because they must sit as Senate jurors in Republican President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. FILE PHOTO: Democratic
If the fashion world taught us anything in 2019, it’s that anything goes. The days of being a slave to seasonal trends are O-V-E-R and we’re finally free to dress as we please. Case in point: Harry Styles, the posterchild for the wear-what-you-want liberation. Over the past 12 months, the 25-year-old singer’s wardrobe choices have
Creamfields just announced The Chainsmokers as the Friday headliner for 2020. The Grammy Award-winning duo joins the previously announced headliners as a UK festival exclusive. CamelPhat, Pendulum and Armin van Buuren are also set to play the music festival which takes place over August 27 – 30 in 2020. The Chainsmokers most recently dropped their third studio album World War
Exclusive TMZ.com Damon Dash is pissed at We TV for allegedly reneging on a promise not to allow his son to drink alcohol on “Growing Up Hip Hop” … and now daddy’s suing the network. According to a new lawsuit obtained by TMZ, Damon Dash claims We TV required his kid, Damon “Boogie” Dash, to
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of U.S. states suing to block T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) from merging with Sprint Corp (S.N) on Wednesday told a federal judge that the deal would raise prices for consumers, while the phone companies pushed back and emphasized they would compete aggressively to push prices down. FILE PHOTO: A
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After weeks of rhetorical fire and fury, a handful of U.S. House members walked quietly across a hushed Capitol on Wednesday to deliver articles of impeachment to the Senate, paving the way for the trial of President Donald Trump. Led by the House of Representatives’ sergeant at arms and the House clerk