NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s three major stock indexes fell 3% on Tuesday as the coronavirus spread further around the world and investors clamored for safety a day after the S&P 500’s .SPX and the Dow Industrials’ .DJI biggest daily declines in two years. After U.S. stocks started the session with an attempt to
FILE PHOTO: Guatemala’s then-Attorney General Thelma Aldana participates in a news conference in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Aug. 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s former attorney general and recent presidential candidate Thelma Aldana said on Monday the United States has granted her asylum, days after her successor filed an extradition request for alleged
BOSTON (Reuters) – A California woman whose family’s company created the microwavable snack Hot Pockets faces sentencing on Tuesday for paying $300,000 to people who helped her two daughters cheat on college entrance exams and helped one win admission to the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit. FILE PHOTO: Michelle Janavs, former
(Photo: Getty Images; Illustration: Elham Numan) Although many struggled with Kobe Bryant’s complicated legacy after his sudden death, February 24 was a day dedicated to celebrating his life, and that of his 13-year-old daughter Gianna who perished with her father in a tragic helicopter crash nearly a month ago. But while a stadium full of
Ultra Music Festival‘s Phase 3 is officially here! Less than a month out from the flagship music festival, we have several artist additions and breakdowns by day and stage. The festival makes its epic return to Miami’s Bayfront Park in just 25 days. Additions to the lineup include David Guetta as Jack Back (his first North
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Machine Gun Kelly and one of the hottest chicks in the Instagram modeling game are dating … or at least it looked like they were at a Sunset Strip gig. MGK’s been spending a LOT of quality time with IG model Sommer Ray. We got video of them looking very
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth. A green seaweed fossil from China dating back
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is bringing its cashier-less store technology to a larger stage. FILE PHOTO: People walk by the Amazon Go brick-and-mortar grocery store without lines or checkout counters, in Seattle Washington, U.S. December 5, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Redmond The world’s biggest online retailer on Tuesday is set to open ‘Amazon Go Grocery,’
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Pete Buttigieg, the only veteran in the top tier of candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, is turning to South Carolina’s large military community to help shore up his nagging lack of support among black voters. Democratic presidential candidate and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg speaks during a
A company logo is pictured outside a Tesco supermarket in Altrincham northern England, April 16, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco (TSCO.L) has completed its exit from China with the sale of a 20% stake in a joint venture to a unit of its state-run partner China Resources Holdings (CRH),
VOLKMARSEN, Germany (Reuters) – Investigators were hoping on Tuesday to question a 29-year-old man suspected of ploughing a silver Mercedes car into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volksmarsen, injuring more than 50 people, including 18 children. The area is secured by the firefighters and police the day after a car ploughed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is asking Congress for $2.5 billion to fight the fast-spreading coronavirus, including more than $1 billion for vaccines, the White House said on Monday. FILE PHOTO: Passengers arrive at LAX from Shanghai, China, after a positive case of the coronavirus was announced in the Orange County suburb of Los
Saudi officials have reportedly called for the arrest of rapper Ayasel Slay after she uploaded a music video for her feminist anthem “Girl from Mecca” on YouTube. The video shows Ayasel in sunglasses hanging out in a café with a group of children dancing in the background. The lyrics reflect her pride in being a
The latest episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon was an episode-length celebration of BTS. The band, who just released their new album MAP OF THE SOUL : 7, hung out around New York City with Fallon. They sat down in an empty subway car with Fallon for an interview about their careers, their
The first looks at Robert Pattinson’s batsuit from The Batman bears a number of similarities to the suit from the Batman: Arkham video game series. There is plenty of Dark Knight source material from the upcoming 2021 film to take inspiration from. Countless comics, films and video games exist with Batman at center stage, but one of the
(Reuters) – Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures” to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died on Monday at the age of 101, NASA said. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama presents the