Disneyland announced on Thursday it would be closing down starting Saturday, March 14 through the end of March in the wake of growing concerns in the U.S. and around the world about the coronavirus pandemic. ... [Read Full Story]
More than two months after the start of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China, on Wednesday the World Health Organization (“WHO”) formally declared the outbreak a global pandemic. The WHO generally defines a pandemic as a disease that has become widespread around the world.... [Read Full Story]
Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday for his rape and criminal sex act convictions following a landmark trial in the #MeToo era. Weinstein was convicted Feb. 24 of rape in the third degree for assaulting aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a New York City hotel room in 2013, and of committing a criminal sex act for forcing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006. ... [Read Full Story]
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden have both canceled their campaign rallies planned for Tuesday night in Ohio, due to concerns about the coronavirus. These cancellations are the first on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, as concerns about the outbreak mount.... [Read Full Story]
An appeals court has ruled that the Justice Department has to provide Congress with secret grand jury evidence from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. ... [Read Full Story]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended Monday’s trading session down more than 2,000 points – or 7.8% – amid Coronavirus fears and the steep sell-off in crude oil. The S&P 500 fell 6.63% and the Nasdaq slipped 7.29% by the time trading closed.... [Read Full Story]
The United States military said in a statement on Monday that two U.S. service members were killed by “enemy forces” Sunday, while advising and accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a mission to eliminate an ISIS terrorist stronghold in a mountainous area of north-central Iraq. The names of the service members are being withheld pending next of kin notification, in accordance with U.S. Department of Defense policy, the statement said.... [Read Full Story]
At least one person is dead and 17 others were injured in a shooting at a party in Cleveland, Ohio over the weekend. The shooting occurred after a fight broke out at a gathering attended by multiple motorcycle clubs, according to Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia. Several people were thrown out, but they came back and started firing on the party. Police were called to the scene at around 11:30 p.m.... [Read Full Story]
According to South Korea’s military, North Korea fired at least three unidentified projectiles off its east coast early Monday. ... [Read Full Story]
A federal appeals court has allowed the Trump administration to keep the “Remain in Mexico” policy in place in Texas and New Mexico while it prepared for a challenge by the Supreme Court.... [Read Full Story]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren suspended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, two days after she failed to win a single state primary, including her home state of Massachusetts. ... [Read Full Story]
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a victim succumbing in California — the nation’s first reported fatality outside Washington state. Officials in Placer County, northwest of Sacramento, said an elderly person who tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday after returning from a San Francisco-Mexico cruise had died. The victim had underlying health conditions, authorities said.... [Read Full Story]
14 states and one U.S. territory headed to the polls Tuesday in races that will help choose the Democratic nominee to face President Donald Trump in the November general election.... [Read Full Story]
At least 25 people were killed, several others injured and tens of thousands of households and businesses left without power when a tornado struck parts of Nashville and central Tennessee early Tuesday, officials said. The deaths occurred in at least four counties, including Davidson, where Nashville is, and Putnam, Benton and Wilson, according to officials. At least 18 of the deaths occurred in Putnam County, officials said Tuesday. ... [Read Full Story]
Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar has dropped out of the race to become the Democratic presidential candidate for the 2020 US election. Kobluchar endorsed her rival Joe Biden at a rally in Dallas on Monday night, ahead of the crucial Super Tuesday primary elections. “I cannot think of a better way to end my campaign than joining his,” she told the crowd. Klobuchar is the latest in a string of dropouts; former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg decided to end his campaign Sunday evening, also endorsing Biden on Monday. And billionaire Tom Steyer dropped out over the weekend after a disappointing showing in the South Carolina Democratic primary.... [Read Full Story]
Health officials in Washington state announced four additional deaths from the coronavirus on Monday, raising the U.S. death toll to six. A man in his 70s, a woman in her 70s and a woman in her 80s died in King County on Sunday from the virus, which causes a disease called COVID-19. The sixth death was reported in Snohomish County. Information about the patient has not been released.... [Read Full Story]
On Sunday night, Pete Buttigieg ended his campaign for President. Buttigieg officially made the announcement during a hastily planned event on Sunday in South Bend, where the former mayor said “today is a moment of truth… the truth is the path has narrowed to a close, for our candidacy, if not for our cause. So we must recognize that at this point in the race the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together. So tonight, I am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency.” Buttigieg added: “We have a responsibility to concede the effect of remaining in this race any further. Our goal has always been to help unify Americans to defeat Donald Trump and to win the era for our values.” ... [Read Full Story]
After the coronavirus infections in Italy rose 50% Sunday, the U.S. government has issued its strongest travel warning yet, advising Americans against any travel to two regions in northern Italy that have been hard hit by the virus. Authorities said the total number of people infected in Italy had risen to 1,694, a 50% jump from just 24 hours earlier. Five more people infected with the virus have died, bringing the deaths in Italy to 34.... [Read Full Story]
After placing third in the state’s primary on Saturday with only 11 percent of the vote, billionaire Tom Steyer announced he would be suspending his campaign. Steyer said” “There’s no question today that this campaign, we were disappointed with where we came out.”... [Read Full Story]
Officials have identified the employee of the Molson Coors Beverage Company who killed five co-workers at the company’s Milwaukee Brewery campus as 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill. Ferrill left the MillerCoors campus and returned to the site with a gun on Wednesday around 2 p.m. local time, according to law enforcement officials... [Read Full Story]
More than 8,400 returning travelers that have entered California from Asia on commercial flights are being monitored for the coronavirus, according to California Governor Gavin Newsom. The Governor urged residents to take precautions regarding the coronavirus, while emphasizing that the risks to public health were low. He said there was no need to declare a public health emergency, adding, “Everybody in this country is rightfully anxious about this moment. I think they should know we are meeting this moment with the kind of urgency that is necessary and I don’t want to over extend the anxiety.” The governor said that California had only received about 200 testing kits for the virus, an amount he called “simply inadequate.” But he said federal officials have promised him the state will get many more soon.... [Read Full Story]
Leaders of a Neo-Nazi group have been arrested and charged in a pair of federal investigations with conspiring to harass journalists, churches and a former Cabinet official, among others, with phony bomb threats and other forms of intimidation.... [Read Full Story]
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court said the Trump administration can withhold funds from New York City and seven states that have declared themselves sanctuaries from federal immigration policies, setting the stage for possible U.S. Supreme Court action. The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said President Trump acted within his authority when he signed an executive order in January 2017 to withhold federal funds from states that resisted helping federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.... [Read Full Story]
On Tuesday night, the seven Democratic candidates in the race for President took the debate stage in South Carolina, hoping to win over voters before the state’s primary on Saturday. ... [Read Full Story]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged for the second straight day, tumbling more than 800 points after health officials warned the novel coronavirus likely will spread throughout communities in the U.S. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all had fallen about 3% through early-afternoon trading on Tuesday. ... [Read Full Story]
Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures,” died Monday, NASA said in a tweet. She was 101. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine in a statement: “Ms. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space even as she made huge strides that also opened doors for women and people of color in the universal human quest to explore space. At NASA we will never forget her courage and leadership and the milestones we could not have reached without her.”... [Read Full Story]
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape and a criminal sex act on Monday. After over five days of deliberation, jurors in Manhattan Supreme Court cleared Weinstein, 67, of the most serious charge against him, predatory sex assault. He faced five charges, including predatory sexual assault and first-degree rape, for the alleged sexual assault of Miriam Haleyi inside his SoHo apartment in 2006 and the alleged 2013 rape of Jessica Mann inside a New York hotel room.... [Read Full Story]
Celebrated restaurateur and model Barbara Elaine Smith, known professionally as B. Smith, died Saturday after struggling with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Dan Gasby, Smith’s husband, announced on Facebook that she died late Saturday at the couple’s home on Long Island, New York.... [Read Full Story]
New York’s , Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the Albany Jewish Community Center in New York was evacuated and searched Sunday morning, after it and several other centers around the country received anonymous emails with vague threats that mentioned a bomb. Cuomo went to the Albany center after police evacuated about 100 people, searched the building with dogs and declared it safe.... [Read Full Story]
Three people were killed in a small plane crash in Abilene, Texas on Thursday morning, authorities said. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the twin-engine Beechcraft BE20 Super King Air disappeared from air traffic radar just before 6 a.m. Feb. 20. Officials said the pilot was trying to return to an airport because of an electrical problem.... [Read Full Story]
