Another bout of selling gripped the U.S. stock market Friday, as anxiety mounts over whether the frenzy behind a swift, meteoric rise in GameStop and a handful of other stocks will damage Wall Street overall.
Republican lawmakers are balking at the cost of President Joe Bidenβs $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan β but the Biden team is trying to convince the country that the cost is a bargain compared to the potential damage to the worldβs largest economy.
A 17-year-old Indianapolis boy accused of fatally shooting his father, stepmother, two teenage relatives and a heavily pregnant 19-year-old woman was charged with six counts of murder Thursday, according to a prosecutor and court documents.
Johnson & Johnsonβs long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot β not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses.
They're using social media. The shakeup started when a group of small day traders organized on Reddit came together, forcing shares of GameStop up 1700% this month.
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropperβs wife in βSounder,β a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewersβ hearts in βThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,β died Thursday at age 96.
Former Carolina Panthers head coach Ron Rivera is officially cancer free, according to his daughter Courtney Rivera.
President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered government health insurance markets to reopen for a special sign-up window, offering uninsured Americans a haven as the spread of COVID-19 remains dangerously high and vaccines arenβt yet widely available.
A tornado with winds approaching 85 miles per hour touched down in Florida's capital early on Wednesday, damaging its airport and taking the local radar system offline briefly.
A new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, with two cases diagnosed in South Carolina, state health officials said Thursday.
Governor Roy Cooper says the North Carolina Modified Stay-At-Home Order will be extended until at least Sunday, February 28th, requiring people to stay home from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m.
Cloris Leachman, Oscar-winning actor also known as TVβs Phyllis Lindstrom, dies at 94, publicist says.
Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. On Wall Street, though, itβs become a battleground where swarms of smaller investors see themselves making an epic stand against the 1%.
Belk, the North Carolina-based department store chain which has catered to generations of shoppers for nearly 190 years, announced Tuesday that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their criticism of the former president and shunning calls to convict him over the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.
Officials say a tornado left significant storm damage just north of Birmingham, leaving the area with crumpled buildings and downed trees. The National Weather Service in Birmingham says officials are evaluating the damage to determine the strength of the tornado, which hit the Fultondale area of Jefferson County late Monday night.
President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military.
A Black woman who was fatally shot by a North Carolina police officer nearly six years ago is one of nearly 90 people honored through an NFL program that recognizes victims of systemic racism and police violence.
The Senate plans to begin former President Trump's trial next month. The article will be presented Monday and Senators will be sworn in as jurors Tuesday.
For two Virginia police officers who posed for a photo during the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the reckoning has been swift and public: They were identified, charged with crimes and arrested.
