Congress Reaches Deal On $8.3B Bill To Battle Coronavirus
WASHINGTON (AP) — Capitol Hill negotiators have reached agreement on an $8.3 billion measure to battle the coronavirus outbreak that's spreading and threatening a major shock to th...
Melania Trump On Rare Fundraising Foray Into 2020 Campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump is set to make a rare fundraising foray into the 2020 campaign.
President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is asking supporters to make a donat...
Florida Lawmakers Rally Behind 6-Year-Old Arrested At School
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers rallied behind a 6-year-old girl who was zip-tied at school and arrested last fall, when the state House on Wednesday unanimously passed ...
Airline Mechanic Gets 3 Years For Sabotaging Jetliner
MIAMI (AP) — A veteran airline mechanic was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for sabotaging an American Airlines jetliner with 150 people aboard in a bid to earn overti...
Stocks Soar On Plans For More Stimulus Measures
WALL STREET (VINnews) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 1,100 points, or 4.5%, Wednesday on hopes that governments and central banks around the world will take mo...
Bloomberg Spent $500M on Failed Democratic Presidential Bid
NEW YORK (AP) — Over the course of 101 days Michael Bloomberg spent over $500 million of his own fortune in a quixotic bid for the presidency that collapsed in stunning fashion Tue...
Fed’s Powell Faces a Puzzling Crisis With No Simple Solution
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jerome Powell is confronting his stiffest test yet as head of the Federal Reserve in an atmosphere vastly altered from what his predecessors faced. It makes an un...
Prosecutors Charge Contractor With Passing US Military Secrets to Foreign National Believed Tied to Hezbollah
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Defense Department contract linguist has been charged with giving classified information, including the names of American intelligence assets, to a Lebanese na...
San Antonio: CDC Planned to Drop Cruise Passengers at Mall
TEXAS (AP) - Federal health officials planned to drop off some cruise ship passengers at a shopping mall after their release from a two-week quarantine at a Texas air base, one of ...
Airline Leaders Meet With Trump About Virus
WASHINGTOn (AP) - President Donald Trump is putting a positive spin on the fallout from the coronavirus, saying a lot of people are staying in the United States and they’re shoppin...
Alan Gross Says Bernie Sanders Praised Cuba During A Prison Visit
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Alan Gross, who was imprisoned in Cuba for five years for trying to connect its Jewish community to the internet, said Bernie Sanders praised Cuba during a priso...
Los Angeles Declares Emergency After Confirming Six New Coronavirus Cases Over 48 hours
CALIFORNIA (VINnews) - Los Angeles-area officials declared an emergency, saying they’ve discovered six new COVID-19 cases in the county over the last 48 hours.
“I have just sig...
A Disconnect Between Trump and Health Officials on Virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whom to believe on the coronavirus threat — the president saying one thing or the public health officials standing beside him and saying something a little differ...
States Scramble to Prepare Ahead of Food Stamps Rule Change
CHICAGO (AP) — Having food stamps offers Richard Butler a stability he’s rarely known in his 25 years. He was in state custody at age 2, spent his teen years at a Chicago boys’ hom...
2 State Troopers Rescue Trucker Before Rig Explodes
BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey state troopers pulled a trucker to safety just seconds before his burning tractor-trailer exploded.
Trooper Robert Tarleton had ...
Bloomberg Drops out of Presidential Race, Endorses Biden
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billionaire Mike Bloomberg ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden. It was a stunning ...
Georgia County Ditches New Voting Machines For Paper Ballots
ATLANTA (AP) — With early voting already underway, election officials in a Georgia county have voted to switch from the state's new voting machines to hand-marked paper ballots ami...
Warren’s Future Uncertain After Loss In Home State Of Massachusetts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The future of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign was in serious doubt after she was defeated in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in her home state of Massa...
Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Facebook’s Role Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
MENLO PARK, CA (VINnews) — Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out amid the coronavirus outbreak, to address Facebook's role amid the coronavirus outbreak.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday ...
