Tag: chairmanship

Howard Prager, 66, and his klezmer band were set up in chairs on a slow-moving flatbed truck Monday morning as they pulled into the...

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin traveled to Israel in June to scout potential investments for his new company, then flew to Qatar for a...

A Texas state law that prohibits abortion after six weeks of pregnancy could serve as a model for red states to enact stringent abortion...

Raven Saunders, the American shot-putter who delivered the first political demonstration on the podium at the Tokyo Olympics by raising her arms and crossing...

Republicans continued to defend former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday, despite an unprecedented F.B.I. search of his Florida home, revealing deep cracks in...

Five students and their mothers from Coosa High School in Rome, Georgia, filed a federal lawsuit against the Floyd County School District, alleging racial...

President Joe Biden issued an emergency order Monday to increase solar panel manufacturing in the United States and declared a two-year tariff exemption on...

Inflation rose again in June, thanks to persistent increases in gas, food, and rent prices, setting a new 40-year high and likely cementing the...

President-elect Joe Biden has reportedly grown alarmingly frustrated with theteam leading the vaccination attempts across the United States. Biden had originally stated that he...

According to US officials, the Biden administration has reached an agreement with Mexico to reinstate a Trump-era border policy that requires asylum seekers to...

​​West Virginia University researchers believe they have discovered living microorganisms in a halite sample dating back 830 million years, providing insight into past life...

California is on track to become one of the first states in the country to explicitly enshrine the right to abortion and contraception in...

Hong Kong residents in Canada are banding together to assist the latest influx of migrants fleeing Beijing's tightening grip on their city. Networks across the...

To ensure that the World Cup is advantageous to the Iranian regime, Qatar has been working with Iran to control which media outlets cover...

As the number of coronavirus infections among unvaccinated Americans continues to rise, Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert, said on Sunday that...

Japan and the United States joined forces Tuesday to criticize China's “coercion and aggression" in Asia as senior ministers from both countries held their...

A new study discovered that gas stoves contribute more to global warming than previously thought due to constant tiny methane leaks while they are...

There's a lot going on at the end of Netflix's battle royale thriller Squid Game, which is a cross between Bong Joon-Oscar-winning ho's film...

A group of people waits patiently by a blue bus parked beneath a bridge in Belgrade on a sunny autumn day. This will be...

For weeks, César Salomé, a physician in Lima’s Hospital Mongrut, had followed the chilling reports. A new coronavirus variant, spawned in the Amazon rainforest,...

Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., was killed in a car accident in her home state of Indiana on Wednesday. According to an Indiana sheriff's...

According to European intelligence officials and defense analysts, explosions at a Russian airbase in Crimea that Ukraine claims destroyed nine fighter aircraft may indicate...

A co-founder of the global scheme to provide vaccines for poor people said Thursday India was delaying exports of much-needed jabs, as EU leaders...

Moral crucibles that upend ordinary people's lives, never above reproach but always deserving of sympathy, serve as a dramatic propellant for Iranian writer-director Asghar...

The future wars are already being won by China. According to a new report from Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Beijing...

As is customary at the start of Small Business Week, the White House offered platitudes. The “engines of our economic progress” are small businesses....

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) enforcement division resigned on Wednesday in response to a federal judge's order that could raise...

Waterloo, Iowa's first Black police chief is facing fierce opposition from some current and former officers as he works with city leaders to reform...

The European Union's disease control agency has called for more rapid vaccination in Europe, as the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid is expected...

Following Katie Britt's victory over Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., in Tuesday's GOP primary runoff election, Alabama voters will decide who will be their next...

The Biden administration on Thursday announced tough new sanctions on Russia and formally blamed the country’s premier intelligence agency for the sophisticated hacking operation...

According to online researchers, flaws in Apple's new child abuse detection tool could allow bad actors to target iOS users. Apple, on the other...

The White House announced Tuesday that President Joe Biden is releasing 50 million barrels of oil from the nation's emergency stockpile to reduce energy...

Leah Zhang experienced a growing sense of suffocation as coronavirus cases increased in Shanghai earlier this year and the city's lockdown lasted for weeks...

A California judge on Friday struck down the nation's first law requiring corporate board diversity, a measure that many workplace diversity experts had hailed...

Last year, Shannon Keeler was on a weekend getaway with her boyfriend when she checked her Facebook messages for the first time in ages....

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Tuesday that he will work with Congress to remove sexual assault prosecutions from the military justice system, a dramatic...

Two of the nation's top health agencies authorized and expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to allow older Americans to receive a second booster shot in...

Three Russian navy submarines punched their way through several feet of sea ice in the Arctic to surface simultaneously within a few hundred feet...

Yolanda Renee King is a seasoned speaker and activist at the age of 13. Many people may have noticed similarities between her and her grandfather,...

25th of September, 2001 It's a date that many Michael Jordan fans don't believe exists. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of Michael Jordan's return from...

Finland and Sweden formally applied for NATO membership on Wednesday, a move that, if approved, would fundamentally transform Northern Europe's security landscape and provide...

Because of "unknown hazards" in the area where a family and their dog were mysteriously found dead last month, federal forest officials closed trails...

President Joe Biden attended an emergency NATO summit from the White House Situation Room on Friday morning to coordinate next steps with Western allies...

The Biden administration is moving forward with plans to wind down the long-term detention of migrant families, according to documents filed late Friday in...

Michael Storm, a retired Army captain, wanted to take advantage of a new federal plan that requires health insurers to cover up to eight...

Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc are spending millions of dollars to provide drivers with access to COVID-19 vaccines and offering tens of millions...

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization that has been tracking attacks on the Jewish community since 1979, recorded the highest number of...

Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on...

An Iranian girl in middle school was beaten to death after police discovered a torn-up photo of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini in...

Republican governors are optimistic about their 2022 midterm prospects against Democrats after a big win in Virginia and a better-than-expected performance in New Jersey,...

Travis Scott's offer to pay for the funeral of the youngest person to die as a result of attending his Astroworld Festival was turned...

On Tuesday, Apple will hold its annual iPhone event, the company's seventh virtual launch in a row due to the pandemic. Analysts predict that the...

Republican Missouri state Sen. Mike Moon believes that Covid-19 vaccinations should be discontinued, particularly among children, until the long-term effects are known. He cites...

A New York gun control law that prohibits firearms in Times Square, Yankee Stadium, the subway, and other sensitive areas is on shaky legal...

North Korea said Thursday it will ignore a U.S. offer for talks unless it withdraws its hostile policy, after Washington reached out to Pyongyang...

As Covid-19 spread last year, governments around the world touted the prospect of “herd immunity,” a promised land in which the virus would stop...

If the coronavirus pandemic has caused you to rethink the way you spend and save money, you're not alone. According to a McKinsey report  published...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday that the global death toll from the coronavirus had reached 4 million. The UN's health agency...

Dolly Parton is one of this year's Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy recipients, having made a significant donation to help fund coronavirus vaccine research in...

The college football champion for the 2021 season was crowned on Monday night in Indianapolis, as SEC rivals Alabama and Georgia clashed in the...

Lilibet is a reference to Queen Elizabeth's childhood, when she struggled to pronounce her own name. "Lilibet is my pride; Margaret is my joy,"...

Following this week's horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, some expected the National Rifle Association (NRA) to cancel its annual...

China signaled on Monday that it is not interested in supplying weapons to Russia for use in Ukraine, where President Vladimir Putin's brutal military...

In its preliminary findings of an investigation into Apple's App Store, the European Commission found the company to be in violation of EU competition...

The school police chief who was chastised for allowing officers to remain on campus during a gunman's deadly siege last week in Uvalde, Texas,...

A third of all the world's man-made greenhouse gas emissions are linked to food, according to new global research that tracked produce from field...

Klain, who had left his position as chief of staff in then-Vice President Joe Biden's office a year prior but was still the foundation's...

Several decades ago, Mexican activists drove women to the United States to have their pregnancies terminated at clinics. Women in the United States are...

An independent review released Wednesday found that the police officers in Moab, Utah, who encountered Gabby Petito and her fiancé a month before her...

Inflation may be soaring, supply chains remain clogged, and the coronavirus refuses to go away, but America's casinos are humming along, with March being...

Ordinary Americans may be unaware of this, but political science buffs who live in and write about Washington are arguing about how bad things...

The question was straightforward, as was the answer. "Earlier this week, stated that there was no evidence of vote-counting irregularities... "And that Joe Biden...

Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, and Washington voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide who will advance to a slew of competitive general election...

In 2018, a mother and her daughter were killed after being hit by Cameron Herrin's car. Herrin received a 24-year prison sentence in April...

Even as the Omicron variant engulfs the United Kingdom and threatens to put the economy into reverse, the Bank of England is raising interest...

The White House prepared for harsh congressional inquiries as soon as President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal started to go wrong, with chaos at Kabul's airport,...

The Olympic trajectory that had Simone Biles on track for multiple gold medals has shifted from all but certain to, at best, hazy. Biles withdrew...

Vaccines appear to be starting to reduce new Covid-19 infections in the United States, a breakthrough that could allow people to resume more normal...

Over the last few years, many communities across the country have enacted plastic bag bans. Bans are typically announced at the local level. However,...