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Dr. Calvin Sun,The Monsoon Diaries Founder & CEO, Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine, joined Yahoo Finance to discuss the latest on Covid-19.
Dr. Calvin Sun,The Monsoon Diaries Founder & CEO, Clinical Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine, joined Yahoo Finance to discuss the latest on Covid-19.
President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Mexico did not rule out unilateral U.S. military action in Mexico if U.S. citizens were in danger, at his U.S. Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday. “Our first desire would be that it be done in partnership with our Mexican partners,” Ronald Johnson told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but added that "should there be a case where the lives of U.S. citizens are at risk, I think all cards are on the table." The issue of unilateral U.S. military intervention in Mexico has raised tensions between the two countries, especially after Trump designated various Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
While glasses were absolutely necessary for last year's solar eclipse, they are not needed to safely view this year's total lunar eclipse.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine but that any ceasefire would have to deal with the root causes of the conflict and that many details needed to be sorted out. The following are Putin's key quotes translated by Reuters reporters from Russian. Maybe I should call President Trump and have a discussion with him.
If tariffs on French macarons and Italian Parmigiano Reggiano weren't enough, Europhiles and the country club set are poised to take another big hit — with French bubbly.
Juliana Stratton has told fellow Democrats that she plans to run if Sen. Dick Durbin retires and that Gov. JB Pritzker will back her.
The content creator reportedly responded to the backlash, stating that the "baby was carefully held."
Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of Trump Tower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of a Columbia University activist who helped lead student protests on the Manhattan campus against Israel's war in Gaza. After warning the protesters to leave the Fifth Avenue building or face arrest, police began putting them in zip ties and loading them into police vans outside about an hour after the demonstration began.
A UK court on Thursday upheld lengthy prison terms handed to the father and stepmother of a 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl who was killed after suffering years of torture and abuse.Sara's father was sentenced in December to 40 years in prison for her murder, while her stepmother was ordered to remain in jail for at least 33 years.
The Internal Revenue Service’s acting chief counsel, William Paul, has been removed from his role at the agency and replaced by Andrew De Mello, an attorney in the chief counsel’s office who is deemed supportive of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to two people familiar with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly. The people said Paul was demoted from his position because he clashed with the DOGE’s alleged push to share tax information with multiple agencies. The news also comes as the IRS plans to institute massive cuts to its workforce.
Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were both members of collapsed. Here is a look at the history of the conflict and the latest developments as Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement. WHAT IS NAGORNO-KARABAKH?
Azerbaijan and Armenia said Thursday that they had wrapped up talks aimed at resolving the Caucasus neighbours' decades-long conflict, with both sides agreeing on the text of a possible treaty.Armenia last year suspended its participation in the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) over the bloc's failure to come to its aid in the conflict with Azerbaijan.
Sweden's government said Thursday it will hold talks with food producers and distributers as a consumer movement over soaring costs in the Nordic country gains traction."In view of the rapid price developments in the first months of the year and the rising prices in recent years, the Minister of Finance and Rural Affairs Minister will invite selected actors from the food supply chain for talks," the government said in a statement.
Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member who caused an international uproar when he leaked highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, pleaded guilty to military charges of obstructing justice at his court-martial Thursday. The judge approved the plea agreement, but had not addressed his sentencing yet, which was expected to occur later Thursday afternoon. Teixeira was already sentenced last year to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act, following his arrest in the most consequential national security breach in years.
The rate averaged 6.65% this week, up from 6.63% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, it averaged 6.16%, Freddie Mac said. Mortgage rates are influenced by several factors, including bond market investors’ expectations for future inflation, global demand for U.S. Treasurys and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy decisions.
The same storm, capable of producing clouds of dust and fast-moving wildfires in the southern Plains, blizzard conditions for the northern Plains and flash flooding from the Tennessee Valley to the Eastern Seaboard, will bring a major multiple-day outbreak of severe weather that includes multiple strong tornadoes from the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf Coast, Great Lakes and Atlantic coast. Since the middle of the week, meteorologists at AccuWeather have designated a portion of the threats for F
Mortgage rates barely moved despite a volatile few days in the stock market. The average rate on a 30-year loan stood at 6.65%, according to Freddie Mac.
A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
A hurricane modeling specialist fired from the National Weather Service said progress on forecast accuracy may "go backwards" if job cuts continue.
The fast-casual restaurant industry is hanging in there amid rising recession fears.
Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed the start of a "new history" for his country on Thursday, signing into force a constitutional declaration regulating its five-year transitional period and laying out rights for women and freedom of expression.Interim President Sharaa on Thursday said he hoped the constitutional declaration would mark the beginning of "a new history for Syria, where we replace oppression with justice... and suffering with mercy", as he signed the document at the presidential p