The Stock Market Is Having its Worst Second Quarter Since the Great Depression

By BLOOMBERG  April 2, 2018 If you feel like the second quarter has begun badly, you’d be right. U.S. stocks are on track to have their worst April start since 1929, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The S&P 500 index slumped 2.4 percent as of 1:10 p.m. in New York, a...

China hits back with tariffs on US imports worth $3bn

China has imposed tariffs of up to 25% on 128 US imports, including pork and wine, after US President Donald Trump raised duties on foreign steel and aluminium imports in March. The tariffs affecting some $3bn (£2.1bn) of imports kick in on Monday. Beijing said the move was to "safeguard...

Wagner, Michigan end Loyola's run 69-57 in Final Four

By RALPH D. RUSSO From Associated Press March 31, 2018 11:46 PM EST SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Staring down a 10-point, second-half deficit against an underdog that seemed nothing short of blessed during the madness of March, Moe Wagner and Michigan clamped down on Loyola-Chicago and ended...

Trump tells aides not to talk publicly about Russia policy moves

by Carol E. Lee, Courtney Kube and Kristen Welker / Mar.29.2018 / 2:15 PM ET But Trump, irked by Putin's nuclear buildup, told him last week: "If you want to have an arms race we can do that, but I'll win." WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's national security advisers spent months trying to...

100-Year-Old Survivor Takes Part in Bataan Memorial Death March

Retired U.S. Army Col. Ben Skardon, 98, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, shares a laugh with a group of supporters after walking more than eight miles in the 27th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 20, 2016. (U.S. Army photo/Ken Scar) Las Cruces...

Kansas girl at center of 1954 school segregation ruling dies

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Linda Brown, who as a Kansas girl was at the center of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll the family in an all-white school in Topeka, and the case was sparked...

The Surprising History of the Wolf-Whistle.

By Alex Marshall23 March 2018 You might not have seen To Have and Have Not – a romantic thriller  from 1944 in which Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall smoulder over each other for 90 minutes – but you’ll know its most famous scene. It starts with the pair trading barbs until Bacall suddenly...

Why Is Trump So Afraid of Russia?

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMARCH 21, 2018 The former C.I.A. director John Brennan pulled no punches on Wednesday when he was asked why President Trump had congratulated his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for his victory in a rigged election, even after Mr. Trump’s national security staff...

Is the Earth Flat?

Mar. 20, 2018 by Daniel Loxton | Comments (20) Recent news stories,1 celebrity endorsements, and Google search trends2 have highlighted an apparently growing conspiracy theory belief that the Earth is not a globe, but instead a flat disc. According to believers, government forces promote a...

Trump’s ‘Space Force’ sounds a lot like the Space Corps his administration didn’t want

“I was not really serious, and then I said what a great idea.” By Loren Grush@lorengrush  Mar 13, 2018, 7:21pm EDT Today during a speech to military members in San Diego, President Trump proposed the idea of creating an entirely new branch of the US military specifically geared toward...