The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the New York Times, alleging the media company violated federal law by failing to consider a White male employee for promotion. According to the EEOC, the Times did not promote the worker because of his race or gender, which the agency argues violates Title …
May 5 (Reuters) – Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. (Reporting by Padmanabhan Ananthan in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – Ten civilian sailors have died due to the ongoing conflict in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Tuesday. Speaking at the White House, Rubio said the U.S. would continue to deploy its assets to defend freedom of navigation in the key thoroughfare. “They’re …
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday added a charge of assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon to the case against the suspect accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at a White House press gala last month. (Reporting by Andrew Goudsward, Editing by Franklin Paul) Copyright 2026 …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, choppy waters notorious for thwarting prisoners’ escapes. At the time, biologists guessed the coyote swam from San Francisco, which is …
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday the Trump administration has reached consensus with Mexico on a plan for Mexico to address American concerns about its compliance with a 2015 agreement governing air travel between the two countries. USDOT said Mexico will guarantee that U.S. carriers will have fair and …
WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that peace between Israel and Lebanon was achievable but that Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was a problem. “By and large, I think a peace deal between Lebanon and Israel is imminently achievable, and should be,” Rubio told reporters in a White …
Savers should carefully calculate their interest-earning potential before opening a money market account right now. Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Getty Images On the surface, depositing a large, six-figure amount of money into a savings account with an interest rate of around 4.00% may not make sense – especially not when stock market returns are reliably around 10% or …
New York (AP) — Whether dressed in a jewel-encrusted skeletal form, sculpted breast plates or anatomy-evoking trompe l’oeil, Met Gala guests physically evoked the theme “fashion is art” Monday evening as they masterfully pulled from a kaleidoscope of references to embody living works of art. “Everyone who attended the Met Gala this year really leaned …
Washington — Federal investigators are now seeking the public’s help in identifying the owners of a sailboat that may have been moored next to Lynette Hooker’s vessel the night she disappeared in the Bahamas, marking a new development in the search for the missing Michigan woman. The U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service, the criminal investigative …