Futures contracts tied to the major US stock indices held steady during Wednesday night’s overnight session as investors analyzed a large amount of corporate earnings during a positive week. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 18 points, implying a slight opening loss when regular trading resumes on Thursday. The S&P …

With just under six months to go until opening day, Esper is walking the political tightrope. Defense officials tell CNN that he has had to spend time concentrating on day-to-day crisis management together with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to try to prevent President Donald Trump …

The White House and top Republicans in the Senate are pouring cold water at the prospect of an extension of unemployment in the short term. Republican senators were discussing a short-term extension to provide a patch between the expiration of a $ 600-a-week increase and the upcoming congressional aid bill. …

A Florida mother lost her 20-year-old son to COVID-19, and then 11 days later, her 22-year-old daughter also died of the disease. “I put up with it pretty well during the day, but at night it really hits me,” Monete Hicks of Lauderdale Lakes told NBC Miami. “I’m so used …

Scientists have first identified an active leakage of methane gas from the seabed in Antarctica, increasing the likelihood that the planet is near one of the “tipping points” that would put the impacts of global warming outside the control of humans. According to The Guardian, researchers led by Andrew Thurber …