After spending the first half of the trading session down as much as 0.3%, the S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^ SPX) took the afternoon rally, closing 0.2% on August 27, after news that the US Federal Reserve made what appears to be the biggest change in its policy-making framework in …

When protests against police violence and white supremacy swept dozens of long-standing memorials to the Confederacy this summer, a 105-year-old monument on the grass field in Lake Charles, La., Stood. Until Hurricane Laura tore the statue on it. “It’s a blessing, a small blessing, in a very devastating situation,” said …

When the new coronavirus stormed the Northeast this year, Alan Kliger, a kidney specialist at Yale University, thought it would behave like a typical respiratory virus. There were signals from China that the new disease was hard on the kidneys, but nephrologists like Kliger were not prepared for what happened …

UPDATE (8pm ET): MLS has released a statement responding to allegations made in an article on The Athletic that Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen has a history of making racially charged remarks during his time as the club’s owner. The statement follows: We are deeply concerned about the …

UPDATED with first-look image of the movie. Kelly Marie Tran makes history. Deadline has confirmed that the Star Wars alum has joined the upcoming animated feature of Walt Disney Animation Studios Raya and the last dragon as a titular heroine, as the first Southeast Asian to direct a Disney animated …