CLEVELAND, Ohio – Indians who started pitcher Zach Plesac admitted Sunday in a statement released by the team that he “made a bad choice to leave the hotel” on Saturday when he went with friends in Chicago, hours after he picked up Cleveland after a win against the White Sox. …
Read More »China sends fighter jets as US health chief visits Taiwan
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Chinese air force planes briefly crossed the Taiwan Strait midline on Monday and were tracked down by Taiwanese rockets, the Taiwanese government said as US health chief Alex Azar visited the island to offer support to President Donald Trump . Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, the …
Read More »Treasury yields increase with stimulus hopes, US-China relations in focus
US debt prices were lower on Monday morning as investors monitored the state of US stimulus talks and the recent decline in relations between Washington and Beijing. At around 2:50 AM ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was higher at 0.5673% and the yield on the 30-year …
Read More »Coronavirus updates: US registers under 50,000 new cases for the 1st time in 6 days
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 731,000 people worldwide. More than 19 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The …
Read More »Fact check: At his golf club, Trump indiscriminately accuses Democrats of election cheats
Trump also introduced a new, wildly inaccurate proposition: a claim that Democrats falsify in the election through their negotiations with Republicans over a new coronavirus bill. After talking about what he said, there was a risk that foreign countries would use post-in-ballots to cheat in the election – which, as …
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