By Dan Strumpf The Wall Street Journal Businesses brace for extended economic disruption. Confirmed coronavirus cases neared 25 million world-wide, while the U.S. closed in on six million infections and other countries saw case numbers rise. Several prominent U.S. companies are reporting a new wave of layoffs, as businesses reassess their staffing needs and brace for an extended […]
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Alice Johnson receives full pardon from President Trump
By Peter Aitken | Fox News Johnson had previously served 22 years of a life sentence before Trump intervened. President Donald Trump granted Alice Johnson a full pardon Friday, two years after he commuted the remainder of her sentence. Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate, was serving a life sentence without parole for her involvement in a nonviolent federal drug case […]
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Stocks hit records as election season kicks into high gear
By Jonathan Garber FOXBusiness Apple, Tesla shares will split following the closing bell. Stocks rallied to record highs Friday morning as the race for the White House officially got under way after President Trump accepted the presidential nomination of the Republican Party. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 62 points, or 0.22%, in the opening minutes of trading and topped […]
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Liz Peek: Trump makes riveting case for reelection, shows America what it is in for if Biden wins
By Liz Peek | Fox News Republicans made a convincing case that voters have a very clear choice in November. If the point of a political convention is to get your party’s message out, win over voters and boost your candidate’s prospects, then make no mistake about the 2020 conventions, Republicans absolutely buried Democrats. The polling tells us so. Joe Biden got […]
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Hurricane Laura brings tornado threat after Louisiana landfall, Lake Charles ‘severely damaged’
By Travis Fedschun, Janice Dean | Fox News Hurricane Laura made landfall in Cameron, La., with 150 mph winds. Heavy rains and winds battered Louisiana Thursday morning as a weakening Hurricane Laura roared northward, threatening to spread further damage well inland after slamming the Lake Charles area and causing at least one death. The historic Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday in Cameron, about 45 miles south of Lake […]
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Oil, gas prices slip as Hurricane Laura makes landfall
By Jonathan Garber FOXBusiness The Category 4 storm made landfall in Cameron, La. Oil and gas prices were lower Thursday morning after Hurricane Laura made landfall in Cameron, Louisiana, as a Category 4 storm. West Texas Intermediate crude oil was down 8 cents at $43.31 per barrel while RBOB gasoline slid 2.12 cents to $1.3394 per gallon. […]
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Pence gets top billing on GOP convention’s third night
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News Pence will use an ‘optimistic tone’ to lay out in detail Trump’s economic and foreign policy accomplishments. He always takes second billing to President Trump, but on Wednesday night Vice President Mike Pence grabs the spotlight as he gives the featured speech on the third evening of the Republican National Convention. To make the case to reelect […]
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Melania Trump urges end to unrest, calls on country to ‘come together’ in convention address
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News The first lady also expressed her ‘deepest sympathy’ for those suffering or who’ve lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic. First lady Melania Trump took center stage on the second night of the Republican National Convention, calling on Americans to “stop the violence” amid nationwide protests over racial inequality. The first lady also […]
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Rep. Crenshaw: Hillary Clinton telling Biden not to concede is ‘eerie’
By Talia Kaplan | Fox News Crenshaw says Democrats are building a tale that if Trump gets reelected, ‘it will be illegitimate’. The fact that Hillary Clinton urged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to not concede defeat on the night of the Nov. 3 election, no matter the circumstances, is “eerie,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said on Wednesday. Crenshaw, who will […]
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Coronavirus impact: State-by-state re-openings & restrictions
By Daniella Genovese FOXBusiness The aggressive measure is meant to keep the virus in check by forcing people to stay away from each other. Local governments around the nation are working to reopen the economy months after “stay-at-home” or “shelter-in-place” orders were implemented in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. As the virus rapidly spread around […]
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Stocks soar to record highs as coronavirus vaccine hopes build
By Jonathan Garber FOXBusiness U.S. equity markets rallied to record highs Monday after a report said a COVID-19 vaccine could come before the November election and President Trump announced a “major breakthrough” in the fight against the virus. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained as many as 234 points, or 0.84%, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were higher by […]
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Jeff Flake joins over two-dozen former GOP members of Congress to launch ‘Republicans for Biden’
By Brooke Singman | Fox News Announcement comes on the first day of the Republican National Convention. More than two-dozen former Republican members of Congress threw their support behind a “Republicans for Biden” effort being launched Monday by the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign to engage potential GOP supporters this November. The announcement comes on the first day of […]
