President Trump signed an unprecedented two trillion dollars aid package which will provide immediate relief to taxpayers caught up in the governmental mandates to combat the spread and infection of the Coronavirus which has crippled the nation's economy.
As the current health crisis saturate French hospitals, it highlights the many shortcomings of a health system too long subservient to the doxa, or popular opinion, of economic austerity and the world healthcare system is exposed as grossly inadequate.
President Trump, in response to the ever-growing pandemic, this week invoked additional measures in the fight to slow the infection rate of American citizens while simultaneously ensuring the economic free fall doesn't translate into a lasting recession.
Noticias Telemundo announced the launch of "Noticias Telemundo Presenta – Coronavirus: Un País En Alerta" (Noticias Telemundo Presents Coronavirus: A Nation On Alert), a new national weekday newscast premiering at 11:35p ET/10:35p CT.
As the coronavirus becomes embedded in our psyche with a new revelation countering previous knowledge each day, knowing a few do's and don't may be just what the doctor ordered to collectively calm nerves and gain insight.
Now a global phenomenon, the coronavirus epidemic could turn into a trap for White House contenders. Viewed from Europe, and from France in particular, because anything said, or judgment will affect the world economy. Whatever...
The Coronavirus, now classified as a worldwide pandemic, the likes of which have never been fictionalized, has caused an unprecedented government response as cases in the U.S. spike and the global death rate is now at 3.75%.
Five co-workers are dead after a fellow employee armed with an automatic weapon went on a shooting rampage at the Molson Coors brewing facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, yesterday. The sprawling campus remained on lock-down for hours.
Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer who propelled many to Oscar victory winning loyalty and devotion, has been found guilty by a Manhattan jury of sex crimes which could send the disgraced titan to prison for decades.
Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and the seven others who tragically perished recently were remembered during a two-hour celebration of life service that brought 20,000 ticket holders to The Staples Center to bid their hero a final farewell.
With Senator Bernie Sanders leaping ahead of the pack in the Democratic Party, chances have greatly increased that he will become the first Jewish nominee to reach the general election for President of the United States.
Bad actors, a term that is evolving into mainstream vernacular, the bad actor, those who wear the "good mask" while performing illegal, undermining and shady deals that act to undermine their industry or more widespread the system, itself.
In the spirit of fake news, Black History Month provides a forum for news pundits to lament that the Founding Fathers thought the relative worth of black persons was three fifths of a person.
President Trump boldly announced his groundbreaking peace proposal at a White House press conference together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at which he spoke of a division of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank).
The final departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union does not seem to have upset the other member countries, all aware of the strengths and advantages of the Union despite its shortcomings.
Former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, 41, died today in an explosive helicopter crash that also killed his daughter, Gianna, 13, and seven other occupants who were traveling to a girls' basketball tournament at the Mamba Sports Academy.
Products marketed to women are often more expensive than similar products and services for males. From haircuts to medication, gender-based pricing is problematic for female and male consumers alike, and it's costing tens of thousands of dollars over a lifetime.
As we look ahead, many will remember the last ten years in prominent stories that secured the headlines as the past decade saw its share of wars, political firestorms, corruption, mass shootings, murders and tragedies. Few will remember the journalists.
Once again, Hamas and Islamic Jihad initiated rocket launches against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, forcing him off the podium, and into a bomb shelter to ride out the attack, during a campaign speech in Ashkelon, Israel.
A decorated Jersey City Police detective, the wife of a store owner, and two members of the Jewish community were gunned down yesterday in Jersey City, N.J., by two members of the Black Hebrew Israelite militant group.
Is anti-Semitism rearing its ugly head again? It seems that way, as it has now been discovered that the recent Jersey City shooting suspect had published anti-Semitic posts prior to the shooting.
The election of Ursula von der Leyen as head of the European Commission marks a rare advance in mentality in a political body long dominated by men. But this appointment will not hide the violence that still affects women.
Organized retail crime costs retailers nearly $778,000 per $1 billion in sales in 2018, an all-time high, according to a National Retail Federation survey. In the past three quarters, Home Depot reported that an increase in "shrink" hurt its financial results.
At the recent CNBC Evolve Conference held in Los Angeles, Becky Quick, the co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box interviewed the president and CEO of Walmart, Doug McMillion on the future of the superstore as it fights online options and recent tragedies.
The results of the September 17, 2019 elections in Israel were a statistical tie, throwing the decision of who would be the new Prime Minister to Israel President Reuven Rivlin who gave first dibs to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel, who has long used the strategy of targeted killings to keep the enemy on the run, is praising President Trump for his "bold, decisive action of targeting and killing of Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi," said Israeli Mayor David Rubin.
With his 28-day mandate about to expire, Prime Minister Netanyahu has given up his mandate to form Israel's next coalition government. The mandate is now in the hands of his left-of-center opponent Benny Gantz.
As we march into the 2020 Election season, the high cost of medical care is on the lips of every politician and draining the pocketbooks of most Americans, and this hot button topic will see microscopic examination.
Confronted with poorly understood political realities, the populist discourses championed by Boris Johnson and Matteo Salvini face the complexity of the national and European institutional systems they are fighting. Let me explain.
Joe Biden speaks with Spanish-language television for the first time since announcing his candidacy. The Presidential hopeful talks about the El Paso Massacre, Immigration, the Campaign, his choice for Vice President and Trump in an Exclusive Interview with Noticias Telemundo´s Senior Correspondent Vanessa Hauc.
Greta Thunberg continues to upset the global ecological discourse by returning leaders and politicians to their responsibilities. But would not the teenager not the symbol of a lack of international voluntarism in environmental matters?
Days after the charred remains of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck were found in Logan Canyon, 85 miles from the alleged murder scene, internet trollers have slut shamed the El Segundo native over her social media postings.
Joining us this morning on CNBC's Squawk Box is Chris Hughes, the Economic Security Project Co-Chair and Facebook Co-Founder. He's joining us today to talk about Facebook and the growing calls for a crackdown on America's biggest tech companies.
CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” and CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” are Live from the 2019 Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, CA. The following are the unofficial transcripts of CNBC Exclusive interviews conducted by CNBC’s David Faber.
New York's Catholic Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo had the World Trade Center in lights to celebrate its recently enacted abortion-on-demand-until-the-day-of-birth law. This law was framed, and sold to legislators, as empowering women through guaranteeing "Reproductive Health."
The Yellow Vests crisis reveals the existence of a two France nation that many oppose: Principles, history, beliefs, ambition. Neither will yield. And the outcome of the crisis may be in the disappearance of one of the two.
Arrests were made today in the April 2016 Pike County Ohio execution style murders of eight members of the Rhoden Family who were massacred in three separation locations, while they slept, Ohio Governor Elect Mike DeWine announced.
While the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union is definitively recorded, the time has come to question the reasons which pushed the Albion to want to integrate the EEC in 1973. And to appreciate thus the weight of history.
Tropical Storm Florence, who came ashore as a Category 1, left in its wake unprecedented rainfall, catastrophic flooding, extensive uprooted trees, widespread power outages, alarming toxic spillage, and the shocking deaths of millions of farm raised animals.
Today, the term 'Fake News' is firmly entrenched in our lexicon. It seems everyone from Trumpite retirees, to neo-political millennials, freely toss around the phrase. The term was even recognized as, "The Word of the Year" by UK-based Collins Dictionary.
And there it is. The look. The look I knew I would see. And I will get it again and again, and again, from this moment forward. I just didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
Seventeen were killed and fifteen others injured, five critically, at the hands of a lone gunman who, armed with multiple magazines and a single assault rifle, shot his way through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
President Donald Trump recently declared, like his Republican predecessor, a crisis of drug use and addiction that has been decades in the making. Marianne Clyde, a noted mental health expert asks "Is it really our job to save the addict?"
The lack of revelry, hushed tones, a quiet reverence in sin city, where usually at 2:00am neon signs advertise with bright allure, ladies can be heard negotiating, and gamblers call it a day or begin anew, it is Las Vegas or was.
Denmark's most sensational murder trial has yet to begin and the world media is ramping up its coverage on Peter Madsen, the Danish inventor who is currently held in the horrific dismemberment and murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.
Hillary Clinton is out; no longer hiking in the woods securing a fresh perspective, the former Presidential Candidate has opened herself to the media to discuss with logical reasoning the electoral loss that cost the people her Presidency.
Javier Valdez, 50, an internationally recognized and award winning journalist covering drug trafficking in Mexico was gunned down, May 15, outside the Riodoce Newspaper office in Culiacan City, Mexico, marking the eighth journalist murdered in 2017 as tensions escalate.
A lone wolf terrorist known to MI5 was shot and killed during an early afternoon Wednesday terror attack that began on London's Westminster Bridge and ended with police engaging the suspect as he entered the House of Parliament grounds.
The main suspect in the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams, the two Indiana teens killed while hiking on Delphi Historic Trail, has been identified and his image was captured on park surveillance.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) exclusively joined "Meet the Press" this morning, talking with moderator Chuck Todd about the latest intelligence on the Russian cyber-attacks and if FBI Director Comey should be fired.
Given the innovation and success of many tech giants, it's understandable why investing in the tech sector is so appealing. Growth for the largest companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google or FANG investing has been impressive, beating out all the major market indices.
Gender norms influence not just what we think, but how. Consider the presence of sports metaphors in American politics. Metaphors are not merely figures of speech. According to the cognitive scientists and philosophers George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980), human thought processes are largely metaphorical.
Three catastrophic blasts in two different locations have exploded across Brussels, Belgium, the capital city, during the morning commute killing at least 31, including the airport suicide bomber, and leaving dozens wounded.
Today marks the 14th Anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The reading of the names of the lives lost in the attacks happened this morning at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast states obliterating the landscape leaving in its wake unimaginable destruction and ruin, and then barreled across the mid-west and up the eastern seaboard, leaving a trail of death, damage and devastation.
"Merica." No, that's not a misspelling. In recent years, we've all heard someone say the name of our nation in this ironic manner. I'd be lying if I told you I've never uttered it myself jokingly.
The Etan Patz murder trial recently ended after 18 days of deliberation in a stunning mistrial that seemed an impossibility as the defendant confessed and provided sick, demented, details of the child's last moments of life.
Digital Hollywood hosted its annual Spring New York Media Summit with players in the space presenting keynotes, symposiums, panel discussions and projections of the future as the divergent of entertainment, gaming, cable and traditional print, online digital and the exploding video space.
The murder trial of Aaron Hernandez, former tight end for the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, is entering Day 13 as the defense continues its attempts to discredit the prosecution’s case witness by witness.
Bob Iger, Disney's Chairman of the Board, has a new toy. His acquisition of the Star Wars franchise brought a treasure trove of exciting new gadgets which will soon be available to the masses. For now, he gets the toys all to himself.
The murder of Scott McMillan, the three year old savagely beaten and systematically tortured over a three day period by his mother and boyfriend, has drawn attention from media, legal scholars and commentators.
Morgan Geyser, 12, known as one half of the Slenderman Killers, who stabbed a twelve year old friend 19 times, has been found incompetent to stand trial for her participation in the crimes that shocked this tiny Wisconsin city.
20 children and six adults were slaughtered, Friday, when a lone gunman fought his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut, armed with enough ammunition to murder every student in this small New York City suburb.
Lew Hendler, world renowned co-founder of the mega successful woman’s hair care company, scunci, recently launched Michael Todd true organics and with that single handedly changed the face of skin care.
The National Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., during the 2010 SALT film junket, hosted a panel of espionage experts featuring Director of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former U.S. Intelligence officer and Middle East Counterterrorism Expert, Melissa Mahle, Kirk Whitworth, Director of Communications and Analysis under the Bush Administration and Operative and former KGB General Oleg Kalugin.
Three of biggest names in the media business today, NBC’s Jeff Zucker, Viacom’s Philippe Dauman and Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer recently gathered for one powerhouse summit at the Midtown Manhattan headquarters of publishing giant, McGraw-Hill.
The year 2015 received the ominous warmest year on record title, and 2016 is likely to be even hotter. It's becoming clear that these warmer weather trends are not arbitrary, but confirmation that climate change is upon us.
Theater Shooter, James Holmes who walked into the Aurora Cinemark 16, in full tactical gear, tossed a smoke bomb designed to get his targets to stand, and systematically slaughtered 12 moviegoers and wounded another 70.
DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is sending a sleigh full of gift giving ideas as the newest titles, hottest box office hits and all the familiar favorites hit the store shelves in time for shoppers to get a head start on the mad holiday rush.
The Meddler, from Sony Pictures Classics, brings to the screen a film filled with the sweet, salty and savory moments of colorful and at time awkward transitions as one season of life and love end and another begins.
As a mom of two little rambunctious, high-energy boys, I value my sleep…tremendously. So when I was sent The Total Sleep Mask System by Dandelion Dreams, Inc., I couldn't have been more excited…excited to head to dreamland! Uninterrupted sleep? Sign this mama up.
Pantai Inn, a boutique hotel uniquely offering a Balinese-inspired experience, offers guests a culturally-oriented escapism with refined distinct interior and outdoor décor, a garden oasis, and a communal fire pit, all accompany breathtaking Pacific views.
President Obama is due to announce the resignation of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, as early as Monday morning, according to unnamed White House sources close to the unfolding situation. Hagel has served in the top defense position since February 2013.
Speed has continued to be the primary factor behind a deadly bus crash that killed six elementary school children and left five in extremely critical condition one day before the Chattanooga Tennessee School closed for Thanksgiving Day vacation.
Maestro Victor Vener and the acclaimed California Philharmonic present what promises to be another awe-inspiring summer series of concerts, mixing stage and sound, at the iconic music destination the Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Smithsonian Earth, the subscription video streaming service from Smithsonian Networks(TM) that delivers spectacular original nature and wildlife content, will feature the award-winning one-hour 4K film JAGO: A LIFE UNDERWATER, starting on September 22.
From the London music scene today comes Elevant with a new EP recorded at Abbey Road; Florence Joelle, Parisian Soul, Latin Jazz, think heat set to music, and Anilore, from East Village NYC punk jumped the pond earning rave reviews.
In our instant, need it, want it, got to have it now, fast results for a thinner, tighter, younger look within an hour is very alluring as nobody wants to be bedridden, out of work and off the social grid as they recover.
"A Long Way Down," from Magnolia Pictures and BBC Films, brings to the screen a blended misfit family of four lost souls who find themselves uncommonly united as fate throws down a challenge stopping their perfectly planned ending.
Attempting challenging puzzles and reading up on the theory of relativity aren't the only ways to keep your brain at its finest. The right diet also can do wonders, improving the brain's function and even helping to reverse brain damage.
Today marks the 14th Anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The reading of the names of the lives lost in the attacks happened this morning at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
