Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted -- then quickly deleted -- a celebration of the news that U.S. equity markets crashed on Monday, with oil prices turning negative for the first time in history.The resulting social media flareup highlighted the unprecedented stakes of the current economic crisis…
Something that's never happened in the oil market is happening today: Negative prices for oil contracts.While many people may see this and think the overall price of oil is negative, there's nuance. The short answer is that no, not all oil is free.The picture in the market is not as bleak as this eye-popping headline…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…