Come as you are — leave with a multimillion-dollar ax. A guitar that Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged concert sold for a cool $6.01 million at auction Saturday. The price was more than 50% higher than any other guitar ever sold at an auction. Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E Julien'sAuctions/Bournemouth News/Shutterstock The…
Geoffrey S. Berman, United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, arrives to his office in New York on Saturday, June 20, 2020. Kevin Hagen/AP Manhattan US attorney Geoffrey Berman said Saturday that he will step down from his position following a tense standoff with Attorney General William Barr.Barr initially attempted to oust…
Southern officials warn of new clusters linked to bars and frat parties. Health officials feared the Trump campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., could be a “superspreader” event. Workers in Japan have avoided the mass layoffs seen in other countries.Published June 20, 2020Updated June 21, 2020, 4:51 a.m. ETImageIn Delray Beach, Fla., last week.Credit...Saul Martinez for…
In a possible breakthrough, an Israeli Defense Ministry-run laboratory claimed it had completed successful coronavirus vaccine trials on rodents, paving the way to further testing on other animals and then possibly human trials. In a paper published Friday on the website of bioRxiv, an online repository for papers that haven’t yet been peer-reviewed, the Israel…