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After being arrested for a DUI, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband once again made headlines by controversially trading stock in a computer chip company ahead of a scheduled congressional vote on the semiconductor industry. FOX Business reports it reached out to Pelosi's office regarding her husband Paul's million-dollar purchase of stock in Nvidia, a semiconductor company known for its high-end graphics cards and processors for PCs, right as Congress is set to vote on up to ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul dumped his stock in semiconductor firm Nvidia amid backlash just before the Senate passed the CHIPS bill to drum up domestic semiconductor chip production, according to a periodic report released Tuesday. On June 17 Paul Pelosi exercised call options to buy 20,000 shares worth between $1 million and $5 million, ahead of the vote on the CHIPS plus bill which would inject $52 billion into the semiconductor market. The move drew bipartisan backlas...

The new and highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus may have sparked the recent outbreak of 125-plus cases of COVID-19 linked to a Houston-area youth church camp, and a Texas virologist says the breakout should be a wake-up call for communities. “Clearly, COVID is not over,” said Dr. Benjamin Neuman, a virologist and professor at Texas A&M University. “COVID isn’t ever gone until it’s completely gone,” Neuman said. “And I think we...

Nearly 150 children and adults have tested positive for COVID-19 after attending a church summer camp in Texas, officials announced. The Clear Creek Community Church, based in League City, Texas, announced that Sunday services would be canceled this week due to the number of cases. Over 400 people participated in Camp Creek, a four-day camp for 6th to 12th graders, in late June. Upon returning, more than 125 of the people who attended tested positive for the virus, the church said in...

A Covid-19 outbreak stemming from a Texas church summer camp has grown to about 160 cases, including infections of the highly contagious Delta variant, the Galveston County local health authority said. More than 450 people attended the camp for sixth through 12th graders in late June, hosted by Clear Creek Community Church. The camp took place at Tejas Camp & Retreat in Giddings, Texas. Of the roughly 160 people infected, six (about 3.7%) had been vaccinated, said Dr. Phil...

There were two intense areas of heavy rain in the Northeast on Monday afternoon and evening. Across Bucks and Burlington counties in southeast Pennsylvania, 6 to 12 inches of rain fell in a few hours, prompting high water rescues across the area. Farther north, radar reports estimated that 3 to 5 inches of rain had fell in western Passaic County and far western Bergen County in New Jersey. As of Tuesday morning, it had rained 9 out of 13 days so far this month in New York City. And with 8....

City officials in Miami Beach, Florida, evacuated an apartment building Monday because of concrete deterioration, an attorney for the building's owners said. The building, at 6881 Indian Creek Drive, is at least the fourth in Florida to be have been evacuated or partly evacuated since the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside on June 24. Two days later, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ordered an aud...

The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq rose to 92, health officials said Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there. More than 100 people were injured in the blaze Monday night in Nassiriya, officials said. An investigation showed the fire began when sparks from faulty wiring spread to an oxygen tank that then exploded, police and civil defense authorities ...

A 1-year-old girl was among the newest group of victims identified Tuesday in the partial collapse of a Miami Beach-area condo building, according to officials. Aishani Gia Patel was recovered July 6, the Miami-Dade Police Department said in a news release. The remains of her parents, Vishal Patel, 42, and Bhavna Patel, 38, were identified last week. Bhavna Patel was five months pregnant, relatives said. Eighty-five victims recovered from the rubble of Champlain Towers Sout...

A man was dead and a woman was injured after a security guard fired at them at a grocery store in Baltimore, police said Tuesday. Officers saw a man and a woman with gunshot wounds while responding to reports of a shooting at about 4:30 p.m. in the 6600 block of Reisterstown Road, Baltimore police said. The grocery store is part of Giant Food chain, NBC affiliate WBAL reported. The man and the woman were taken to a hospital, where the man was pronounced dead. The woman, who wa...

Chicago officials issued a travel warning on Tuesday for Missouri and Arkansas amid an increase of Covid-19 cases there, authorities said. This is the first time in weeks the city has issued a travel warning. Tuesday’s announcement means any unvaccinated people traveling from Missouri and Arkansas are advised to obtain a negative Covid-19 test no more than 72 hours prior to arriving in Chicago, or they must quarantine for 10 days upon arrival, a city statement said. Missouri ...

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as dozens of wildfires grip U.S. Western states. Nearly 60 blazes across 10 parched states have been recorded so far as the country struggles with a long, intense summer. The Bootleg Fire—currently the largest—has ripped across more than 150,000 acres of Oregon, threatening not only thousands of homes but also part of California's power supply. As of Monday night, Arizona, Idaho and Montana accounted for more ...

The rise in infections that will follow the government’s plans to reopen on 19 July will put intense pressure on the NHS and hit the service’s attempts to tackle its huge backlog of care, hospital bosses have said. They voiced deep unease that the lifting of almost all restrictions, and especially mandatory face masks, would put already busy hospitals under extra strain. Dr Layla McCay, director of policy at the NHS Confederation, said many GP services and hospital...

Southern England was hit by torrential downpours that resulted in significant flooding on Monday night. The Met Office said the heavy and slow-moving thundery showers caused floods in parts of London. The London fire brigade said its 999 control officers received over 150 calls to flooding incidents in the capital. Forecasters said the torrential showers were expected to continue through most of the evening. The Met Office issued a yellow warning for rain lasting until midnight,...

At least 50 people have died after a fire tore through the Covid isolation ward at a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. The death toll is expected to rise, as search operations at al-Hussain coronavirus hospital continued after the fire was brought under control. Sixteen people were rescued from the burning building. “The victims died of burns and the search is continuing,” said Haydar al-Zamili, a spokesperson for the local health authorities, noting that the...

Concerns about the spread of the Delta variant in apartment buildings has prompted a hard lockdown of two residential complexes in Sydney and Melbourne. An apartment building in Bondi Junction in Sydney’s east remains under police guard after eight cases of Covid were detected across five of the 29 apartments, while residents of an apartment building in Maribyrnong in Melbourne’s north-western suburbs have been ordered to isolate after a removalist with Covid worked there ...

“Crossing the border may be illegal, but it should not be a death sentence,” reads a Facebook post from the non-profit group Humane Borders. But for 43 immigrants whose remains were found along Arizona’s borderlands with Mexico, the journey proved to be fatal. Scorched days in the Sonoran desert, with little to no water, and cold nights prove to be unforgiving to the weary travelers, many of whom flee violence, the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and economic despair ...

It’s been a decade since a law passed banning members of Congress from trading stocks based on insider information, yet some say the practice is still alive and well in Washington. Now, there is controversy over new financial disclosures from one of the most powerful people in Washington. Records show the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, invested between $1 and $5 million in the semiconductor company Nvidia, just weeks ahead of a vote scheduled on a bill that would...

Paul Pelosi was held after his Porsche was involved in a collision with another vehicle in Napa County on Saturday night. No-one was injured and the other driver was not arrested. Eighty-two-year-old Mr Pelosi was charged with two misdemeanours and had his bail set at $5,000. He is not listed as being currently in custody. The California Highway Patrol said Mr Pelosi had been attempting to cross State Route-29 when his car was struck by a 48-year-old man driving a Jeep. Califor...

After being arrested for a DUI, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband once again made headlines by controversially trading stock in a computer chip company ahead of a scheduled congressional vote on the semiconductor industry. FOX Business reports it reached out to Pelosi's office regarding her husband Paul's million-dollar purchase of stock in Nvidia, a semiconductor company known for its high-end graphics cards and processors for PCs, right as Congress is set to vote on up to ...

Former Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana who served as ambassador to China under former President Obama, called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) Taiwan visit Tuesday a “provocation,” adding it made President Biden look “weak.”   Baucus in an interview Tuesday evening with CNN’s Jake Tapper repeatedly warned the trip by Pelosi was edging the U.S. closer to recognizing Taiwan as an independent nation — which the longtime senator su...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul dumped his stock in semiconductor firm Nvidia amid backlash just before the Senate passed the CHIPS bill to drum up domestic semiconductor chip production, according to a periodic report released Tuesday. On June 17 Paul Pelosi exercised call options to buy 20,000 shares worth between $1 million and $5 million, ahead of the vote on the CHIPS plus bill which would inject $52 billion into the semiconductor market. The move drew bipartisan backlas...

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with .08% blood alcohol level or higher causing injury, the Napa County District Attorney's Office said in a press release on Monday.  The charges stem from a crash on May 28, when a 2014 Jeep struck Pelosi's 2021 Porsche at an intersection around 10 p.m. that evening.  Pelosi, 8...

July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband sold his shares of chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Tuesday, days before the House is expected to consider legislation providing subsidies and tax credits worth over $70 billion to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry. In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365. Paul Pelosi freq...

Democrats have carved out quite a niche for themselves as the party of the have-nots, even if it’s mostly a hypocritical marketing ploy. Bernie Sanders, the socialist, lives a pretty non-socialist life with a town house, a vacation home and all the comforts of the bourgeoisie while he claims to champion the proletariat. There’s no shortage of similar examples. Recall the late Massachusetts senator and liberal icon Teddy Kennedy’s support of forced busing while sending his...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband sold up to $5 million worth of shares of chipmaker Nvidia as the House prepares to vote on a bill focusing on the domestic chip manufacturing industry.  Pelosi completed a period transaction report signed on Tuesday that indicated that her husband, Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia at an average price of $165.05 with a total loss of $341,365. In total, the shares are worth between $1 million and $5 million. A separate...

Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly had a drug in his system, addressed officers with slurred speech, and tried to hand them a police courtesy card during his May arrest on DUI charges, according to court documents. Pelosi's 2021 Porsche and the other driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in a crash around 10:17 p.m. on May 28, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car ...

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ALyft passenger in Georgia was shot multiple times in the early hours of Saturday morning when an individual in another car fired at their ride-sharing vehicle. Officers from the Atlanta Police Department were called to the Shell gas station on Moreland Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, at around 2:18 a.m. local time on Saturday morning after reports of a shooting, according to a preliminary press release by the authorities. "Preliminary investigation indicates the victim and a...

Catalonia's regional government has recommended that local authorities restrict access to high-trafficked beaches as Spain tries to curb COVID surges, the Associated Press reported. Other regions throughout the country are enacting other measures, such as a 10-person limit in social gatherings and curfews to restrict late-night activities. In Catalonia, where just a few dozen people are fully vaccinated, the government has also prohibited any eating and drinking in the streets and bann...

Two firefighters were killed Saturday in Arizona as wildfires raged through the West, threatening California's overburdened power grid during an oppressive heat wave and ongoing drought. The firefighters were killed in a plane crash while conducting aerial reconnaissance over the Cedar Basin Fire near the Prescott National Forest, the Bureau of Land Management said in a statement. "Our hearts are heavy tonight with sincere condolences to families, loved ones and firefighters af...

Confirmed deaths rose to 90 in the recovery efforts after the collapse of a Miami Beach-area condominium building as crews continue to sift through the debris more than two weeks after Champlain Towers South fell in the middle of the night. At least 71 of the victims have been identified with their families' having been notified, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday morning. Search efforts accelerated in the last week after officials demolis...

The highly transmissible delta variant is now the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. As of July 3, the latest date for which data was available, the delta variant accounted for 51.7 percent of new Covid-19 cases that had been genetically sequenced in the country. Two weeks earlier, on June 19, the variant accounted for just over 30 percent of new cases. During a news briefing Tuesday, Presid...

Emergency workers gave up Wednesday on any hope of finding survivors in the collapsed Florida condo building, telling sobbing families that there was “no chance of life” in the rubble as crews shifted their efforts to recovering more remains. The announcement followed increasingly somber reports from emergency officials, who said they sought to prepare families for the worst. “At this point, we have truly exhausted every option available to us in the search-and-rescue ...

The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 4 million Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. The tally of lives lost over the past year and a half, as compiled from official sources by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the number of people killed in battle in all of the world’s wars since 1982, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. The toll is three times the number of peo...

On the last day of Javier Vilca’s life, his wife stood outside a hospital window with a teddy bear, red balloons and a box of chocolates to celebrate his birthday, and held up a giant, hand-scrawled sign that read: “Don’t give up. You’re the best man in the world.” Minutes later, Vilca, a 43-year-old struggling radio journalist who had battled depression, jumped four stories to his death — the fifth suicide by a COVID-19 patient at Peru’s overwhelm...

Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble of a Florida condominium collapse vowed Thursday to keep up their search for victims until they cleared all the debris at the site. Earlier, a fire official told family members at a meeting that crews “will not stop working until they’ve gotten to the bottom of the pile and recovered every single of the families’ missing loved ones,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said at an evening new...

An already struggling and chaotic Haiti stumbled into an uncertain future Thursday after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, followed by a gunfight in which authorities said police killed four suspects, detained two others and freed three officers being held hostage. Officials pledged to find all those responsible for the pre-dawn raid on Moïse’s home early Wednesday in which the president was shot to death and his wife, Martine, critically wounded. She was f...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul dumped his stock in semiconductor firm Nvidia amid backlash just before the Senate passed the CHIPS bill to drum up domestic semiconductor chip production, according to a periodic report released Tuesday. On June 17 Paul Pelosi exercised call options to buy 20,000 shares worth between $1 million and $5 million, ahead of the vote on the CHIPS plus bill which would inject $52 billion into the semiconductor market. The move drew bipartisan backlas...

Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday morning on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury and driving with .08% blood alcohol level or higher causing injury, the Napa County District Attorney's Office said in a press release on Monday.  The charges stem from a crash on May 28, when a 2014 Jeep struck Pelosi's 2021 Porsche at an intersection around 10 p.m. that evening.  Pelosi, 8...

July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband sold his shares of chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Tuesday, days before the House is expected to consider legislation providing subsidies and tax credits worth over $70 billion to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry. In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365. Paul Pelosi freq...

Democrats have carved out quite a niche for themselves as the party of the have-nots, even if it’s mostly a hypocritical marketing ploy. Bernie Sanders, the socialist, lives a pretty non-socialist life with a town house, a vacation home and all the comforts of the bourgeoisie while he claims to champion the proletariat. There’s no shortage of similar examples. Recall the late Massachusetts senator and liberal icon Teddy Kennedy’s support of forced busing while sending his...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband sold up to $5 million worth of shares of chipmaker Nvidia as the House prepares to vote on a bill focusing on the domestic chip manufacturing industry.  Pelosi completed a period transaction report signed on Tuesday that indicated that her husband, Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia at an average price of $165.05 with a total loss of $341,365. In total, the shares are worth between $1 million and $5 million. A separate...

Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, allegedly had a drug in his system, addressed officers with slurred speech, and tried to hand them a police courtesy card during his May arrest on DUI charges, according to court documents. Pelosi's 2021 Porsche and the other driver's 2014 Jeep sustained "major collision damage" in a crash around 10:17 p.m. on May 28, and responding officers found Pelosi in his driver’s seat in his damaged car ...

The coronavirus pandemic has destroyed 22 million jobs in wealthy countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In a report Wednesday warning of the risk of a rapid rise in long-term joblessness, the Paris-based organization said that employment across OECD countries is not expected to recover to its pre-pandemic level before 2023. "The strong economic recovery underway across OECD countries is yet to fully tra...

The Justice Department unveiled a major indictment Thursday against five Floridians accused of attacking at least seven police officers during the US Capitol insurrection. Prosecutors say the defendants, all from the Tampa Bay area, repeatedly attacked members of Washington, DC's police force. They allegedly used stolen riot shields and flagpoles to assault officers in the head and neck, and later resorted to punching, kicking, and elbowing the officers. The indictment includes...

Missouri, Arkansas and Nevada are leading the U.S. in new COVID-19 cases and low vaccination rates in those states raise concerns about the Delta variant's ability to find unvaccinated individuals and spread in communities. States with high vaccination rates have seen a significant decline in cases and the vaccines have proven to be a good defense against the Delta variant. The mutation is of concern to health officials because of its ability to infect people at higher rates and in Mis...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared gun violence in his state a disaster emergency during a news conference on Tuesday. To fight the issue, Cuomo issued an executive order that he said will provide necessary resources to curb what he called a public health crisis. He also compared gun violence to COVID-19. "We went from one epidemic to another," he said. "We went from COVID to the epidemic of gun violence and the fear, and the death, that goes...

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which compiled data from cities across the country showing hundreds of injuries and deaths over a 72-hour period, the Fourth of July weekend was the most violent weekend in the United States so far this year. Roughly 233 people were killed in the U.S. and hundreds more injured — from 5 p.m. Friday through Monday, according to the GVA data. The organization reported numbers exceeding 600 injuries as of Tuesday morning and is still finalizin...

The Delta variant has been identified among people who were linked to a huge COVID outbreak at a church camp, according to Texas health officials. Galveston County Health District (GCHD) officials confirmed the highly spreadable Delta variant had been identified in three test samples linked to a huge church camp coronavirus outbreak on June 27. More than 125 COVID cases were identified after campers from grades 6 through 12 associated with the Clear Creek Community Church of L...