• Judge Dismisses Case Alleging Trump Admin. Purposefully Avoiding ‘Hard-To-Count Communities’

    Judge Dismisses Case Alleging Trump Admin. Purposefully Avoiding ‘Hard-To-Count Communities’

    A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit claiming that the Trump administration was purposefully withholding funding from the U.S. Census Bureau to cause racial and ethnic minorities to be undercounted in the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in his ruling that the case was too speculative, and that the U.S. Constitution …
  • Dow closes below 20,000 for the first time in over three years

    Dow closes below 20,000 for the first time in over three years

    The Dow closed below the 20,000 mark for the first time in more than three years amid widening alarm on Wall Street over the Chinese virus. The Dow Jones industrial average finished Wednesday at 19,898.92, off 1,338.46 points, or 6.3 percent, as investors looking to raise cash liquidated nearly everything they could, including safe-haven assets …
  • Dow surges 1,049 points on stimulus moves after worst day since 1987

    Dow surges 1,049 points on stimulus moves after worst day since 1987

    US stocks rebounded on Tuesday — one day after they took their worst hit since the crash of 1987 — as the Federal Reserve and the White House unveiled fresh moves to ease the economic mayhem that’s being wreaked by the coronavirus epidemic. The Dow Jones industrial average — which had tumbled nearly 3,000 points on …