Joe Biden's expansion of his energy platform will call for investing $2 trillion over four years on climate-friendly sources and a mandate to fully decarbonize U.S. power by 2035, Bloomberg reports. Tuesday's rollout will provide specifics on the long-anticipated plan to move his platform further left and make it more expansive.

Grant Imahara, host of Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" and Netflix's "White Rabbit Project," has died, according to a statement from the Discovery Channel. He was 49 years old. The host was known in Hollywood for his work in electronics and animatronics. "We are heartbroken to hear this sad news about Grant. He was an important part of our Discovery family and a really wonderful man. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family," a statement from Discovery sent to CNN said.

A wave of layoffs seems to be coming in the airline industry as new domestic quarantine rules slow the travel rebound.

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The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues.

Earlier this year, Apple agreed to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit that accused the company of "secretly throttling" older iPhone models....

Soaring through the glass ceilings of both her gender and race, Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle has made history as the US Navy's first Black female tactical aircraft pilot. "BZ to Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle on completing the Tactical Air (Strike) aviator syllabus," the Chief of Naval Air Training wrote Thursday on Facebook, using the abbreviation BZ for Bravo Zulu, which means "well done."

A religious historian explains why Trump wasn’t a trade-off for American evangelicals.

Whenever I talk to people who are suddenly concerned about “cancel culture” or “online mobs”, my first thought is always: “Where have you been for the last decade?” I’ve been online long enough and, like many others, been receiving criticism and abuse online for long enough, to know that what some see as a new pattern of virtual censure by moral purists is mostly a story about the internet, not ideology or identity.

Hugh Grant, Tom Watson and Max Mosley appear in the three-part BBC documentary on Rupert Murdoch. The second episode of the series focuses on the phone-hacking scandal.

Gates made the comments at a virtual COVID-19 conference

Washington DC is set to allow imprisoned people to vote, a significant move because US states have long disenfranchised those with felony convictions, even after they have served their sentences behind bars. There were more than 6 million Americans who were unable to vote in the 2018 midterms because of a felony conviction. Washington DC’s plan would put the US Capitol in line with just two other states in the country.

A group of 83 of the world’s richest people have called on governments to permanently increase taxes on them and other members of the wealthy elite to help pay for the economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. The super-rich members, including Ben and Jerry’s ice cream co-founder Jerry Greenfield and Disney heir Abigail Disney, called on “our governments to raise taxes on people like us. Immediately. Substantially. Permanently”.

The Washington Redskins could have a new name in the next 24 hours. Senior NFL reporter for Yahoo Charles Robinson reportedly told ESPN Radio’s Dallas-Fort Worth station that "Washington is about to have a new name in the next 24 to 48 hours" on Saturday. The name change for the 'Redskins' has been a hotly contested debate for decades. The team name is widely held to be a racist slur against Native Americans and FedEx first asked for the name change in early July.

The hashtag #Goyaway was trending on social media Friday after Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods, appeared in the White House Rose Garden Thursday afternoon and praised President Donald Trump. "We are all truly blessed ... to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder," Unanue said during the Rose Garden speech. "We have an incredible builder, and we pray. We pray for our leadership, our president."

An Alabama man's journey to Minneapolis is nearly complete. Terry Willis has been walking from Alabama to 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, the spot where George Floyd died in police custody. "This has been a long long long journey," said Willis Saturday afternoon as he arrived at the Clientele Barbershop in north Minneapolis.

As we topple statues, let’s also search for our own moral blind spots.

Lofthouse confirmed he stepped down from IT firm Solid8 this week, adding that his comments were “racist, hurtful and deeply inappropriate.”

St. Louis police officers reportedly seized a rifle from the husband-and-wife lawyers filmed waving firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters last month. The officers served a warrant on Mark and Patricia McCloskey on Friday night, taking the rifle the husband was pictured aiming, the local NBC affiliate reported.

Private investment firms that manage the fortunes of wealthy individuals and their kin were approved for millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded relief loans designed to help small businesses weather the coronavirus lockdown, according to a review of recently released government data.