Over the weekend, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton came under fire for a series of comments and tweets on the coronavirus. On Fox News Sunday morning, Cotton suggested the virus did not originate in an animal market as the Chinese government has claimed, but perhaps from another source, such as an infectious disease research lab nearby.…… MORE
In an open letter to victims, Jim Turley, the national chair of Boy Scouts of America, said the organization filed for bankruptcy to make sure all the victims of abuse were fairly compensated. This is a full text of his letter: Any incident of child abuse is one too many. As a father, a former…… MORE
Paul Pogba is not the “property” of Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the French star’s agent said in a combative social media post Monday. Mino Raiola hit out at Solskjaer after the Norwegian said in a pre-game news conference that “Paul is our player, not Mino’s.” Raiola, agent to some of the world’s best…… MORE
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. A string of US companies has been cautioning investors that first quarter sales could take a hit from the spread of coronavirus. Apple just made it all more real. The $1.4 trillion…… MORE
Judge Amy Berman Jackson will hear Tuesday from Roger Stone’s defense team and the Justice Department after a tumultuous week that saw President Donald Trump suggest she is biased and several prosecutors quit his case after Justice Department leadership rescinded their initial recommended sentence of up to nine years in prison. Stone is still scheduled…… MORE
Meet Herman and Lundy, recent cuddle buddies and rescue animals. The two are an unlikely pair: Herman, a pigeon, suffered neurological damage more than a year ago. He can’t fly. Little Lundy, a newborn chihuahua puppy, can’t use his back legs. But stick them together, and the two will snuggle up as though they were…… MORE
If only rings could talk. Nearly 50 years after a woman lost her boyfriend’s class ring in a Maine department store, it turned up buried six inches deep in the floor of a forest in Finland. “I was shocked. And didn’t really believe that it would be his. I needed to see it,” Debra McKenna,…… MORE
The sweeping scourge of the Black Death in 14th century England was so great it forced city-dwelling victims out to countryside hospitals, based on the tragic findings in a mass grave in Lincolnshire, England. The remains of 48 people, including 21 children, were found at a previously unknown Black Death mass grave site at Thornton…… MORE
Around 70,000 years ago, a Neanderthal was laid to rest in Shanidar Cave. Excavations in recent years have slowly revealed its entire upper body, including a lower back, the clenched bones of a right hand and the left hand almost acting as a pillow beneath the skull. It’s the first discovery of its kind in…… MORE
Dutch soccer legend Ruud Gullit says he was “disappointed” to see players not back Porto striker Moussa Marega as he walked off the pitch after being subjected to racist abuse from opposition fans. The 28-year-old had to push away his own teammates as he tried to leave the field during his side’s match against Vitoria…… MORE
