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Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly apologized on Monday for blasting canned aircraft carrier Capt. Brett Crozier as “too naive or too stupid” to command a ship. “Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid,” Modly wrote. “I think, and always believed him to be the opposite.” Modly’s about-face …

The momentous decision, handed down Tuesday by Chief Justice Susan Kiefel, ends a five-year legal battle that started when a man in his 30s approached police alleging Pell had abused him as a child in the mid-1990s. At the time, Pell was Vatican Treasurer and the highest ranking Catholic official to ever be publicly accused …

CLOSE A look back at the life of Al Kaline, the Detroit Tigers great, who died on April 6, 2020, at age 85. Detroit Free Press Al Kaline, who in a long and unique Detroit Tigers lifetime grew from youthful batting champion to Hall of Famer to distinguished elder statesman, died Monday afternoon at his …

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday he is doubling to $1,000 the maximum fine for violating the state’s strict social distancing rules during the coronavirus outbreak. The reason: Too many New Yorkers aren’t taking the rules seriously, he said. He spoke less than a week before Easter and two days before the start of …

Clockwise from top left: Daveed Diggs, 9-year-old Aubrey, Okieriete Onaodowan, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. YouTube hide caption toggle caption YouTube Clockwise from top left: Daveed Diggs, 9-year-old Aubrey, Okieriete Onaodowan, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. YouTube In this era of social distancing, few celebrities have carved out a social media presence as appealing as …

Johnson was taken Sunday evening to the National Health Service hospital, where he spent a “comfortable night” in the National Health Service hospital and “is in good spirits,” said Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is chairing emergency meetings and briefing the press in Johnson’s absence. The prime minister tweeted Tuesday, “Last night, on the advice …

“It literally is a global jungle that we’re competing in now,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, a Republican, said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I’d like to see a better way, but that’s the reality in which we are.” Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois blasted Trump in an interview on CNN’s “State of the …

  4m ago Improvements in hard-hit Italy and Spain as U.K.’s COVID-19-postitive leader hospitalized for tests Conditions appear to be improving in the two hardest-hit European countries, with Italy’s daily coronavirus death toll declining for two weeks and Spain reporting fewer deaths on each of the last three days. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was …

Red Cross medics measure the temperature of participants of the 178th Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in Vienna, Austria, on March 5, 2020. Alex Halada | Getty Images Brent crude futures could plunge to “single-digit lows” if major oil producers fail to reach a deal to cut output at a time when demand …

Oil storage tanks stand at the RN-Tuapsinsky refinery, operated by Rosneft Oil Co., in Tuapse, Russia, on Monday, March 23, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images The oil price bust may not be over.  A historic demand shock sparked by the coronavirus pandemic is set to worsen in the current quarter, undermining any …