
Stocks are up 100% since the last dramatic selloff. Here comes the Delta variant
CNN
US stocks hit record highs Monday, surging 100% from the lows they hit at the start of the pandemic. Then Tuesday happened.
A widely anticipated retail sales report showed the Delta variant is putting a damper on American consumer spending. That dragged an already lackluster market further into the red as the opening bell rang in New York. The S&P 500 (SPX), the broadest gauge of Wall Street, finished the day down 0.7%. The Dow (INDU) slid some 280 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) fell 0.9%.
Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

Since early December the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned, all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term.










