Twitter Inc. reached an expensive compromise with an activist investor on Monday to save Jack Dorsey’s part-time CEO job, but not for good. Twitter TWTR, -2.98% reached an agreement with Elliott Management to buy back $2 billion of its shares, partially funded through a $1 billion investment from private equity firm Silver Lake, according to […]
Passenger John Miller from Seattle, Wash. falls to his knees disembarking from the MS Westerdam cruise ship after being stranded for two weeks now docked in February off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The large cruise ship with more than 2,000 crew and passengers was completely free from COVID-19, but was turned away from five […]
The World Health Organization warned on Monday that the threat of a Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is now “very real.” “Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real,” WHO General Director Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. “But, it would be […]
President Trump on Monday attempted to dismiss coronavirus fears with a misleading tweet comparing the virus causing the global health crisis to the seasonal flu. “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu,” Trump tweeted. “It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. […]
Ben Carson said Sunday that he was unsure what exactly would happen to the passengers on the stranded Grand Princess cruise ship after it docks in Oakland, Calif., on Monday. The ship, en route from Hawaii to Mexico, remains stuck at sea after being refused permission to dock in California. The secretary of the U.S. […]
“ ‘If people are watching it again, and if federal and state officials are watching it again, I hope they’re realizing that the movie was really about what can happen with a novel pandemic threat, and I think people should have taken it much more seriously. I wish people had paid closer attention to it […]
“ ‘It’s very important for people to remember that this virus is like other viruses. It should be treated the same way.’ ” That’s HUD secretary and White House coronavirus-task-force member Ben Carson urged people to remain calm, but to be sensible by taking preventative measures against COVID-19. “It’s very important for people to remember […]
The outbreak of COVID-19 has bludgeoned risk assets and sent those perceived as havens — gold and government bonds, for example — to new heights. And the landscape that has emerged since the emergence of the coronavirus-borne disease late last year in Wuhan, China, is increasingly uncertain. That dynamic has left many investors, traders, analysts […]
Passenger John Miller from Seattle, Wash. is overwhelmed with excitement disembarking from the MS Westerdam cruise ship after being stranded for two weeks now docked in February off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The large cruise ship with more than 2,000 crew and passengers was completely free from the Coronavirus (COVID-19.) but was turned away […]
Hillary Clinton said in a new interview that Joe Biden’s path to the 2020 nomination looks similar to hers back in 2016. “What Joe’s victories on Super Tuesday showed is that he is building the kind of coalition that I had basically,” Clinton said in an interview with CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that aired Sunday. […]