A German prosecutor has said there is “some evidence” that Madeleine McCann was killed by the new suspect but not enough to bring him to trial. Hans Christian Wolters said police do not have enough “hard evidence” that Christian Brückner abducted Madeleine. He appealed for anyone with information about properties where the suspect previously lived […]
Fears of dismantling local police forces come from a “place of privilege,” Minneapolis City Council president Lisa Bender told CNN on Monday. “What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?” CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota asked Bender after the city council president laid out her vision for […]
U.S. stock-market futures edged higher Sunday evening in thin trading, as Wall Street equities looked to add to a rally toward records for the Nasdaq Composite that concluded trade last week on the back of improving economic data in the face of a viral outbreak. How are benchmarks faring? Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial […]
Asian markets rose in early trading Monday, following better-than-expected U.S. jobs numbers Friday and an extension of oil-production cuts by OPEC and its allies on Saturday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 NIK, +1.10% was up 1.2% while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.11% advanced 0.3%. The Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, +0.18% rose 0.3% and the smaller-cap Shenzhen […]
Crude-oil futures were bouncing around Sunday night, but tilting higher at last check, after OPEC and allied nations agreed Saturday to extend a production cut of nearly 10 million barrels of oil a day through the end of July. West Texas Intermediate crude for July delivery CL.1, +1.23% CLN20, +1.23%, the U.S. benchmark, was most […]
What would Warren Buffett do? Definitely not this. But that didn’t stop Ryan Cohen — who sold Chewy CHWY, -1.36% , the company he co-founded, for $3.35 billion back in 2017 — from throwing diversification out the window and plunking almost his entire payout into just two stocks: Apple AAPL, +2.84% and Wells Fargo WFC, […]
“ ‘Buildings matter, too’ ” Those three words cost Stan Wischnowski, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s top editor, his job. The newsroom vet resigned after backlash from staff over that headline on a story that said “there could be a gaping hole in the heart of Philadelphia” amid protests over the killing of George Floyd. Dozens of […]
Donald Trump holds up a Bible after walking to St John Episcopal Church. Demonstrators protesting against the killing of George Floyd were cleared from Lafayette Park with tear gas so that he could walk to the church from the nearby White House: AFP via Getty Images US Attorney General William Barr defended the clearing of […]
Art dealer Forrest Fenn hid the treasure in the wilderness a decade ago: AP The decade-long hunt for a treasure chest containing $1m (£790,000) in gold and jewels has ended with its discovery in the Rocky Mountains. Art dealer Forrest Fenn sparked the search for the loot after publishing clues pointing to its location in […]
Police around the U.S. took a less aggressive stance and even sometimes joined protesters demanding a reckoning with institutional racism, as leaders in the city at the center of the latest call for police reforms pushed Sunday to dismantle its department. Two weeks after George Floyd, a black unemployed bouncer, died in Minneapolis after a […]