Now it is up to the 29 other major league owners to decide whether Steve Cohen will be the next owner of the Mets. The hedge-fund billionaire reached a deal Monday to buy the Mets for between $2.4 billion and $2.45 billion, the highest price ever paid for a North American sports team. “I am […]
Shares of electric-truck maker Nikola Corp. went on a wild ride Monday, as the Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly weighed a short-seller’s claims of fraud, which the company had vehemently denied earlier in the day. After sinking around 8% in early-morning trading, shares of Nikola NKLA, +11.39% surged after the company issued a rebuttal, […]
“ “President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin.” ” Those are the words of Alexander Vindman, the retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who blew the whistle on President Donald Trump’s dealings with the president of Ukraine last year, in a […]
Dear Moneyist, My late husband had not seen his son in over 30 years. He and his son’s mother decided on her receiving a larger share of assets in lieu of child support. He did see his son a few times a year for the next several years, but contact stopped during the teen years […]
Amazon stepped up its hiring spree on Monday, saying it would recruit 100,000 more workers to meet the growing demand for online shopping, which has spiked during the pandemic. The world’s biggest online retailer, which is run by Jeff Bezos, said the new positions are for full and part-time work across the U.S. and Canada, […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom unsuccessfully pressed President Trump on Monday to acknowledge that climate change is making wildfires worse across much of the West Coast. “We obviously feel very strongly that the hots are getting hotter, the drys are getting drier,” Newsom told Trump at a roundtable in Sacramento, Calif., where the president stopped for […]
For generations, America considered itself a democratic beacon, a shining exemplar of responsible self-governance. Now, it seems we have given up on the very idea of a one-person, one-vote democratic republic in which ordinary citizens’ voices count equally. Part of the blame lies with the Founders. But much of it lies with us, America’s citizens, for […]
A 14-year-old hunter apparently fell asleep in a Michigan field before he was run over and killed by a corn chopper, police say. The boy was dropped off in a field in Chandler Township early Saturday so he could hunt, the Huron County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Once he arrived, police believe […]
The humpback whale was spotted swimming in the East Alligator River – -/Northern Territory Government Marine authorities were puzzling on Monday over how to persuade at least one wayward humpback whale to leave a murky, crocodile-infested river in northern Australia and continue an annual migration to Antarctica. There have been no previous recorded sightings of whales in East […]