ViacomCBS Inc. said it plans to launch an expanded version of its flagship streaming service early next year, leveraging the catalog of programs created by last year’s merger of Viacom and CBS. Now known as CBS All Access, the service will be rebranded Paramount+, after ViacomCBS’s Paramount movie studio. It will relaunch with a slate […]
As students nationwide kick off fall classes in a new virtual environment, one Black seventh grader in Colorado is waiting to find out if he will attend school again this fall at all. What started off as a normal day of virtual learning ended with the police being called on the 12-year-old boy because he […]
Scientific American on Tuesday endorsed Joe Biden, the first presidential endorsement in the magazine’s 175-year history. Its editors said they felt “compelled” to do so because President Trump’s well-documented rejection of science, from climate change to the coronavirus, has cost tens of thousands of American lives. “The pandemic would strain any nation and system,” the […]
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, […]