Hope you have a good weekend, MarketWatchers. And don’t miss these top stories: Personal Finance I’m still waiting on my FIRST stimulus check. When will I get it? ‘We, the qualifying taxpayers, should not have to suffer’ ‘I was the supervisor of the department that processed and reconciled parking citations. Since mid-March, the number of […]
The bottle:Santa Teresa 1796 rum (special Crafted Together edition), $48 The back story: Almost needless to say, these are challenging times for those in the bar business, with many drinking spots across the globe remaining closed because of pandemic restrictions. As a result, Santa Teresa 1796, a higher-end Venezuelan-made brand of aged rum from a […]
China bought less than one-fourth of its promised $36.6 billion yearly U.S. agriculture import target in the first half of 2020, China customs data showed. There is still time to meet the commitment, however, and strong demand could push China to make record-level soybean and corn purchases this year, analysts said. The U.S. government is […]
“Fortnite” creator Epic Games is geared up for a bona fide dust-up against Big Tech, and it is winning the support of other prominent app developers in the process. Spotify Technology Inc. SPOT, -0.92% and Match Group Inc. MTCH, +1.15% recently issued statements in support of Epic, which filed suit against Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.08% […]
A former FBI lawyer plans to plead guilty to falsifying a claim made to sustain government surveillance on a key figure in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to court documents. It is the first legal development to come from a review of the Mueller team’s work, […]
A general view shows the National Rifle Association (NRA) headquarters, in Fairfax By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday dismissed the National Rifle Association’s lawsuit challenging New York’s decision to close gun stores in the state in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The decision came eight days after […]
Three women are accused of assaulting a 17-year-old restaurant hostess in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, because they were upset they could not all be seated together due to coronavirus social-distancing rules, police said. The incident occurred Sunday after a large group of women entered a Chili’s restaurant and asked to be seated at the same table, […]
In this March 12, 2020, file photo, the sun shines through clouds above a shale gas drilling site in St. Mary’s, Pa. Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s administration is undoing Obama-era rules designed to limit potent greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas fields and pipelines, formalizing the changes Thursday in the […]
Federal prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday that the Bureau of Prisons has no plans to move Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein, into the general population of the New York City jail despite her lawyers’ claims that she is being held in “uniquely onerous” conditions. Attorneys for Maxwell, who is being held […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, delivered some blunt messages to the public during an online video interview with a Hollywood actor on Thursday evening. Fauci said there are a few key reasons why many island nations and Asian countries have managed to control coronavirus better than the […]