U.S. stocks traded higher Friday, after opening at new intraday records, as investors attempt to close out a holiday-shortened week on a positive note, a day after a report on strong retail sales helped the Nasdaq to finish above 9,000 for the first time. How are benchmarks performing? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.24% […]
Do you check the weather by asking your smart speaker? When you do your laundry, do you throw a pod in the washing machine? Is tonight’s dinner made from ingredient shipped to your front door? If the answer to any of those questions was yes, then your life has been changed by one of the […]
Another day, another round of stock market records? That may be a Friday stretch. The big names that we’ve run a little hot and cold on this year, such as Amazon.com AMZN, +1.46%, were out in front, pulling the Santa-rally sleigh to fresh records on Thursday. (Remember, that traditional year-end rally for stocks that starts […]
Scott Rieckens and his wife Taylor were living what many people might consider a dream life: renting a house across the bay from San Diego, working hard but also playing hard, whether regularly hitting up hot new restaurants, joining the local boat club or enjoying flashy weekend trips. After their daughter Jovie was born in […]
Theodore McCarrick, pictured in Washington in 2015, about three years before he became the first Roman Catholic cardinal ever to be defrocked for sex abuse (AFP Photo/CHIP SOMODEVILLA) Washington (AFP) – A US cardinal gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to powerful Catholic clerics including two popes while facing accusations of sexual harassment, The Washington […]
A woman and two children are dead following a Christmas Day incident at a Northeastern University parking garage in Boston, CBS Boston reports. Police responded just before 1:30 p.m. to the Renaissance Park Garage, where they found the three unconscious. They were pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. “At this point, this is a death […]
President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier this week upheld what has become a conservative tradition: attacking billionaire philanthropist George Soros. “Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” Giuliani, a Roman Catholic, said in an interview with New York magazine that quickly went viral. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros […]
Baltimore may see the highest homicide rate ever recorded in the city by the end of 2019, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Police had recorded 338 homicides as of Tuesday, four shy of the 342 seen in 2017 and 2015. The city saw 353 homicides in 1993, the most of any year on record. […]
“The 360” shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories. What’s happening The winter holidays are one of the most hectic times for air travel. Large crowds, cranky kids and icy weather can turn a simple trip into a nerve-rattling mess. In recent years a new concern has been added to this list of […]
Telsa Inc. shares continued their record-breaking run on Thursday, after a bullish analyst report said recent data from Europe and China suggest the electric-car maker may be on the cusp of a new period of growth and profitability. Shares TSLA, +1.65% were up about 1% and were flirting with the $430 level in early trade, […]