1 / 3 Face masks have bceome a common sight on Moscow’s streets. Now Russian authorities are banning Chinese tourists over coronavirus fears Face masks have bceome a common sight on Moscow’s streets. Now Russian authorities are banning Chinese tourists over coronavirus fears (AFP Photo/Dimitar DILKOFF) Moscow (AFP) – Moscow is to impose a blanket […]
Tel Aviv — It’s a tense stakeout, waiting for Jimmy Julius Karow to appear. He is a wanted man and is considered dangerous. Accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in Oregon in 2000, he fled to Israel before authorities in the U.S. could apprehend him or figure out where he went. Karow has been running […]
Renaissance Technologies, added more than 3 million shares of Tesla to its holdings in the fourth quarter of last year, as the electric-vehicle maker’s shares catapulted higher, according to public filings. The hedge fund founded by James Simons, considered the premiere quantitative-driven investor, owned 3.9 million shares of Tesla at the end of Dec. 31, […]
Getty Images Bull or bear: who will win in 2020? As fourth-quarter earnings season winds down, analysts are looking ahead to corporate results in 2020. In a note out Monday, Goldman Sachs strategists summarized their views: earnings are likely to clear a low bar this year, they think, but “risks are tilted to the downside,” […]
“Alexa, I’m depressed.” The idea that a tabletop virtual assistant such as Alexa or Siri knows or cares how you’re feeling sounds straight out of some neurotic comedy. Today, at least. Mental health is a brave new frontier for artificial-intelligence and machine-learning algorithms driven by “big data.” Before long, if some forward-looking psychologists, doctors and […]
Hedge-fund billionaire Leon Cooperman joked back in September that the stock market wouldn’t even open if Sen. Elizabeth Warren were to win the presidency and bring her plans to tax the rich to the White House. She wasn’t laughing and fired back on Twitter TWTR, +2.84% : “Leon, you were able to succeed because of […]
‘It would definitely be an improvement over what we have now. The problem is it would leave so much of our current insurance infrastructure, with all of its problems, intact. So that’s kind of like being offered either a sh— sandwich or a slightly smaller sh— sandwich with guac.’ “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver, […]
The director of a Chinese hospital at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak became one of its victims Tuesday despite “all-out” efforts to save his life, Chinese health officials said. The death came the same day Chinese officials released data indicating the new virus could be 20 times more lethal than the flu. Liu Zhiming, president of Wuhan […]
WASHINGTON — Only three candidates out of the more than half dozen vying for the White House have a viable path to the nomination, a senior official for the Mike Bloomberg campaign told reporters Tuesday. Bloomberg states director Dan Kanninen said that “we are really down to a race where there are three people left […]
A 12-year-old boy was tortured and beaten to death by his grandparents and a teenage uncle at their home in Montana, authorities said. In multiple instances, the suspects recorded themselves torturing the boy on their cellphones, police said. James Alex Hurley had been living with his grandparents, James Sasser Jr., 47, and Patricia Batts, 48, […]