Congratulations, Tom Vilsack, you just claimed a $150,000 Powerball prize — so what do you plan to do with all that money? ‘The church is going to get a little bit of it… And the kids are going to get a little bit because you always try to help your kids out. And then the […]
Stocks edged higher on Monday as Wall investors took heart in mostly solid U.S. fourth-quarter corporate earnings and looked beyond concerns about the coronavirus outbreak’s potential disruption to global supply chains. What are major indexes doing? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.41% rose 77 points to 29,179, a gain of 0.3%. The S&P 500 […]
Better get that paper bag ready. A Wizz Air plane, originally destined for London Luton from Warsaw, was reportedly diverted to Birmingham, where, as you can see by this scary footage, it got caught in the whipping winds of Storm Ciara: [embedded content] Passengers arrived safely but shaken. The Wizz Air flight wasn’t the only […]
Getty Images Pete Buttigieg greets members of the audience after speaking at a Sunday town hall at Salem High School in Salem, N.H. MANCHESTER, N.H. — New Hampshire Democrats will vote Tuesday in what’s become an increasingly tight primary race between Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders — but not before Donald Trump shows up to […]
Geneva (AFP) – The head of the World Health Organization has warned that confirmed cases of coronavirus being transmitted by people who have never travelled to China could be the “tip of the iceberg”. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s remarks come as members of a WHO-led “international expert mission” flew to China on Monday to help coordinate […]
CONCORD, N.H. — Needing a boost in a New Hampshire primary critical to her campaign’s future, Sen. Elizabeth Warren deployed a slew of major surrogates across the state in a last push for Tuesday’s vote. While many of the events were smaller canvassing kickoffs, Warren gathered the three co-chairs of her campaign in Rundlett Middle […]
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Shares of Intelsat S.A. took a tumble Friday, after J.P. Morgan analyst Philip Cusick said Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to quickly free up spectrum for 5G networks leaves “little hope” for equity investors. Cusick downgraded the Luxembourg-based satellite services company to a rare underweight rating, after being at neutral the past three […]
Aurora Cannabis Inc. late Thursday said that Chief Executive Terry Booth is retiring amid “sweeping changes” for the Canadian licensed producer, the latest pot company to cut costs amid a cash crunch in the sector. Aurora outlined a “business transformation plan” in a lengthy statement that detailed job cuts and large cuts in the valuation […]
KIM WON-JIN/AFP via Getty Images SEOUL–North Korea’s not saying a word about deaths or illnesses from the coronavirus, but the disease reportedly has spread across the border from China and is taking a toll in a country with a dismal health care system and scant resources for fighting off the deadly bug. From Lobsters and […]