Hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, President Trump on Wednesday sought to assure Americans that the United States was not on the brink of another war in the Middle East. “The American people should be extremely grateful and happy […]
The Bushehr plant, which produces 1,000 megawatts of power, was completed by Russia after years of delay and officially handed over in September 2013 (AFP Photo/ATTA KENARE) Tehran (AFP) – A magnitude 4.5 earthquake on Wednesday rattled an area less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant near the country’s Gulf […]
By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo police arrested a woman on Tuesday accused of inciting terrorist acts for social media comments against the United States over the killing of Iranian Commander Qassem Soleimani. Police said that Ikballe Berisha Huduti, the founder of a now defunct pro-Islamic organization called Kur’ani, was arrested following an order […]
Tesla Inc. is as big as peak Ford Motor Co., with the Silicon Valley electric-car maker stock poised to hit another record on Tuesday. Tesla TSLA, +2.81% shares traded as high as $462.06, up more than 1% from Monday’s record close, the latest in a series of ever-climbing notches that stretch back to mid-December. Tesla’s […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE U.S. stocks pared early losses Tuesday helped by slightly rosier economic data and rumors of a deep-pocketed buyer for Boeing’s beleaguered stock while concerns about the possibility of war in the Middle East faded slightly. See full story. Impossible Foods adds pork and sausage in battle with Beyond Meat On Tuesday, it […]
College is not an extension of high school. That may seem obvious to anyone who has gotten a degree, but in my decades of teaching, I have observed many college freshmen who do not understand the expectations of college classes. Those 18-year-olds who are slow to figure out this basic truth risk failing classes or […]
Blackstone’s Byron Wien predicts that stock-market investors are in for what could be a rude awakening, when Democrats retake the U.S. Senate in the coming 2020 elections. I think the Democrats take the Senate. Enough information [will be] revealed in the proceedings to cause some of his supporters, as well as many independents, to throw […]
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers recommends more investment in the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service is scrutinizing fewer and fewer individual tax returns as audit rates continue to decline from a high point 10 years ago. IRS auditors looked into a mere 0.45% of individual tax returns in fiscal year […]
1 / 5 Egypt Coptic Christmas Romany, a Coptic man, left, holds his four-year-old son, for Eissa the barber to cut his hair, in preparation for the Coptic Christmas celebration, at a residential and industrial area of eastern Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam) CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi […]
A Republican congressman who tweeted a picture of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Monday defended it as making a valid point after commenters pointed out that the two had never met in person. Congressman Paul Gosar and his tweet of a Photoshopped image. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: AP) […]