Today is a new day for Kathie Lee Gifford. From the outside, the former “Today” show host — she left the long-running NBC CMCSA, -2.57% morning program in 2019 — seemed to be living a life that many would covet, including a successful career and two children who’d recently gotten engaged. But in recent years, […]
Oil futures fell sharply Friday on fears the spread of the coronavirus in China elsewhere will undercut demand for crude which has seen prices already under pressure due to worries about a potential oversupply. On Friday, China’s National Health Commission confirmed more than 800 cases of the coronavirus, an illness akin to severe acute respiratory […]
Cannabis advocates are cautiously optimistic that 2020 will be the year that New York state finally legalizes marijuana for adult recreational use, marking a milestone for the legal business. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has included legalization in his budget proposal for the new fiscal year, projecting it could generate $20 million in revenue in fiscal 2021, […]
In the wake of Washington’s assassination of former Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Arab Shi’a desires and interests across the Middle East are under a microscope. Have they shifted their protest slogans from opposing Iran to denouncing the United States? Americans should not assume that wide-angle television images of Shi’a protests in Iran […]
Analysis banner Business Insider Sean Hannity Fox News Fox News in its prime-time evening coverage of impeachment proceedings is playing testimony by top Democrats with no sound, and adding live spin from Trump allies. In his show, Sean Hannity assured viewers that the proceedings weren’t worth watching and attacked them as “24 hours of never-ending […]
While much of the nation was focused on Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate, the president gave an interview in Davos, Switzerland, that undercut one of his key pledges from his 2016 campaign, declaring his intention to “take a look” at cutting benefits to entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare. Asked by […]
(Bloomberg) — China is doing a better job and the world community is more prepared in dealing with the new coronavirus than they were during the 2002 to 2003 SARS episode, Germany’s health minister said in an interview. “There’s a big difference to SARS. We have a much more transparent China,” Jens Spahn told Bloomberg […]
Welcome to 2020 Vision, the Yahoo News column covering the presidential race with one key takeaway every weekday and a wrap-up each weekend. Reminder: There are 11 days until the Iowa caucuses and 285 days until the 2020 election. Mike Bloomberg probably isn’t going to win the Democratic nomination for president. But he might beat Donald […]
Dear Moneyist, My youngest sister persuaded my father to sell his home and buy her a property with two residences: a small town house for him and a nice four-bedroom house for her and her family. My father recently passed away. We discovered that our sister’s mother-in-law is an attorney. She talked my father into […]
Tesla shares — unsafe at any speed? Apparently so, according to consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who issued a stark warning this week, not only on the electric-car maker’s pricey stock, but on the stock market as a whole. ‘When the stock market bubble implodes, it will have been started by the […]