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By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business Heading into the start of 2021, Robinhood was expected to be one of the most successful initial public offerings of the year. Robinhood was widely hyped and praised by investors for helping democratize Wall Street trading. What could go wrong? A lot, as it turns out. Even though
Continue ReadingBy Luis Acosta, Jr, for Madison365 Click here for updates on this story MADISON, WI (365 Media Foundation, Inc) — The art and start-up universes may be beginning to collide, thanks to the initiatives at Madison start-up nest StartingBlock. Located in American Family Insurance’s “Spark” Building on East Washington Avenue, the non-profit organization specializes in
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Mostafa Salem and Walé Azeez, CNN Business The United Arab Emirates and its international finance hub Dubai are switching to a four-and-a-half-day work week ending at midday Friday to make it easier to do business globally. The move away from the current Sunday to Thursday schedule — the first by a Gulf
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WEEK 2, TUESDAY: Tuesday was another long day in court for the jury and defendant Jose Larin-Garcia, the man prosecutors say killed four victims on February 3, 2019. The prosecution called two police officers to the stand. One says on the night of the murders, he saw a tall, thin figure, in dark clothing running
Continue ReadingBy Swati Gupta and Amy Woodyatt, CNN A teenager has been arrested in western India for beheading his 19-year-old sister while his mother allegedly held the young woman’s legs, according to police. The victim, who got married against her parents’ wishes, was two months pregnant, police told CNN Tuesday, citing her husband. The incident happened
Continue ReadingBy LUCAS ROBINSON Click here for updates on this story MADISON, Wisconsin (madison.com/Wisconsin State Journal) — On this day 80 years ago, Madisonian William Scheer, then a 19-year-old in the Army Air Corps, was at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The morning of Dec. 7, 1941, Scheer watched as Japanese aircraft
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell didn’t get the candidate he wanted in New Hampshire. He’s seen states like Pennsylvania and Arizona turn into brutal primary fights. And he’s had to deal with the constant barrage of attacks from former President Donald Trump over his leadership. But the 2022
Continue ReadingReview by Brian Lowry, CNN Presenting a far richer story than a simple biopic, “Being the Ricardos” turns writer-director Aaron Sorkin loose again on the medium of television and produces one of the year’s most satisfying movies. That it was made for a streaming service, Amazon, is a wrinkle even the legendarily foresighted Desi Arnaz
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Christian Chapman, a former underwriter at Better.com, thought he was logging onto another of CEO Vishal Garg’s town halls. He didn’t know it would be his last call as an employee of the online mortgage company. “If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group that is
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips and Jay Croft, CNN Michigan continues to struggle amid the pandemic, setting a record this week for Covid-19 hospitalizations and leading the nation in per capita case rates, new data reveal. The state also recently reported its highest seven-day average of new daily cases, at 10,014, on December 3. The average dipped
Continue ReadingCNN By Deidre McPhillips and Jay Croft, CNN Michigan continues to struggle amid the pandemic, setting a record this week for Covid-19 hospitalizations and leading the nation in per capita case rates, new data reveal. The state also recently reported its highest seven-day average of new daily cases, at 10,014, on December 3. The average
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN A climber who found a trove of precious stones on Mont Blanc has been given half of the 150,000-euro ($168,700) haul to keep after authorities couldn’t find the original owner. The climber found the emeralds and sapphires on the mountain in France in 2013, and he has now been allowed to
Continue ReadingBy Ken Corn Click here for updates on this story HAYWOOD COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — Haywood County resident Alcy Kates turned 100 years old on Monday. The World War II veteran spent the morning with News 13’s Ken Corn, talking about his time marching across Europe with the 71st Infantry division. Monuments remembering the
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The First Alert Weather Team has issued a First Alert Weather Alert through this evening. The Weather Alert Day has been issued due to concerns over road conditions and snow impacting travel above 6,000 feet in our local mountain communities. TODAY Snow is falling steadily in Long Valley behind the Aerial Tramway’s Mountain Station: Wind
Continue ReadingBy Web Staff Click here for updates on this story TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A jury has found an animal rights activist guilty of taking a goat from a ranch in Transylvania County. District Attorney Andrew Murray tells News 13 Wayne Hsiung has been convicted on felony charges of breaking and entering and
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By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN A Tennessee court has decided a Black man convicted of aggravated assault deserves a new trial because evidence was improperly admitted and the jury deliberated in a room filled with tributes to the Confederacy, according to court documents. Judge James Curwood Witt Jr. said in an opinion filed last week that
Continue ReadingBy Kimberly King Click here for updates on this story ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A homeless camp visible from Interstate 240 in Asheville is about to be cleared. Officials said the camp is on state highway property and those living there will have to leave by the end of the week. The encampment, which
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN Neo and Trinity have still got it. Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are reprising their roles as Neo and Trinity in “The Matrix Resurrections,” the fourth installment in “The Matrix” franchise. In the latest trailer for the eagerly awaited film, the pair are shown getting into some serious action. “I
Continue ReadingBy Betsy Klein, CNN The White House touted a series of positive milestones for the administration’s pandemic response Tuesday as the nation experiences rising Covid-19 cases and concerns about the new Omicron variant. It comes as the US is experiencing rising cases — the highest case count since September — with nearly 60,000 people currently
Continue Reading By Gregory Lemos The Mississippi man put to death on November 17 for the 2010 murder of his wife and sexual assault of her 12-year-old daughter confessed in his final days to also murdering his sister-in-law. First Circuit District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday David Neal Cox penned a note to the DA’s office that disclosed
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