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It has been a turbulent week on Wall Street. GameStop soared some 100% at the opening bell, after trading platforms including Robinhood lifted restrictions on trading the stock. It was up 65% in the early afternoon Friday. Elsewhere on Wall Street, the picture was bleak. The Dow tumbled 2.2%, or 670 points in early afternoon
Continue ReadingThe 2021 March for Life unfolded Friday mostly virtually under the cloud of a pandemic, encouraging participants to remain committed to the anti-abortion cause despite a Biden administration already drawing a sharp contrast from a Trump White House that partnered with the movement. The rally maintained much of its usual ethos despite shifting online, with
Continue ReadingGeneral Motors said Thursday it plans to be carbon neutral by 2040 in its global operations and hopes to offer only zero-emissions vehicles by 2035. The largest US automaker, GM had previously announced that it was working towards an “all electric future,” but it had not set any target date for achieving that goal. GM
Continue ReadingFormer FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith will not serve jail time for changing a document that backed a surveillance warrant of former Trump associate Carter Page during the early Russia investigation, a federal judge ruled on Friday. He is the only defendant charged in the Durham investigation, which has looked closely at the FBI’s work on
Continue ReadingThe New York State Department of Health undercounted Covid-19 deaths among nursing home residents by approximately 50%, according to a report released Thursday by the state attorney general’s office. The report preliminarily concludes that deaths were underreported based on a survey of 62 nursing homes, a roughly 10% sample of total facilities across the state.
Continue ReadingIt has been a crazy week on Wall Street — and Friday trading is still in the early going. GameStop soared some 100% at the opening bell, after trading platforms including Robinhood lifted restrictions on trading the stock. GameStop shares were up 65% in the early afternoon Friday. Meanwhile, the three major stock indexes were
Continue ReadingA new Covid-19 vaccine from Novavax was found to be 89.3% effective in a clinical trial conducted in the UK and appears to offer protection against some variants of the coronavirus, the American biotech firm has announced. The vaccine is the first to show it is effective against new variants during trials, with high levels
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused Sen. Ted Cruz of “trying to get me killed” during the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and called for his resignation from the Senate, after the Texas Republican appeared to agree with her on the need for an investigation into Robinhood following chaos on Wall Street.
Continue ReadingThe United Kingdom is preparing to welcome potentially tens of thousands of migrants from Hong Kong, with the opening of a new visa for residents of the former British colony this Sunday. Last year, China imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong that critics say has stripped the city of its autonomy and
Continue ReadingFor months, people have been clamoring to get access to Clubhouse, a buzzy invite-only social media app where members join virtual rooms to have live, unscripted discussions. Topics range from the “future of San Francisco,” with the city’s district attorney participating, and Kanye West to startup pitch events and various off color conversations. Unlike other
Continue ReadingHNA Group was once one of China’s largest conglomerates, spending billions of dollars to expand its reach around the world. Now it could go bankrupt. The Hainan-based company’s creditors have asked a Chinese court to approve plans for the company to enter bankruptcy, HNA said in a statement Friday. The creditors said the conglomerate couldn’t
Continue ReadingThe release of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” biopic has been postponed until 2022. The film, which stars Austin Butler as the late rock star, will now premiere in June of 2022 instead of November of 2021. Warner Bros. did not indicate why the film’s release has been postponed but production on the movie has had its
Continue ReadingSome of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram nearly seven years ago have finally escaped from their captors, a father of one of the girls told CNN. Halima Ali Maiyanga, one of more than 100 young women still missing, called her father to say she and others had managed to flee Boko Haram militants
Continue ReadingThe anti-science movement has set up the United States and the world up for a worse Covid-19 pandemic than otherwise would have been, infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez argued Thursday. “An anti-science disinformation campaign of unprecedented magnitude and led by both multinational corporations and some governments, especially the Russian and US Governments, fuels the
Continue ReadingFormer President Donald Trump has added three additional criminal defense lawyers to his impeachment defense team, bringing the current number of attorneys representing him next month to five. Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris, two prominent South Carolina defense lawyers, have agreed to defend Trump along with Joshua Howard, a North Carolina defense lawyer. “We’re on
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Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, CA (KABC) — Baby on the move! We’re all making do with working from home, but sometimes there are certain things we can’t control. ABC7’s Leslie Lopez had a surprise visitor during her morning weather forecast, making for one adorable news blooper. In the video, you
Continue ReadingThe White House said Thursday it is their policy to not let businesses imply they have President Joe Biden’s support or endorsement, but declined to comment on the record about an advertisement in which Frank Biden touted his relationship to his brother. The ad for a Boca Raton law firm, for which Frank Biden is
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (FOX5/KVVU) — If kids can go back to class, why can’t they go back on the field? Some parents are asking that question and demanding the Clark County School District bring back high school sports. Thursday afternoon, dozens of students and their parents came together outside
Continue ReadingPeople who had travel insurance in 2020 found that their policies offered little protection against the global pandemic that dramatically upended trips all over the world. So what kind of reassurance does travel insurance provide in 2021? Given the fine print and complexities around insurance, the answer isn’t straightforward, but the bottom line is that
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