(Bloomberg) — Chinese hedge funds were looking forward to a holiday break from the market turmoil when trouble started brewing last month. One manager had his short-selling orders abruptly rejected by brokers. Another was cut off from the stock market completely. Regulators turned up on trading floors at multiple funds to monitor transactions in person. […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – El Paso Police is asking for help in identifying those responsible for damaging the Starlight Event Center, Crime Stoppers of El Paso announced Thursday, Feb. 15 via an Instagram post. Crime Stoppers says that between 10:25 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. Friday, Jan. 12, shots were fired at the Starlight Event […]
Donald Trump’s trade wars flopped. The former president promised to boost American manufacturing through import tariffs and other protectionist measures, and it didn’t work. Yet the voters Trump was appealing to rewarded him anyway, according to a new study by prominent trade economists. That may explain why Trump now says he’ll intensify his trade wars […]
A Lowell man was arrested after he allegedly damaged a hotel room in Nashua. On April 2, 2023, officers took a report from an employee of the Sheraton Hotel that two individuals had caused extensive damage to a hotel room. Upon investigation, police determined that Pedro Teran, 37 of Lowell caused over $1,500.00 in damages […]
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry on Friday dropped his libel lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid following a ruling in which a judge cast doubt on his case. Lawyers for the Duke of Sussex told the High Court in London that he was withdrawing the suit against Associated Newspapers Ltd. No reason […]
ST, GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — “We couldn’t believe what we were seeing,” said Washington County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Darrell Cashin. In November 2023, a concerned citizen called the Washington County Sheriff’s Office reporting potential vandalism and property destruction at an archaeological site near Fort Pearce in Washington County, Utah. When officials arrived, they said they […]
A war over Taiwan could wipe out 6.7% from the US economy in its first year, according to a Bloomberg Economics analysis. The US economy could take a 3.3% hit to its GDP growth if China blockades Taiwan. Taiwan is a major semiconductor chip supplier to the world. The island heads to the polls on […]
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Fairhope man is in jail after he allegedly damaged a vehicle with a metal tool at Mercedes-Benz Mobile, according to the Mobile Police Department. Officers responded to a reported damaged vehicle at Mercedes-Benz Mobile at 3060 Dauphin St. around 12:22 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 30. Baldwin County woman dies in Daphne […]
North Korea has sent Russia large quantities of artillery shells. Some are defective, causing damage to weapons and injuring Russian soldiers, Ukraine’s army said. Experts have questioned the quality of North Korean ammunition. Russia is using low-quality artillery shells from North Korea that are often defective and cause problems on the front lines, Ukraine’s army […]
A fire broke out at a private company in Kyiv Oblast, as pieces of a downed attack drone fell on it. Source: Ruslan Kravchenko, Head of Kyiv Oblast Military Administration; Ukraine’s State Emergency Service Details: A fire broke out at a private company because of the falling drone pieces. One of the company’s warehouses caught […]
Heat can be deadly, killing more people every year than other weather hazards. But as hotter days become our new normal — or, as some climate scientists say, our “new abnormal” — the ill effects of higher temperatures on our bodies can persist a lot longer than you might think. The World Health Organization says […]