CNN’s Kasie Hunt had no time for Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt’s unwarranted attacks on her colleagues Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. “This Morning” anchor Hunt repeatedly warned Leavitt not to talk smack about Tapper and Bash, who will moderate presumptive GOP presidential nominee Trump’s first 2024 presidential debate with President Joe Biden in […]
Eight days after voting to remove its top administrator at a meeting that was subsequently deemed illegal, Batesburg-Leesville’s Town Council again voted to dismiss the man who has managed the town since 2014, despite the mayor praising his performance. There was also an item on the Friday night agenda addressing the employment of the town […]
Michael Burry, founder of Scion Asset Management, sold positions in Alphabet, Amazon and a number of other stocks and put his money to work in an ETF that buys physical gold. – Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management dumped positions in Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. during the first quarter while buying shares of an exchange-traded […]
An on-duty Memphis police officer kidnapped a man, shot him in the head and unsuccessfully tried getting rid of his body more than three years ago, federal prosecutors said. Patric J. Ferguson killed the man, identified as R.H., on Jan. 5, 2021, and dumped his body in the Wolf River in Memphis with the help […]
Conservative attorney George Conway has questioned the strategy that has been adopted by Donald Trump and the ex-president’s legal team of relentlessly attempting to attack the credibility of former Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen ahead of Cohen’s testimony in Trump’s hush money trial. They are “making a huge mistake in going after Michael Cohen […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Armed with gardening hoes while others cradled bamboo seedlings, students gathered outside their school in Kenya’s capital. They hoped the fully grown bamboo would help to filter filthy air from one of Africa’s largest trash dumps next door. More than 100 bamboo plantings dot the ground around Dandora secondary school, which […]
The United Arab Emirates is attempting to dry out after the heaviest rain ever recorded in the desert nation. The deluge flooded Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world’s busiest hub for international travel. The state-run WAM news agency called Tuesday’s rain “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of […]
Heavy thunderstorms lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, dumping more than a year and a half’s worth of rain on the desert city-state of Dubai in the span of hours as it flooded out portions of major highways and its international airport. Meanwhile, the death toll in separate heavy flooding in neighbouring Oman rose […]
Gregor Dimitrov beat top seed Carlos Alcaraz in straight sets to book a place in the Miami Open semi-final. The Bulgarian, seeded 11th, won 6-2 6-4 to book a last-four meeting with Germany’s world number five Alexander Zverev. Dimitrov made a fast start as he opened a 3-0 lead and Alcaraz, chasing back-to-back titles after […]
A flood watch remains in effect for much of North Jersey after a storm dumped more than 3 inches of rain throughout the area Saturday. The National Weather Service issued the watch until 8 a.m. Sunday as the drenching rain caused excessive runoff and flooding of low-lying neighborhoods, rivers and streams. The agency also issued […]
A powerful blizzard is underway in the Sierra Nevada and forecast to bring relentless snow over the next two days, with wind gusts already clocking 145 mph at the highest peaks in the Sierra and creating dangerous white-out conditions. This is the biggest snowstorm for the Sierra season, with blizzard warnings active for the Sierra Nevada and […]
(Bloomberg) — A Fidelity International money manager has sold the vast majority of US Treasuries from funds he oversees on expectations the world’s biggest economy still has room to expand. Most Read from Bloomberg Singapore-based George Efstathopoulos, who helps manage about $3 billion of income and growth strategies at Fidelity, sold the bulk of his […]