The High Court has refused horse trainer Tony Martin’s bid for a pause to a three-month suspension he received from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) for an alleged breach of anti-doping rules. Mr Justice Rory Mulcahy rejected Mr Martin’s claims regarding the IHRB’s use of a UK barrister at his appeal of the temporary […]
Nebraska’s congressional delegation, from left, U.S. Pete Ricketts, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, U.S. Rep. Adrian Smith, U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer and U.S. Rep. Mike Flood on Monday, June 19, 2023, in Lincoln, Neb. (Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — Nebraska’s U.S. senators are celebrating a pause in a plan to move Nebraska’s mail processing operations from North […]
US Fed vice chair Philip Jefferson said it was ‘appropriate’ to keep rates on hold for now (Drew Angerer) The US central bank should keep interest rates at their current “restrictive” levels until it sees real progress in the fight to lower inflation, a senior Fed official said Monday. The US Federal Reserve has hiked […]
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday maintained President Biden’s threat to withhold offensive weapons from Israel does not mean the U.S. intends to “abandon” Israel. Sullivan, speaking with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, warned of “significant” civilian casualties in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. It comes days after President Biden threatened […]
An avid lottery player took a break from playing — and won big upon his return in Maryland, officials said. He decided to buy a ticket during ”a spur-of-the-moment” Walmart run in Columbia, about a 20-mile drive southwest from Baltimore, lottery officials said in a news release. “I stopped playing a while back for two […]
By Nandita Bose, Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden‘s decision to pause shipments of thousands of bombs to Israel over the U.S. ally’s attacks on Rafah won praise from some critical Democrats, but won’t stop protests about Gaza that have dogged his reelection effort, strategists and organizers say. Biden’s […]
WASHINGTON — The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, President Joe Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs. Biden’s decision […]
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of 26 senators on Wednesday urged the U.S. Postal Service to pause planned further consolidation to its processing and delivery network, warning it could slow mail deliveries. The letter, seen by Reuters and led by Senator Gary Peters, who chairs the committee overseeing the USPS, urged a halt […]
US stocks tipped lower on Wednesday as investors tried to read the rate-cut runes and weighed a fresh batch of earnings reports for insight into the chance of a Corporate America-spurred revival. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell 0.1%, or about 50 points, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) ticked down 0.4%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq […]
Palantir (PLTR) stock dropped more than 12% following the company’s latest quarterly earnings release, which included an annual revenue forecast that failed to impress investors. Palantir issued full-year revenue guidance in a range of $2.68 billion to $2.69 billion. This came roughly in line with the $2.68 billion analysts had expected. But with shares already […]
Nuclear waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository near Carlsbad were suspended for about two months as workers completed numerous maintenance projects at the underground facility. Transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste made of irradiated clothing materials, equipment and debris is sent to WIPP for disposal via burial in a 2,000-foot-deep salt deposit from federal […]
US stocks hit pause on Tuesday as investors marked time ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision, with earnings from Amazon (AMZN) on deck to test prospects for a further Big Tech-fueled rally. Futures on the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (^NDX) slipped roughly 0.1% after closing with small gains. Dow Jones […]