Jeff Bezos Quietly Enters Residential Mortgage Business, Giving High Interest Rate Loans To Other Investors Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Jeff Bezos may be best known as the founder of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), but the billionaire has several lesser-known business interests across multiple […]
While a Maryland man often buys lottery scratch-off tickets, he usually only purchases one kind: those that “require players to find matching numbers to win.” However, as the Hyattsville man was buying some drinks at a Shell Food Mart in Adelphi, a $20 bingo scratch-off game, Bonus Bingo X20, caught his eye, Maryland Lottery officials […]
(Bloomberg) — When the world’s top gas traders met in late April at a canal-side hotel on the outskirts of Amsterdam, the atmosphere was business-as-usual: coffee, croissants and wrangling over deals for the upcoming winter. Then came news of a leak at Europe’s biggest liquefied natural gas plant, located above the Arctic circle in Norway. […]
The trickle of voters who kicked off early in-person voting last week seemed to continue Thursday as the last day to cast a ballot in person before Tuesday’s primary drew to a close. By Thursday afternoon, almost 150,000 Marylanders had cast early in-person votes, compared to the 178,000 who voted early in the 2022 primary, […]
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Rupert Murdoch might not be flexing for the cameras, but he did just quietly demonstrate the power he still wields inside the Republican Party. The right-wing media mogul’s empire — which includes Fox […]
Tesla’s sprawling gigafactory in Fremont, California. – Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Tesla is a massive company, employing 140,000 people as of late last year. But over the past month, layoffs have torn through the electric vehicle maker — and now a hiring freeze appears to be in effect in North America. As of Wednesday, […]
The iPad lineup has received a price bump after Apple quietly killed its cheapest iPad model. Apple’s 9th-generation iPad used to cost $329, but has been discontinued. At the same time, the company has reduced the 10th-gen iPad’s starting price by $100, which means it’s now priced at $349. As a result, getting the cheapest […]
Donald Trump has put America on notice: If he loses the presidential election, he reserves the right to encourage his followers to fight. When Time magazine asked Trump whether the election would end in political violence if he loses, the former president replied: “If we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on […]
FILE – Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is surrounded by legislative supporters after signing a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ or women’s sports teams on March 11, 2021, at the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Mississippi House and Senate negotiators quietly killed two bills that would […]
Tesla Quietly Signed Deal With India’s Tata Electronics To Source Chips: Report This story was first published on the Benzinga India portal. Electric vehicle giant, Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), has reportedly entered into a strategic agreement with Tata Electronics to source semiconductor chips for its worldwide operations, signifying the company’s increasing focus on the Indian […]
Elon Musk slammed MacKenzie Scott for her philanthropy, but that hasn’t stopped her from donating. Scott more than doubled her planned $250 million donation pledge, upping it to $640 million. Musk previously accused Scott of being a “super rich ex-wife” who’s destroying Western civilization. Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott might have landed in Elon Musk’s crosshairs […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There’s a lot less fanfare for Democrats in Iowa picking their presidential nominee this year, and it’s not only because Democratic incumbent Joe Biden is in the White House. Instead of congregating for caucuses, a one-night spectacle where community members publicly signal their support for a candidate, Iowa Democrats headed […]