A labor union representing tens of thousands of workers at Samsung Electronics in South Korea has called a one-day strike next week, in what would be the first such walkout at the smartphone and chipmaking giant. The Nationwide Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) said on Wednesday during a press conference streamed on its official Youtube channel […]
A Carnegie Mellon graduate student is accused of placing a camera under a stall door in a university bathroom. Officers were called to Hamerschlag Hall on April 4. They spoke with a person who said they were using a first-floor bathroom when they saw a cell phone on the floor with the camera angled toward […]
By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) – Negotiations between China and an Arab bloc for a free trade agreement have stalled over concerns by Saudi Arabia that cheap Chinese imports could undermine its ambitions to transform the kingdom into an industrial powerhouse, sources say. Saudi Arabia has backed renewed efforts over the past two years for […]
The Carroll High School and Carroll Senior High School campuses in Southlake are closed on Wednesday as police investigate a message written on a bathroom stall door that referred to a state test and a school shooting. Southlake police received on Tuesday night via the school district alert system an anonymous report about the potential […]
Amid 90-degree heat on Saturday and coinciding with 4/20, about two dozen unionized cannabis workers and supporters conducted a two-hour picket outside a Phoenix marijuana dispensary at the heart of stalled bargaining negotiations. Nicholas Fredrickson stood alongside fellow Curaleaf employees participating in the rally organized by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local […]
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s key agricultural regions will receive rain and a drop in temperatures in the coming days, the Buenos Aires grain exchange said on Wednesday, a combination expected to help curb the spread of an insect that has damaged the country’s corn lots. Argentina is the world’s third-largest exporter of corn, but […]
US stock futures trod water on Monday as investors regrouped for a packed week ahead of a fresh inflation data test for rate-cut views and the start of first-quarter earnings season. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) hugged the flatline. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (^NDX) were […]
US stocks were mixed in cautious trading on Wednesday as investors waited to find out whether the Federal Reserve has shifted its view on how many interest-rate cuts could come this year. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) was flat at the open on the heels of a fresh all-time closing high for the benchmark. Meanwhile, the […]
A man was arrested after he allegedly recorded boys inside of a bathroom at Bojangles Coliseum in February using a “GoPro-like” device, according to court documents obtained by the Observer. John Hastings Cutter IV, 61, was charged with multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor peeping for his alleged use of recording devices to take photos […]
When Donald Trump posted the $91.6 million bond on Friday allowing him to appeal the E. Jean Carroll decision without paying her immediately, it set off an interesting scramble to unpack why Federal Insurance Company—a subsidiary of Chubb Insurance Company—would lend to a notoriously unreliable borrower. But there was also some fine print in the […]
US stock futures wobbled on Friday, losing steam after a record-setting rally and blowout month as the relief sparked by an influential inflation reading ebbed. S&P 500 (^GSPC) futures were little changed, coming off the benchmark’s record close and best February in almost a decade. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) and the […]
A Texas man was arrested after a Houston police sergeant caught him trying to take photos inside a mall bathroom stall, according to authorities. The sergeant was in uniform inside a bathroom stall at the Galleria on Feb. 11 when he noticed someone holding a cellphone over top of the stall in an attempt to […]