(Reuters) -The boss of British health and beauty retailer Boots is quitting after U.S. owner Walgreens Boots Alliance’s plans for a sale or stock market listing of the chain stalled, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Sebastian James, who has run Boots since 2018, will remain in the post until November before […]
Stocks were mixed on Thursday as a multi-day rally to record highs stalled. Momo Takahashi/BI US stocks closed mostly lower Thursday, ending a long streak of gains for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. Nvidia dropped after soaring to records earlier in the day. Traders were also assessing weak housing-market data and elevated weekly jobless […]
A push to try to close a minimart in Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood seems to have stalled. Allentown neighbors say Adan Market 2 on East Warrington Avenue has been a hotspot for crime. For the last several months, they and city leaders have been calling on the DA to shut the minimart down. “We’ve had neighbors […]
(Bloomberg) — Argentine President Javier Milei fired his cabinet chief Nicolas Posse Monday as the government’s major reform bill has stalled in congress, marking the most high-level departure since Milei took office Dec. 10. Most Read from Bloomberg Milei accepted Posse’s resignation and replaced him with Interior Minister Guillermo Francos, according to a statement on […]
WASHINGTON–The Federal Reserve held its key interest rate steady again Wednesday and gave no signal that it plans to lower it anytime soon following a resurgence of inflation early this year. In a statement after a two-day meeting, the Fed pointedly said: “In recent months, there has been a lack of further progress toward the (Fed’s) 2 […]
A GoFundMe campaign launched for former President Donald Trump to pay his $355 million fine from his New York civil fraud lawsuit has slowed significantly since reaching the $2 million milestone. The funds will reportedly be used for “Trump’s defense in the New York civil fraud case, its appeal, and any associated expenses.” Trump recently […]
Several inmates in an Oklahoma prison say they were locked in filthy shower stalls, some as small as 2 square feet, for days on end. In a lawsuit filed last week, the inmates claim that this treatment caused “severe physical and emotional suffering,” and was an obvious violation of their Eighth Amendment rights. According to […]
Seven inmates are suing after they say they were mistreated and forced to stay in makeshift “micro solitary confinement cells” for days at a time. The lawsuit filed April 9 in Oklahoma names the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, four employees and two supervisors and administrators. McClatchy News reached out to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections […]
(Bloomberg) — Spain faces a setback in its efforts to unlock European Union post-pandemic recovery funds as the government is increasingly unlikely to complete an overhaul of unemployment benefits that is needed to trigger full disbursement. Most Read from Bloomberg The EU executive’s arm and the Spanish government have come to the conclusion that a […]
The long-anticipated public corruption trial of a decorated cop who parlayed 17 years of policing into decades of public service at the highest levels of Miami-Dade County government, was delayed at least a week as an appeals court mulls the interaction between the suspended commissioner and the judge overseeing the trial. Late last week as […]
In mid-February, a dozen environmental groups wrote a letter to Minnesota legislators urging them not to adopt a low-carbon fuel standard recommended by a group of 40 people, including some of their own leaders. It’s not often environmentalists oppose an idea known to lower emissions of carbon — one of the greenhouse gases causing the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress as part of their impeachment inquiry into him and his family’s business affairs. Rep. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to the Democratic president, inviting him to sit for a public hearing to “explain, under […]