2023 was dominated by the “Magnificent Seven,” which drove the bulk of the S&P 500‘s total return last year. This year, it’s more like the Fab Five. While Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta Platforms have all continued to outpace the market benchmark through the first half of the year, two members of the group […]
Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being […]
Starting late next year, the Vera C. Rubin observatory, a $700-million telescope nearing completion in northern Chile, plans to gather clues about the nature of dark matter by studying gaps between streams of stars that orbit at the outskirts of our galaxy. These gaps are found within starry trails left behind after the Milky Way […]
Across most of the battleground states, President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is trailed by worrisome polling, gripes about a slow ramp-up and Democratic calls to show more urgency to the threat posed by former President Donald Trump. Then there is Wisconsin. Biden — who is scheduled to travel to Milwaukee on Wednesday to visit his […]
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that he will seek to form a coalition government after his party trailed the independent candidates of his rival Imran Khan in preliminary results following the country’s parliamentary election. Mr Sharif told reporters he was sending his younger brother, former Premier Shehbaz Sharif, to meet the […]
Hours after Chris Christie suspended his campaign for president, two of his opponents — Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley — squared off in the first two-person debate of the 2024 Republican primary. But Donald Trump, who has declined to participate in each of the debates this election cycle, instead chose to appear in a Fox […]
By James Oliphant, Gram Slattery DES MOINES/SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) –Nikki Haley gave Iowa voters some tough talk on Friday over their scrambled eggs and sausage. It was Haley’s first campaign stop of 2024 in Iowa with only 10 days to go before the Republican Party’s first-in-the nation presidential nominating contest there, and it came […]