MAY 3, 2024
US stocks soared on Friday after a light April jobs report gave investors hope of a rate cut sooner than later.
Expectations have been pushed out in recent weeks following a series of hot economic data.
The US economy added 175,000 jobs last month, below expectations of 238,000.
US stocks soared on Friday after a light April...
MAY 1, 2024
Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun
The United States said it was “regularly working” with the Indian government in its investigation into the allegations related to the plot to assassinate Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.
The remarks by US State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel came after The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources, named a Research and Analysis...
APRIL 18, 2024
Haven’t you always wondered what those little function keys at the top of your keyboard do? You’ve probably only used them to adjust your volume or screen brightness, but they actually do a lot more. Keep in mind that some of these function key shortcuts are different depending on the type of computer you have. You are...
APRIL 18, 2024
The best part of (briefly) having an agent was realizing just how much I had already figured out on my own. Sebastian König for BI
Last summer, when I told my then-girlfriend that I had just hired a real-estate agent to help me buy an apartment, her response annoyed me: "Sounds like a scam."
I didn't understand her suspicions....
Britain
UK’s Post Office scandal: Indian-origin woman rejects ex-boss’s apology for wrongful imprisonment
APRIL 12, 2024
Seema Misra.
An Indian-origin ex-manager of a Post Office in the UK, has rejected her former boss's apology, pointing to how she had been pregnant for two months when wrongly imprisoned more than 12 years ago after being convicted for a theft.
“I was eight weeks pregnant. They need to apologise to my youngest son. I have not accepted...
APRIL 12, 2024
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a law banning the obstruction of an official proceeding that has been used to charge 330 defendants who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
On Jan. 6, 2021, Joseph Fischer allegedly entered the U.S. Capitol, along with more than 2,000 others, in the effort to stop the counting of the...
Business
Former Obama adviser: Kushner engaged in ‘level of corruption that we’ve just never seen’ with foreign relations
APRIL 11, 2024
Ben Rhodes, Former Obama deputy national security adviser
Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we’ve just never seen” when talking about his firm’s recent investments overseas.
Rhodes said that Kushner engaged in corruption when asked about The New York Times’s recent reporting that detailed...
Automobile
‘Fighting for our lives’: Tesla driver in LA says his car ‘dies every day’ and he’s ‘over it’ — why the current state of EVs is pushing consumers over...
APRIL 11, 2024
Why the current state of EVs frustrates consumers
An electric vehicle (EV) driver in Los Angeles has taken to TikTok to make his feelings known about one of America’s most sought-after car brands.
“Do not get a Tesla,” he warned.
In a clip that has garnered over 700,000 views and 2,700 comments, technology commentator TechByAntrell made his case.
“We are literally...
Business
Environmentalists protest as Biden administration approves huge oil export terminal off Texas coast
APRIL 11, 2024
FILE - An oil tanker passes along a channel, March 2, 2022, in Port Aransas, Texas. President Joe Biden's administration has approved construction of The Sea Port Oil Terminal, a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. Environmentalists called the move a betrayal of...
APRIL 4, 2024
Neel Kashkari, Federal Reserve Bank President. Kashkari warned Thursday that the Fed may not cut rates at all this year if inflation remains sticky. - Joshua Roberts/Getty Images
Homebuyers hoping to capture a lower mortgage rate on the back of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates in 2024 may have to wait a little longer.
The housing market, still...