APRIL 25, 2022
Putting an end to weekslong speculation, Twitter board has accepted an offer from Elon Musk, the richest man in the world to buy the popular social media platform for $44 billion cash. The 16-year-old Twitter would become a private entity on completion of the deal, according to the press release. “Free speech is the bedrock of a...
APRIL 25, 2022
Dow futures fall 330 points, global stocks tumble as central banks' hawkishness and Chinese lockdowns intensify worries about economic growth. - Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Global stocks tumbled Monday after last week's ugly close on Wall Street, when the Dow lost almost 1,000 points.
Concerns over strict new COVID-19 measures in Beijing drove Asian equities and oil...
APRIL 25, 2022
The majority of the Indian workforce has stopped looking for jobs, claims a report. Frustrated after not finding the 'right opportunity, millions of Indians, especially women, have decided to exit the labor force or look for jobs.
India, which enjoys its status as a developing nation, now has a more significant challenge: Millions of individuals have stopped looking...
APRIL 24, 2022
With an estimated 58.2% of the vote, Emmanuel Macron has been reelected as President of France, defeating extreme right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen who amassed 41.8%. Macron now becomes the eighth French incumbent to win a second term.
Coming into today’s final round of the election, independent centrist Macron was leading in the polls, but throughout...
APRIL 23, 2022
Bengaluru: Astronomers in Europe have observed a new kind of stellar explosion for the first time, called ‘micronova’, according to results published in the journal Nature.
This is a phenomenon where there are localised fusion reactions expelling energy and matter on the surface of the star, mainly confined to the poles.
Unlike a supernova, a micronova does not result...
APRIL 23, 2022
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The Lapsus$ hacking group stole T-Mobile’s source code in a series of breaches that took place in March, as first reported by Krebs on Security. T-Mobile confirmed the attack in a statement to The Verge, and says the “systems accessed contained no customer or government information or other similarly sensitive...
APRIL 23, 2022
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and allies are scrambling to contain the damage wrought by new audio tapes in which he can be heard saying former President Donald Trump should have resigned after the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021 – comments he denied making just days before the release of the tape. - Drew Angerer, Getty...
APRIL 22, 2022
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. - Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images
Mark Meadows was registered to vote in three states at the same time.
The former Trump White House chief of staff was booted from North Carolina voter rolls last week.
He's still registered to vote in both South Carolina and Virginia.
Former White House chief of...
APRIL 21, 2022
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett
The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday issued a 9-0 unanimous opinion in favor of a taxpayer and against the IRS in a case about the interpretation of a confusing statutory deadline.
In the case stylized as Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the taxpayer, a law firm in Fargo, North...
APRIL 20, 2022
Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama arrive for Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021. - (Kent Nishimura / LA Times)
Higher Ground, the Obamas' production company, and Spotify will not renew their exclusive partnership, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Higher Ground has produced a number of exclusive shows distributed on the streaming platform...
