MARCH 24, 2023
Police try to hold back protesters at the Capitol (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file)
NEW YORK — A grand jury indictment of former President Donald Trump over hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels could set off an unprecedented and long-lasting security challenge for law enforcement that could last for years, according to law enforcement...
MARCH 24, 2023
Apple CEO Tim Cook. - Stephen Lam/Reuters
Apple has threatened action against staff over office attendance, per Platformer's Zoë Schiffer.
She said it will give employees escalating warnings if workers don't come in three times a week.
Last summer, Apple told all corporate employees to work from the office three days a week.
Apple has threatened to take...
MARCH 24, 2023
Congress supporters hold placards with a picture of the Indian National Congress President Rahul Gandhi during a silent protest in Mumbai. - Ashish Vaishnav—SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
Rahul Gandhi, the de facto leader of India’s main opposition party, was expelled from Parliament after being criminally convicted of defamation on Thursday.
“These are flimsy & cooked up charges,” Praveen Chakravarty, a...
MARCH 24, 2023
President Joe Biden has landed in Canada for a long-awaited official foray north. America's neighbour is often the first foreign port of call for a new US president, a tradition delayed this time in part because of the Covid pandemic.
Mr. Biden, who will be joined by First Lady Jill Biden, will meet Canadian officials, give a speech...
MARCH 24, 2023
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella never expected to lead one of the world's largest, most powerful tech companies — he was just excited to work there, period.
Nadella joined Microsoft as a young engineer in 1992 and, after a 22-year climb up the corporate ladder, became the company's third CEO in 2014.
"I remember distinctly walking into building 22 at...
MARCH 24, 2023
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's preferred bond-market indicator says a recession is on the way this year.
It's the spread between the yield on three-month Treasury bills and their expected yield in 18 months.
Powell has touted the predictive power of the gauge in previous statements.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's preferred bond-market metric is signaling that a recession...
MARCH 24, 2023
Robert Kiyosaki. The Rich Dad Channel/YouTube
Robert Kiyosaki expects stocks, bonds, and real estate to crash as higher interest rates bite.
The "Rich Dad Poor Dad" author slammed the Fed for choking growth and eroding the US dollar's value.
Kiyosaki warned of bank runs before SVB failed, and spotted trouble at Credit Suisse.
Asset prices will collapse under...
MARCH 23, 2023
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on "TikTok on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. - Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
A high-stakes standoff between the U.S. government and social media app TikTok over a potential ban is set for a reckoning on Thursday when TikTok CEO Shou...
MARCH 23, 2023
Clouds pass above the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains in the wake of an atmospheric river event which brought heavy snow to higher elevations on March 12, near Mammoth Lakes, California. - Getty Images
California has already faced significant storms this week, with parts of the Golden State continuing to see snow and rain on Thursday.
The powerful storm is...
MARCH 22, 2023
Food preferences aren't always something we're born with. A study published Wednesday in the journal Cell Metabolism suggests that eating fatty or sugary snacks alters our brain activity and creates lasting preferences for these less healthy items.
For the study, researchers at Yale University and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Germany gave one group of...
