Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation, the defense minister said. Source link
TOKYO (AP) — SoftBank Group trimmed its losses for the fiscal year through March to about a quarter of the red ink it racked up a year earlier, as its investment losses declined, the Japanese technology company said Monday. Annual sales at Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. rose 2.8% to 6.76 trillion yen ($43 billion). Losses […]
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are drifting Wednesday as Wall Street remains in a lull. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in morning trading after a big three-day winning streak gave way to a tiny gain the prior day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up by 49 points, or less than 0.1%, as of […]
The Southern Baptist Convention lost 241,00 members last year, lowering its total membership to less than 13 million for the first time since the mid-1970s. Still, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptists have lost 3,324,156 members since 2006, when its membership peaked at 16.3 million. The denomination said Tuesday that last year’s membership […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog traveled Monday to Iran, where his agency faces increasing difficulty in monitoring the Islamic Republic’s rapidly advancing nuclear program as tensions remain high in the wider Middle East over the Israel-Hamas war. Rafael Mariano Grossi already has warned Tehran has enough uranium enriched to […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Floodwaters closed some Texas schools on Monday after days of heavy rains pummeled the Houston area and led to hundreds of rescues including people who were stranded on rooftops. A 5-year-old boy died after riding in a car that was swept away in fast waters, authorities said. Although forecasters expected storms to […]
My friend and colleague Stephen “Vodkapundit” Green has said that Joe Biden has the “merde touch”; in other words, everything he touches turns to something foul-smelling and flushable. This includes the supply chain, which the Biden administration has tried to sabotage at every turn. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has […]
Finish high school, graduate college, get a job. It’s the life plan that has been preached to generations ever since a college degree became a must-have commodity for a better life and financial success. But as college tuition costs continue to rise at astronomical rates and job expectations plummet for recent graduates, skilled labor advocate […]
Politico has a big story up today about what it labels the “petty feud” between the White House and the NY Times. This battle of the upper crust in Washington and New York allegedly started with a simple error. A Times staffer got a quote for a story but attributed that quote a specific White […]
What happens when there’s slow economic growth and high inflation? Economists call that “stagflation,” and given the slowing growth in the first quarter of 2024 and the higher inflation in February and March, we may be reliving that ghastly economic phenomenon. The new GDP numbers surprised most economists who […]
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