President Joe Biden (R) shakes hands with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) as they hold a bilateral meeting at the Intercontinental Hotel in Paris, on June 7, 2024. Biden announced $225 million in new aid for Ukraine during talks with Zelensky in Paris. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesThe United States on Monday announced nearly $6 billion in additional military and budget assistance for Ukraine as President Joe Biden uses his final weeks in office to surge aid to Kyiv before President-elect Donald Trump takes power.Biden announced $2.5 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine.Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the…
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One week to go, still plenty to be decided.Start here, with the first regular-season game in NFL history featuring two teams with at least 13 wins. The Lions and Vikings will not only decide the NFC North title next Sunday night at Ford Field but also the conference’s top seed and lone first-round bye.Then there’s Eagles running back Saquon Barkley, now the ninth rusher to eclipse 2,000 yards in a season. In Philly’s finale, he has the chance to break one of the league’s most vaunted records — one that’s stood for 40 years.There’s one playoff spot in each conference…
Janet Yellen, U.S. Treasury secretary, on a tour of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in Vienna, Virginia, on Jan. 8, 2024.Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAn upcoming Treasury Department deadline for millions of small businesses to fulfill a new reporting requirement on “beneficial ownership information” was delayed again, following a court order that suspended enforcement.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order late on Dec. 26 that halted enforcement while the court “considers the parties’ weighty substantive arguments” on the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act, which created the BOI reporting requirement, the order said.The new deadline, which…
The New York Stock Exchange will close trading on Thursday, Jan. 9, in accordance with a national day of mourning for the death of former President Jimmy Carter.It is customary for the NYSE to close trading to honor the passing of a president. The last such occasion was in December 2018 for the death of former President George Herbert Walker Bush.The Nasdaq exchange will also close trading that day. Bond market trading will end early at 2 p.m. ET, per the recommendation of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.Carter, the nation’s 39th president known for his post-presidency peacekeeping and…
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson shakes hands with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump onstage at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesU.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threw his support behind House Speaker Mike Johnson, who will stand for reelection to the top job this week with a slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives.”Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total…
A Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 taking off from Osaka Kansai airport. Fabrizio Gandolfo | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAccident investigators are trying to figure out what caused a Jeju Air flight to belly land without its landing gear down at Muan International Airport in South Korea, killing all but two of the 181 people on board as it burst into flames in the nation’s worst air disaster in decades.South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok ordered an emergency inspection of the country’s Boeing 737-800s, the type of plane used on the the fatal Jeju Air Flight 7C2216.The Boeing 737-800 is one of the world’s…
The world’s No 1 chess player Magnus Carlsen will return to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships in New York after initially withdrawing as he refused to change out of a pair of jeans.The 34-year-old pulled out from the World Rapid Championship on Friday after breaching the dress code and opting not to change his attire.However, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) announced on Sunday Carlsen would return for the World Blitz Championship. The organisation’s president Arkady Dvorkovich confirmed that while the official dress code would remain in place, it would be relaxed to accommodate “elegant minor deviations”.A post on…
Last week, we discussed the ” Dogs of the Dow (and S & P 500) ” investment strategies, in which investors rank the stocks in the respective indices by their dividend yield at the end of each year and rebalance into those with the highest yields. Because this strategy involves selecting the highest dividend-yielding stocks from the S & P 500 , it is potentially attractive for income-focused investors. Dividend yield, representing the annual dividend payout as a stock price percentage, is a key metric in this strategy. While high-yielding stocks can be risky, thorough research into a company’s financial…
Writer E. Jean Carroll arrives at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where former U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive to ask a federal appeals court to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her, who accused Trump of raping her nearly three decades ago, in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 6, 2024. Adam Gray | ReutersA federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist.The…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — This wasn’t Joe Judge’s infamous 11-minute rant late in the 2021 season. But as far as a Brian Daboll news conference goes, the New York Giants coach was exceptionally expansive after his team snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 45-33 win over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday.Daboll, who typically mutters his way through monosyllabic answers after games, raved about the character and work ethic of his team Sunday. Much like Judge’s epic rant three years ago, it appeared Daboll’s message was intended for the ears of ownership, who will decide his fate after next week’s…
