Former U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the courthouse after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York on May 30, 2024.Justin Lane | Via ReutersA judge on Friday rejected a request that he dismiss the New York criminal hush money case against President-elect Donald Trump and set Trump’s sentencing for Jan. 10, less than two weeks before he is due to be sworn in for a second term in the White House.Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan, in a written order, also said he is…
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And now, 16 thoughts from an unanticipated three-day College Football Playoff quarterfinal bonanza.1. Let me start by acknowledging the awful New Year’s tragedy in New Orleans, a beautiful city that goes all out every year for its much-beloved bowl game. I have made many Sugar Bowl visits to the French Quarter, and in fact, the last time I was there, stayed right on Canal Street. Hats off to all involved for figuring out how to hold the game in a timely manner while ensuring the safety of all who attended.2. The folks who designed the 12-team College Football Playoff did…
Britt Allcroft, a British producer, director and writer who adapted the antics of a cheerful, impetuous locomotive into a TV series, “Thomas & Friends,” which became a sprawling franchise and a longtime favorite of children and adults, died on Dec. 25 in Los Angeles. She was 81.Her death was confirmed by her daughter Holly Wright.Ms. Allcroft was the driving force behind bringing Thomas the Tank Engine, an animated locomotive first conceived in a series of children’s books in the 1940s by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry, to television screens. The series spawned a movie, merchandise and even theme parks, ballooning into…
Investors looking to boost their portfolio should consider allocating some funds to U.S. senior loans, according to Nuveen. The assets are debt instruments issued by well-known companies, like American Airlines and Burger King-parent Restaurant Brands , that are considered below investment grade. They are structured and syndicated by banks to large groups of lenders, such as mutual funds and institutional investors. Senior loans — which are also referred to as syndicated loans, floating rate loans or bank loans — typically have floating interest rates tied to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). These days, those yields can top 8%. The…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos doesn’t want to go back in time. Almost everything, including infant mortality, global literacy and global poverty rates, has improved over the last 50 years, Bezos said at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit last month — except for one factor.”When people talk about the good old days, that’s such an illusion,” Bezos said. “Almost everything is better today than it was … with one exception, which is the natural world.” The world’s oceans, rivers and forests have been polluted and depleted to fuel humankind’s growth over the last five centuries, he added.Amazon is part of…
Nikola Jokić’s dramatic leap as a shooter this season isn’t directly linked to the Denver Nuggets’ playoffs semifinal loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves last spring. But when one goes 2 for 14 from 3-point range over Games 6 and 7 as Jokić did, it certainly can be looked at as a turning point.Jokić didn’t shoot the ball well enough. He knew it, and privately, it ate at him.So one day during the offseason, Jokić went to his player development coach, Nuggets assistant Ogi Stojaković, and said almost every shot feels different to him. Did that lead Jokić to shoot 23…
Passengers stand in front of the display board in Terminal 1 at Frankfurt Airport.Picture Alliance | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesGerman federal police are experiencing a countrywide IT systems outage at airports, a spokesperson said on Friday, forcing officers to manually process passengers arriving from outside Europe’s free-travel Schengen area.”There is currently a nationwide IT disruption,” the Frankfurt-based spokesperson said, adding that the cause was unknown.He said entry into Germany is delayed but possible and there is currently no bigger congestion at Frankfurt airport, the country’s busiest. Source link
Investors will head into a shortened trading week with a cloudy January outlook and a looming jobs report. Stocks are off to a mixed start in January, ending lower in a choppy first trading session but riding solid gains on Friday. On top of that, the “Santa Claus” rally, in which stocks rise in the final five trading days of one year and the first two of the next, has also failed to appear — a baleful omen to start 2025 after an unusual bout of weakness to cap off last year. Now investors are carefully watching to see how…
Vice Chair and President at Microsoft, Brad Smith, participates in the first day of Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 12, 2024. The largest technology conference in the world this year has 71,528 attendees from 153 countries and 3,050 companies, with AI emerging as the most represented industry. (Photo by Rita Franca/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesMicrosoft plans to spend $80 billion in fiscal 2025 on the construction of data centers that can handle artificial intelligence workloads, the company said in a Friday blog post. Over half of the expected AI infrastructure spending will take place in…
Sport is often defined by mistakes — fumbled catches, missed penalties, duffed putts — but what about its moments of perfection?Every game has its own version of nirvana in which, put simply, a performance could not be improved. Some may define a match or earn a medal, others may simply be brilliant individual achievements, regardless of whether they were in a winning cause.But what constitutes the best? We asked a group of our writers to nominate their favourites — but feel free to suggest your own in the comments.Football: A perfect hat-trickIn Germany, for a hat-trick — scoring three goals…
