A decorated Army veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder called U.S. government leadership “weak” and appeared to acknowledge he purposely blew up a Tesla Cybertruck at the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, police said Friday.Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said investigators were able to access one of two phones found in the Cybertruck and viewed writing in an app that seemed to serve as a journal, documenting some of Matthew Alan Livelsberger’s movements and state of mind from Dec. 21 to New Year’s Eve.Two letters in…
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At the end of the second set of the final of the World Darts Championship, the biggest game in one of the biggest indoor sports in the world, Luke Littler calmly strolled off stage, gave his family a wry, knowing smile and rubbed his hands together like he had the prescient foresight of the beating he was about to dish out.The man, no, the boy that 3,000 people had crammed inside London’s Alexandra Palace to see produce history, plus millions more watching at home and in pubs around the UK and the world, was doing it not just with dispassionate…
Brandon Ganch, known online as the MadFientist, retired in 2016 at just 34 by saving aggressively and keeping his spending lean.While he doesn’t regret the wealth built by his “hyper-focus” on saving 70% of his income, “I could have taken my foot off the gas knowing what I know now,” he told host Paula Pant on a recent episode of the “Afford Anything” podcast.In the lead-up to early retirement, the software developer and his wife lived frugally “in the woods of Vermont” while they pursued financial independence. But during that time, “I got into deprivation and neither my wife nor…
Investors have compared MicroStrategy to meme stocks in recent weeks as the data visualization and reporting platform piled into bitcoin at the end of last year, even as the cryptocurrency hit record after record. MicroStrategy, seen as a proxy for the price of bitcoin, benefited in the post-election bitcoin rally. Fueled by its five-year-old strategy of loading up on crypto, MicroStrategy, based in suburban Virginia outside Washington, soared 58% in November alone. Then the company co-founded by Michael Saylor gave back 25% in December as the crypto rally faded, but still soared 358% in 2024, one of the best performing…
A lot can change in 16 years.In 2009, a drug conviction landed Coss Marte a seven-year prison sentence. This year, Marte expects to bring in as much as $12 million selling cannabis legally.Marte, 39, is the founder and CEO of Conbud, one of the first businesses fully-licensed to sell recreational cannabis in Manhattan, and the first in the city’s Lower East Side. After first opening its doors in October 2023, Conbud added a second location in the Bronx last April.Marte’s business currently brings in roughly $800,000 in sales per month, including nearly $100,000 in profit, according to documents reviewed by…
When mysterious drones began appearing over oil rigs and wind farms off Norway’s coast about three years ago, officials were not certain where they came from.But “we knew what they were doing,” Stale Ulriksen, a researcher at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, said in a recent interview. “Some of it was espionage, where they are charting a lot of things. Some of it, I think, was positioning in case of a war or a deep crisis.”The drones were suspected of being launched from Russian-controlled ships in the North Sea, Mr. Ulriksen said, including some ships that were near underwater energy…
Several stocks are primed for a bounce after recent weakness at the turn of the new year. Although the market had a strong run in 2024 that saw the S & P 500 notch its second consecutive annual gain exceeding 20%, the major U.S. indexes closed lower in the final trading days of 2024 and stocks have skipped the so-called Santa Claus rally. The broad-based index snapped a five-day losing streak on Friday, but it was still lower on the week, marking its third negative week over the past four. Using the CNBC Pro stock screener tool, we found the…
BTIG has some plays for investors as 2025 kicks into high gear. Coming off an unusually strong two-year run for stocks, investors are wondering what areas of the market can drive further upside. The financial services firm’s research team dropped its top picks list for the first half of 2025 this week, which represents its highest-conviction ideas for the next 12 months. Here’s 10 stocks that made the list: Howmet Aerospace is one pick that comes after a banner year for the stock, with its share price more than doubling in 2024. That marked its sixth straight winning year. “The…
Inflation has steadily cooled over the past two years, despite seeing a slight stall in October and November. Prices for items such as gasoline, used cars and energy have all declined accordingly. However, food prices continue to outpace inflation, increasing by 28% since 2019.More than 85% of consumers report feeling frustrated with rising grocery prices, and over a third say they have resorted to buying fewer items to save money, according to a 2024 survey by RR Donnelley.However, experts say high food prices are here to stay.”Once food price goes up, it tends to stay up,” said Claudia Sahm, a…
US President Joe Biden and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton look on as former president Bill Clinton (not pictured) speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York on September 23, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington will be awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor on Saturday in a White House ceremony.President Joe Biden will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 of the most famous names in politics, sports, entertainment, civil rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy and science.The White House said the recipients…
