From left, U.S. President Donald Trump, Senator Dave McCormick, his wife Dina Powell McCormick and Elon Musk watch the men’s NCAA wrestling competition at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 22, 2025.Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesMeta on Friday announced that it was expanding its board of directors with two new members, including Dina Powell McCormick, a part of President Donald Trump’s first administration. Powell McCormick served as a deputy national security advisor to Trump from 2017 to 2018. She is also married to Sen. Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania who took office in January.”He’s…
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If a player hits a running trick shot to save a break point, but later gets broken off three unforced errors and a double fault, is it good tennis? For Carlos Alcaraz, definitely.He delivered a signal example of the tension running through his documentary series, ‘My Way,’ just as Netflix released its trailer. While Alcaraz was oscillating between the sublime and the absurd on court against Daniel Altmaier at the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco, the streaming company put out a snapshot of the series on YouTube.It asks some fundamental questions of tennis: how much should it require of its…
A Tesla Model S at a charging station in Beijing, China.Meghan Reeder | CNBCTesla has suspended taking new orders for Model S and Model X vehicles on its Chinese website, Reuters checks showed on Friday, as the world’s two largest economies exchange blows in a trade war.Both models are made in the U.S. and imported to China. New orders for the two models were also no longer available on the automaker’s WeChat mini programme account in China.Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.While the company did not give a reason for the move, it comes as China…
Toast’s resiliency amid a volatile macroeconomic backdrop warrants greater appreciation, according to Wells Fargo. Analyst Andrew Bauch double upgraded shares of the cloud-based restaurant platform to overweight from underweight. Bauch also lifted his price target to $39 from $30, signaling 13% upside. TOST 1Y mountain TOST 1Y chart “We believe TOST’s valuation now underappreciates its incremental … growth opptys, namely enterprise, int’l and Food & Bev retail,” the analyst added. “Further, TOST’s defensiveness should stand out among the group in light of macro volatility.” Toast already boasts “impressive” market share gains over the past five years, Bauch said. Going forward,…
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Brightdrop EV600 vanSource: BrightdropDETROIT — General Motors is cutting production of its all-electric BrightDrop delivery vans at a plant in Canada and will idle the facility through much of 2025, the company confirmed Friday.The CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, will be reduced from two shifts to one — eliminating 500 jobs — after being idled beginning in May for roughly 20 weeks until October, the company said. Battery pack assembly at the plant also will be down the weeks of April 21 and April 28, ahead of the prolonged shutdown, GM said.The Detroit automaker said the decisions are not…
FILE PHOTO: Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller stands before the House Judiciary Committee as he prepares to testify at a hearing on the Office of Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 24, 2019.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersThe Department of Justice on Friday fired a former spokesman for Robert Mueller and Jack Smith, the two special counsels who conducted broad investigations of President Donald Trump for the department.Peter Carr, who had worked in media affairs at the DOJ since 2007, was fired by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to…
It was a small moment in the Toronto Maple Leafs season, a late-January footnote that most of the NHL hardly noticed.But when the team captain remarked how he was disappointed in the home crowd for showing so little enthusiasm for an early-game fight, it set off plenty of commentary in the center of the hockey universe about the Leafs fan base.Or, to be more specific, the lack of one in the seats.“I would’ve liked a little more energy from the crowd after that (fight),” Auston Matthews said following a 5-1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, during which the Leafs’…
For a pope known for unexpected gestures, Francis’ brief swing through St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday might be the most audacious yet — at least in his attire.“Pope with a poncho, revolution in a photo,” read the caption of the photograph on the front page of the Rome daily newspaper Il Messaggero, showing Francis dressed in civilian clothes — a long-sleeved white T-shirt and dark slacks with a striped garment draped over his chest.It was the first time in 12 years as pope that Francis had been seen in public without his white cassock and skullcap, known as a zucchetto.Another…
There have been few weeks on Wall Street such as this one. The major averages fell sharply on Thursday as the S & P 500 dropped 3.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,014.79, or 2.5%. The Nasdaq Composite slid 4.3%. The moves came after the White House clarified to CNBC that the 125% U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports were in addition to another 20% levy already in place, bringing the effective duty rate to 145%. That clawed back a lot of what was the S & P 500’s third-biggest rally post-WWII on Wednesday, when the benchmark surged nearly…
