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Stock futures are little changed after positive start to the holiday trading week: Live updates
Traders work on the New York Stock Exchange floor on Dec. 18, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images U.S. stock futures were relatively unchanged Monday night after all three major averages kicked off the holiday-shortened trading week in the green. S&P 500 futures traded just below the flatline, while Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.1%. Futures […]
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The price of cocoa is soaring — could lab-grown chocolate be the answer?
The price of cocoa has soared, as deforestation and climate change make it more difficult for chocolate producers to get their hands on the precious beans. Sacramento-based startup California Cultured is hoping it has found a solution to the industry’s supply issue. “We are still starting with basically a little living bean. So, instead of […]
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Bill Clinton is hospitalized for observation and testing after developing a fever
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Alex Wong | Getty Images Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Washington after he developed a fever, a top aide told NBC News on Monday. Clinton, 78, […]
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Israeli tech CEO who was severely wounded in Gaza sells startup for about $100 million
Itamar Ben Hemo didn’t have to join the war. At age 49, the Israeli tech entrepreneur was well outside of the range of mandatory service. But following last year’s Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Ben Hemo signed up as a reservist, confident that his experience fighting as a paratrooper in Lebanon in 2006 made him […]
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House Ethics panel finds Matt Gaetz had sex with 17-year-old, ‘regularly’ paid for sex
U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) listens to testimony during a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Undue Influence: Operation Higher Court and Politicking at SCOTUS”, looking into allegations that the former anti-abortion leader Rev. Robert Schenck got advance word of the outcome of a major 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case involving contraceptives written by conservative […]
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Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder of health insurance CEO
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to New York state murder charges that brand him a terrorist. Mangione, 26, was escorted into Judge Gregory Carro’s 13th-floor courtroom in the New York state criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan with […]
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I interviewed 70 parents who raised highly successful adults: 4 things they wish they had known
Over 15 years, I interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs and their parents to learn how they were raised. On the whole, these families are very happy with how their kids turned out. The parents say their grown children are not only accomplished and financially successful, but generous and kind. But looking back now, so many of […]
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MicroStrategy rides ‘red sweep’ to 477% gain in 2024, topping almost all U.S. stocks
Michael Saylor, chairman and chief executive officer at MicroStrategy, during an interview at the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida, US, on Thursday, May 18, 2023. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images On the eve of MicroStrategy‘s stock market debut in June 1998, founder Michael Saylor stayed in a penthouse suite at […]
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European markets higher as shortened Christmas week begins; UK economy stalls
UK borrowing costs rise Yields on British 10-year gilts crept higher on Monday, gaining 2 basis points to trade at 4.532% by 10:46 a.m. London time. It came after revised GDP figures showed the U.K. economy flatlined in the three months to September. U.K. borrowing costs hit a one-year high last week, but have since […]
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Biden commutes dozens of death row sentences to life without parole
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates, leaving only three people on death row in federal prisons. The commuted sentences will be reclassified to life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to the White House. “These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal […]
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