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After months of inaction, House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled on Monday evening an outline of his plan to address the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, defying Republicans who threatened to oust him from the speakership if he moved forward with funding for Ukraine. But Johnson (R-La.) risks angering many of his members with a convoluted plan aiming to …

The CRM platform provider is reportedly in late-stage talks to acquire Informatica. Shares of Salesforce (CRM -7.28%) were down 7.3% on Monday amid reports the cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform provider is in late-stage talks to acquire data-management software company Informatica (INFA -6.50%). Informatica stock also dropped around 6.5% today. Why investors aren’t pleased that Salesforce might acquire Informatica …

Promising review: “These boots are fantastic! They are comfy and look more expensive than they cost. I have really wanted some taller western boots for some time. I bought a pair from the Nordstrom Sale and the calves were huge and the price was much more. If you are in the fence about these, don’t be, they are wonderful! I sized …

Andrew Kelly/Reuters US stocks fell on Monday as investors worried about an escalation of the Israel-Iran conflict. The risk-off nature of Monday’s market action sent the 10-Year Treasury yield to its highest level of 2024. March retail sales data surged 0.7%, more than double consensus estimates of 0.3%. US stocks reversed their Monday morning gains and finished the day considerably …

Sugnu, India – Ratan Kumar Singh, a 58-year-old high school teacher, never imagined he would be happy to see armed fighters, or “revolutionaries” as he called them. But on May 28 last year, Singh welcomed them to his town of Sugnu in Manipur, a state in India’s northeast corner bordering Myanmar. For nearly three weeks, the small town had managed …

Aggregated clumps of the protein alpha-synuclein (brown) and antibodies (green) BIOLUTION GMBH/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A drug that targets a build-up of proteins linked to Parkinson’s disease could slow the progression of motor symptoms in people with advanced forms of the condition. Although this shows promise to be a disease-modifying treatment for Parkinson’s, it is unclear whether the drug actually clears …

Theresa Nist is reflecting on her whirlwind marriage to Gerry Turner.  Three days after confirming their breakup, the Golden Bachelor star shared that she didn’t expect her love story with the show’s leading man to end so soon.  “It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, something I never expected to happen at this point in my life,” Theresa wrote …

Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Foreign acquisitions by Chinese buyers have a lousy reputation. The takeover of PizzaExpress, a British restaurant chain, by Hony Capital, a Chinese private-equity firm, ended up in restructuring. Financial collapse forced HNA, a Chinese conglomerate, to sell its stake in …

In her new book, the former British prime minister Liz Truss directs scathing attacks and mockery at Joe Biden, president of her country’s closest ally. Biden was guilty of “utter hypocrisy and ignorance”, Truss writes, when the US leader said he “disagree[d] with the policy” of “cutting taxes on the super wealthy” in the mini-budget Truss introduced in September 2022, …

Trump Media & Technology Group, the Truth Social parent company majority-owned by former president Donald Trump, filed a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning that helpfully details all of the ways Trump himself poses a threat to the company and its shareholders. While the company generated just over $4 million in revenue in 2023, Trump Media’s valuation …

On Monday, Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest made significant trades involving Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) and NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA). The COIN Trade Ark Invest decided to offload 3,689 shares of Coinbase from its ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (NYSE:ARKW) fund. The value of the sold COIN shares, based on the closing price of $223.41 on Monday, amounts to approximately $824,000. Last …

This month, Weyes Blood’s 2019 album, Titanic Rising, turned five. To mark the anniversary, she has shared a new music video for “Andromeda,” a fan favorite from the record and one of her biggest songs to date. Directed by Weyes Blood, Ambar Navarro, and Colton Stock, the visual stars the musician as an astronaut and an alien riding a meteor. …

hapabapa The big theme in the stock markets this year: AI stocks are sizzling. Well, all except for one name: C3.ai (NYSE:AI), the enterprise AI PaaS platform that is led by Tom Siebel, billionaire founder of Siebel Systems. Despite accelerating revenue growth, continued customer diversification, and growing global interest in deploying AI applications to rip out legacy enterprise processes, C3.ai …

Oh hey there! If you’re here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we’re serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today’s answer. If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for April 16’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, …

Hailey Bieber is never one to shy away from wearing bright colors or setting trends. Earlier this year, she deemed yellow to be the color of January. Well, move over, yellow! For Coachella, she wore the brightest fluorescent green nails. Or should we say, Glowchella. When the sun goes down in the desert, who needs glow sticks when you can …

The Justice Department is preparing to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, according to multiple reports. The Wall Street Journal first reported Monday that the Justice Department will be filing an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation in the coming weeks, citing people familiar with the matter. Live Nation and Ticketmaster have faced widespread …

Tesla Inc. (TSLA) primarily designs and manufactures high-performance fully electric vehicles. The electric vehicle maker also provides energy generation and storage systems as well as services related to its products. Tesla was founded in 2003. The goal was to design cars that would be less reliant on fossil fuels but as quick and as fun to drive as vehicles that …

Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers — were largely due to poor financial performance, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The layoffs were announced to staff just a week before Tesla is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings. The move comes as Tesla …

A 28-year-old Delaware woman, Hadja Kone, was arrested after cops linked her to an international sextortion scheme targeting thousands of victims—mostly young men and including some minors, the US Department of Justice announced Friday. Citing a recently unsealed indictment, the DOJ alleged that Kone and co-conspirators “operated an international, financially motivated sextortion and money laundering scheme in which the conspirators …

Medical Properties Trust just became $1.1 billion richer. Shares of Medical Properties Trust (MPW 18.80%) soared 18.8% on Monday after the healthcare facilities-focused real estate investment trust (REIT) announced a major asset sale. Medical Properties Trust announces a huge Utah deal Late Friday, the company said it had sold its interests in five Utah hospitals to a newly formed joint …