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10 April 2024 Updated 1 hour ago Image caption, Julian Assange in 2017 US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The country’s parliament recently passed a measure – backed by PM Anthony Albanese – calling for the return of […]
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Friday after a U.S. Federal Reserve official said the central bank might not deliver any of the interest rate cuts that Wall Street has been banking on this year, citing concerns about inflation. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dove 2.4% to 38,812.24. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.8% to 7,756.20. […]
Tammy Murphy will announce today that she is dropping out of the race for United States Senate, abruptly ending her campaign after four months, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed. That clears the way for insurgent Rep. Andy Kim (D-Moorestown) to likely win the Democratic nomination and become the strong favorite to replace indicted Senator […]
Venture capital funding for African American-owned startups plummeted in the U.S. last year, with metro Atlanta seeing one of the worst declines, according to data released Thursday by data firm Crunchbase. VC funding for Black-owned businesses fell 71% nationally in 2023 compared to 2022. In the Atlanta area, such funding declined by 79%, Crunchbase found.
(Bloomberg) — US equity futures pointed to a weaker opening on Wall Street as traders brace for a slew of economic data that will help determine the path of monetary policy. Most Read from Bloomberg Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 fell 0.4%. Nvidia Corp., the stock that’s led a rally across chipmakers in the […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.I-Hwa Cheng/AFP/Getty Images US futures fell in premarket trading on Wednesday. Traders are waiting for AI darling Nvidia’s quarterly earnings report due after the closing bell. Minutes from the Fed’s January meeting will also give investors a sense of where rates are headed. US stocks looked set to trade lower Wednesday as […]
(Bloomberg) — European stocks and US futures retreated, while the dollar rose to a one-month high and bonds fell as the market digested the latest comments from central bank officials pushing back against bets on aggressive interest rate cuts. Most Read from Bloomberg The Stoxx Europe 600 index headed for a five-week low, with retailers […]
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Daniel Bermudez’s family had fled Venezuela and was headed to the U.S. to seek asylum when the freight train they were riding through Mexico was stopped by immigration officials. His wife tried to explain that her family had permission to go to the U.S. Instead, they flew her to Mexico’s southern […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will resume commercial and legal travel at four official crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday that were partially or fully closed recently due to record levels of migrant crossings, senior U.S. officials told reporters Tuesday. The impacted ports of entry are in Eagle Pass, Texas, Lukeville and Nogales, Arizona […]
(NEXSTAR) – Renters may finally catch a break next year. Of the 100 cities analyzed in Zumper’s Annual Rent Report, which was released this week, 55 have seen rent prices drop since last year. An additional 17 are flat year-over-year. The report predicts rent prices will keep “softening,” at least through the first half of 2024. […]