• Stock Up On A Bunch Of KEMCO’s RPGs During Its April Sale, On Now

    It's that time again, friends. If you've got a stomach growling for some mobile RPG sustenance, if you hunger to see numbers go up and trope-ridden character arcs resolve themselves, if you need to see tragically-orphaned heroes save the world with the help of their attractive friends

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • Politico’s J-Mart Laments: ‘If The Election’s About Biden, Trump’s Gonna Win’

    Behold the latest installment of media types fretting over the current course of the presidential election. In this instance, Politico Senior Political Columnist Jonathan Martin lamenting that the current trajectory of the election, a referendum on President Joe Biden, augurs the reelection of former President Donald Trump on this week’s installment of ABC This Week. Watch as J-Mart and host Jon Karl discuss the election’s current trajectory, as aired on ABC This Week on Sunday, April 21st,...

  • JPY USD: Weak Yen Helped Boost Japan Stocks But Investors Now See Risks

    The yen has become stuck around a 34-year low against the dollar after months of declines, increasing concern the currency is becoming a liability for Japan’s economy and stocks.

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    Bitcoin just completed its fourth-ever 'halving,' here’s what investors need to watch now

    In the wake of the latest Bitcoin halving, there may be some speculative trading. Other key events will also be in focus.

  • U.S. stocks close higher as investors eye tech earnings, Fed rate-policy meeting

    U.S. stocks ended higher on Monday as investors continue to digest tech earnings and await the Federal Reserve's policy meeting later this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 146.43 points or 0.4% to end at 38386.09, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The S&P 500 rose 16.21 points or 0.

  • S.J. Perelman’s quick wit

    One of the cultural casualties of the internet, that cultural cataclysm, has been to writerly brevity. Once, writers were constrained by the available space on a newspaper or magazine page, a truly scarce resource. But these days, they can go on and on and on. We are inundated by long reads, deep dives, and podcasts […]

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    Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy selected by Minnesota Vikings

    DETROIT, Mich. (WLNS) - After leading Michigan to the National Championship, J.J. McCarthy didn't have to wait an awful long to hear his name called at the NFL Draft in Detroit. McCarthy was selected with the 10th overall pick by the Minnesota Vikings. He was the fifth quarterback taken in the draft - Caleb Williams []

  • He led a strike at Kellogg’s. Now he’s aiming for a Nebraska Senate seat

    Dan Osborn is challenging incumbent Deb Fischer in a ‘long shot’ bid to prove the state still has an ‘independent spirit’Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada – these are the swing states most pundits expect will decide the 2024 election. No one has deep-red Nebraska on that list. But a 48-year-old pipefitter and union organizer from Omaha is hoping to change that.Three years ago, Dan Osborn led the Nebraska leg of a US-wide strike against the cereal giant Kellogg’s as the company...

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    Pritzker on Biden avoiding Trump’s legal woes: He’s ‘handling it perfectly’

    Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker tells Dana Bash that President Biden is handling Trump’s legal issues “perfectly”: “He is talking about Trump. He’s just talking about all of the other things about Donald Trump.”

  • Stock market news: U.S. stock rally wavers as bonds struggle before GDP

    Big tech sold off in late hours after Meta Platforms Inc.’s disappointing outlook raised concern on whether the artificial-intelligence euphoria that has powered the bull market has run too far.

  • ‘This one’s like a castle!’ The hunt for the world’s wildest, daftest and most beautiful hedges

    They can swallow road signs and trigger lethal neighbour feuds. From the suburbs of Britain to the deserts of Arizona, we explore a show celebrating glorious green bordersSomewhere in the leafy depths of British suburbia, a thick circular hedge sprouts from the top of a grassy hill in the middle of a roundabout. The top of the hedge is carefully trimmed with rectangular crenellations, giving it the look of a motte-and-bailey castle, while a second more threadbare hedge encircles the foot of the...