The Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District, Adetokunbo Abiru, has commended the 29-year-old Ikorodu-born chess master and coach, Tunde Onakoya, for setting a global record in chess game. Onakoya broke the world record for the longest chess marathon after playing unbeaten for about 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to raise money for Read More
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WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []
While it won’t plug a looming revenue shortfall, Haverhill could receive $5.3 million more in state education aid over last year if the House Ways and Means Committee gets its way. The House last week proposed a formula that would give Haverhill $88 million in so-called Chapter 70 aid compared with $82.6 million in the […] The post House Ways and Means Committee Budget Boosts Haverhill’s Allocation of State Education Aid first appeared on WHAV.
Netflix has announced “some guests” for John Mulaney’s new special, Everybody’s In L—holy crap, Halloween director John Carpenter is listed. That’s right. Tucked between Los Lobos and Warren G, John Carpenter, director of They Live, is among the names scheduled to appear on Mulaney’s live-streamed Netflix series, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In L.A. What will Carpenter be doing? We assume he will be smoking a J-bone and playing Dead Space. Mulaney will also host the likes of Cassandra...
The FTC delivered its final ruling on April 23 promising business growth, higher wages and rapid innovation. On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) delivered a final rule to ban noncompete agreements nationwide, a decision that it claims will allow workers to change jobs or take on additional work more freely, increase innovation and […]
The accelerating slide in the value of Japan’s currency could ultimately be bad news for people in Japan who are heavily reliant on importsThe value of Japan’s currency has tumbled so much, that its value is back to where it was in 1990, shortly after Japan’s famous “bubble economy” burst. For a moment on Monday it was trading at 160 yen to US$1. A few years ago, it was closer to 100 yen to US$1.The yen’s accelerating slide could ultimately be bad news for people in Japan. A weaker yen squeezes...
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...
Former president is asking the Supreme Court to award him broad immunity from all criminal prosecution
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 24, 2024 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the $95 billion foreign aid package for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan … with more than $60 billion of that pot of taxpayer money going to Ukraine. The aid package breezed through with a vote of 79-18. In the House, Democrats after voting […]
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown’s plan to attack the nation’s worsening fentanyl crisis is now headed to the president’s desk where it will be signed into law.
The ground heaved and shook, buildings collapsed, fires ignited and thousands of San Franciscans died. The city was nearly leveled. That was in 1906. But early Thursday morning, well before daybreak, dozens of people gathered on Market Street in front of Lotta’s Fountain to commemorate the 118th anniversary of the huge earthquake and fire that destroyed then reshaped San Francisco. The annual ceremony, which takes place leading up to 5:12 a.m. — the moment the earthquake struck — featured...