Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday pleaded for House Republicans to back leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., after he failed to secure the speaker’s job on three consecutive votes. McCarthy on Tuesday repeatedly fell short of a majority needed to win the vote as the House failed to elect a speaker on the first ballot for … Read more
Will OBJ be a Cowboy?Illustration: Getty Images Who knows what team Odell Beckham Jr. will sign with. That being said, it’s obvious what team wants him the most. The Dallas Cowboys have in no way played hard to get. On Nov. 6. Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer, reported that Beckham was fully cleared to play NFL … Read more
Four young men from Senegal sell bracelets in Madrid on October 20. Ricci Shryock for NPR hide caption toggle caption Ricci Shryock for NPR Four young men from Senegal sell bracelets in Madrid on October 20. Ricci Shryock for NPR In parts of Madrid, a blanket could lead to jail time for Senegalese street vendors … Read more
The writing has always been on the wall: Republicans will almost certainly rally to Donald Trump’s side now that he’s running for president again, even though they know he’s a loser who will make their already unpopular party even more loathed. Sure, after Trump’s long and boring announcement speech at Mar-a-Lago Tuesday night, pockets of … Read more
FTX’s bankruptcy means some customers will have to wait months, or even years, to regain their deposits, assuming they can at all. A daring few apparently didn’t want to take that chance. According to crypto Twitter personality @0xfoobar, several FTX users found a way to get some of their funds back by exploiting FTX’s compliance … Read more
(Bloomberg) — In her two-bedroom apartment on the outskirts of Chinese tech hub Shenzhen, Wang woke to a deluge of messages. One read: “SPC5744PFK1AMLQ9, 300 pc, 21+. Any need?” Most Read from Bloomberg Within minutes, the 32-year-old was at her computer in the living room, hurriedly clearing away empty packets of instant noodles and pulling … Read more
Liz Truss’s UK government has already set a record. At 38 days, Kwasi Kwarteng is the shortest-serving chancellor of any to leave office alive for almost 200 years. The big question now is whether Truss herself can last much longer. Her government has got off to the worst start of any in Britain’s postwar history, … Read more
We never were the same after last summer. Stubbornly high inflation rates in recent months and several interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve are impacting consumer behavior. That’s according to company earnings reports, market-data analytics and consumer surveys. Inflation reached 8.2% in September on the year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday, clinging to … Read more
On his second day in Congress, Ron DeSantis voted against a federal relief package for New York and New Jersey in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, but almost a decade later, the Florida governor’s response to Hurricane Ian hitting his home state is much different. DeSantis asked President Biden on Wednesday to approve a major … Read more
Editor’s note: Find more information about long COVID in Medscape’s Long COVID Resource Center. Sept. 22, 2022 – Entrepreneur Maya McNulty, 49, was one of the first victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Schenectady, NY, businesswoman spent 2 months in the hospital after catching the disease in March 2020. That September, she was diagnosed with … Read more