Finance news

• For US in Syria, end game gets murkier as IS shrinks

  08-02-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The closer the U.S. gets to its original goal in Syria of defeating the Islamic State group, the murkier its end game. New layers of complexity are descending on a shifting battlefield, as demonstrated by a deadly barrage of American air and artillery strikes on a shadowy attacker.
  
  Read more

• House Democrat Urges 'Credible Oversight' Of White House Security Clearance Process

  08-02-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration’s decision to allow accused domestic abuser Rob Porter to stay on as a top White House aide for more than a year without a permanent security clearance is yet another reason the security clearance process at the White House needs “credible oversight,” a top House Democrat said Thursday.
  
  Read more

• What The White House Won't Say About Rob Porter's Exit

  08-02-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  There are still a lot of unanswered questions about Rob Porter’s departure from the White House amid allegations of abuse made by his two ex-wives.
  
  Read more

• Spirit Airlines Slams Student Who Claims She Was Forced to Flush Emotional Support Hamster Down Toilet

  08-02-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  "It is incredibly disheartening to hear this Guest reportedly decided to end her own pet’s life"
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Rob Porter's Alleged Abuse Defies A Stereotype, But Fits A Pattern

  08-02-2018 23:29 via yahoo.com
  When I read the allegations against former White House staff secretary Rob Porter and the accounts of abuse by his two ex-wives, a chill went down my spine.
  
  Read more

• Toronto Police Find Remains Of At Least 6 People Linked To Suspected Gay Village Killer

  08-02-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  After days of excavation, Toronto police on Thursday said they have recovered the remains of at least six different people on property that was landscaped by suspected serial killer Bruce McArthur, who has been charged with the murder of five men connected to the city’s gay village.
  
  Read more

• Two British IS 'Beatles' fighters captured in Syria: US official

  08-02-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  Two British Islamic State fighters who were part of a notorious kidnapping cell dubbed "The Beatles" for their British accents have been captured in Syria, a US defense official confirmed Thursday.The two members of the group still in the field, Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee el-Sheikh, both from Britain, were captured in January in eastern Syria by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces."The two are believed to have acted as guards and interpreters involved in ISIS' illegal captivity of West
  
  Read more

• 2018: Paul Ryan and the future of the GOP

  08-02-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  At the end of 2017, Paul Ryan was able to finally fulfill his career-long goal of passing tax reform. However, after 18 years in Congress the road ahead looks rocky for the Wisconsin representative. Watch Yahoo News Chief Political Correspondent Jon Ward discuss what’s ahead for the speaker of the House and the GOP in 2018.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Trump Needs to Get Serious About Human Rights in North Korea

  08-02-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  More than 20 million North Koreans have their human dignity trampled upon daily. The United States should do more for them.
  
  Read more

• Young immigrant 'Dreamers' who enlist in US army won't be deported, Trump's Defence Secretary says

  08-02-2018 23:08 via yahoo.com
  Young immigrants who enlisted in the military after receiving temporary legal status will not be deported, Secretary of Defence James Mattis has said.Hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who secured status from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative are in a state of anxious limbo, waiting to see if Congress will renew the programme.“We would always stand by one of our people,” Mr Mattis told reporters.
  
  Read more

• Myanmar forces and Buddhist villagers torched Rohingya homes, then killed

  08-02-2018 23:01 via yahoo.com
  By Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, Simon Lewis and Antoni SlodkowskiINN DIN, Myanmar (Reuters) - Bound together, the 10 Rohingya captives watched their Buddhist neighbors dig a grave.At least two were hacked to death by Buddhist villagers.The killings marked another episode in the violence sweeping Myanmar's northern Rakhine State.
  
  Read more

• British Isis fighters known as 'the Beatles' captured in Syria

  08-02-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  The pair were captured by the American-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, reports said.Two British Isis militants implicated in brutal acts of torture and execution, have been captured by US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria.The two men, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, formed part of a group of four fighters nicknamed “the Beatles” due to their British accents and are allegedly responsible for murdering approximately two dozen hostages in Syria.
  
  Read more

• Trump administration reportedly drafting rules to target immigrants who use food stamps

  08-02-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  A new proposal being drafted by the Trump administration would reportedly allow immigration officials to consider an immigrants’ use of government programmes when deciding whether or not to grant them permanent status.The draft rule, seen by Reuters, is a sharp departure from current US law, which prevents immigration officials from taking immigrants’ use of public benefits like food assistance and health insurance subsidies into account when reviewing their application.The rule woul
  
  Read more

• Smaller class sizes to be phased in over next 4 years

  08-02-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  State lawmakers unveiled a plan to improve student outcomes in early grades by phasing in smaller class sizes and lower student-to-teacher ratios in kindergarten through third-grade classrooms.
  
  Read more

• Ex-GOP House Intel chairman: White House handling of Porter case 'continues to erode their credibility'

  08-02-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  On Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast, ex-FBI agent and GOP Rep. Mike Rogers had sharp words for the administration over the Rob Porter domestic abuse allegations.
  
  Read more

• Mattis says U.S. service members in DACA will generally not be deported

  08-02-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday that service members in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program will not be deported, other than a few exceptions, even as lawmakers debate the fate of children brought to the United States illegally.Until now, the fate of about 800 service members in the program had not been clear."We would always stand by one of our people, and I have never found the Department of Homeland Security unwilling to take any call from anyone on
  
  Read more

• Christopher Bidzinski Arrested for DUI After Trying to Do a Cartwheel During Sobriety Test

  08-02-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  Christopher Bidzinski, 30, was allegedly found passed out behind the wheel of his green pickup truck after he placed an order at a local McDonald’s drive-thru.
  
  Read more

• Omarosa's White House Departure Is 'The Fourth Time We Let Her Go,' Spokesman Says

  08-02-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  White House spokesman Raj Shah dismissed former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman’s recent disparaging comments about President Donald Trump, telling reporters during a Thursday press conference that she was forced out of the role.
  
  Read more

• Elon Musk's 'Starman' Tesla Roadster isn't your typical piece of space junk

  08-02-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Launching a Tesla Roadster into outer space may have been ridiculous, but the vehicle is far from being worthless space junk. The stunt actually served an important engineering purpose. Engineers commonly load their rockets with heavy simulation cargo — often made of metal — so they can accurately test how these expensive launchers will behave as they blast through the skies at some 18,000 miles per hour.  SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's outer space Tesla will overshoot Mars and land some
  
  Read more

• Markets Right Now: Dow plunges 1,000 as market swoons again

  08-02-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Police say Texas officer's killer likely gunned down 2nd man

  08-02-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — A gunman who mortally wounded a suburban Dallas police officer likely killed a second man before barricading himself in an apartment and randomly firing his weapon during the standoff, authorities said Thursday.
  
  Read more

• Elon Musk Says Grandma With a Walker Faster Than Any Car Assembly Line

  08-02-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  He did the math.
  
  Read more

• The man who hid in a church, and the church that hid him: An immigrant story with an uncertain ending

  08-02-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  He's 47 and has lived in America since 1993, holding a job and raising two children. Harry Pangemanan is also a Christian, who fears deportation to Indonesia, where Christians have been persecuted and even killed by Muslim extremists. He took sanctuary in a church for months, but now his fate is in the hands of a federal judge.
  
  Read more

• Rewrite: Abuse survivors speak

  08-02-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  In response to Rob Porter's ex-wife Jennifer Willoughby's moving blog post about why she stayed in her marriage, viewers shared their own stories of abuse with Lawrence O'Donnell on Twitter, some using #AndSoIStayed.
  
  Read more

• How to Tell the Difference Between the 6 Figure Skating Jumps You'll See at the Olympics

  08-02-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  You'll sound like a pro
  
  Read more

• Orrin Hatch's Vile Defense Of Rob Porter Was Entirely In Character

  08-02-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Washington’s premier enabler of the unregulated supplement industry and a founding bro of the #It’sNotTime movement, has a long record of slamming women who blow the whistle on men behaving badly.
  
  Read more

• McDonald's giving away 18 karat gold 'Bling Mac'

  08-02-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  If you love Big Macs, then you will really want to try the "Bling-Mac." It's an 18 karat gold, gem-encrusted version of the classic sandwich.
  
  Read more

• Teva warns on 2018 profit, may face migraine drug delays

  08-02-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  By Tova Cohen and Steven ScheerTEL AVIV (Reuters) - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Thursday said its 2018 results would be weaker than expected and that it might encounter delays for an important new migraine drug, pushing the drugmaker's shares down more than 9 percent.Israel-based Teva, the world's largest generic drugmaker, is facing price erosion, fierce competition for its blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone and a consolidating customer base, particularly in the United States.It
  
  Read more

• Google fined in India for abusing dominant position

  08-02-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Google has been fined more than $21 million in India for "search bias" and abuse of its dominant position, competition regulators said Thursday.The US internet giant was deemed to have favoured its own services when customers ran searches according to a report from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) six years after it began investigations into the company."Google was found to be indulging in practices of search bias and by doing so, it causes harm to its competitors as well as users," an
  
  Read more

• Syria says US-led strikes on Deir Ezzor a 'war crime'

  08-02-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  The Syrian government on Thursday blasted deadly US-led coalition air strikes on pro-regime forces in the country's east as a "war crime".In a letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary General, the foreign ministry said the attack "represents a war crime and a crime against humanity".It accused the United States of using "the excuse of fighting terrorism to set up illegitimate bases on Syrian territory".
  
  Read more

• U.S. Olympic swimmer accuses ex-coach of sexual abuse when she was 16

  08-02-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  Ariana Kukors, who represented the United States in the 2012 Olympic Games, said Sean Hutchison, then a coach for USA Swimming's national team, began "grooming" her for a sexual relationship when she was 13."I've realized that stories like my own are too important to go unwritten," Kukors, 28, said in a statement on Wednesday.
  
  Read more

• Teaching Kids About Gender Identity Might Be Banned in This State

  08-02-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  "I think we need to be focusing on reading, writing and arithmetic"
  
  Read more

• Last two of British Isis jihadists known as 'the Beatles' 'captured in Syria'

  08-02-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  Two British Isis jihadis who were part of a group known for its torture and killing of Western hostages have reportedly been captured by Syrian Kurdish fighters allied to the US.American officials said Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, part of a group that was dubbed “the Beatles” for their British accents, were detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia.The New York Times was first to report that the SDF had caught the men in January and made them ava
  
  Read more

• Mom-and-pop investors undeterred by wild U.S. stock market

  08-02-2018 20:55
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the U.S. stock market suffered its worst selloff in more than six years on Monday, Richmond, Virginia-based financial adviser Jamie Cox started preparing for a flood of client...
  
  Read more

• Omarosa Says She Was 'Haunted By Tweets' In Trump's White House

  08-02-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Reality TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman, who made a fiery exit from her job as President Donald Trump’s White House aide in December, is spilling some political tea on CBS’ “Celebrity Big Brother,” telling a fellow cast member that she “was haunted by tweets every single day” and that the administration is “bad.”
  
  Read more

• 6 Bodies Found in Planters Connected to Alleged Serial Killer Bruce McArthur

  08-02-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Toronto police say they've recovered the remains of at least 6 people from a property connected to alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur
  
  Read more

• Syria says rare US strike an effort 'to support terrorism'

  08-02-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state-run media said Thursday a rare U.S. strike on government-backed troops in eastern Syria killed and wounded dozens of tribal fighters, calling it a new effort "to support terrorism."
  
  Read more

• North Korea's Missile Parade: A Tale of Missing Missiles

  08-02-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  Once the Olympics is over, testing is likely to resume and the long-running crisis between the United States and North Korea will be with us again.North Korea held a large military parade at 10 a.m. local time.In fact, it was not carried live on North Korean state television, but rebroadcast later.
  
  Read more

• Security Tight in Philadelphia as Victory Parade Celebrates Super Bowl Champion Eagles

  08-02-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  Even police officers in the city of brotherly love were getting in on the celebration.
  
  Read more

• Richard Pryor’s Widow Says He Did Sleep With Marlon Brando

  08-02-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  Quincy Jones dropped a lot of bombshells in an extremely candid interview with Vulture on Wednesday ― including saying that comedy legend Richard Pryor had had sex with Oscar-winning actor Marlon Brando.
  
  Read more

• Credit Suisse kept $300 million from brokers in closed U.S. unit: lawsuit

  08-02-2018 19:57
  (Reuters) - A new lawsuit accuses Credit Suisse Group AG of withholding up to $300 million of pay from U.S.-based brokers who refused or were unable to move to Wells Fargo & Co after their private...
  
  Read more

• Congress to vote on long-term budget deal, averting shutdown

  08-02-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  By Richard Cowan and David MorganWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers were expected to vote on Thursday on a two-year budget deal that would avert another government shutdown but add $300 billion to the federal deficit and leave the thorny issue of immigration unresolved.The plan faced resistance from conservatives in the Republican Party, who favor less spending on domestic government programs.At the same time, many liberal Democrats wanted to withhold their support as leverage to win concessi
  
  Read more

• House leader Paul Ryan suggests he has enough votes to prevent government shutdown

  08-02-2018 19:54 via yahoo.com
  House Speaker Paul Ryan has said he thinks he has enough votes in the House of Representatives to pass a far-reaching budget deal and avert a government shutdown.“I think we will,” Mr Ryan told radio show host Hugh Hewitt when asked whether he had the support to keep the government open.Part of it depends on the Democrats.
  
  Read more

• Ex-Trump aide Omarosa warns things 'bad' inside White House

  08-02-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  Reality TV star turned political operative turned reality TV star Omarosa Manigault has issued a cryptic warning that things are "bad" inside the White House and the public should be worried.The fiery former star who was pushed out of the White House appeared in a preview of Thursday's "Celebrity Big Brother," warning all is not well in that other Big House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.Manigault's White House role was short-lived and lackluster.
  
  Read more

• Leadership urges House Democrats to vote against budget deal as shutdown looms

  08-02-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  Will there be a government shutdown? House Speaker Paul Ryan looks like he'll need Democratic votes on the Senate budget deal — and it's not clear where Democrats stand.
  
  Read more

• How Nathan Chen Became America's Greatest Hope for Figure Skating Glory at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics

  08-02-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  Nathan Chen, the 18-year-old known as the Quad King, could become the first U.S. man to win a figure skating medal since the 2010 Olympics
  
  Read more

• European policymaker: ‘Stumbling blocks remain’ over Brexit transition period

  08-02-2018 19:22
  Veteran German banker urges City to prepare for the worst, as even a transition period will not provide certainty they crave
  
  Read more

• The Latest: White House backs budget deal

  08-02-2018 19:20 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congress and spending legislation (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Plan ahead in your will for your virtual self

  08-02-2018 19:10
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the not-so-olden days of a few years ago, relatives might have sifted through stacks of documents to sort out your affairs after you died. These days, much of your presence in...
  
  Read more

• Netanyahu lashes out at Israeli police chief amid reports detectives will recommend he is charged with corruption 

  08-02-2018 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at Israel's police chief amid reports that detectives will soon recommend that the prime minister face charges for corruption. Two Israeli television channels claimed that police will next week recommend that Mr Netanyahu should be prosecuted for allegedly accepting illegal lavish gifts like champagne and cigars from two wealthy businessmen.  As the reports emerged, Israel's police chief, Roni Alseich, went on television and said "very powerful forces" had
  
  Read more

Follow @FinanceUSA_News on Twitter!