Finance news

• Justice Department ends inquiry of hush-money payments in final months of Donald Trump's campaign, judge says

  17-07-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge said prosecutors concluded their investigations of possible campaign finance violations involving Michael Cohen.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Protesters mark anniversary of Garner's death

  17-07-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Latest on the U.S. Justice Department's decision not to prosecute the officer involved in Eric Garner's death.Several hundred people marched in lower Manhattan to mark the five year anniversary of Eric Garner's death.The marchers on Wednesday chanted and held signs saying "I Can't Breathe," a reference to Garner's dying words, as they marched past federal courthouses.
  
  Read more

• 'The Squad' renews feud with Nancy Pelosi

  17-07-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Progressive Democratic Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib warn Speaker Pelosi to watch her words; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
  Read more

• Here are the candidates who will be on stage for the second 2020 Democratic debate

  17-07-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The second Democratic primary debate will be held on July 30-31 in Detroit, Michigan.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• What caused mysterious gray spots to appear on Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 moon landing glove?

  17-07-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Years ago, people wondered about the gray spots on Neil Armstrong's right hand glove from Apollo 11. Conservators have solved that mystery.
  
  Read more

• Jeffrey Epstein’s Fake Foreign Passport Was Used in Saudi Arabia and Other Countries

  17-07-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers downplayed his possession of a foreign passport under a fake name by suggesting he’d never used it—but prosecutors said Wednesday that’s not the case.In a letter to the federal judge who will decide if the financier stays in jail until trial, the U.S. attorney’s office said that the travel document “contains numerous ingress and egress stamps, including stamps that reflect use of the passport to enter France, Spain, the United Kingdom
  
  Read more

• Epstein Says Friend Gave Him Fake Foreign Passport Used in 4 Countries

  17-07-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers said Thursday that the fake, foreign passport found in his safe was given to him by a friend and had already been used when he got it.Their claim, in a letter to the judge who will decide if Epstein gets bail, came in response to a prosecution filing that revealed the passport contained stamps from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia.Prosecutors have cited the passport—which was issued in Austria but had a Saudi Arabia address, a fake name an
  
  Read more

• Former President Barack Obama surprises students in Chicago

  17-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama surprised a group of students participating in the Obama Youth Jobs Corps in Chicago on Tuesday.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Arrested reporter slams conditions at US detention centers

  17-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A Spanish-language reporter who was recently released from immigration custody said Wednesday he was held for 15 months in detention centers that were plagued by insects and he had to bathe with cold water from water hoses.During a news conference, Manuel Duran discussed what he called inhumane conditions at immigration detention facilities in Louisiana and Alabama.Duran was released from an Alabama facility on bail last week as immigration courts consider his request for asylum.
  
  Read more

• Man convicted for killing woman in front of her children

  17-07-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who served decades in prison for stabbing his wife 14 times in front of her daughter was convicted Wednesday in a nearly identical crime — stabbing a woman at least 11 times while her twin children watched.Albert Flick, 77, who was previously deemed too old to be a threat by a judge, was convicted in the 2018 death of Kimberly Dobbie.Both the attack, which was in front of a laundromat in broad daylight, and Flick's purchase two days earlier of two knives, were caught on surveillance
  
  Read more

• BNY Mellon vows to stem billions in outflows from index products

  17-07-2019 22:59
  BNY Mellon Corp's push to reinvigorate its money management business has yet to stem a continuous outflow of client cash from its $322 billion complex of index-based investment products.
  
  Read more

• Mexico says migrant numbers down but warns of impending crisis

  17-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The number of undocumented migrants entering Mexico in the hope of reaching the United States dropped by almost a third in June, the foreign office said Wednesday, warning that a crisis was still on the way if the numbers didn't fall further.Some 100,000 people, mostly Central Americans, entered Mexico in June, compared with 144,000 the month before, Deputy Foreign Minister for Latin America and the Caribbean Maximiliano Reyes told reporters.Under the threat of export tariffs from Washington if
  
  Read more

• Prosecutors say father intentionally drove boys off pier

  17-07-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A man was charged Wednesday with capital murder after prosecutors say he drove his family off a Los Angeles pier, killing his two severely autistic sons.Ali Elmezayen (EL-mah-ZION) faces two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and there's a special circumstance allegation that the killings were carried out for financial gain, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.Elmezayen is in federal custody on insurance fraud charges related to the 2015 pier plunge.
  
  Read more

• Prosecutors drop groping case against Kevin Spacey

  17-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors dropped a case Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016 after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information supporting the actor's claims of innocence. Spacey was charged with indecent assault and battery last year in the only criminal case that has been brought against the actor since his career collapsed amid a slew of sexual misconduct allegations. Spacey denies groping the man, whose mot
  
  Read more

• Police officer sent to rehab for doing scratch-off lottery tickets on duty, lawsuit claims

  17-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Officer's lawsuit claims he was subjected to a hostile work environment at Wayne Police Department, causing undue emotional distress and humiliation.
  
  Read more

• 'Poison of America': Bill on slavery reparations gains backing from Sen. Chuck Schumer

  17-07-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Charles Schumer said Tuesday he will support a bill proposed by Sen. Cory Booker in the Senate to set up a commission to study reparations.
  
  Read more

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi planning to meet one-on-one

  17-07-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Earlier this month, Nancy Pelosi downplayed four votes from a group of progressive Democrats against a border funding bill.
  
  Read more

• Parkland suspect allowed to skip hearings ahead of trial

  17-07-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Parkland school shooting defendant Nikolas Cruz will be allowed to skip many future court hearings as his planned trial draws closer in the 2018 massacre that left 17 people dead, a judge ruled Wednesday.Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer granted the hearing waiver request by lawyers for Cruz, who faces the death penalty if convicted.In his most lengthy comments in court to date, Cruz told the judge he agrees with the decision.
  
  Read more

• Florida officials play 'Baby Shark' on repeat to keep homeless people out of local park

  17-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  West Palm Beach, Florida officials are playing "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos," on loop overnight in an effort to ward homeless people away.
  
  Read more

• Dozens of whales stranded on Georgia island remain at sea after rescue effort by beachgoers

  17-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of pilot whales beached themselves on a Georgia shore and most were rescued by authorities and onlookers.
  
  Read more

• Apple may bring an exciting new feature to the 2020 iPhone’s rear camera

  17-07-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  If the myriad rumors and reports are to be believed, the next major iPhone evolution won't take place until 2020. This year's iPhone will certainly be a step up, but far more dramatic changes are coming next year. One of those changes will apparently be a time-of-flight 3D rear camera, according to a new DigiTimes report.Sources tell the site that Apple is working with supply chain partners to bring vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VSCEL) components to future iPhone models. This is the sa
  
  Read more

• The F-35 Has A New Problem That Won't Be Easy To Solve

  17-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. military’s growing fleet of F-35 stealth fighters will fall short of the 80-percent readiness goal that former defense secretary James Mattis instituted before quitting in protest of Pres. Donald Trump’s foreign policy in January 2019.Former secretary of the army Mark Esper, who is Trump’s nominee to replace Mattis, in mid-July 2019 told a Senate committee the roughly 300-strong fleet of F-35s belonging to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps “is not expecte
  
  Read more

• UPDATE 1-U.S. removing Turkey from F-35 program after its Russian missile defense purchase

  17-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said on Wednesday that it was removing Turkey from the F-35 fighter jet program, a move that had been long threatened and expected after Ankara began accepting delivery of an advanced Russian missile defense system last week.The first parts of the S-400 air defense system were flown to the Murted military air base northwest of Ankara on Friday, sealing Turkey's deal with Russia, which Washington had struggled for months to prevent."The U.S. and other F-35 partners are aligned i
  
  Read more

• North Carolina father of 7 dies trying to save his drowning children at beach

  17-07-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina father drowned Sunday while rescuing two of his youngchildren who were swept away by a wave while walking on a submerged jetty atWrightsville Beach
  
  Read more

• Lords Vote to Block Suspension of Parliament: Brexit Update

  17-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.K.’s House of Lords backed a move designed to make a no-deal Brexit more difficult by stopping the next prime minister from closing down Parliament. The plan won’t become law until it has also been passed by members of Parliament in the Commons, where it is likely to face stronger opposition from pro-Brexit politicians.Key Developments:House of Lords passes amendment designed to stop next PM suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal split Pound rises Brexi
  
  Read more

• Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows

  17-07-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Statistics are a blow to country’s biggest pharmaceuticals that paid millions of dollars in out of court settlementsPurdue sold $3bn of its high-strength branded drug, OxyContin, which in 2010, was about one-third of the opioid market by value at its peak. Photograph: Toby Talbot/APDrug makers and distributors flooded the US with more than 75bn opioid pills in the crucial years when the country’s epidemic of painkiller addiction and deaths surged to record levels, according to previo
  
  Read more

• White House kicks Turkey out of fighter jet project

  17-07-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will no longer participate in the F-35 program after receiving a Russian air defense system last week, the White House announced Wednesday.
  
  Read more

• Woman killed while riding in SUV with husband was just minutes from home before shooting

  17-07-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  'You have taken an angel from us' Saron James and her husband Cleveland had been married for 40 years before someone opened fire on their SUV and killed her.
  
  Read more

• UN expert critical of Hungary's treatment of asylum-seekers

  17-07-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Hungary should not allow security concerns to override the human rights of migrants, a U.N. migration expert said Wednesday.Felipe Gonzalez Morales, the U.N. special rapporteur on migrant rights, said that Hungarian authorities should move families with children who are awaiting a ruling on their asylum applications from being detained in border transit zones to being placed in open reception centers.Speaking at the end of an eight-day visit to Hungary, Gonzalez Morales also expressed concerns a
  
  Read more

• Omar to Introduce Resolution Declaring Support for Anti-Israel BDS Movement

  17-07-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will introduce a resolution this week declaring support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to elevate the Palestinian negotiating position vis-a-vis Israel through an international pressure campaign.“We are introducing a resolution . . . to really speak about the American values that support and believe in our ability to exercise our first amendment rights in regard to boycotting,” Omar told Al-Monitor. “A
  
  Read more

• Kamala Harris tops Joe Biden in new poll

  17-07-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  New Quinnipiac California poll shows Sen. Kamala Harris leading former Vice President Joe Biden; reaction and analysis from Wall Street Journal editor James Freeman.
  
  Read more

• Another top NRA staffer departs amid upheaval

  17-07-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The move comes one month after Chris Cox, the NRA’s chief political architect, resigned.
  
  Read more

• Notorious drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán sentenced to life. And U.S. wants his $12.6B fortune.

  17-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Notorious drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera was formally sentenced Wednesday to life in prison on drug trafficking charges.
  
  Read more

• US kicking NATO ally Turkey out of fighter program

  17-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  In a significant break with a longtime NATO ally, the Trump administration on Wednesday said Turkey can no longer be part of the American F-35 fighter jet program.The White House did not say explicitly that Turkey will be kicked out of the F-35 program, but the Pentagon was expected to do so.Turkey makes numerous components for the stealth aircraft, which is sold internationally.
  
  Read more

• House Democrat’s Bid to Impeach Trump Is Expected to Be Rebuffed

  17-07-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The House is preparing to act Wednesday on a bid to impeach President Donald Trump that’s unlikely to advance amid resistance from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders.Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas is seeking to impeach the president over his tweets against four freshman House Democrats, all women of color, and other comments denounced as racist. It is Green’s third attempt to get a vote on articles of impeachment against Trump; the first two
  
  Read more

• Judge won't toss charges in Vietnamese tour leaders killing

  17-07-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Criminal charges will stand against a convicted felon facing a death penalty trial in the killings of two Vietnamese tour leaders at a Las Vegas Strip hotel, a judge said Wednesday.Clark County District Court Judge Michelle Leavitt upheld the indictment against Julius Damiano Deangilo Trotter, rejecting Trotter's attorney's argument that prosecutors improperly prevented a grand jury from hearing information that might have pointed to another suspect in the June 2018 stabbings.Prosecutor Bill Fli
  
  Read more

• Afghan colonel killed in 'insider attack' near US forces

  17-07-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  American troops opened fire after an "enemy insider" shot and killed an Afghan commander in central Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said, in yet another deadly Taliban-claimed infiltration.According to the Afghan defence ministry, Colonel Mateen Mujtaba, who headed the 3rd army division in Ghazni province, was conducting a security assessment in Qarabagh district when an Afghan soldier started shooting.Mateen was "killed by an army soldier who was in fact an enemy insider," the defence minis
  
  Read more

• Triple-digit temperatures could bring blackouts in New York City, DC and Chicago

  17-07-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  An upcoming heat wave could lead to power outages in the central and eastern U.S., including major metropolitan areas, experts say.
  
  Read more

• Andrew Left's Citron Capital posted net return of 24.7% in 1st half of 2019

  17-07-2019 20:38
  Andrew Left's Citron Capital posted a net return of 24.7% after fees and expenses in the first half of 2019, according to an investment letter posted on the fund's website Wednesday, but said "it has...
  
  Read more

• PHOTOS: Rebuilding Notre Dame

  17-07-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Three months after a fire ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, a rare glimpse inside the burned masterpiece on Wednesday revealed it to be eerily empty and with rubble still littering the nave. Paris prosecutors said in June that a poorly stubbed-out cigarette or an electrical fault could have started the fire and opened an investigation into criminal negligence, without targeting any individual.
  
  Read more

• AOC Grills Facebook VP on Taking His Pay in Company Cryptocurrency

  17-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday grilled Facebook VP David Marcus during the second day of congressional hearings investigating the social network’s intention to create a digital currency dubbed Libra. In June, Facebook announced that it would create a worldwide cryptocurrency, drawing backlash from a range of international lawmakers, including President Donald Trump. Marcus, CEO of the Facebook subsidiary Calibra, will oversee the company’s efforts to create
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Iran FM says US sanctions 'economic terrorism'

  17-07-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke Wednesday at a sustainable development forum.The U.S. re-imposed tough sanctions on Tehran's oil exports after withdrawing last year from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and several world powers.The sanctions exacerbated an economic crisis that has sent Iran's currency plummeting.
  
  Read more

• Top diplomat: Iran must build missiles for defense

  17-07-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has no choice but to manufacture missiles for defense purposes — comments that come after a remark by the top diplomat that seemed to suggest the missiles could be up for negotiations.Iran has long rejected negotiations over its ballistic missile program, which remains under the control of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The foreign minister's remarks seemed to su
  
  Read more

• GOP congressman: 'I'm a person of color. I'm white.'

  17-07-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., who voted against the House resolution to condemn Trump’s tweet as racist, offered an unusual rationale for doing so.
  
  Read more

• Another $860 million recovered for Madoff customers in Kingate settlement: trustee

  17-07-2019 19:28
  The court-appointed trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's firm on Wednesday said another $860 million may soon be returned to the swindler's customers, under a settlement with offshore funds that...
  
  Read more

• Kremlin Opens Door to Changing Constitution as Succession Looms

  17-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The Kremlin raised the possibility of changing Russia’s Constitution after a top lawmaker proposed bolstering parliament’s powers, in a move that could help to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule.The idea of constitutional amendments, including allowing parliament a say in forming the government, received “a widespread response” and are “a matter for discussion,” Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters on a conference cal
  
  Read more

• Take a look inside a Charles Manson murder house on the market for $1.98M

  17-07-2019 19:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The house of Leno and LaBianca Rosemary is back on the market almost 50 years after they were murdered by the cult serial killer and his followers.
  
  Read more

• Senator Tim Kaine Calls on FBI to Open Khashoggi Investigation

  17-07-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Yasin Akgul/GettySenator Tim Kaine (D-VA) is calling on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open an investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post journalist and Virginia resident who was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after going missing in October 2018. “This investigation is more important than ever to achieve true accountability and justice for this horrific crime,” Kaine said in a letter to FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday, which
  
  Read more

• Dilemmas for West as Iran's arrests of dual nationals mount

  17-07-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Notorious for its conditions, Tehran's Evin prison is proving to be a headache for Western governments as a rising number of dual nationals are detained in what many see as a ruthless diplomatic strategy.Fariba Adelkhah, a well-known academic with French and Iranian nationality, has been held in the prison in north Tehran since early June on charges that have not been disclosed.
  
  Read more

Follow @FinanceUSA_News on Twitter!