Finance news

• 'Sickening and troubling': Senators press VA for top-to-bottom probe in suspicious death scandal

  30-08-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawmakers want to see what the Veterans Affairs Inspector General concludes about suspicious deaths at a West Virginia VA hospital before taking action.
  
  Read more

• Man sues Popeyes over running out of chicken sandwiches

  30-08-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Man files lawsuit against Popeyes for false advertising when the chain ran out of it's highly publicized chicken sandwich.
  
  Read more

• Bahamas, Florida in path of strengthening Hurricane Dorian

  30-08-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian strengthened into a major storm packing winds of 115 miles per hour (185 kilometers per hour) on Friday as it bore down on the Bahamas and the east coast of the US state of Florida.Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis warned residents of the Atlantic Ocean archipelago in the path of the "very powerful and potentially life-threatening hurricane" to evacuate.The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Dorian, which is expected to make landfall in the Bahamas on Sunday and
  
  Read more

• California deputies rescue wailing bear trapped in dumpster

  30-08-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  When a late-night trip to a trash container left a wailing bear cub stuck inside near a Lake Tahoe motel, deputies were called upon to help the cub reunite with its family.The cub can be heard crying from inside the metal dumpster in video recorded by Placer County Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday.It then climbs on the side of the trash container but fails to open the heavy lid.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• 'Free from this nightmare': Man exonerated in rape case after USA TODAY Network investigation

  30-08-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The case of James Clay, who spent more than a year in prison before new evidence called into question his 2017 conviction, was dismissed Friday.
  
  Read more

• Delta Air Lines pilot charged with alcohol violation

  30-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Delta Air Lines pilot from Minnesota was charged Friday with operating an aircraft under the influence of alcohol.Tests confirmed that 37-year-old Gabriel Schroeder, of Rosemont, had a blood alcohol level between 0.04% and 0.08% when detectives arrested him on a plane at the Minneapolis airport just as it started boarding for a flight to San Diego on July 20, according to the criminal complaint.The limit set by the Federal Aviation Administration is 0.04%, which is half the legal limit for dri
  
  Read more

• No state-wide evacuation call for Dorian, unlike Irma

  30-08-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he'll issue no blanket calls for Floridians to leave the state, apparently hoping to avoid some of the chaos that characterized the run-up to Hurricane Irma in 2017.DeSantis said at a briefing Friday morning that there will be evacuation orders, but he would leave those calls to local officials."It doesn't have to be that everyone in the East Coast of Florida gets on I-95 and just keeps driving," DeSantis said later Friday.
  
  Read more

• Mexico violence: Alarming parallels to previous brutalities

  30-08-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The large-scale offensive against drug cartels that began in 2006 touched off a wave of violence unprecedented since the Mexican Revolution, marked by homicides of immense brutality as gangs seemingly sought to one-up each other.August 2011: Armed attackers carrying fuel canisters enter the Casino Royale in the northern industrial city of Monterrey, shoot some patrons, douse the place and set it alight before fleeing.Authorities attribute the attack to the Zetas cartel enforcing demands for exto
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• James Mattis promotes a book that's silent about Donald Trump. It's a disservice.

  30-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Ex-Pentagon chief extols the 'great big experiment' that is America but fails to serve it with insights into commander in chief Donald Trump: Our view
  
  Read more

• Illinois' John Shimkus won't seek reelection

  30-08-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  "It has been the honor of my lifetime to be asked by the people of Illinois to represent them in our nation’s capitol," he said.
  
  Read more

• UPDATE 1-FAA panel reviewing 737 MAX certification will take additional time

  30-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday a blue-ribbon panel of experts around the world will need a few more weeks to finish its review into the Boeing 737 MAX certification.Boeing Co has said it hopes to receive regulatory approval for updated flight control software at the center of both crashes in October, but it could take a month or two for airlines to train pilots on the new software and prepare the jets for commercial flight after sitting idle for months.In September the NTSB p
  
  Read more

• Mexican president backs official accused of suspect real estate purchases

  30-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday expressed support for Manuel Bartlett, the head of national electricity company CFE, despite accusations that Bartlett has improperly accumulated nearly two dozen luxury properties."I have confidence in Mr. Bartlett," Lopez Obrador told reporters at his morning news conference.The president tapped Bartlett, a veteran politician with a controversial past, to lead Mexico's state-owned power utility.
  
  Read more

• Samsung may offer up to 1TB of internal storage on the Galaxy S11

  30-08-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The most surprising moment at the Samsung media event I attended earlier this month was when the company reps revealed that the Galaxy Note 10 would not feature a microSD card slot. The biggest Android vendor in the world just eliminated an expansion slot on a flagship phone, and even though the pricier Galaxy Note 10+ retained the feature, this seemed like a sign of things to come. And a new rumor adds credence to that idea.SamMobile reports that the Galaxy S11 series will have four different s
  
  Read more

• Yemen govt hits out at UAE over Aden raids

  30-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's internationally recognised government late Friday rejected "false justifications" from the United Arab Emirates for air raids that reportedly killed dozens of government troops in the southern city of Aden.Abu Dhabi said it launched air raids Wednesday and Thursday in self-defence against "terrorist militias" threatening a Saudi-led military coalition.The coalition -- in which the UAE is itself a key partner -- was formed to combat Huthi rebels in northern Yemen and in support of the gov
  
  Read more

• Trump Says Ousted Aide Shouldn’t Have Said ‘Hurtful’ Things

  30-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Timothy A. Clary/GettyPresident Trump confirmed late Friday that his former personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, was ousted from the White House after making disparaging comments about his children during an off-the-record dinner with reporters earlier this month.“I really think she had a bad night. I think it was unfortunate, she said she was drinking and the whole thing was very unfortunate,” he told reporters, adding that she had made remarks that were “just a little bi
  
  Read more

• 5,000 bodies found in unmarked graves in Mexico since 2006

  30-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 5,000 bodies have been found in more than 3,000 unmarked graves since Mexico deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, the government said Friday in its first comprehensive report on the carnage.Mexico has been hit by a wave of violence since launching the so-called "drug war," and activists and family members of the country's 40,000 missing persons have been denouncing mass graves for years.It found 3,024 unmarked graves nationwide, with at least 4,974 bodies, Karla Quintana,
  
  Read more

• Swedish teen climate activist leads protest near UN

  30-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg drew crowds on land Friday after her two-week sail across the Atlantic as the 16-year-old Swede led a protest march in front of the United Nations.Hundreds of activists, many of them teenagers, surrounded her outside U.N. headquarters, chanting, "Fossil lobbyists have got to go" and, "It's too hot!" — referriang to global warming.It was the New York edition of her weekly Fridays For Future, the student school strikes she has inspired in about 100 cities
  
  Read more

• Hurricane Dorian gains strength, expected to hit FL as Category 4

  30-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Storm preparations are underway in Florida in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian.
  
  Read more

• US Attorney rebukes white nationalists in impassioned speech

  30-08-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Bonnie Deutsch Burdman of the Youngstown Area Jewish Federation discusses the remarks of U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and the impact of white nationalism.
  
  Read more

• Puerto Rican graveyard flooded in aftermath of Hurricane Dorian

  30-08-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, we're left with an eerie sight of sinking graves, leaking crypts and flooded walkways all around a graveyard in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on Aug. 30.
  
  Read more

• Hurricane Dorian: What's the forecast for Florida vacation spots?

  30-08-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  What the forecast is saying about the impact Hurricane Dorian will have on a number of popular vacation spots.
  
  Read more

• NOAA Hurricane Hunters flight director on getting 'up close and personal' with Dorian

  30-08-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Jack Parrish explains the key data that can only be gathered by flying a P-3 aircraft into Hurricane Dorian's eyewall.
  
  Read more

• Arkansas police probe 911 dispatcher after caller drowns

  30-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Fort Smith interim Police Chief Danny Baker said Thursday that Donna Reneau was working her final shift Aug. 24 when Debra Stevens died. Reneau had given her notice two weeks earlier.Police spokesman Aric Mitchell said Friday that Reneau dispatched emergency personnel to find Stevens, 47, who'd driven into an apartment complex parking lot to try to avoid flooding.In the 911 recording, released by police as part of the internal investigation, Stevens was heard crying and begging for help, saying
  
  Read more

• Three 2020 Democrats quit the presidential race in one week, and Elizabeth Warren stands to gain the most from their exits

  30-08-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren stands to gain big from the departures of Kirsten Gillibrand, Jay Inslee, and Seth Moulton from the 2020 Democratic race.
  
  Read more

• After criticism, CDC gives clear vaping warning: Avoid THC, e-cigs bought 'off the street'

  30-08-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Patients have experienced cough, shortness of breath, chest pain and some have also had nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea, fatigue, fever and weight loss.
  
  Read more

• Trump's personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany

  30-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The critical comments happened at an off-the-record dinner.
  
  Read more

• Activist Jana to push again for changes at Outback owner Bloomin' Brands

  30-08-2019 22:15
  Activist hedge fund Jana Partners on Friday disclosed a large new stake in Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin' Brands Inc , returning for the second time in nearly two years to push for fresh changes...
  
  Read more

• US service member killed in Afghanistan: NATO

  30-08-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  An American service member was killed in Afghanistan, the US-led NATO mission said Friday, the latest US fatality as talks between the US and the Taliban continue."A US service member died during combat operations in Afghanistan, August 29, 2019," NATO's Resolute Support mission said in a statement.The death brings to at least 15 the number of members of the US military to be killed in action in Afghanistan this year, just as Washington is seeking a way out of its longest war.
  
  Read more

• A man is suing Popeye's for $5,000, saying that his car was damaged while he tried to get a chicken sandwich and that his friends laughed at him

  30-08-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Craig Barr is suing the fast-food chain Popeyes for $5,000 in damages, saying he didn't get a "black list" $25 chicken sandwich.
  
  Read more

• Hurricane Dorian: Delta capping flight prices, American offering reduced fares from Florida as hurricane nears

  30-08-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  As Hurricane Dorian hurtles toward the United States, travelers may be trying to evacuate – but are airlines "fare gouging" with high flight prices?
  
  Read more

• New York investigators reportedly zero in on Epstein recruiter as net tightens around his 'enablers'

  30-08-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  New York investigators examining Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network are turning their attention to a woman who served as his teenage recruiter, it has been claimed. Haley Robson was 16 when she was approached at a swimming pool near her home in Florida by a high school acquaintance who offered her the chance to make some money. Miss Robson, now 33, was told she had to give massages to a billionaire in Palm Beach. She went to Epstein’s house and gave him a massag
  
  Read more

• Police admit white powder seized during drugs bust at Gatwick airport is actually cake mix for vegan bakery

  30-08-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have admitted that white powder seized during a "huge" drugs bust at Gatwick airport is actually cake mix for vegan bakery. Vegan pizza restaurant Purezza was transporting ingredients in a suitcase when a member of staff was stopped by the police on August 28. The white powder, which was divided into 25 blue bags, was sent for tests before officers accepted it was not illegal. British Transport Police said: "'Officers were called to Gatwick Airport station at 1.34pm on August 28 after a s
  
  Read more

• Colombian rebels' rearming ups pressure for Maduro

  30-08-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A call to arms by former rebel negotiators in Colombia is a blow to the country's fragile peace, but it also provides a tempting target for hawks looking to bring down the person the U.S. accuses of sheltering terrorist groups: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.On Thursday, the former chief negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia announced he would resume fighting, alleging the government has failed to uphold the 2016 peace accord and accusing it of standing by as hund
  
  Read more

• Kamala Harris Attended LA Fundraisers The Same Day She Missed Endorsement Interview

  30-08-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethan Miller/GettySen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had been scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer session with the left-wing Working Families Party on August 22 as part of the organization’s endorsement process. She did not attend, and as a result of missing the session—and not being able to reschedule before a planned endorsement vote next month—she is now out of contention for the party’s endorsement, as first reported by NBC News. That same day, Harris d
  
  Read more

• 2 people found dead on beach in Southern California

  30-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Two people were found dead on a beach in Southern California Friday morning, authorities said.
  
  Read more

• Condemned Tennessee inmate will be spared execution

  30-08-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee inmate is leaving death row eight months before what would have been his execution date, after a judge approved an agreement Friday to convert his death sentence to life in prison.Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman(ah-BOO'-ah-LEE') (AHB'-dur-RAK'-mahn) signed the agreement with prosecutors Wednesday, but Nashville Criminal Court Judge Monte Watkins did not announce his approval until Friday morning.The agreement comes after Abdur'Rahman, who is black, petitioned to reopen his case, presenting evid
  
  Read more

• Trump Denies U.S. Involvement in Failure of Iranian Rocket Launch

  30-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Friday that the U.S. was not involved in the failure of an Iranian rocket test last week, and added that he wishes the state terror sponsor luck in investigating the explosion.> The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One. pic.twitter.com/z0iDj2L0Y3> > -- Donald J. T
  
  Read more

• Tusk: Domestic politics could drive Britain out of EU

  30-08-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson might decide to go for Brexit at all costs, just to settle domestic political issues, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Friday."The main political problem with Brexit is the situation inside Britain ... the emotions related to this show that we are all victims of Britain's internal politics," Tusk told private broadcaster TVN24.
  
  Read more

• Ukraine Is Struggling to Make Sense of Trump and Bolton's Conflicting Messages on Russia

  30-08-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  After Trump stalled millions in military aid, Ukraine officials are having trouble making sense of the Administration's stance on Russia.
  
  Read more

• The Northern Lights Could Be Visible Across the Northern U.S. This Weekend. Here's How to See the Aurora

  30-08-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Dress warmly, get to a dark spot and look to the north
  
  Read more

• Mexico uncovers 3,000 secret graves hiding bodies of drug war victims

  30-08-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  * New data reveals nearly 5,000 bodies found across the country* Disappearances common amid extreme drug-related violenceThe data on hidden graves nationwide was released to coincide with the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Photograph: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 3,000 secret graves containing victims of Mexico’s raging drug wars have been found across the country, according to the first ever official tally of the phenomenon.A total of 4,874 bodie
  
  Read more

• Google found iPhone security flaws that allowed websites to hack iOS users 'en masse'

  30-08-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Google says 14 security flaws gave hackers access to your iPhone. All you had to do was visit one of the websites and you could be attacked.
  
  Read more

• Hurricane puts 10 million in the crosshairs in Florida

  30-08-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  An increasingly alarming Hurricane Dorian menaced a corridor of some 10 million people — and put Walt Disney World and President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in the crosshairs — as it steamed toward Florida on Friday with the potential to become the most powerful storm to hit the state's east coast in nearly 30 years.The National Hurricane Center's projected track showed Dorian hitting around Palm Beach County, where Mar-a-Lago is situated, then moving inland over the Orlando are
  
  Read more

• 2020 Vision: 'Gaffe machine' in high gear, Biden's campaign says it doesn't matter

  30-08-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A new poll shows Trump trailing the top Democratic contenders in a hypothetical 2020 general election match-up. The next step for Democrats is a strong debate performance on Sept. 12. Also crucial is a campaign’s follow-through.
  
  Read more

• Trial of Accused 9/11 Masterminds Set for 2021

  30-08-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The trial of five men charged with planning the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 will begin in 2021, a military judge ruled Friday.The selection of a military jury for the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others accused of planning the attacks will commence on January 11, 2021, the judge in the case, Air Force colonel W. Shane Cohen, said in a ten-page trial-scheduling order. Cohen has also ordered prosecutors to provide certain materials to the defense teams by October 1 in
  
  Read more

• Trump sends Iran 'best wishes' after its rocket explodes on the launchpad in a 'catastrophic' failure

  30-08-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has tried three times this year to put a satellite in space, but each time something has gone terribly wrong with the rocket.
  
  Read more

• Trump sends Iran 'best wishes' after its rocket explodes on the launch pad in a 'catastrophic' failure

  30-08-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has tried three times this year to put a satellite into space, but each time, something has gone terribly wrong with the rocket.
  
  Read more

• Joe Biden under fire for war hero story 'filled with inaccuracies'

  30-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential hopeful, is facing renewed questions over his memory and whether he is too old for office after telling an anecdote about a war hero that appears to be littered with inaccuracies.  The former US vice president faced scrutiny after recounting an emotive story of how a soldier he once presented with a medal did not want it because the person colleague tried to save had died.  Speaking in New Hampshire last week, Mr Biden recalled how he once visited
  
  Read more

• Trump Iran photo tweet raises worries about disclosure of U.S. surveillance secrets

  30-08-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday posted on Twitter a photo of what appeared to be the site of a failed Iranian satellite launch, raising questions about whether he had disclosed U.S.surveillance secrets.The black-and-white photo showed the fire-blasted launch site at a space center in northern Iran including a damaged gantry service tower and a downed mobile erector launcher.Speaking to reporters at the White House later on Friday, Trump defended his posting of the photo and reiterated that
  
  Read more

• Judge: No bail for suspect in Nevada sledgehammer attack

  30-08-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of killing a woman with a sledgehammer while she was calling 911 for help told police who arrested him about "smashing people" and said the woman asked him to hit her, a prosecutor told a judge on Friday."The violence is almost unspeakable," Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Peter Thunell said while Clinton Earl Taylor, 36, stood in custody before Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman.The Clark County coroner has not yet identified the woman, who Las Vegas police say told a
  
  Read more

Follow @FinanceUSA_News on Twitter!