Finance news

• Houston area preparing for heavy rain, flooding from Imelda

  17-09-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in the Houston area were preparing high-water vehicles and staging rescue boats Tuesday as Tropical Storm Imelda moved in from the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump up to 18 inches of rain in parts of Southeast Texas and southwestern Louisiana over the next few days.The storm, which formed Tuesday, made landfall near Freeport, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist and director of flood operations for the Harris County Flood Control District in Ho
  
  Read more

• Tekashi69 Testifies Against Gang: We Did ‘a Lot of Crimes’

  17-09-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Bob Levey/GettyIt took gangbanging rapper Tekashi69 just one day after his arrest to decide he was going to cooperate with the feds—and lay out for a jury how the Nine Trey Bloods jump-started his career, which he then used to bankroll the crew.“I got the street credibility. I would say I got my career,” the hip-hop star testified Tuesday in a Manhattan federal courtroom where two of his ex-associates are on trial.“I knew I had a winning formula for my music videos: repea
  
  Read more

• Migrants say they face danger before court in Texas tents

  17-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Abel Oset was seized with panic.The two were going to plead their case in a court set up inside a tent in Laredo, Texas, beamed via video conference to a judge in another city — the latest attempt to clear a massive backlog of asylum cases.Oset dreaded the very real possibility that he and his 22-year-old son would be sent back over the international bridge, back to Nuevo Laredo, in Tamaulipas, and its cartels and violence.
  
  Read more

• Benjamin Netanyahu's fate uncertain after exit polls show no clear winner in Israel vote

  17-09-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Exit polls in Israel's do-over election indicate no clear winner. The fate of Israel's longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, looks uncertain.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Georgia homeowner kills three teens wearing masks in possible 'stand your ground' case

  17-09-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The fatal shooting of three teens by a Georgia homeowner this week could be a 'stand your ground' case, the Rockdale County Sheriff says.
  
  Read more

• Impeachment Hearing Devolves into Chaos as Democrats Grill Lewandowski on Trump Communications

  17-09-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testified Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee in a public hearing on presidential obstruction that quickly devolved into chaos, as Democrats and Republicans sniped at both one another and the witness.Lewandowski began his testimony on a combative note, slamming the Committee's investigation into whether there are grounds to impeach President Trump as partisan."Sadly, the country spent over three years and 40 million taxpayer dollars&n
  
  Read more

• Tropical Storm Imelda makes landfall near Freeport

  17-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm system soaking the greater Houston area is Tropical Storm Imelda, and it has already made landfall near Freeport.
  
  Read more

• Trump says homeless people are living in 'our best highways' and building entrances and people have told him they want to 'leave the country' over it

  17-09-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Washington Post has previously reported that the Trump administration is looking for ways the federal government can reduce homelessness.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Inside the New Rosewood Guangzhou, the World’s Tallest Five-Star Hotel

  17-09-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Located in China, Rosewood Guangzhou soars some 1,740 feet high and boasts the world’s fastest elevator, traveling almost 70 feet per second
  
  Read more

• One in 16 American women forced into first sexual encounter: study

  17-09-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  One in 16 American women were either forced or coerced into their first sexual encounter, according to a study investigating the long-term negative impacts of such "trauma" on women's health.In the US, "the #MeToo movement has highlighted how frequently women experience sexual violence," the researchers wrote in the introduction.Published Monday in the American Medical Association's peer-reviewed journal (JAMA Internal Medicine), the study is based on a sample of more than 13,000 women aged 18 t
  
  Read more

• Trump to bar California from setting vehicle emission rules: sources

  17-09-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration will announce as early as Wednesday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own greenhouse gas and vehicle fuel efficiency standards and barring all states from setting such rules, two auto industry officials said on Tuesday. The move is sure to spark legal challenges over issues including states' rights and climate change that administration officials say could ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump met with senior officials last Thursday
  
  Read more

• Women who attended Yale at the same time as Brett Kavanaugh in the 1980s remember an alcohol-soaked and sometimes predatory campus

  17-09-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A new book is raising another sexual assault allegation from Brett Kavanaugh's time at Yale — but the alleged victim reportedly doesn't remember it.
  
  Read more

• US sanctions Italy, Panama and Colombia firms over Venezuela ties

  17-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 16 companies linked to Colombian businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran, an associate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.The move is the latest US escalation of sanctions targeting the inner circle of Maduro, who is grappling with a political and economic crisis that the United Nations says has left a quarter of Venezuela's 30 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
  
  Read more

• Liam Fox: Britain must accept that Iran nuclear deal is 'dead'

  17-09-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain must accept the Iran nuclear deal is “dead” and join America in trying to force Tehran back to the negotiating table, former defence secretary Liam Fox said tonight. Mr Fox, who was in the cabinet until July, will use a speech in Washington to warn that the 2015 agreement was "flawed" from the start and that attempts to keep it alive are "futile". The intervention is effectively a call for Boris Johnson to join Donald Trump in withdrawing from the deal and comes amid escalati
  
  Read more

• Trump on Cokie Roberts: She 'never treated me nicely' but she was a 'professional'

  17-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Cokie Roberts was a veteran and award winning journalist who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 75.
  
  Read more

• Belgian F-16s scrambled to intercept 2 Russian nuclear-capable supersonic bombers over the Baltic Sea

  17-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Belgian Air Force intercepted two Russian Tu-160 supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers at close range in Baltic airspace.
  
  Read more

• Judge refuses to free extremists who attacked protesters

  17-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Tuesday refused to free members of a white supremacist group on bond while they appeal their convictions for attacking protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.U.S. District Judge Norman Moon ruled that Rise Above Movement members Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis and Thomas Gillen haven't adequately shown that releasing them from custody wouldn't pose a danger to others.All three men pleaded guilty to riot conspiracy charges stemming from violence at the Unite the Ri
  
  Read more

• Hypersonic Missiles Could Save the B-1 Lancer Bomber from the Junkyard

  17-09-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  New hypersonic missiles could save the U.S. Air Force’s ailing force of B-1 Lancer heavy bombers from a possible early retirement.
  
  Read more

• Trump says Cokie Roberts 'never treated me nicely’ but 'was a professional'

  17-09-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  “She never treated me nicely,” President Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked about the the death of Cokie Roberts. “But I would like to wish her family well. She was a professional, and I respect professionals.”
  
  Read more

• Teen activist to lawmakers: Forget praise, work on climate

  17-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of Congress hailed Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg as a "superpower" for her work to spark a worldwide, youth-driven push to fight climate change.Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey said the 16-year-old Thunberg and other young activists bring "moral clarity" to the fight against global warming.Thunberg was not impressed.
  
  Read more

• KFC is testing a fried chicken sandwich with donuts as the buns

  17-09-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Just when you thought it was time to bring home the troops from the great chicken sandwich war between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A, KFC introduces a new sandwich. And it's bold.The new sandwich features the chain's Extra Crispy™ chicken filet between two hot glazed donuts.If stacking food isn't your thing you can also enjoy the components side-by-side. KFC is also introducing a Kentucky Fried Chicken & Donut Basket meal, which includes the option of chicken on the bone or chicken tenders,
  
  Read more

• Ocasio-Cortez backs liberal challenger to one of the most conservative House Democrats

  17-09-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The New York congresswoman will support Marie Newman’s bid to oust Dan Lipinski of Illinois.
  
  Read more

• Retired federal judge gets fined and barred for 2016 anti-Republican comments

  17-09-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel ruled against Carmene ‘Zsa Zsa’ DePaolo, a former immigration judge, for comments she made during a 2016 immigration hearing. Her comments reflected her beliefs that a Clinton administration would do more for immigration reform. She was fined the maximum possible civil penalty of $1,000 and slapped with a 30-month debarment from federal service.
  
  Read more

• Israel election: early exit polls suggest Netanyahu is in trouble

  17-09-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel was holding its breath on Tuesday after early election exit polls suggested Benjamin Netanyahu’s centrist rivals had won more seats in parliament, potentially endangering the prime minister’s 13 years in power.  While no final results were available, two out of three early exit polls indicated that Mr Netanyahu’s Likud had fallen slightly behind Blue & White, the centrist coalition led by former army general Benny Gantz. A third poll showed the parties tied
  
  Read more

• Costly Saudi defenses prove no match for drones, cruise missiles

  17-09-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) - Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge Western military hardware mainly designed to deter high altitude attacks has proved no match for low-cost drones and cruise missiles used in a strike that crippled its giant oil industry.Saturday's assault on Saudi oil facilities that halved production has exposed how ill-prepared the Gulf state is to defend itself despite repeated attacks on vital assets during its four-and-a-half year foray into the war in neigh
  
  Read more

• DoubleLine's Gundlach says U.S. Fed will embark on 'QE lite' 'pretty soon'

  17-09-2019 21:34
  Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said on Tuesday that the repo market squeeze makes it more likely that the Federal Reserve will resume expansion of its balance sheet "pretty...
  
  Read more

• Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75

  17-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, died Tuesday of complications from breast cancer.ABC broke into network programming to announce her death and politicians including former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama offered sympathy.Roberts devoted most of her attention to covering Congress, where her father Hale Boggs was a House majority leader who died in 1972 when his plane
  
  Read more

• Triple threat: Tropical Storm Imelda swamps Texas, Humberto nears Bermuda and TD 10 forms in Atlantic

  17-09-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  While Hurricane Humberto nears Bermuda, there's flooding in Texas due to Tropical Storm Imelda, and Tropical Depression 10 is spinning up in the Atlantic
  
  Read more

• Costly Saudi defences prove no match for drones, cruise missiles

  17-09-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  RIYADH/DUBAI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge Western military hardware mainly designed to deter high altitude attacks has proved no match for low-cost drones and cruise missiles used in a strike that crippled its giant oil industry.Saturday's assault on Saudi oil facilities that halved production has exposed how ill-prepared the Gulf state is to defend itself despite repeated attacks on vital assets during its four-and-a-half year foray into the war
  
  Read more

• Yemen Houthi drones, missiles defy years of Saudi air strikes

  17-09-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  At a weapons exhibition in July in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, military officials whipped silken sheets off what they said were newly-developed drones and missiles.The theatrical gesture revealed the proud slogan "Made in Yemen" spray-painted onto the weapons' bodywork.The moment was a celebration of sorts for Yemen's Houthi fighters.
  
  Read more

• Trump arrives in Bay Area for first time as president

  17-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has arrived in the Bay Area for the first time as Commander in Chief and is expected to attend a fundraiser in Silicon Valley.
  
  Read more

• Pentagon Refuses Funding for 20-Miles of Border Barrier Due to Cost

  17-09-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Defense Department has decided not to move forward with three border-barrier projects in California and Arizona, indicating that the estimated $2.5 billion cost of the 20 miles of planned construction would be too high.Funding for the projects -- three 30-foot-high barriers on the U.S.–Mexico border -- was originally allocated from a counter-drug initiative, which the Pentagon approved pending final analysis of cost projections. That analysis found that the cost would be prohibitive, a
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Mormon leader speaks about LGBT policies

  17-09-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' is reaffirming that the religion must stick to its opposition of gay marriage because God's law states that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.Church president Russell M. Nelson also said Tuesday in a speech to students at the church-owned Brigham Young University that a 2015 policy banning baptisms for children of parents in same-sex relationship was rescinded earlier this year because leaders took note of the "hearta
  
  Read more

• 29 bodies found in plastic bags in Mexico mass grave

  17-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday.Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered earlier this month in a remote area known as La Primavera, about a 45-minute drive outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second city."We have 13 complete corpses and 16 incomplete, for a total of 29 bodies," said Gera
  
  Read more

• Tropical Storm Imelda forms off upper Texas Gulf Coast

  17-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm system soaking the greater Houston area has now officially strengthened to become Tropical Storm Imelda.
  
  Read more

• Sheriff indicted for plotting to kill deputy who had tape of his 'racially offensive' remarks

  17-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina sheriff was indicted for obstruction of justice for allegedly plotting to kill one of his deputies.
  
  Read more

• New Jersey police searching city park for 5-year-old girl, simultaneous criminal investigation into disappearance

  17-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are focusing search efforts for Dulce Maria Alavez in Bridgeton City Park. Officials said there is a simultaneous criminal investigation ongoing.
  
  Read more

• Toyota invests $391 million in its Texas truck assembly plant

  17-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday it was investing $391 million in its pickup truck assembly plant in San Antonio, Texas, as part of the Japanese automaker's plan to invest $13 billion in its U.S. operations over five years through 2021.Christopher Reynolds, Toyota Motor North America's chief administrative officer, told Reuters the investment could allow the company to eventually boost the plant's capacity but no decision has been made.Toyota's San Antonio truck plant assembles full-size Tundra
  
  Read more

• Trump lists Waddell, Kellogg, O'Brien among possible Bolton successors

  17-09-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the candidates he is considering to become his national security adviser include former deputy national security adviser Ricky Waddell, Vice President Mike Pence's security aide Keith Kellogg, and hostage negotiator Robert O'Brien.Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said the other possible successors to John Bolton, the hawkish national security adviser he fired last week, were Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and one-time aide to B
  
  Read more

• Trump lists familiar White House faces as possible Bolton successors

  17-09-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday listed five possible replacements for recently fired national security adviser John Bolton, most of whom are already familiar faces from within his administration.The national security adviser provides advice to the president on defense, security and diplomatic issues.The job, the highest White House position on national security, does not require confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
  
  Read more

• The murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee horrified Chicago. Now, gang members will stand trial

  17-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Jury selection will begin Friday in the trial of Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan, charged with the November 2015 attack on 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.
  
  Read more

• Tennessee unveils $7.9B block grant proposal for Medicaid

  17-09-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Tennessee would become the first state in the nation to receive its Medicaid funding in a lump sum under a proposal seeking to drastically overhaul the program that provides health care services to low-income and disabled residents.Nearly four months after Gov. Bill Lee signed off on the idea, state officials released details of the estimated $7.9 billion Medicaid block grant plan Tuesday with the intent of submitting the final product to the federal government in November."We happen to be one o
  
  Read more

• DEA agent accuses Chavez of easing drug trafficking to US: Spain court

  17-09-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent accused late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez of cooperating with Colombian rebel group FARC to ease the shipment of cocaine into the United States, a Spanish court ruling published Tuesday showed.The accusation was cited in a ruling by Spain's National Court, the country's top criminal court, rejecting a US request to extradite Venezuela's former military intelligence chief, General Hugo Armando Carvajal, on drug trafficking charges.The ruling includes a
  
  Read more

• New York Times reporters respond to clarification and controversy on new Kavanaugh accusation

  17-09-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking on MSNBC, Robin Pogrebin, said that her editors had removed clarifying information during the editing process.
  
  Read more

• Triple threat: Tropical Storm Imelda to swamp Texas, Humberto nears Bermuda and TD 10 forms in Atlantic

  17-09-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  While Hurricane Humberto nears Bermuda, there's flooding in Texas due to Tropical Storm Imelda and Tropical Depression 10 is spinning up in the Atlantic
  
  Read more

• Las Vegas man faces weapons charge in synagogue, other plots

  17-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A former security guard accused of compiling bomb components and guns to kill people at a Las Vegas synagogue and of drawing up plans to attack a bar catering to LGBTQ customers or a fast-food restaurant has been indicted on a federal firearm charge, court records show.Conor Climo's court-appointed attorney, Paul Riddle, said Tuesday that Climo plans to plead not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday on the one-count indictment filed Sept. 11 in U.S. District Court in Nevada.Climo, 23, was arreste
  
  Read more

• Activists push U.S. Congress to pass Hong Kong bill

  17-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ROUGH CUT. NO REPORTER NARRATIONHong Kong pro-democracy activists testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) on Capitol Hill Tuesday (September 17), urging U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation to combat human rights abuses in the city. Joshua Wong, secretary-general of Hong Kong's pro-democracy Demosisto party and leader of the "Umbrella Movement," described police brutality and said Beijing was benefiting from Hong Kong's special economic status while denying "our fre
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Saudi minister: 50% of crude reduction restored

  17-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia's energy minister says 50% of the production cut by the attack on its oil processing plant has been restored.The attack Saturday struck a Saudi oil field and the world's largest crude oil processing plant, which knocked out 5.7 million barrels of crude oil production per day for the kingdom, or about 5% of the world's daily production.The prince added that within this month, production capacity will be up to 11 million barrels per day by the end of September.
  
  Read more

• Iran could be risking war over the Saudi oil fields because it deliberately wants to spike up the price of oil

  17-09-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  If Iran was responsible for the shocking attack, it falls in line with a pattern of dangerous escalations to harm the US for its harsh sanctions.
  
  Read more

• Here's why Iran would target major Saudi oil fields and risk a US military response

  17-09-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  If Iran was responsible for the shocking attack, it falls in line with a pattern of dangerous escalations to harm the US for its harsh sanctions.
  
  Read more

Follow @FinanceUSA_News on Twitter!