Finance news

• 20 new moons were just discovered orbiting Saturn, and you can help name them

  07-10-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Saturn now has more moons than any other planet in our solar system. You can suggest names for 20 newly discovered moons in a Twitter contest.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Trump admits inquiry makes it harder to do job

  07-10-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump was speaking at a White House signing ceremony for a new trade deal with Japan and took questions from reporters.The House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees are investigating Trump's actions pressing Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son.
  
  Read more

• Key points from Ethiopian Airlines whistleblower complaint

  07-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  — Yonas Yeshanew said in his complaint filed with regulators that while it is unclear what, if anything, in the downed plane's records was altered, the decision to go into them at all when they should have been sealed reflects a government-owned carrier with plenty to hide.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Police called to bar 2 hours before shootings

  07-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kansas City, Kansas, police chief says officers responded to reports of a disturbance at a bar two hours before a shooting left four people dead and five wounded.Interim police Chief Michael York said Monday that officers could not find the man suspected of causing the disturbance and had no information that he planned return to the Tequila KC bar.Police said Javier Alatorre, 23, and Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, were each charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Airline went into records after Max crash, engineer says

  07-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Ethiopian Airlines' former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet a day after it crashed this year, a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that included fabricating documents, signing off on shoddy repairs and even beating those who got out of line.Yonas Yeshanew, who resigned this summer and is seeking asylum in the U.S., said that while it is unclear what, if anything, i
  
  Read more

• Pat Robertson: Trump Will Lose His ‘Mandate of Heaven’ if He Pulls Out of Syria

  07-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The 700 ClubWhen you’ve lost Pat Robertson…Reacting to President Donald Trump’s announcement that American forces will pull out of Syria and pave the way for Turkey to invade the country and attack Kurdish allies, the ultra-conservative televangelist on Monday joined the growing chorus of Republican critics of the president’s decision.“I am absolutely appalled that the United States is going to betray those democratic forces in northern Syria,” he said during
  
  Read more

• First lady calls for end of e-cigarette marketing to youth

  07-10-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Melania Trump said Monday that companies "must stop" marketing e-cigarettes to children, saying they are addictive and dangerous.Marketing tobacco products to kids is already prohibited in the United States, and Juul Labs Inc., the nation's largest maker of electronic cigarettes, has said it will cease advertising them in the U.S.
  
  Read more

• Harley falters with electric bike debut, struggles to attract new generation

  07-10-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Harley-Davidson is betting on electric motorcycles to attract the next generation of younger and more environmentally conscious riders to reverse declining U.S. sales.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Democrat Amy Klobuchar raises $4.8M for presidential bid

  07-10-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Amy Klobuchar said Monday that she raised $4.8 million in the third quarter for her 2020 presidential campaign, a total that places the Minnesota senator in the middle of the Democratic field in fundraising for the third straight quarter.Klobuchar has raised more than some rivals but less than top-tier candidates such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, who raised $25.3 million last quarter, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who raised $24.6 million.Klobuchar said during a stop in New Hampshire on Sunday that she'
  
  Read more

• Why the EU is rejecting Boris Johnson's latest Brexit plan

  07-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  It was no secret that the European Union wasn't prepared to accept U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's latest Brexit proposal, but The Guardian obtained leaked documents with the EU's point-by-point reasoning for its rejection.Johnson's plan included Northern Ireland remaining in an all-Ireland regulatory zone within the EU's single market for goods and electricity, but with a catch that the EU reportedly couldn't come to terms with. Northern Ireland's parliament would hang on to veto powers to
  
  Read more

• Officials block thousands marching in Pakistani Kashmir

  07-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Police blocked a march Sunday by thousands of protesters in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir who wanted to move toward the highly militarized Line of Control that divides the territory between Pakistan and India. The marchers are protesting the lockdown in Indian-administered Kashmir.
  
  Read more

• House Democrats are so afraid Trump allies will expose the whistleblower that they might mask their voice and face when they testify

  07-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate comes as President Trump's allies amplify his claims that the whistleblower broke the law and is guilty of espionage.
  
  Read more

• House Democrats are so afraid Trump allies will expose the whistleblower that they might mask the person's voice and face during testimony

  07-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate comes as President Donald Trump's allies amplify his claims that the whistleblower broke the law and is guilty of espionage.
  
  Read more

• The United States Almost Bombed Iran in the 1990s

  07-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  “The Pentagon drew up military plans which ranged from launching cruise missiles at Iranian targets to undertaking a full-blown ground invasion of Iran.”
  
  Read more

• Passenger forcibly removed from American Airlines plane by police at Miami airport

  07-10-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  On Monday morning, a man was removed from an American Airlines plane by Miami-Dade Police using force.
  
  Read more

• Witness: 'El Chapo' gave $1M to Honduran president's brother

  07-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A Honduran former mayor and drug trafficker testified Monday that Mexican kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán gave $1 million to the brother of Honduras' president in 2013 for the politician's presidential campaign.Testifying in the Manhattan drug trial of Tony Hernández, brother of President Juan Orlando Hernández, Amilcar Alexander Ardón's alleged that $1 million in bundles of $50,000 and $100,000 was put on the table during a meeting in the municipality of El
  
  Read more

• Report: Iran plans to start using more advanced centrifuges

  07-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran plans to start using a new array of advanced centrifuges for enriching uranium, the country's nuclear chief said Monday according to state television, in a move likely to intensify pressure on Europe to save Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers.Ali Akbar Salehi told Iranian state TV that an array of 30 IR-6 centrifuges will be inaugurated in the coming weeks.Under the terms of its 2015 deal — which the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from over a year ago — Iran had comm
  
  Read more

• AP's key findings about Ukraine gas deal Trump allies sought

  07-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The Associated Press reported Monday that a circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted their connections to President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani as they sought to install new management at the top of Ukraine's state-owned gas company last spring.The intervention was happening while Giuliani was pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
  
  Read more

• Israeli PM's pre-indictment hearing concludes: lawyer

  07-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A four-day hearing into allegations of corruption against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to an end on Monday, one of his lawyers said."The hearing ended tonight," the premier's lawyer, Yossi Ashkenazy, told reporters."We presented all our arguments which must, logically, confirm that all the indictments must be annulled," he added.
  
  Read more

• World Bank Joins Warning About Dimming Global Growth Prospects

  07-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.World Bank President David Malpass said the global economic outlook is deteriorating amid Brexit-related uncertainty, trade tensions and a downturn in Europe.“Global growth is slowing,” Malpass said in Montreal on Monday in a speech ahead of the the IMF and World Bank annual meetings. The world economy now looks even weaker th
  
  Read more

• In a Conflict, Iran Would Wage a Missile War Against America

  07-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  So many missiles.
  
  Read more

• Supreme Court, trying to remain above the partisan fray, opens 2019 term with a debate about insanity

  07-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The justices also focused their attention on new guidelines encouraging them to wait two minutes before asking questions, which they barely managed.
  
  Read more

• Fat is fabulous for bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park

  07-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Alaska grizzly bears packing on pounds (kilos) for the winter are competing for more than the season's last salmon.Fat Bear Week has become a national internet sensation, pitting individual bears against each other in an online voting contest.At Katmai, a park in southwestern Alaska known for its bountiful salmon runs and the huge grizzlies - Alaskans call them "brown bears" - that feed on them, Fat Bear Week is an annual highlight.
  
  Read more

• Chicago Attorney Who Interfered In Jussie Smollet Probe Tapped to Run ‘Time’s Up’ Women’s Org

  07-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Tina Tchen, a Chicago attorney who served as Michelle Obama’s chief-of-staff, was tapped as the new chief executive of the national advocacy organization "Time’s Up" on Monday. “[We’re going to] work hard at the root cause of sexual harassment: because sexual harassment occurs when we have workplaces that aren’t diverse, that aren’t inclusive, that don’t respect their workers,” Tchen said in the announcement on Twitter. “And so we’
  
  Read more

• Rob Portman calls Trump’s request for China to probe Biden ‘not appropriate’

  07-10-2019 21:46 via politico.com
  Sen. Rob Portman said on Monday it was “not appropriate” for President Donald Trump to ask Ukraine and China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, joining a small group of Republicans to express concern over Trump's calls for foreign countries to become involved in U.S. elections.The Ohio Republican told the Columbus Dispatch that while the president’s actions do not amount to “an impeachable offense” in his view, he believes Trump made a mistake in mixing
  
  Read more

• Sen. Graham: Congress will call for Turkey's NATO suspension and hit it with sanctions if it attacks Kurds

  07-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Monday warned Turkey a bipartisan group of lawmakers would introduce sanctions against it and “call for their suspension from NATO” if it attacks the Kurds in Syria.
  
  Read more

• If a War Happened, Iran Would Train Its Missile on the Navy

  07-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Could they sink a carrier?
  
  Read more

• Lawyer Claims Congress Is ‘Harassing’ Rudy Giuliani’s Allies—by Asking Them for Ukraine Documents

  07-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSTwo of Rudy Giuliani’s associates will not meet a congressional committee’s deadline to produce documents related to their work in Ukraine, according to their lawyer. That attorney, who previously represented President Donald Trump, accused congressional investigators of trying to harass and intimidate the two men in a letter that The Daily Beast obtained. The men—Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—had tried to help Giuliani investigate Hunter Biden, a project at the core
  
  Read more

• US consumer borrowing up $17.9 billion in August

  07-10-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Consumer borrowing increased at a solid pace in August, helped by the biggest jump in auto and student loans in three years.Total credit rose $17.9 billion after a $23 billion increase in July, the Federal Reserve reported Monday.The August strength came from a $19.8 billion increase in the category that covers auto and student loans.
  
  Read more

• US withdrawal from Syria leaves fate of Isis fighters and families in detention uncertain

  07-10-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump’s latest move has officials scrambling to understand the implications as Turkish forces gather near the Syrian borderTurkish fighters gather near the north-east Syrian border in preparation of a widely-anticipated invasion. Photograph: Nazeer Al-Khatib/AFP via Getty ImagesKurdish forces in Syria have said the fate of tens of thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters and their families is uncertain, after US forces began a sudden withdrawal from the country, abandoning their forme
  
  Read more

• Trump campaign touts Republican rule changes aimed at unified 2020 convention

  07-10-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign detailed on Monday efforts to change Republican Party rules across the country to reduce the potential for opposition to the president at the 2020 nominating convention. Trump, who enjoys strong popularity in public opinion polls within his own party, is facing three primary opponents, all of whom have struggled to gain traction. The Republican Party will hold its official nominating convention in Charlotte in August 2020.
  
  Read more

• Pennsylvania Groom Sexually Assaulted Bridesmaid Two Days Before His Wedding, Police Say

  07-10-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  He's now charged with the involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of an unconscious person
  
  Read more

• Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Google Boss’ Daughter Scrubbed From Guardian Exposé

  07-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Fairfax Media/GettyLONDON—Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, claims that Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, successfully campaigned for The Guardian to scrub her name from one of their bombshell data-abuse stories.In a memoir that will be published Tuesday, he says that The Guardian’s willingness to back down in the face of Schmidt’s legal threats—and “water down” a story that had already been published&mdash
  
  Read more

• Harris Releases Plan for Six Months of Taxpayer-Funded Family Leave

  07-10-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Kamala Harris on Monday released a paid family leave proposal that is significantly more generous than those embraced by the rest of the Democratic presidential field.As she campaigns in Iowa, the California Democrat detailed her plan to give workers up to six months of taxpayer-funded paid family and medical leave, twice the length of time provided by a family leave bill currently under consideration in Congress.Americans who earn less than $75,000 annually would receive their full wage
  
  Read more

• Pastor: I hope Supreme Court agrees LGBTQ people should be free from job discrimination

  07-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  When we talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all, there should be no ambiguity in what the word "all" means.
  
  Read more

• Accomplice in killing of North Dakota woman gets 20 years

  07-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man whose life sentence was overturned in the death of a North Dakota woman whose baby was cut from her womb was re-sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after he apologized and pleaded for leniency in front of a nearly empty courtroom.There were no apologies from East Central District Judge Tom Olson for the life sentence he gave to William Hoehn last year for his role in the 2017 killing of Savanna Greywind, only for the state Supreme Court to overturn it on appeal."I want to sentence you t
  
  Read more

• GM's redesigned Corvette Stingray to be delayed by UAW strike

  07-10-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors' much-anticipated redesigned Corvette Stingray will be delayed going on sale because of the ongoing United Auto Workers strike.
  
  Read more

• Rudy Giuliani brags about his law school grades as he promises to sue Adam Schiff

  07-10-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani is an expert at the Constitution, thank you very much.The former New York City mayor turned personal lawyer to President Trump has been on an absolute media blitz in his attempt to defend Trump and himself in their -- not that it's gone too well. So he changed the subject during a series of weekend calls with Yahoo News, attempting to turn the blame on House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and bringing up his own studies in constitutional law to back it up.Giuliani said o
  
  Read more

• As PG&E Is Remade, Will Wildfire Victims Be Left Behind?

  07-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO -- After a succession of devastating wildfires in the last four years, tens of thousands of Californians -- many with broken spirits, many homeless -- may now lose out on compensation from the company that was to blame.A deadline for victims to file claims is less than three weeks away. About 30,000 have done so with the help of lawyers, along with 1,500 acting on their own. But the deadline could pass without claims from as many as 70,000 others eligible for compensation.They incl
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Standing ovation for Nobel winner

  07-10-2019 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Dr. Gregg L. Semenza received a standing ovation from faculty members and students as he walked into an auditorium at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine in Baltimore.Semenza said he was in a "daze" when he received the news that he was one of three scientists receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.Semenza and Drs. William G. Kaelin Jr. of Harvard University and Peter J. Ratcliffe at the Francis Crick Institute in Britain and Oxford University are being lauded for di
  
  Read more

• Trump's top economic advisor 'doesn't know' if president was serious about China investigating Biden

  07-10-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s top economic advisor has said he does not know if the president was joking or being serious, when he called upon Ukraine and China to investigate political rival Joe Biden.The president sparked controversy last week when, already in hot water over claims he asked Ukraine’s president to dig up dirt on Mr Biden and his son to help his reelection efforts, he called upon Beijing to do the same.
  
  Read more

• Kentucky officials are getting a lot of attention from Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao

  07-10-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao's frequent meetings with officials from Kentucky are raising some eyebrows, Politico reports.Between January 2017 and March 2018, records show that 25 percent of Chao's scheduled meetings with local officials of any state seeking federal grant money were with Kentuckians. For reference, Indiana and Georgia were next in line with 6 percent of the meetings, apiece, Politico reports.Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who represent
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Justices weigh case over unanimous verdicts

  07-10-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court appears ready to require that juries in state criminal trials be unanimous.The justices heard arguments on the first day of the term Monday in an appeal by a Louisiana man who is serving a life term for killing a woman after a jury voted 10-2 to convict him.The Supreme Court has begun its election-year term by wrestling over whether states must allow criminal defendants to mount an insanity defense.
  
  Read more

• Taliban commanders released as hopes rise for resumption of US peace negotiations

  07-10-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Hopes are rising for the resumption of the abandoned Taliban and US peace talks after eleven senior Taliban members were freed from prison in an exchange with three kidnapped Indian engineers. Among those freed are two former provincial governors of the Taliban and Abdul Rashid Baluch, a notorious regional leader sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for trafficking opium. The men were being held near Bagram air base outside Kabul.  It is believed American authorities must have
  
  Read more

• UPDATE 1-Russian defence minister holds talks by phone with U.S. counterpart -RIA

  07-10-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks by phone with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing the Russian ministry.The Russian ministry did not disclose details of the talks, Interfax, another news agency, said.In Washington, the Pentagon confirmed Esper and his Russian counterpart had spoken but declined to provide any details on what was discussed.
  
  Read more

• Trump impeachment investigation: Here is what will happen this week

  07-10-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  What's happening this week with the House impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump? Subpoenas, depositions, a court hearing and rallies.
  
  Read more

• Extinction Rebellion protesters pour fake blood over New York's capitalist bull

  07-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Demonstrators were arrested in a wave of US protests that are part of a global week of action by the UK-based groupExtinction Rebellion climate crisis activists protest at New York City’s famous Charging Bull statue. Photograph: Mike Segar/ReutersMore than 20 people were arrested by police in New York City’s financial district after Extinction Rebellion climate protesters poured fake blood over the famous Charging Bull statue, a symbol of American capitalist might.The protesters laun
  
  Read more

• Pentagon, budget office subpoenaed by House Democrats in impeachment inquiry

  07-10-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats issued subpoenas to the Pentagon and the Office of Management and Budget on Monday — the latest in a string of such demands as Congress ratchets up its impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: UN chief urges 'maximum restraint' in NE Syria

  07-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging "maximum restraint" by all parties in Syria's conflict, ahead of what Turkey says is its imminent offensive into the country's northeast.U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Guterres is greatly concerned, especially at the risk to civilians in any escalation of fighting.The U.N. chief emphasizes that civilians must be protected, and all parties must guarantee "sustained, unimpeded and safe humanitarian access to civilians in need," Dujarric says
  
  Read more

• Trump reportedly told GOP allies that he's worried an impeachment will ruin his résumé

  07-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump reportedly told his close allies and confidants that he's worried about how an impeachment will look on his résumé.
  
  Read more

Follow @FinanceUSA_News on Twitter!