Last month, a 77-year-old woman made a fatal decision: She boarded a Carnival cruise in Galveston, Texas, set for sunny Belize. The cruise required vaccination, and approximately 96% of all 4,336 passengers and crew were reportedly vaccinated, but nobody was required to present a negative Covid test before boarding. After four […]

The subscriber base is made up of 778.09 million broadband internet users and 47.21 million narrowband internet users. The total number of internet users in the country has risen from 795.18 million at the end of December 2020 to 825.30 million at the end of March 2021, registering a quarterly […]

The day after SAG-AFTRA presidential candidate Matthew Modine threatened to sue rival Fran Drescher for defamation unless she issues a public apology, her Unite for Strength slate doubled down on her claim that Modine’s MembershipFirst slate violated the union’s election rules. In an email sent Friday morning to the union’s […]

Investor Peter Boockvar is sounding the alarm on a housing price bubble brought on by the Federal Reserve's Covid pandemic policies. He warns first-time homebuyers are most vulnerable to dramatic losses. "I feel bad for the people who bought homes over the past year because they're the ones that paid the […]

Thursday, during the inaugural AI day organized by Tesla Inc (TSLA), CEO Elon Musk announced that his company is working on a 5-foot 8-inch humanoid named Tesla Bot, completing the Holy trinity of futuristic visions with advanced spacecraft from SpaceX and electric vehicles. The Bot is still in the development […]

The correlation between withdrawal of deposits and the Covid death rate is stark, reveals Tamal Bandyopadhyay. Different banks are dealing with the pandemic differently. A few have stopped growing, while others are growing with caution. Also, after giving a cold shoulder to the corporate sector for the past few years, […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is asking for 2,500 additional medical personnel from across the country to help alleviate pressure on the state's health-care system imposed by this summer's Covid surge. Texas began requesting external assistance just two weeks ago, when Abbott announced that the Texas Department of State Health Services […]

Ford is once again cutting production of its F-150 pickup truck and two other vehicles next week due to the ongoing global shortage of semiconductor chips. It also will cut production of the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers. Ford has been impacted particularly hard by the lack of chips, […]

Embattled electric vehicle start-up Lordstown Motors named Daniel Ninivaggi, a longtime auto veteran and former leader of Icahn Enterprises, as its new CEO. Shares of the company were up by as much as 41.4% before leveling off during trading thursday afternoon. Ninivaggi replaces company founder Steve Burns, who left the […]

Stocks have continued to fluctuate throughout the trading session on Thursday, with the major averages bouncing back and forth across the unchanged line after moving sharply lower over the course of the two previous sessions. Currently, the major averages are turning in a mixed performance. While the Dow is down […]