For a ‘First on Yahoo,’ Lyft Business introduces Lyft Pass, essentially allowing companies to pay for its employees’ rides. Yahoo Finance’s Ines Ferre joins The First Trade with Brian Sozzi to discuss Lyft’s new B2B venture.
Canada's Governor General Mary Simon has apologized for a top Canadian honor awarded in 1987 to a former Nazi soldier who moved to Canada after World War Two and went on to become the Chancellor of the University of Alberta. The governor general at the time awarded the Order of Canada, a top civilian honor that recognizes outstanding achievement and service to the nation, to Peter Savaryn, who was praised for promoting multiculturalism in Canada. But Savaryn had a past serving in one of Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS units.
Business at amusement parks took a hit during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 as the spread of COVID-19 forced closures and hit attendance. The business had, however, rebounded strongly to become the media conglomerate's main profit engine and also helped cushion losses in its Disney+ streaming business, but is lately showing signs of a slowdown in footfall. Disney CEO Bob Iger said in August during the third-quarter earnings conference call that the California-based company had seen "softer performance" at Walt Disney World, a part of its parks business, in Orlando.
Wall Street sees significant upside for Amazon as it prepares to place ads in its Prime Video streaming service.
Republican Daniel Cameron expressed sympathy for a woman who discussed the trauma of being raped by her stepfather in a powerful campaign ad, but said he still supports Kentucky's current abortion ban that requires similar victims of rape and incest to carry their pregnancies to term. During a Monday night appearance on Spectrum News 1, Cameron said his “heart goes out” to the “young lady,” and he expressed appreciation that she shared her story with him in the recent commercial released by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's campaign. “Daniel Cameron said himself that he cannot comprehend how traumatic the experience was for me,” she said in a phone interview Tuesday.
Answers to questions (and there are many!) about the historic ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy and where the House — and Republican Party — goes from here.
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Craig N. Ross Jr. man accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena, was previously arrested and charged for choking someone in a 2017 domestic dispute.
A new exclusive poll by USA TODAY/Boston Globe/Suffolk University has Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley ahead of DeSantis.
The AI industry is asking to be regulated. Here's why.
Ford reported increased US quarterly sales Wednesday, rounding out a series of upbeat performance updates in a still-robust auto market that has yet to feel significant pain from a labor strike.Ford, one of three US car giants contending with a United Auto Workers strike, reported an eight percent jump in third-quarter US sales, pointing to substantial increases in truck sales -- including for the best-selling F-150 pickup line.
Julia Ormond, who starred in films alongside the likes of Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford in the 1990s before her spotlight faded, filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 1995 and then hindering her career. Ormond, who also accuses the Walt Disney Company, Miramax and her former agents of knowing Weinstein was a problem but doing nothing about it, filed the case in state Supreme Court in Manhattan under the Adult Survivors Act, a law passed last year that allows a temporary window for those who allege sexual assault to file past the state's normal deadlines.
Expect lower oil demand in the fourth quarter.
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday raised concerns about lawsuits targeting hotels and other places of lodging for omitting details in their reservation systems about accessibility features for people with disabilities, but indicated they might opt not to decide the case. The justices heard arguments in an appeal by Acheson Hotels of a lower court's ruling that let a Florida woman pursue a lawsuit against the company in Maine even though she had no plans to stay at a hotel the company owned there. Plaintiff Deborah Laufer, who is visually impaired and uses a wheelchair, is a self-described "tester" of hotel compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
The family of Tupac Shakur still has many questions after a man was arrested in connection with the rapper's 1996 murder last month.
A family in Norway that used a metal detector at home to find a lost earring uncovered a different treasure instead: Viking artifacts.
Kenya's President William Ruto on Wednesday reshuffled eight members of his cabinet, and folded the foreign affairs ministry into the office of the chief minister. The changes were necessary, Ruto said, to "optimise performance and enhance delivery as set out in the administration's manifesto". Ruto has faced a series of nationwide protests over the high cost of living and tax hikes since he took power in August 2022.
Demand for mortgage applications fell 6% last week to its lowest point since 1995, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) survey for the week ending Sept. 29. The decline came as the average rate on the typical 30-year loan climbed to 7.53% from 7.41% the week prior, hitting its highest level since December 2000.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump file an appeal of a judge’s ruling that found him liable for financial fraud. Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis seeks a March 4 start date for the election interference trial and Rudy Giuliani files a defamation lawsuit against President Biden.
Artificial intelligence-generated yearbook photos are going viral. Here's what to know about Epik’s AI app.
Google on Wednesday said its latest premium-priced Pixel phone would have powerful generative AI models running independently on the device, as the search engine giant seeks to lure buyers away from the latest iPhone. At a launch event in New York, Rick Osterloh, SVP of devices and services at Google, said that the company's AI teams had figured out how to "distill" AI models "into a version efficient enough to run on our flagship Pixel."
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