Hospitality platform BentoBox helps restaurants become empowered by their presence and profits. Founder & CEO Krystle Mobayeni joins Yahoo Finance’s On The Move to discuss the company’s new launch Door-to-Door.
A roundup of a mess of British shows being imported to American television this month, and thoughts on the trend in a time of reduced production, and of peak American interest in U.K. TV.
A regional bloc comprised mostly of Latin American nations cannot support upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela because President Nicolas Maduro is manipulating the process to wrest control of Congress from the opposition, Colombian leader Ivan Duque said on Friday. The 14-member Lima Group, which includes countries from across Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Canada, has long called for a transition government and free elections in Venezuela. The group - together with the United States and European nations - accuses Maduro of manipulating Venezuela's 2018 presidential contest and refuses to recognize the results.
Trump is expected to travel to New Jersey this weekend but it was unclear whether he would visit Robert Trump, reportedly hospitalized in New York.
Trump calls deal a 'huge breakthrough'; Fox News contributor Daniel Hoffman weighs in.
District Attorney Cyrus Vance was responding to an argument by Trump's lawyers that the president deserves extra protection from what he called harassment. Vance last August issued a grand jury subpoena to Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA, demanding eight years of his business and personal returns and other documents. Trump has repeatedly fought efforts by lawmakers and prosecutors to obtain his tax returns, which should shed light on his financial dealings.
Should President Trump lose re-election, could Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) House leadership position be in danger?A new report in The Washington Post describes how "discontent" with the Republican minority leader is "on the rise" in the House of Representatives, and a "small group of members is discussing whether someone should challenge him for minority leader if Trump is defeated," as Republicans prepare for a potential "intraparty war."While the report notes the anti-McCarthy sentiment in the House is certainly "far from unanimous," it describes how some Republicans feel he's too close to Trump and has given the president "too much of a pass," with one House Republican saying McCarthy "does nothing but lick Trump's boots." It isn't clear who could actually challenge McCarthy, though the report says House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) has been eyed."[McCarthy] becomes damaged goods [if Trump loses], but it could be offset if he is successful in helping the GOP conference win back a bunch of seats," a senior House Republican told the Post. "But if we lose ... the Republican conference is probably going to be looking for something different in leadership."A spokesperson for McCarthy downplayed this talk, saying Republicans "are united and singularly focused on working with President Trump to renew the American Dream, restore our way of life, and rebuild the greatest economy ever." Read more at The Washington Post.More stories from theweek.com Are bread riots coming to America? Postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are removed from processing facilities Democrats call on top DHS officials to 'resign in disgrace' after watchdog says their appointments were invalid
A government watchdog has found that two top Department of Homeland Security officials are not eligible for their jobs — and Democrats want them to immediately "resign in disgrace."The independent Government Accountability Office on Friday said that Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf and Kenneth Cuccinelli, his deputy, were appointed to their positions in violation of the Vacancies Reform Act, and the two top officials are "serving under an invalid order of succession," The Washington Post reports.The watchdog explains that when former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned in 2019, the official who became acting secretary, Kevin McAleenan, "had not been designated in the order of succession to serve," and since "the incorrect official assumed the title of acting secretary at that time, subsequent amendments to the order of succession made by that official were invalid."House Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Committee on Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) in a statement called for the officials to resign, while Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) also said Wolf and Cuccinelli "must resign in disgrace" or be removed from office."There are also major questions about the legality of their actions over the last 16 months that the DHS Office of the Inspector General must swiftly review," Castro added.A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security in a statement per the Post said "we wholeheartedly disagree with the GAO's baseless report and plan to issue a formal response to this shortly." More stories from theweek.com Are bread riots coming to America? Postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are removed from processing facilities Biden maintains a steady lead over Trump, and a new Pew poll hints at the secret of his success
Israeli combat aircraft will fly over Germany for the first time next week, as they take part in joint military exercises with the Luftwaffe. In what is being hailed as a historic moment of postwar reconciliation, on Tuesday German and Israeli fighters will fly together over Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. “After the crime against humanity of the Shoah, it is a moving sign of our friendship today that we are flying side by side with the Israeli air force for the first time in our history,” Lt-Gen Ingo Gerhartz, commanding officer of the Luftwaffe, said. “The darkest chapter in German history confers a duty on us today to fight anti-Semitism with all our might.” German and Israeli fighters will also stage a fly-past at the site of the Munich Olympic Village, to honour the memory of the eleven Israeli athletes and coaches murdered there by the Palestinian group Black September in 1972.
An Amber Alert was issued Friday for a 16-year-old girl from Central Florida who police say was forced into car at a gas station in Orlando. They say she may be in danger.
The first Airstream was created in the 1930s and made of aluminum. Eight decades later, Airstreams are smaller and use smartphone technology.
The woman accosted Yasmeen Samir as she swam with her family at a pool in a resort on the North Coast, a stretch of Mediterranean beaches reserved for Egypt’s upper echelons. The reason: Samir was wearing a burkini, a swimsuit worn by conservative Muslims to cover the entire body. It was supposed to be a dip in a pool to cool off from Egypt’s summer heat.
The move comes less than three months after an outside agency review determined Opa-locka police lacked even the ability to respond to residents in a “professional manner.”
When Claudia Guzman suspected she had caught the coronavirus, her friends and family were full of advice: Don’t quarantine. A homemade tea will help cure you. False claims and conspiracy theories, ranging from bogus cures to the idea that the virus is a hoax, have dogged efforts to control the pandemic from the beginning.
Stephen Colbert was tickled by Michael Cohen's surprise bombshell about working for President Trump, especially the part about the "golden showers in a sex club in Vegas," he said on Thursday's Late Show. "I'm sure Donald Trump would rather talk about his love life in the splash zone than how badly he has shanked the global pandemic," but he spent most of Wednesday evening's "coronavirus press briefing laser-focused on the pandemic threatening America: mail-in voting.""Trump despises mail-in voting -- and just regular voting, too -- because he's way behind in the polls and he knows that, due to the pandemic, tens of millions of us will have to vote by mail," Colbert said. "So after three years spent damaging everything from international relationships to ethical norms to the Department of Justice, Trump's coming after something people actually care about: He's destroying the Post Office." Trump admitted as much, and confirmed his self-serving motive, in a Fox Business interview Thursday morning, he added. "You're not supposed to say the cheating part out loud!""I've never seen a villain give away a plan like that without seeing James Bond tied to a chair in front of him," Trevor Noah agreed on The Daily Show. "This is insane. Trump got impeached for trying to secretly rig the election, and his response" is to rig it out in the open? "If Trump gets his way, they're going to have to change all the 'I Voted' stickers to end in a question mark," he joked darkly. "I Voted?"Yes, "he just admitted that he's not agreeing to a deal to fund the Postal Service because he doesn't want mail-in voting to be possible for the election," Jimmy Fallon recapped at The Tonight Show. "Trump's like one of those movie villains who spends so much time explaining his plan out loud that the good guy manages to shimmy out of his handcuffs." He actually spent most of his Fox Business interview "attacking different women," he added. "'Mad woman,' 'not smart,' and 'stone-cold crazy.' ... At this point, our best shot at getting Trump attacking COVID is someone telling him the virus ovulates.""He called Kamala Harris a 'mad woman'?" James Corden asked on The Late Late Show. "In Trump's defense, it's probably hard for him to tell when women are really mad, given that this is how his wife smiles." Watch below. More stories from theweek.com Are bread riots coming to America? Postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are removed from processing facilities Democrats call on top DHS officials to 'resign in disgrace' after watchdog says their appointments were invalid
Seattle radio show host Jason Rantz reacts.
The National Guard arrived in Cedar Rapids on Friday to assist residents there after Monday's deadly derecho storm that was like a hurricane
A motorcyclist has survived a violent attack by a bison in the Black Hills of South Dakota, sheriff's officials said. A bystander's video shows several bikers had stopped while a herd of bison crossed a road in Custer State Park on Wednesday. A 54-year-old Iowa woman got off the motorcycle on which she was a passenger and approached a bison calf, the Custer County Sheriff’s Office said.
President Donald Trump promised to scrap the payroll tax if he's reelected. That tax funds Social Security and Medicaid, which older people rely on.
President Donald Trump's younger brother, Robert Trump, has been hospitalized in New York. The president is expected to visit his 72-year-old brother at a hospital in Manhattan on Friday, according to White House spokesman Judd Deere. Trump was already scheduled to visit his property in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday.
The 19-year-old rising sophomore at New York University prefers not to think about the photos her mom shares of Mark Consuelos on Instagram.
The Philippines imposed a temporary ban on poultry meat imports from Brazil on Friday after two cities in China found traces of the new coronavirus in cargoes of imported frozen food, including chicken wings from the South American country. Shenzhen city authorities identified the chicken as originating from a plant owned by Aurora, Brazil's third-largest poultry and pork exporter. Brazil has the world's second-worst COVID-19 outbreak after the United States, recording more than 3.2 million cases and more than 105,000 deaths since the pandemic began.
The Lincoln Project, a conservative-led political action committee aimed at driving down Republican support for President Trump, has generated buzz in recent months with its slick attack ads.
China accused the United States on Friday of trying to “demonize and stigmatize” relations between the two countries, in a scathing attack on the Trump administration's designation of Chinese-funded language and culture programs in the U.S. as foreign missions of the Chinese Communist Party. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said branches of the Confucius Institute U.S. Center operating at U.S. schools and colleges are a “bridge and link to help people from all over the world learn Chinese, understand China, and strengthen educational and cultural exchanges and cooperation between China and other countries." Zhao said the accusations against the institutes were without basis and were motivated by “ideological prejudice and self-interest."
Foxconn's CEO told Bloomberg that device makers were moving production lines out of China as a result of trade tensions between the US and China.
American Airlines said the woman could not board her flight from Phoenix to Las Vegas because she refused to wear a mask.
Bikers at the Sturgis Rally say they're enjoying the freedom and crowds they haven't been able to experience elsewhere during the pandemic.
On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin—and won its 10 electoral votes—by a razor-thin margin of 22,748 out of the 2,787,820 ballots that were counted.Along with Trump’s narrow victories in Michigan (by 10,704 votes) and Pennsylvania (by 44,292), Wisconsin enabled the fresh hell that Democrats, immigrants, women, minorities—and that diminishing population of principled Republicans—have been enduring every day for the past three years and seven months. Dress Rehearsal—a documentary short that, absent a viral plague, would have debuted next week on the night of Joe Biden’s acceptance speech before thousands of cheering delegates in Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum—offers Trump’s opponents a rosy scenario for preventing a recurrence of such a catastrophe on Tuesday, Nov. 3.Director David Modigliani’s 17-minute film—which instead will receive its premiere online on the same Thursday night as Biden’s oration, the night after California Sen. Kamala Harris is scheduled to accept the vice presidential nomination during an all-virtual Democratic National Convention—chronicles how Wisconsin Democrats deployed digital technology and “relational organizing technology” (a fancy term for friends talking to friends) to triumph over the lethal COVID-19 pandemic and the GOP’s relentless campaign to suppress the vote.Modigliani, for his part, claimed not to be disappointed that he will have to imagine the applause his premiere might otherwise receive.“While that [a Fiserv Forum premiere] would feel good, I actually think it’s kind of perfect that folks are going to watch this film on their laptops, on their phones, through the very digital devices that we need them to employ to get involved in this election,” he told The Daily Beast. “As they watch through their laptop screens, they will see organizers on their laptops and phones executing a new strategy in this digital space.”The Tragedy of Yusuf Hawkins: A Black Teenager Slaughtered by a White Mob in 1980s BrooklynMen Are Broken. Geena Davis Is Trying to Fix Them.Dress Rehearsal was commissioned by Higher Ground Labs, a Democratic-oriented venture capital firm marrying politics and technology, whose investors (to the tune of $15 million) include Silicon Valley billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Ron Conway and Chris Sacca. (Two other Democratic firms, ACRONYM and Arena, also funded the film.) The for-profit Higher Ground Labs is separate from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions.“We had the name first—we should sue,” joked Labs co-founder Shomik Dutta, an executive producer of Dress Rehearsal.“Part of the importance of the film is the power of the symbolism,” Dutta, a former Obama White House political aide and campaign fundraiser, told The Daily Beast. “This tiny band of Democratic activists and organizers, trapped in their homes in the middle of a pandemic, helpless and buffeted by all these onerous and draconian rules passed by Republican legislators to stop voting and stop democracy in action—they overcame this by reaching out to each other.” The Democrats’ efforts in Wisconsin produced a massive turnout for a down-ballot contest and a shocking upset this past April 7 in the State Supreme Court race in which the liberal challenger, Circuit Court Judge Jill Karofsky, beat the conservative favorite, Trump-endorsed incumbent Justice Daniel Kelly, in a crushing landslide.Karokfsy donned her justice’s robes this month for a 10-year term.“I remember watching this race closely in April and frankly feeling fairly dejected on election day after witnessing the myriad ways that Republicans did everything they could to suppress the vote in the middle of a pandemic,” President Obama’s former chief speechwriter Jon Favreau, who appears in the documentary, told The Daily Beast.“In addition to that, the pandemic itself upended the best-laid plans of Democrats in Wisconsin to launch this massive organizing campaign. They were going to be door-knocking for weeks on end. And as we got closer to election day, I thought, ugh, this is going to be a really hard race to win.”Favreau, among the Obama loyalists who founded Crooked Media, the home of Pod Save America and its activist subsidiary Vote Save America—the websites that will host Dress Rehearsal‘s Aug. 20 premiere—continued: “But the Democrats turned on a dime to figure out how to organize digitally, and the Republican efforts to suppress the vote engendered such a backlash from people who were going to show up anyway and said, ‘You can’t tell me I can’t vote! Absolutely I’m gonna vote!’“Then it suddenly became one of the more inspiring stories in 2020 of what could happen in November if we’re able to get smart and figure out how to organize in a pandemic-ridden country where Republicans are doing everything they can to stop people from voting.”Unlike Modigliani’s previous political documentaries—2019’s Running with Beto (a contemporaneous chronicle of Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s failed Senate race against wingnut incumbent Ted Cruz) and 2008’s Crawford (about the life-changing impact on a tiny Texas town of President George W. Bush’s purchase of a nearby ranch)—the filmmaker had to construct the story, in all its tension and drama, after the outcome was already known.Arriving on the ground in mid-June, more than two months after the balloting, Modigliani licensed some real-time footage taken by others on election day, but mostly relied on retrospective interviews with around 50 activists, operatives, volunteers and voters. Because of the pandemic, the crew wore masks, socially-distanced and filmed outdoors, while coaching interview subjects how to clip on their own microphones.Among the dozen folks who made the final cut are everyone from paid Milwaukee canvasser Keviea Guiden (a former gang member-turned-community organizer who took the job because “I’m a little overweight so I was like, OK, maybe I’ll get a little exercise and lose a few pounds”) to Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler who, along with executive director Nellie Sires, orchestrated the digital campaign amid the pandemic to show millions of registered voters across the state how to apply for and mail in absentee ballots.“This new guy, who’s running the Democratic Party here—Wikler—is a rather dramatic upgrade from his predecessors,” said Charlie Sykes, a longtime Wisconsin conservative Republican and current Never-Trumper who is editor-at-large for Bill Kristol’s The Bulwark. The Democrats’ victory in the kind of low-turnout election usually won by Republicans “was a shock and nobody really saw it coming,” Sykes told The Daily Beast.“It’s kind of a reversal of fortunes,” he added. “People forget that Reince Priebus was the head of the Republican Party here in Wisconsin, and he was a very effective chairman. He built this tremendous get-out-the-vote machine that helped propel [former governor] Scott Walker and [Sen.] Ron Johnson and others. The last ten years has been marked by the dominance of the Republicans in the get-out-the-vote effort. And this year people were surprised that the Democrats finally got their act together.”And the implications for Nov. 3?“I think November 3rd is in a class all by itself,” Sykes said. “But if this is an indication that the Democrats have their act together, and the Democratic base is extremely enthusiastic, then that’s very bad news for Donald Trump in Wisconsin.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
The Boeing plane is the largest twin-engine jet to ever take to the skies and will carry more passengers than its predecessor while using less fuel.
A review of the U.S.-China trade deal initially slated for Saturday will be delayed due to scheduling issues and no new date has been agreed, according to sources familiar with the plans. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He had been expected to meet via videoconference on Aug. 15, the six-month anniversary of agreement's taking effect. One source familiar with the talks said the delay stemmed from continued meetings of senior Communist Party leaders at the seaside town of Beidaihe on China's northeast coast.
A bald eagle launched an aerial assault on a drone operated by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy — known as EGLE — ripping off a propeller and sending the aircraft into Lake Michigan. The attack happened July 21, when the drone was mapping shoreline erosion near Escanaba in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to document and help communities cope with high water levels, the department said in a statement. Environmental quality analyst and drone pilot Hunter King said he had completed about seven minutes of the mapping flight when satellite reception became spotty.
Newly installed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy met with President Trump in the Oval Office last week, before a contentious meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) about his controversial new policies at the U.S. Postal Service, The Washington Post reports. A few days later, DeJoy removed several top USPS officials, including two that oversaw day-to-day operations, and postal employees are now warning about the unexplained removal of vote-sorting machines.Trump spokesman Judd Deere told the Post the Oval Office meeting was "congratulatory," because DeJoy took over the post on June 15, though "he declined to offer any other details." The measures enacted by DeJoy, a billionaire donor to Trump and other Republicans with significant financial interests in USPS competitors and contractors, have slowed mail delivery — a temporary "unintended consequences" of his cost-cutting measures, he told postal workers in a letter Thursday. DeJoy is also "in frequent contact with top Republican Party officials," the Post reports.The reliability of the USPS is now an overtly political issue after Trump directly tied funding for the independent agency to his opposition to mail-in voting during the 2020 election. Democrats, who have insisted at least $10 billion be given to the USPS as part of a COVID-19 deal, "need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots," Trump told Fox Business on Thursday morning. "If they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to have it." Trump later suggested he was using USPS funding as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Pelosi and Schumer.USPS officials have repeatedly said the post office can handle the expected surge in mail-in ballots, The New York Times notes.Trump has claimed baselessly and frequently that widespread mail-in voting will lead to significant fraud, and the Republican National Committee and conservative groups are spending tens of millions of dollars to fight mail-in voting expansion, before and after the election, the Post reports. "The president is afraid of the American people," Pelosi argued. "He's been afraid for a while, he knows that on the legit, it'd be hard for him to win, so he wants to put obstacles of participation."More stories from theweek.com Are bread riots coming to America? Postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are removed from processing facilities Democrats call on top DHS officials to 'resign in disgrace' after watchdog says their appointments were invalid
"I just cannot believe that this happened to me," the teen said.
Donald Trump has been sent an absentee ballot in Florida as he wages a war against mail-in voting and the United States Postal Service.The president and First Lady Melania Trump were mailed ballots on Wednesday. They were sent to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the couple's legal address.
Armed guards at the gate of a hospital in India's northeast now have a new mission: to protect the last doctor still standing, after other doctors have contracted the coronavirus. The guards are there to protect him from relatives. One of the biggest challenges Dr Kumar Gaurav didn't expect was how to stop family of COVID-19 patients, barging into wards to see their loved ones, often wearing just the flimsiest of masks for protection. "They just want to visit their patients, even when our guards, our doctors are making them understand, they simply refused. They just barge into our ICUs," [said Dr Kumar]. It wasn't supposed to be like this for Kumar - he moved back to Bhagalpur, his hometown, for a quieter life with his family. He was working as a medical professor and junior consultant psychiatrist, but when other doctors tested positive for the virus, and some refused to work, the responsibility fell on his shoulders. He's now the top official of one of just four COVID-19 hospitals selected to serve 100 million people. Dr Kumar worries about his constant exposure to the patients, but still feels compelled to keep working. "If I stand in front of a COVID positive patient for two minutes and if I suppose I see 20 patients (in a day), then I have exposure for 40 minutes in front of COVID positive patients." Kumar says that the healthcare system in Bhagalpur is on the brink of collapse, like the rest of Bihar state. Bihar has confirmed some 87,000 cases of infection. But that's relatively small compared to other states, and local officials believe that with a low rate of testing, the number may be worse. The state government's response to the outbreak has sparked litigation. A case set to go to India's Supreme Court this week cites a "lack of hospital beds," and " unsanitary quarantine centers" and argues the federal government needs to step in. Spokesmen for India's federal government and the Bihar government didn't respond to detailed requests for comment. An exhausted Dr Kumar promises junior doctors in one meeting that he will try to convince the government that more resourses are needed. He later admits that will be a difficult task. And in the end, he has to make daily compromises: "Sometimes when they understand that their relatives are not going to make it, it's a desperate measure by them to see their relatives, to say goodbye, to see their patient's face (for the) last time." As infections slow in many other countries, India is still reporting more than 50,000 cases per day.
TikTok users are boasting about getting blocked by women and making girls cry, set to a remix of the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme song.
Dr. Scott Atlas has been a frequent guest on Fox News since May, where he spoke out against lockdowns and called on college football to restart.
A 2-year-old boy whose abduction set off a hunt that helped rescue other stolen children sat on his mother's lap Friday as officials in southern Mexico described how they finally tracked him down. Chiapas state prosecutor Jorge Luis Llaven Abarca said that investigators located the woman suspected of abducting Dylan Thursday in Cintalapa, two hours west of San Cristobal de las Casas, from where he was kidnapped on June 30. The search for Dylan Esaú, who was led away from a market where his mother worked, led investigators in July to discover a child trafficking ring and recover 23 children, but not Dylan.
After days of silence, the founder and CEO of SpaceX tore into United Launch Alliance, which won a 60% cut of the new rocket-launch contracts.
A QAnon conspiracy theory claiming pedophilia is considered a disability in Greece is false.
'Big Bang Theory' star Mayim Bialik shares what she misses the most about the series. The actress and former child star is sharing what her relationship is like with the cast these days, how she’s keeping busy and the importance of taking your felines to the vet from the perspective of a proud cat mom. Bialik is partnering up with Royal Canin for the cause, while working on an upcoming TV project with former co-star Jim Parsons.
Although the number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. are still climbing, retail sales have seen a an increase of 1.2% in July and a 2.7% year-over year. The Final Round panel breaks down the details on what this means for the recovering U.S. economy.
Yahoo Finance’s Sibile Marcellus joins Kristin Myers to discuss AARP's recent survey, which shows that fears are growing about the future of Social Security.
On Friday, Rent the Runway announced that it would be closing all of its retail stores nationwide, in a shift to evolve their website and direct-to-consumer online purchases. Yahoo Finance’s The Final Round panel breaks down the details and discuss what’s next for the retail company.
On Friday, numerous pharmaceutical companies - Novavax, Johnson and Johnson, and AstraZeneca - came forward with announcements about vaccine deals with several countries. Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani breaks down the latest news about the coronavirus on The Final Round.
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