Loreen Gilbert, WealthWise Financial CEO, joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss today's market action and her outlook heading into 2021.
As political muscle goes, bigger doesn't always mean better. Just ask New York, Los Angeles and Chicago every four years, when those cities become mostly irrelevant blips on the Electoral College map. Robust growth in the liberal strongholds of New York and metropolitan Chicago are poised to give Democrats an edge as their political maps are redrawn to adjust for changes in population over the past decade.
Tim Scott of South Carolina is only Black Republican senatorCory Booker and Karen Bass led Democratic negotiators Cory Booker, left, and Tim Scott talk in Washington in July. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The Republican senator Tim Scott has said talks on law enforcement reform collapsed because Democrats wanted to defund the police. Speaking to CBS’s Face the Nation in an interview to be broadcast in full on Sunday, Scott said: “We said simply this. ‘I’m not going to participate in reducin
Deported from the United States, Pierre Charles landed a week ago in Port-au-Prince, a capital more dangerous and dystopian than the one he’d left four years before. Charles was unsure how to make his way to the Carrefour neighborhood through a city shrouded in smoke and dust, often tolling with gunfire from gangs and police. This story is part of a series, Haiti: Business, politics and gangs, produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
A passenger on the train described the derailment as being like ‘extreme turbulence on a plane’
Police in Norway on Sunday reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country’s big cities after streets, bars, restaurants and nightclubs were filled with people celebrating the end of COVID-19 restrictions. The unexpected announcement by Prime Minister Erna Solberg late Friday afternoon to drop coronavirus restrictions the next day took many Norwegians by surprise and led to chaotic scenes in the capital, Oslo, and elsewhere in the country on Saturday. Rowdy celebrations across Norway by hundreds of citizens started Saturday afternoon and lasted until the early hours of Sunday.
The Taliban urged international airlines Sunday to resume flights to Kabul, saying all technical issues at the country's main airport have been resolved.
Toward the end of The Specials’ Saturday night set at a busy Troxy, in East London, co-vocalist Lynval Golding, 70, introduced front man Terry Hall with the words, “He’s my little brother – and the youngest member of the band”. Smiling, or at least grinning, the 62-year-old Hall told the audience that he was, in fact, 27. “The secret,” he said, “is to moisturise”.
Myanmar's junta has denied suspending the internet in conflict-wracked regions, blaming a recent spate of data blackouts on anti-coup protesters who had destroyed military-owned communications towers.
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Former president claimed the agents were doing ‘one hell of a job’
What will it cost to enact President Joe Biden’s massive expansion of social programs? Congress has authorized spending up to $3.5 trillion over a decade, but Biden is prodding Democrats to fully cover the cost of the legislation — by raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy, negotiating the price of prescription drugs and dialing up other sources of federal revenue such as increased IRS funding. Defending a bill not yet fully drafted, Democrats are determined to avoid a deficit financed spending spree.
Critics say Biden’s national security adviser should have considered the worst case scenario Jake Sullivan listens to Biden speak after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, 16 June 2021. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP On the afternoon of 30 August, a White House aide brought a note into the Oval Office confirming that the last US military plane had left Afghan airspace, marking the moment America’s longest war had come to an end. Joe Biden was with a team of advisers and on receiving the news
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that relations between Beijing and Taipei were "grim" on Sunday, urging the island's main opposition party to help seek "unification of the country."
Financial insecurity is influencing young investors to take on risk with cryptocurrencies. They're learning how to on TikTok and Instagram.
Merkel promised to uphold liberalism, democracy, and European cooperation. She left them weaker in almost everything she touched.
Anti-choice groups are embarrassed that their draconian law is being enforced the way it was designedDemocrats present last line of defense for abortion rights Women protest against the six-week abortion ban at the Texas capitol. Photograph: Jay Janner/AP Dr Alan Braid, an OBGYN based in San Antonio, broke the law on purpose. In an essay published in the Washington Post last Saturday, the doctor announced that he performed an abortion on a woman who was past six weeks of gestation, the limit imp
The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma reopened Sunday and authorities allowed some evacuated residents to collect belongings from their homes, as an erupting volcano continued to roar but lava flows remained slow. Spanish airport authority Aena tweeted that La Palma airport was operational again after closing Saturday because of a heavy fall of volcanic ash. The volcano on La Palma, which is part of the volcanic Canary Islands off northwest Africa and is home to about 85,000 people, erupted on Sept. 19.
Iceland has elected a female-majority parliament, a landmark for gender equality in the North Atlantic island nation, in a vote that saw centrist parties make the biggest gains. After all votes were counted Sunday, female candidates held 33 seats in Iceland’s 63-seat parliament, the Althing. The three parties in the outgoing coalition government led by Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir won a total of 37 seats in Saturday's vote, two more than in the last election, and appeared likely to continue in power.
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Hangar 1 collaborated with Crimson Wine group to salvage Napa-grown fruit for a specialty vodka with charitable intentions Eric Lee, helps run the craft spirits distillery at Hangar 1 in Alameda, California. Photograph: Gabrielle Canon/The Guardian When the haze from last year’s Glass fire settled over Napa Valley, all seemed lost for the region’s grapes. Most were tinged with ash and smoke before they could be pulled from the vines, rendering them useless for winemaking. But it gave a spirit di
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