Buffett released his annual shareholder letter on Saturday, revealing some of Berkshire Hathaway's top holdings in 2019. Yahoo Finance’s Dan Roberts, Jen Rogers and The Corporate Agent CEO and Founder Angelique Rewers to discuss on YFi PM.
Salvage teams have boarded the two vessels involved in a crash that sparked a massive blaze in the North Sea, the UK coastguard said on Thursday.The crash triggered huge fires aboard the two ships, which required a massive high-seas firefighting effort to bring them under control.
Canada’s innovation minister says the country’s new prime minister will demand Trump’s respect — and hopefully reset trade relations.
When severe weather hits the United States, there are ways people across the country can prepare for the potential impact of hail, rain, damaging wind and more. The large areas of low atmospheric pressure that come with some storm systems can spawn tornadoes. Low pressure is associated with stormy weather, and the lower it is, the stronger a storm can be.
The future of an ambitious electricity cable linking the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel by the end of the decade is on track despite a series of setbacks, Greece’s Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said Thursday. The 1.9-billion-euro ($2.06 billion) project, backed by European Union funding, aims to link the power grids of the three Mediterranean nations through a submarine power cable.
Cati Blauvelt was discovered in an abandoned South Carolina farmhouse in 2016 — a broken knife blade inside her body. Almost immediately, her friends had one suspect in mind: John Blauvelt, her estranged husband, a once-respected Army recruiter.
The China Shipowners' Association opposes a U.S. proposal to slap hefty port entry fees on ocean cargo carriers that own or have ordered vessels from China, saying it violates international rules and U.S. laws, according to a statement seen by Reuters on Thursday. The CSA's members include China's COSCO Shipping, which is expected to be among the hardest hit by the fees proposed by the U.S. trade representative as part of that agency's investigation into China's growing domination of global shipping. The proposals exceed the statutory authority of the USTR, infringe on the jurisdiction of the Federal Maritime Commission, violate the standards for agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act and violate the Export Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the group said.
'People think deportation is the end of the story...It isn’t the end of anything,' said Austin Kocher, of Syracuse University.
There sat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, at a Steak ’n Shake with Fox News host Sean Hannity, raving about the fries. “Steak ’n Shake has been great, we’re very grateful for them,” Kennedy said, in between nibbles of fries that the Midwestern franchise recently announced would be cooked in beef tallow instead of common cooking oils that Kennedy says are bad for Americans' diet. It's the kind of endorsement that doctors have implored him to make about the childhood vaccines used to prevent deadly diseases, like measles as outbreaks worsened in Texas and New Mexico during his first month in office.
Discount carrier Spirit Airlines has emerged from bankruptcy protection. The budget airline — known for its no-frills, low-cost flights on a fleet of yellow planes — said Wednesday that its parent, Spirit Aviation Holdings, exited Chapter 11 after finalizing debt restructuring. “We’re emerging as a stronger and more focused airline,” CEO Ted Christie, who will continue to lead Spirit post-bankruptcy, said in a statement.
Hundreds of demonstrators staged a protest in New York's Trump Tower Thursday in support of the Palestinians and detained Palestinian student campaigner Mahmoud Khalil.Officers arrested Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil at the weekend, accusing him of harboring pro-Hamas views during protests at New York's Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza in retaliation for the Palestinian group's attack in Israel.
Sam Jones — a self-described “outdoor enthusiast & hunter” from Montana — sparked an outcry down under this week, with officials now reviewing calls for her to be deported.
Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was taken from prison to a hospital on Thursday, three days after he began a hunger strike in protest of his ongoing rebellion trial. The court hearing his trial reported that Castillo, 55, was transferred because of a “health problem” and to rule out a “fluid-electrolyte disorder and mild dehydration.” Castillo has been detained since Dec. 7, 2022, when he gave a televised speech in which he declared the dissolution of Congress and his intent to rule by decree.
Residents of Naples and its surrounding areas abandoned their homes and camped out in parks and cars after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the Italian city early Thursday morning, rattling nerves after weeks of intense seismic activity.
Gold prices hit a new record as Wall Street strategists raced to increase their price targets on the asset.
Along with Arab nations backing an alternative to Trump's "Riviera of the Mideast" proposal, Hamas also cautiously welcomed his sharp change in rhetoric.
Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes, citing new financial uncertainty as the Trump administration threatens a range of cuts to federal contracts and research grants. In February, the administration announced deep cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research institutions, a shift that could reduce the money going to some universities by over $100 million. Recently, President Donald Trump has shown appetite for targeting colleges’ funding more directly.
The ruling applies to workers who were fired from six agencies during recent purge of government workers.
Mexico's Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Thursday his government was having intensive talks with the United States over Washington's threats to impose tariffs on goods from its No. 1 trade partner by April 2. The United States has repeatedly threatened, implemented and paused, tariffs on Mexico, which are expected to have a big impact on both economies, which have become tightly integrated through free trade pacts over the last three decades.
The high-profile case of former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte at the International Criminal Court comes at a welcome time for the institution, which faces unprecedented attacks from all sides and even US sanctions, experts say.Khan himself said that international law was "not as weak as some may think," citing the decision of the Philippines to hand over a former leader.
(Reuters) -Several U.S. farmers and nonprofits filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday, arguing it is illegally withholding Department of Agriculture grants funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. The USDA has frozen a broad swath of grants as it conducts an agency-wide spending review, including money for conservation and other farm programs funded by the IRA. The five farmers involved in the suit were awarded grants from a USDA Rural Energy for America Program to install solar panels.
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