Late last month, Benson High School senior KeShon Henderson officially accepted a scholarship to play college basketball at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois.Hours later, while walking down the streets of Omaha, Henderson was robbed and shot twice. Henderson was shot once in the leg and once in his lung. He was rushed to a local hospital…
In that meeting, Mr. Trump called for comprehensive legislation that would, among other things, expand background checks to firearms purchased at gun shows and on the internet — a measure favored by Democrats but anathema to the N.R.A. He also stunned lawmakers from both parties by suggesting that he would support measures to allow the…
In San Francisco and Scarsdale, Jersey City and Greenwich, the real estate talk is the same: Just how bad will this Republican tax overhaul hurt?Even before the GOP Congress forges a compromise bill to send to President Donald Trump, House and Senate plans are unsettling housing markets, especially in high-tax, Democratic-leaning states like California, New York,…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says flu activity is rising across the U.S. California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, North Carolina, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware, and Georgia are all experiencing widespread flu activity, according to the CDC Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report for the week of December 22. The report shows…
MARIO DRAGHI was certainly hoping for a reaction when he stood up to speak at the annual conference of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Portugal on June 18th—but perhaps not from the world’s most powerful man. Mr Draghi announced that the ECB stood ready to ease monetary policy if the euro area’s economy did…
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average passed another milestone, topping 23,000 for the first time, as strong earnings from UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Johnson & Johnson helped push the more than century-old gauge to a record.It’s the sixth 1,000-point milestone reached in the past 12 months and the fifth since Donald Trump was elected president in…
Uber and Lyft are the dominant players in the ride-hailing business, but ever since their disappointing IPOs earlier this year, investors have been taking a much closer look at the incipient industry that both companies hope to carve up. Uber shares have returned to their offering level, but Lyft is down over 20%. The markets…
Hundreds of passengers have been left stranded with little guidance on how to get home or complete their travels after the budget airline Wow Air abruptly collapsed Thursday. The Icelandic airline said in a terse statement that it had canceled all flights and told passengers to try to book with other carriers. It did not…
"Shark Tank" judge Kevin O'Leary was involved in a boating crash on Lake Joseph in Ontario, Canada, that left one man dead and another woman seriously injured.According to TMZ, O'Leary's boat crashed into the bow of a larger boat on Saturday around 11:30 p.m. local time. A male passenger on the larger boat was killed…
