House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s latest plan to avert a government shutdown was ambushed Thursday by a pair of ultraconservatives, ratcheting up the risk of an Oct. 1 federal funding lapse with Republicans still fighting among themselves.
A US judge took the extraordinary step of removing a juror from a wealthy developer’s tax trial because he could not “in good conscience let this jury deliberate alongside someone who feels that she must stand up for White people.”
Celebrity endorsements and huge marches across Australia in support of the “yes” campaign for an Indigenous Voice to to be included in the constitution have so far failed to reverse mounting opposition to the proposal ahead of a referendum.
(Bloomberg) — A US government shutdown would have deep, far-reaching consequences and imperil efforts to protect people from lead and cancer-causing chemicals, a top White House official warned Thursday.
Five Minutes With Nicholas Hieronimus on the future of beauty, the difficulty in creating products that are both green and effective and why he sometimes calls his rivals.
Nigeria’s finance minister Adebayo Olawale Edun said up to $6.8 billion of overdue forward payments in the foreign exchange market need to be addressed before the naira stabilizes.
(Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp. expects to generate about $65 billion in annual revenue by fiscal year 2026, an outlook executives first provided a year ago, in a lukewarm message to investors disappointed by the software maker’s most-recent quarterly results.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s attempts to unify Republicans around a plan to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown foundered on Thursday, leading him to send lawmakers home for an extended weekend as the risk grew of a federal funding lapse.
A group of banks led by Deutsche Bank AG sold a $550 million leveraged loan Thursday to support Bain Capital Private Equity’s acquisition of Brazilian restaurant chain Fogo de Chão, according to a person familiar with the matter, a sign that the public markets are making a comeback.
This month’s steep decline in Bitcoin trading volume on Binance is likely tied in part to the end of another zero-fee promotion by the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
