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California’s Insurance System Faces Crucial Test as Wildfire Losses Mount
It’s too soon to know how the Los Angeles fires will change life in California, but it may heavily depend on the answer to a single…
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Politics
Starbucks Reverses Its Open-Door Policy for Bathroom Use and Lounging
Starbucks will require people visiting its coffee shops to buy something in order to stay or to use its bathrooms, the company announced…
Politics
The Laken Riley Act Spells Chaos for the Immigration System
This is already a problem for undocumented immigrants in the criminal legal system—where these theoretically two separate parts of the…
Politics
F.D.A. Proposes New Food Labels to Detail Sugar, Fat and Salt Content
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed requiring new nutrition labels on the front of food and beverage products, a…
Politics
Cookies, Cocktails and Mushrooms on the Menu as Supreme Court Hears Bank Fraud Case
In a lively Supreme Court argument on Tuesday that included references to cookies, cocktails and toxic mushrooms, the justices tried to…
Business
Mastercard Agrees to Settle Pay Discrimination Suit for $26 Million
Mastercard is set to pay $26 million to settle accusations that the company has for years underpaid thousands of female, Black and…
Business
JP Morgan Names Jenn Piepszak C.O.O. Succeeding Daniel Pinto
The slow-moving race to succeed Jamie Dimon at the helm of JPMorgan Chase has lost another entrant. The bank said on Tuesday that Jennifer…
Business
Saudi Arabia and Sports Network DAZN Close to Deal
Saudi Arabia, long on the lookout for a global platform to showcase its sporting ambitions, is nearing the end of its search. The Gulf…
Business
SIA Engineering adds MOM perm sec Ng Chee Khern to board
SIA Engineering has appointed Ng Chee Khern, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Manpower, as an independent non-executive…
Business
Capital One Is Accused of Cheating Customers Out of $2 Billion
The advertisement from Capital One had many of the same promises that other banks offer for high-yield savings accounts: There were no…
Business
Cordlife’s operation licences renewed for one year
EMBATTLED cord-blood bank Cordlife’s cord blood banking service and human tissue banking service licences have been renewed by the…
News
U.S. Oil Production Is Booming. Oil Jobs Are Not.
For years, as oil and gas companies increased production, they hired lots of workers, enriching communities across the United States. That…
Business
US: Wall St opens higher after softer-than-expected producer price data
WALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Tuesday (Jan 14), as investors assessed softer-than-expected producer inflation to gauge the…
Politics
Rashida Jones, MSNBC President, Steps Down
The president of MSNBC, Rashida Jones, is stepping down from that position, the company said on Tuesday, a major change at the news…
Business
Anysphere, a Maker of A.I. Coding Software, Raises $100 Million
Anysphere, whose Cursor software uses artificial intelligence to help programmers code on the fly, plans to announce on Tuesday that it…
Politics
Biden Administration Adds 37 Chinese Companies to Forced Labor List
The Biden administration said on Tuesday that it would block imports from more than three dozen Chinese companies, citing their alleged…
Business
Apollo, StanChart sign US$3 billion energy transition partnership
APOLLO Global Management and Standard Chartered have formed a partnership to finance infrastructure deals, renewable energy and the…
Business
Is Beijing Plotting a Musk Option for TikTok?
What a plan B might look like As TikTok faces a countdown to a potential ban in the United States, Chinese officials are reportedly…
Politics
Why TikTok Users Are Downloading ‘Red Note,’ the Chinese App
Manimatana Lee spent the past five years building one of the hottest commodities on the internet: a group of people who reliably watch her…
Business
Macquarie to invest up to US$5 billion in Applied Digital data centres
Investment bank Macquarie will invest up to US$5 billion in Applied Digital’s AI data centres and will take a 15 per cent stake in the…
Business
HC Surgical Specialists reports 2.1% lower half-year profit of S$3.4 million
Catalist-listed medical services provider HC Surgical Specialists’ net profit for the six months ended November 2024 was down 2.1 per cent…
Business
Soaring Bond Yields Put U.K. Government’s Economic Plan at Risk
Governments around the world are uncomfortably watching their borrowing costs rise, following the lead of the U.S. Treasury market. But…
Business
LMIRT could fail to meet minimum interest coverage ratio for FY2024, expects no financial consequences
This is mainly due to non-operational accounting adjustments made to Ebitda and interest expenses in Q2 and Q3 LIPPO Malls Indonesia…
Culture
Hollywood’s Filmmaking Continues Despite L.A. Wildfires
Over the past week, as eight wildfires destroyed vast portions of its home metropolis, Hollywood found itself violently impacted — and, at…