Some customers of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX could receive the full value of the money they lost if a court approves the company’s bankruptcy plan. However, they will not see the gains on their holdings of bitcoin and other digital assets that have occurred over the past two years, despite massive increases in the […]Read More
Mortgage rates are significantly higher than they were at the start of this year, but they pulled back slightly last week after several weeks of straight increases. That was enough to spark some new demand, especially for refinances. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($766,550 or less) decreased […]Read More
Aside from ramen and sausages, South Korea’s convenience stores have a new popular item on the menu — gold bars. The country’s largest convenience store chain, CU, has been collaborating with the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO) to offer customers mini gold bars — and they’re selling like hot cakes. A variety of finger-nail […]Read More
A federal jury in New York on Thursday convicted an investor of insider trading in the stock of a shell company ahead of its announcement in October 2021 that it would merge with Trump Media. The investor, Bruce Garelick, had been on the board of directors of the publicly traded company, Digital World Acquisition Corp., at the time he was […]Read More
A new strategy has emerged in the battle to ban smoking in casinos: the shareholder vote. Shareholders at Boyd Gaming, Bally’s Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment will put on the ballot at the respective casino companies proposals to force them to study the costs associated with permitting smoking indoors — and whether going smoke-free could save money. The proposals are sponsored […]Read More
Shortly after House lawmakers overwhelming rejected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s attempt to strip the gavel from a second Republican leader in the past year, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told her in a brief conversation on the House floor that he isn’t one to hold a grudge. “Let’s move on, Marjorie. I’m okay with this. Let’s […]Read More
Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign called itself a “juggernaut” in May of that year, on par with a planet-destroying “Death Star” that was “firing on all cylinders.” Trump’s 2024 campaign has traded Star Wars metaphors for talk of a “leaner” and “more efficient” operation, with less real estate, fewer employees and greater dependence on outside groups. […]Read More
Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and an attorney for former president Donald Trump engaged in a fiery, hours-long cross-examination Thursday, bringing an end to Daniels’s testimony during Trump’s criminal trial. Since Daniels took the stand Tuesday, she has testified about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, at times seeming to describe it as nonconsensual. […]Read More
NEW YORK — New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan blamed Donald Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles in court Thursday for not sufficiently objecting in real time to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels’s detailed testimony this week — and again said Daniels’s testimony does not warrant a mistrial. This post appeared first on The Washington PostRead More
Two political operatives close to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) agreed to plead guilty this year and cooperate with the Justice Department’s bribery case against the lawmaker, according to newly unsealed court documents. The records show that Colin Strother and Florencio “Lencho” Rendon struck the plea agreements in March, admitting to their roles in an alleged […]Read More