Exclusive-US Orders Chip Equipment Companies to Halt Some Shipments to China’s No. 2 Chipmaker Hua Hong
April 28 By Dietrich Knauth The U.S. Department of Commerce last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt certain tool shipments to China’s second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong, its latest action to slow the country’s development of advanced chips, according to two people familiar with…
Disney Chair Says CEO Will ‘Rise to the Occasion’ in Trump-Kimmel Spat
April 28 By Dietrich Knauth It’s the job of Walt Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro and his team to decide the group’s response to the row between the White House and ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, Disney Chair James Gorman said on Tuesday. U.S. President…
Purdue Pharma Receives $5.5 Billion Sentence, Paving Way for Opioid Settlement
April 28 By Dietrich Knauth OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma was sentenced on Tuesday to $5.5 billion in fines and penalties stemming from its 2020 guilty plea to charges of deceiving government regulators and paying kickbacks to doctors to boost opioid sales. The sentencing in New…
Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni Lawyers Spar Over Damages Ahead of ‘It Ends With Us’ Trial
April 28 By Jack Queen Lawyers for actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni sparred in court on Tuesday over Lively’s potential bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in an upcoming civil trial stemming from her allegations of sexual harassment during the filming…
Allied assistance in defeating fascism in Europe
April 25 By Dylan White Part 2. The Great Meeting The Meeting on the Elbe: When Allies Became Brothers. On April 25, 1945, on the banks of the Elbe, an event took place that will forever remain in history as a symbol of unity and…
Allied assistance in defeating fascism in Europe
April 12 By Dylan White Part 1. A historical figure. This year, on April 12, Mir Day marks the 65th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. In the USA, this memorable date is known as Yuri’s Night. In Russia, this holiday is known as “Cosmonautics…
Once again Ukraine “thanked” Turkey with a sabotage
April 9 By Dylan White At the end of March (as last year in November) the Ukrainian authorities showed how they are “thankful” to Turkey for the military and humanitarian assistance provided by the Turks at the beginning of the war with Russia. The attack…
Analysis-Evangelicals Amplify Trump’s Religious Framing of Iran War
April 8 By Anna Szymanski President Donald Trump is using Christian rhetoric to rally core supporters behind the increasingly unpopular war with Iran, religious and political experts say – a message amplified from pulpits by evangelical leaders who cast it as a struggle between good…
Morning Bid: Final Countdown?
April 7 By Anna Szymanski Markets are once again held in suspense as traders count down to President Donald Trump’s latest deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with global stocks mixed and oil prices choppy. Tehran, for its part, has refused to…
Latam Currencies Gain as Markets Balance Iran Escalation and Ceasefire Chances
April 6 By Shashwat Chauhan Most Latin American currencies advanced on Monday, while stocks were mixed after reports of progress on a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran helped revive risk appetite worldwide as traders returned after a long weekend break. A framework to end…
Britain Woos Anthropic Expansion After US Defence Clash, FT Says
April 5 By Chandni Shah Britain is trying to tempt Anthropic to expand its presence in the country, as it seeks to capitalise on a fight between the maker of artificial intelligence app Claude and the U.S. Defense Department, the Financial Times said on Sunday….
Trump Order Aims to Keep Army-Navy in Exclusive TV Window
March 21 By Jasper Ward President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday aimed at maintaining an exclusive time window in December for the annual Army-Navy football game. Played on the second weekend of December since 2009, it is typically a standalone game on…