BANGKOK (AP) — Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand, undeterred by arrest warrants and the possibility of violent attacks, staged another rally on Friday, poking fun at their critics and warning of the possibility of a military coup. The potential for violence was illustrated after their last rally on Wednesday, when in the hours after it ended, … Read more
Amelia Hamlin is grateful for her loved ones! On Thursday, the reality TV star, 19, shared a series of photos on her Instagram story of the people she’s lucky to have in her life – her family, friends and Scott Disick., whom she has been spending a lot of time with of late. “Thankful 4 … Read more
Tesla Inc. TSLA, +2.04% on Friday surpassed Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.A, -0.85% BRK.B, -0.67% as the sixth-largest U.S. company by market capitalization. The Silicon Valley electric-car maker ended Friday with a market cap of $555 billion, and Berkshire Hathaway ended the day with a market cap of $543 billion, according to FactSet. Berkshire’s assets dwarf … Read more
Wall Street stocks advanced, with the Nasdaq closing at a record high, on Friday in a holiday-shortened week as retailers kicked off the year-end shopping season amid record COVID-19 hospitalizations. The Nasdaq outperformed as investors favored tech-related, market-leading stocks that have fared well during the pandemic, while economically sensitive cyclical stocks weighed. All three indexes … Read more
A group of Financial District residents and businesses have appealed a recent ruling allowing homeless men to be relocated from the Upper West Side to their neighborhood, new court papers show. The FiDi residents, who call themselves the Downtown New Yorkers, Inc., lost their lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block the forced relocation of over 200 … Read more
Tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas has penned a heartfelt note for his coach and ‘dear friend’ Bernard Frances. Frances, who used to run a tennis academy in the Spanish city of Marbella, passed away this year. Stefanos Tsitsipas on the pain of losing a ‘close friend’ The grief of losing his ‘close friend’ seems to have affected … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arizona and UCLA are in their third seasons of the Kevin Sumlin and Chip Kelly eras, but going into Saturday’s game at the Rose Bowl, the two programs are trending in opposite directions. The Wildcats (0-2) haven’t won in more than a year and have dropped a program-record nine consecutive games. … Read more
The Telegraph Operator of notorious South Korean online sex trafficking ring sentenced to 40 years A South Korean court has sentenced the operator of a vast online sex trafficking ring to 40 years in prison in a case that outraged the nation. Cho Ju-bin, 25, oversaw a group of 38 accomplices who befriended and then … Read more
(Spoilers ahead for the “Chapter 13” episode of the Disney+ “Star Wars” series, “The Mandalorian”) I don’t know what I expected Baby Yoda’s name might be — to be honest, it’s not something I really wondered about much. But I certainly did not expect that it would be as awful as “Grogu.” The “Star Wars” … Read more
Stocks capped the week with gains in Friday’s short post-Thanksgiving session, as surging biotechs boosted the Nasdaq to a record high. X The Nasdaq rose 0.9%, the S&P 500 climbed 0.2% and the Dow Jones industrials edged 0.1% higher in the stock market today. Small caps tracked by the Russell 2000 gained 0.6%. Early data … Read more