Canadians who prefer to pay with Visa and MasterCard could get hit with extra fees starting Thursday. After a long legal battle over who pays certain credit card processing fees, businesses can now pass those charges — as much as two per cent per transaction — along to customers.
Party wants to fully nationalise train network within five years of coming to power, in ‘biggest rail reform for a generation’
Virtu Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIRT) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript April 24, 2024 Virtu Financial, Inc. beats earnings expectations. Reported EPS is $0.76, expectations were $0.59. VIRT isn’t one of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds at the end of the third quarter (see the details here). Operator: Ladies and gentlemen thank you for […]
In early May, sandwiched between the NewFronts and the traditional broadcast (and now streaming) upfronts, a new showcase for pitches to major advertisers will make its debut. Billed as The Way Upfronts, the series of virtual presentations slated for May 7 and 8 is a hybrid of the annual springtime spectacles of ad-supported television and …
The Kansas City Royals placed right-hander Alec Marsh on the injured list Thursday after he took a 91 mph liner off his pitching elbow the previous night against the Blue Jays, putting what had been a breakout season for him on hold. Marsh had not allowed a run when Toronto's Addison Barger drilled a fastball at him with one out in the fifth inning Wednesday night. The ball ricocheted off Marsh's elbow, closer to the forearm, so hard that it left an indentation of the laces.
"We will do everything in our power to retry this case, and remain steadfast in our commitment to survivors of sexual assault." "Because of laws like the New York Child Victims Act, predators continue to be exposed even without a criminal conviction."
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Two of the UFC's most promising flyweights, Tatsuro Taira and Joshua Van will collide in Newark.
Britain’s John Pawson likes to test the boundaries, and tells India Block how his new furniture collection with Denmark’s Dinesen does just that
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyFor years, Harvey Weinstein’s New York City sex crimes conviction signified a landmark legal victory for the #MeToo movement. But the victory that solidified a global reckoning against alleged sexual predators was thrown out the window on Thursday morning, when the state’s highest court overturned the disgraced producer’s conviction.And legal experts say that while the bombshell decision is a significant victory for Weinstein—and pave
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will host reality-television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian at the White House on Thursday to discuss criminal justice reform, after President Joe Biden granted clemency to more people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. On Wednesday, Biden granted clemency to 16 people, pardoning 11 of them and commuting the sentences of the other five. Four of the pardon recipients will join Thursday's event, said a White House official, who did not wish to be named.
Keffiyehs, patterned scarves emotively synonymous with Palestinian nationalism and resistance, are all over Europe again. At the billionaire-epicentre that was the pre-opening of the Venice Biennale Arte last week, the Israel-Gaza war was an unavoidable point of contention. Flyers for organised protests spread on Instagram, while attendees despaired at the fact La Biennale does not recognise Palestine as a nation state, and therefore could not take part in the international art exhibition.
In August 2023, TV chef and restaurateur Michel Roux Jr announced he was closing Le Gavroche, one of London’s most iconic and longest standing restaurants. He had been there for 34 years; his father Albert 22 years before that. But the building lease was up for renewal and Roux decided to call it quits, “to spend more time with my family and on other business ventures”.
The Labour leader said employees at UK-based rail manufacturing firms were ‘staring down the barrel of devastating job losses’.
With rising costs in the hospitality world and £1,000-a-night luxury hotel rooms no longer a slack-jaw-inducing outlier, finding a stay for a snip is trickier than ever. But there are still ways and means.
The CW is sticking with Miss USA. The network has struck an exclusive, three-year deal to keep the Miss USA Pageant and the Miss Teen USA Pageant on its schedule. It comes after the network acquired the rights to the beauty pageant last year. The broadcast ranked as its number new special of the year, …
Returning from a tropical holiday should come with a suntan and sense of relaxation – not a tropical disease. However, the number of British travellers catching malaria abroad is rising, and scientists are warning it could get worse.
Gracie Hunt, the daughter of Chiefs CEO Clark Hunt and his wife, Tavia, marked the first day of the NFL Draft by posting photos of herself in team colors.
Cows in the UK are not being tested for bird flu, despite the outbreak sweeping through American dairy herds, Sky News has been told. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said reports of the H5N1 virus in UK birds and poultry are currently so low that it does not consider cattle to be at risk. Scientists believe the H5N1 virus has been spreading in US dairy herds undetected for several months.
The company made the announcement on Thursday.
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