The stock market finally looked ready to take a break on Monday, as major market benchmarks fell after posting strong gains last week. As of just after noon ET, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) led the market lower, falling about 1.25%. Shares of SoFi Technologies rose 16% at midday on Monday.
From England with Love, the latest piece by Israeli-born, London-based choreographer Hofesh Shechter, begins with an octet of dancers subversively decked out in school uniforms – complete with rucksacks – facing us stock still, in an almost divine shaft of light. As Elgar’s Nimrod (arguably England’s wordless national anthem) plays loudly over the speakers, they solemnly mark out an almost classical port de bras, yet this slowly but surely disintegrates. By the time this ninth of the composer’s
U.S. gun manufacturers on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for facilitating the trafficking of firearms to violent drug cartels across the U.S.-Mexico border. Eight companies including Smith & Wesson Brands and Sturm, Ruger & Co in a petition argued that a lower court wrongly concluded the case qualified for an exception to a U.S. law that grants the firearms industry broad protection from lawsuits over the misuse of their products. The 1st Circuit did so after finding that Mexico had plausibly alleged the business practices of the seven gun makers and one distributor it had sued aided and abetted the illegal trafficking of guns to Mexico.
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Reports of a retaliatory strike by Israel raise commodity prices and fears over inflation.
The Wellington-based Hurricanes overcame a poor second half in which they incurred three yellow cards to beat the Fijian Drua 38-15 in Super Rugby Pacific on Friday, stretching their winning start to the season to eight matches and ending the Drua’s unbeaten record at home. Replacement prop Caleb Delany also received a yellow card two minutes before fulltime. The Drua reduced the Hurricanes lead with a try to scrumhalf Kitione Salawa early in the second half.
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She shared footage of a man shouting racist slurs on a busy train
Iranian official indicates no ‘immediate’ plan for retaliation after explosions reported in sky over Isfahan and Tabriz
Israel carried out a missile strike targeting an air defense unit in southern Syria, causing material damage, state-run SANA news agency quoted a military statement as saying Friday. The warplanes were seen around the time loud noises and drones were reported near a major Iranian air base and nuclear site early Friday. That area of Syria is directly west of Isfahan, about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) away, and east of Israel. Iran fired air defense batteries early Friday after reports of explosi
Access to transportation will soon look a lot different for many living in small towns and First Nation communities in Saskatchewan.The federal government announced a $6.1-million grant to support 11 public transport projects across rural Saskatchewan in the budget this week.Ariel Haug, economic development officer for the town of Gravelbourg, Sask., said it can be tough to get from rural communities to the cities for appointments or other needs."If you're an older person and unable to drive, or
Iranian officials have said that its nuclear facilities ‘were secure’ after explosions were heard in the Isfahan province
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for "all sides" to refrain "from further action" in the Middle East region.
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Héléna Klotz’s “Spirit of Ecstasy” will open the 2024 Kashish LGBTQ+ film festival in Mumbai, while Vuk Lungulov-Klotz’s “Mutt” will close it. “Spirit of Ecstasy,” which debuted at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, follows a gender-questioning stock-market trader who is determined to make it in the world of finance; not for the glory orwealth, but because …
US officials say an Israeli missile struck Iran, but one official in Tehran plays down prospects for further retaliation
IOPC to examine whether two forces missed chances to protect Kulsuma Akter before she was fatally stabbed in front of her baby
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