Shares of GameStop (NYSE: GME) are tumbling 6.7% at 10:40 a.m. EST on Tuesday, a day after the video game retailer launched its first digital wallet, which allows holders to easily access and trade their cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The wallet will also enable transactions on GameStop's NFT marketplace, which the retailer expects to launch in its fiscal second quarter. GameStop's turnaround is predicated on a transition to digital assets.
CLAIM: New York Judge Juan M. Merchan told former President Donald Trump on the first day of his hush money case that he can’t attend his son Barron’s May 17 high school graduation because he must be in court that day. THE FACTS: Merchan said on Monday that he was not prepared to rule on a request that court be adjourned on May 17 so that Trump can attend the ceremony. Despite that, Trump said as he left court following the trial’s first day, “it looks like the judge will not let me go to the graduation of my son.”
Algoma University is offering local organizations a way to learn more about Indigenous culture. The university is bringing its Gabegendaadowin Training Program to Timmins, offering a chance to learn more about Indigenous cultures, shared history, and how to navigate truth and reconciliation. “There is an appetite for experiential learning opportunities related to the experiences of Indigenous peoples and explaining that history,” said Paul Sayers, Algoma University manager of Indigenous communit
Unison, one of Labour’s biggest backers, could be dragged into investigations of Angela Rayner’s financial affairs after suggestions that police could request official documents containing her address.
Merchant ships and seafarers are increasingly in peril at sea as attacks escalate in the Middle East and the United Nations must do more to protect supply chains, the industry said in a letter released on Friday. Tensions have soared across the Middle East since the start of Israel's campaign in Gaza in October, with Israel or its ally the United States clashing repeatedly with Iranian-aligned groups in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. In a letter sent on Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the world's leading shipping industry associations said Iran's seizure on April 13 of the MSC Aries container ship 50 nautical miles off the United Arab Emirates coast "once again highlighted the intolerable situation where shipping has become a target".
The local authority has pledged to replace them as soon as possible.
The French government announced a new rule on Friday that will require stores to tell customers when a product becomes smaller but its price stays the same or increases, a practice known as shrinkflation. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire announced the measure to tackle the common but often criticized method that has become an international buzzword. Le Maire called shrinkflation a “scam” and stressed the importance of transparency.
Donald Trump will learn the scope of questions he could face from Manhattan prosecutors during cross-examination if he does choose to take the stand to testify in his first criminal trial
Images show armed police at Iran’s consulate in Paris - less than 24 hours after Israel launched a retaliatory attack against Iran
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country's Superfund program, accelerating a crackdown on toxic compounds known as "forever chemicals." The rule will require companies to report leaks of two of the most commonly used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, and help pay to clean up existing contamination. The EPA separately last week announced its first-ever drinking water standards to guard against PFAS pollution.
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The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday Middle East economies would grow at a slower pace this year than it previously projected as the war in Gaza, attacks on Red Sea shipping and lower oil output add to existing challenges of high debt and borrowing costs. The IMF revised down its 2024 growth forecast for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to 2.7% from 3.4% in its October regional outlook. The downward revision was driven by conflicts in Sudan, the West Bank and Gaza, as well as oil production cuts by Gulf countries weighing on activity.
The Swedish Eurovision host city Malmo has promised heightened security for this year's song contest, which faces protests over Israel's participation while the war in Gaza continues. Authorities in Sweden have vowed "visible" measures – including police with submachine guns and reinforcements from Denmark and Norway – around the Eurovision event, ending with the final on 11 May.Normally associated with rhinestones and kitsch, this year the competition has become a more controversial affair as c
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon spoke briefly to journalists after her husband Peter Murrell was charged by police investigating SNP finances.
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Pembroke -- For the second time in two years, Inspector Stefan Neufeld, Detachment Commander of the Upper Ottawa Valley Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), has announced manslaughter charges were laid against a local resident and an Ottawa man following the death of 27-year-old Chance Turcott. It is alleged the deceased purchased illegal drugs supplied by the two men and died of an overdose shortly thereafter. Inspector Neufeld, who was the first detachment commander within the OPP’s Eastern Ontari
A Malaysian truck was caught on camera allegedly transferring diesel to two containers that were stored in a lorry next to it in Singapore. Read more.
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HONG KONG — Wall Street bounced between losses and gains in early trading Friday after European and Asian markets stumbled with tensions in the Middle East weighing on sentiment. Futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose less than 0.1% before the bell. Oil prices jumped overnight Friday after the state-run IRNA news agency reported that Iran fired air defense batteries early Friday morning after an apparent Israeli drone attack at a major air base and a nuclear site near
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