Last year was great for investors who owned a Nasdaq index fund, but not every stock shared in the gains. Several high-profile constituents suffered big losses, especially some stay-at-home tech stocks. Peloton Interactive (NASDAQ: PTON) dropped 76% in 2021.
Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll showed, weeks before a general election that could usher in the biggest political change since the end of the apartheid era. While the ANC is still on track to win the most votes on May 29, if it gets less than 50% support it would have to seek one or more coalition partners to govern the country, the first such alliance since the party swept to power under liberation hero Nelson Mandela 30 years ago.
After a short-lived rebrand as the Counter Clocks, the Lexington Legends opened their 2024 season on Thursday night.
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Her mother was injured when an Israeli strike hit the family home in Rafah
GENEVA (AP) — Leaders of top European soccer leagues say they have no plans to take games to the United States, though acknowledged that could change pending a lawsuit in Manhattan. FIFA has shifted its long-time policy of blocking domestic league games being played on the territory of another member federation by withdrawing this month from an antitrust suit filed by U.S. promoter Relevent Sports. The suit is also against the U.S. Soccer Federation. If league games could be organized abroad, Eu
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, has suddenly terminated the Bute House agreement, the pact between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens, which ensured a majority for the Scottish…
Marta, who has been playing in the United States with Orlando Pride since 2017, hopes to make her sixth appearance at the Olympics.
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A man gave his dying dog a chocolate bar – a treat dogs love but that is toxic to them – as a final gesture of love before she was put to sleep on April 23.Footage recorded by Miller Hurtado Toro shows his dog Sharon enjoying the tasty sweet before she was injected with euthanizing drugsToro told Storyful that Sharon was 12 years old and had been fighting the tick-borne canine disease ehrlichiosis for two years.“We tried to take her to find more treatments, but they saw that she had lung cancer, with metastases in her lungs and liver that were making her weak from just lying down,” Toro said.“The day before yesterday, she could not get up again, and that is when I made the decision,” he explained.Toro said he had often denied Sharon a taste of chocolate as the candy is notably bad for dogs’ health, but that he thought she should try it as her final treat.“No dog should leave without first trying chocolate,” Toro said. Credit: Miller Hurtado Toro via Storyful
"If we are to reclaim our university, faculty and students must do it together," writes Barnard professor Nara Milanich.
The US Secretary of State was speaking to the BBC at the end of a three-day trip to China.
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OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says the constitutional right of judicial independence is not compromised for soldiers appearing in front of military judges. Nine members of the Canadian Armed Forces argued that military judges may have divided loyalties, because they are also military officers who are part of a chain of command. Some of the military judges in those cases agreed that they lack judicial independence, because they could be vulnerable to pressure from higher ranks. But the mil
The inquest into the McKearney and Fox killings began last January after a lengthy campaign by the families.
HALIFAX — A girl and a boy, both 14 years old, made their first appearance today in a Halifax courtroom, where they each face a second-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of a 16-year-old high school student. Crown attorney Terry Nickerson told provincial youth court Judge Bronwyn Duffy that he will be seeking adult penalties for both of the accused. Their identities are protected from publication under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The victim, Ahmad Maher Al Marrach, was found badly in
"All this time I thought I was a good person but how I react to slow walkers in front of me would really suggest that I’m absolutely not a good person"
OTTAWA — The federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is calling on Air Canada to "make things right" with the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, whose headdress was removed from an airplane cabin. Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, who leads the advocacy organization, said in a social-media post Thursday her headdress was taken away and put in a garbage bag. She says the incident left her with hurt feelings, and Air Canada needs a protocol for First Nations peoples so they are not "ha
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