The UK’s blue-chip stock index has hit a record high, as hopes of interest rate cuts this year drove down government borrowing costs. Almost every share on the FTSE 100 rose on Friday, the fall in the value of the pound bolstering multinationals listed in London and propelling the index above 8,500 points for the…
Chinese officials have reportedly held preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikTok’s operations in the US to the billionaire Elon Musk, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban. Beijing officials prefer that TikTok remains under the control of Chinese parent Bytedance, but have discussed other options including a sale…
Who will fill in the vacant NFL head coaching jobs? USA Today’s NFL reporter Tyler Dragon shares his thoughts on who will fill the coaching vacancies in the NFL this year. Sports Seriously The New England Patriots fired head coach Jerod Mayo just hours after their Week 18 win over the Buffalo Bills. One week…
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s former deputy prime minister, kicked off her bid to lead Canada by boasting: “Donald Trump doesn’t like me very much” in a campaign video that quickly went viral. For Freeland, who led Canada’s re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade agreement (Nafta) with the United States and Mexico during Trump’s first term,…
Less than six months after rolling out a series of artificial intelligence features, Apple is disabling one of its signature capabilities: aggregating and summarizing news notifications. The company revealed the change on Thursday in a software update for developers. It followed an outcry from British media outlets that Apple’s software was misrepresenting news reports. In…
Who will fill in the vacant NFL head coaching jobs? USA Today’s NFL reporter Tyler Dragon shares his thoughts on who will fill the coaching vacancies in the NFL this year. Sports Seriously Mike McCarthy spent five years with the Dallas Cowboys. Now, the long-time NFL head coach will be looking for a new challenge….