The FTC banned employers from using noncompete contracts to prevent most workers from joining rival firms, achieving a policy goal that is popular with labor but faces an imminent court challenge from business groups.
Major U.S. stock indexes increased ahead of a spate of big earnings reports, with the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow gaining 1.2%, 1.6% and 0.7%, respectively.
Tesla CEO Musk sought to assuage Wall Street’s concerns about the company’s strategic direction by underscoring the automaker’s commitment to making less-expensive electric cars.
GM lifted its profit outlook for the year as the automaker reported a 24% rise in first-quarter earnings driven by solid U.S. sales of pickup trucks.
Starbucks asked the Supreme Court to limit the NLRB, a government labor board that has been eager to support union drives.
IBM is nearing an acquisition of cloud-software provider HashiCorp, people familiar with the matter said.
AI companies including OpenAI, Meta and Google agreed to incorporate new measures to protect children from exploitation and plug holes in their existing defenses.
Country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert announced a partnership with Universal Music Group’s Republic Records.
Tabloid publisher David Pecker told a Manhattan jury that nearly a decade ago he reached a deal with then-candidate Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen to bury stories that could be politically harmful to the contender.
Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified in northern Gaza, the first battleground in the war, where 200 days into the conflict territory is still heavily contested and Israel says thousands of militants remain.
Columbia’s president faced mounting discontent as the university grapples with intense protests over the Israel-Hamas war, prompting administrators to switch to hybrid classes for the rest of the semester.
Developers, home buyers and Western bankers all ignored warning signs, but not two accountants who went looking for “financial anomalies” and “shenanigans.”
New Jersey is incentivizing taxpayers who work from home for New York based employers to sue New York in court for taxing their wages. Connecticut is now considering it as well. There's hundreds of millions of dollars on the line for both states. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy last year signed legislation that rewards New Jersey residents with a tax break who win their tax appeal. Now Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, a fellow Democrat, wants to offer a similar bounty. Out-of-state taxpayers paid nearly $8.8 billion in 2021 in taxes... Читать дальше...
New Jersey is incentivizing taxpayers who work from home for New York based employers to sue New York in court for taxing their wages. Connecticut is now considering it as well. There's hundreds of millions of dollars on the line for both states. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy last year signed legislation that rewards New Jersey residents with a tax break who win their tax appeal. Now Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, a fellow Democrat, wants to offer a similar bounty. Out-of-state taxpayers paid nearly $8.8 billion in 2021 in taxes... Читать дальше...
Overall business activity in the eurozone expanded at its fastest pace in nearly a year this month as a buoyant recovery in the bloc’s dominant service industry more than offset a deeper downturn in manufacturing, a survey found. HCOB’s preliminary composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, bounced...
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has issued a new update for all UK drivers
Violence and obstruction is not freedom of speech.
The Parliament plans to open a new office in the Western Balkans, as a strategy to enhance its oversight over the enlargement process the European Parliament's administrative body plans in a document seen by Euractiv.
Americas Raytheon Missiles & Defense won a $212.5 million for an option exercise of combat system engineering, miscellaneous material, and travel supporting combat system installation, integration, development, testing, correction, maintenance, and modernization of ZUMWALT class mission systems and mission system equipment. Work will be performed in Portsmouth, Rhode Island (40%); Tewksbury, Massachusetts (33%); San Diego, […]
Spotify turned its largest quarterly profit ever after cutting costs
IPL David Warner runs to get his Aadhar Card made in fun video
The Supreme Court hears the case.
French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to plant one billion trees in France over 10 years, but environmentalists and researchers question whether this programme will achieve its stated biodiversity and climate objectives.
The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security policy has finally produced sheer madness in a single package. To wit: $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that do not benefit America’s homeland security in the slightest. An extension … Continue reading "The UniParty’s Day of Infamy"
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