Yahoo Finance's Morning Rundown, August 15
The morning's top headlines, August 15
The morning's top headlines, August 15
The question of whether Democratic President Joe Biden will appear on Ohio's fall ballot has become entangled in a partisan legislative fight to keep foreign money out of state ballot campaigns, a year after cash tied to a Swiss billionaire boosted a successful effort to enshrine abortion rights in the solidly red state's constitution. On Wednesday, against the backdrop of a festering Republican leadership fight that’s roiled lawmaking since last year, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s proposal to ban foreign money from initiative campaigns became the poison pill that prevented a final solution for adjusting an Aug. 7 ballot deadline that precedes the Democratic National Convention.
Since the end of April, Minnesota has managed to pick up at least another 2 inches of rain where it's really needed — in far southern, central and northwestern areas of the state.
The San Francisco Fed president said she didn't want to make projections about rates because of 'uncertainty about what the next few months of inflation will look like.'
Under blue skies, officials at Florida's largest power company dealt Thursday with the aftermath of a major hurricane that slammed into Miami and Fort Lauderdale — or a pretend one, anyway. Florida Power & Light is conducting its annual mock hurricane drill this week, simulating how it would respond if a hurricane struck the state and devastated the power grid. Ian was one of the worst disasters ever to strike Florida, killing 150 people as it hit the Gulf Coast near Fort Myers in 2022, leaving millions without power.
The United States is deeply troubled by actions taken against those protesting a draft law in Georgia and the government should change its course, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday. Georgian security forces have repeatedly deployed tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon against protesters who have been staging almost daily demonstrations for around a month against the government's "foreign agents" bill. The protesters say the bill is authoritarian and inspired by similar legislation in Russia that has been used to clamp down on dissent there.
Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager, Dylan Dreyer and Sheinelle Jones are all moms; they share their experiences before Mother's Day.
A severe geomagnetic storm could lead to a spectacular aurora borealis showing above the U.S. this weekend. Latest forecast details.
Some Ukraine allies want to seize $300 billion in Russian assets and give the money to the besieged country. Financial bigwigs are split on the idea.
Adult film star Stormy Daniels returned to the stand in Donald Trump's criminal trial Thursday, pushing back during cross-examination on his defense attorney's attempts to discredit her in sometimes bizarre and uncomfortable exchanges.
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate dipped back toward 7% this week but remain elevated, prompting housing experts to revise their forecasts for the rest of 2024.
U.S. President Joe Biden spent months urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect Gaza civilians, but the U.S. decision to pause some military aid to Israel was linked directly to a pointed phone call they had a month ago, a U.S. official said. In the April 4 call, soon after seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were killed in an Israeli air strike, Biden gave Netanyahu an ultimatum: protect citizens and aid workers, or else U.S. policy would change.
Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduras president convicted in March of drug and firearms offenses, failed to persuade a U.S. judge to grant a new trial. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan rejected Hernandez's argument that the conviction was tainted because a U.S. drug enforcement agent testified that cocaine trafficking in Honduras went up during his presidency, though it went down. In a decision on Thursday, Castel also rejected Hernandez's argument that New York was the wrong place to try him.
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools, according to a meeting agenda published online.
Is canned fish healthy? Foods packed in tins may not seem healthy but canned fish like sardines, tuna, salmon and mackerel offer lots of health benefits.
Organizers are predicting the Democratic conventio will coincide with the largest protest for Palestinian rights in Chicago history
N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -Chadian opposition leader and current transitional prime minister Succes Masra on Thursday claimed he won the Central African nation's May 6 presidential election in the first round. Masra, 40, a main opposition challenger in to transition president Mahamat Idriss Deby, made the announcement in a live broadcast on Facebook, ahead of a scheduled announcement of the provisional results by the country's electoral agency. "We have won as a people thanks to you the people who put us in the lead in the first round according 90% of centralized results from ballot boxes, which confirm the victory in the first round," Masra said.
A gay couple filed a class action lawsuit against New York City alleging the city’s health insurance plan is discriminatory because it doesn’t cover in vitro fertilization, or IVF, for male couples.
Reddit shows that growing up fast may be good news for shareholders.
Hunter Biden's federal gun case should move forward, an appeals court ruled Thursday, setting the stage for the trial to begin next month in Delaware. In an order shortly after that ruling came down, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika said the case would proceed to trial on June 3, and is expected to last three to six days. Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to lying about his drug use in October 2018 on a form to buy a gun that he kept for about 11 days in Delaware.
Zelenskiy issued a decree dismissing Serhiy Rud. The state security service (SBU) said this week it had caught two men, colonels in the state guard service, accused of plotting the assassination of Zelenskiy and other top officials. The SBU said the assassinations were to have been a "gift" for Vladimir Putin as he was sworn in for a new term in the Kremlin on Tuesday.