Brazilian soccer star Neymar Junior endorsed President Jair Bolsonaro's uphill re-election bid on Thursday, showing his support in a TikTok video as he smiled and danced to a campaign jingle ahead of the weekend's pivotal election.Neymar's public backing came a day after Bolsonaro visited a charitable institute near Sao Paulo belonging to the global superstar, who currently plays professionally for Paris Saint-Germain Football Club.Neymar
U.S. applications for jobless benefits rose last week but remain at historically low levels despite efforts by the Federal Reserve to cool the economy and the job market in its fight against inflation. Jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending March 25 rose by 7,000 to 198,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Applications for unemployment benefits are broadly seen reflective of the number of layoffs in the U.S.
It’s necessary work before a ship deploys, but hard to adjust to for many already challenged by the stresses plaguing young adults nationwide. Growing mental health distress in the ranks carries such grave implications that the U.S. chief of naval operations, Adm. Michael Gilday, answered “suicides” when asked earlier this year what in the security environment kept him up at night. One recently embraced prevention strategy is to deploy chaplains as regular members of the crew on more ships.
Easter has always been a uniquely special weekend in the garden visiting calendar. The message of hope embedded in the Christian festival is complemented by a similar message in gardens. Whether it falls early or late, Easter always seems to be the moment when the renewal of spring is fully apparent and the restrictions of winter – short daylight hours; cold and damp; plant growth restricted to a few seasonal specialists – begin to recede.
The U.S. economy maintained its resilience from October through December despite rising interest rates, growing at a 2.6% annual pace, the government said Thursday in a slight downgrade from its previous estimate. The government had previously estimated that the economy expanded at a 2.7% annual rate last quarter. The rise in the gross domestic product — the economy’s total output of goods and services — for the October-December quarter was down from the 3.2% growth rate from July through September.
Pope Francis “rested well” overnight in a hospital in Rome and his clinical condition is “progressively improving,” the Vatican said on Thursday.
Plans to accelerate a rise in the state pension age have been scrapped because of changes in life expectancy.
Russia will no longer inform the U.S. about its nuclear missile tests, again widening the gulf between the political powers. Updates.
Apple's 'Tetris' movie is a fun romp, but it could have been so much more.
Cheney Orr/ReutersThe gunman who killed three adults and three children in a shooting spree at a Nashville school was devastated by the death of a close friend in the months leading up to the attack, according to people who knew the shooter.Audrey Hale, 28, who was shot dead by police during Monday’s tragedy at the Covenant School, was described as having been distraught by the death of Sydney Shere Sims in a car crash in August, according to NBC News. Nashville School Shooter Messaged Friend Mi
More than half of men surveyed said that watching porn made them feel self-conscious about their bodies
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has compared the policies of the Bosnia Serb separatist leader to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin following his moves to curb dissent and LGBTQ rights. Blinken tweeted late Wednesday that “Milorad Dodik’s attacks on basic rights and freedoms in Republika Srpska show he is on President Putin’s authoritarian path.” Republika Srpska is the name for the half of Bosnia that is dominated by the country's Serbs.
The European Union’s decision to allow German and Italian car makers to carry on making combustion engines after 2035 has raised hopes that sports cars could be saved from the net zero scrap heap.
Monsoons are a seasonal wind shift over a certain region, usually associated with the Indian Ocean, that can cause rainy or dry seasons.
Russia's FSB said Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested on espionage charges. The Journal "vehemently denies the allegations."
The Government has unveiled a slew of new policies to help meet its “net zero” agenda and achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050.
No film can tackle a true story about a hostage situation – in a bank, for good measure – without expecting to be compared with Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon, a frazzling, profoundly compassionate high-water mark of 1970s Hollywood realism. Breaking (formerly titled 892), starring John Boyega as Brian Easley, a desperate ex-Marine who threatened to blow up a branch of Wells Fargo in the Atlanta suburbs five years ago, is an honourable entry in that tradition: limited, but honourable.
The train that derailed was carrying mixed freight, including ethanol and corn syrup, said Lena Kent, a spokesman for BNSF Railway.
Average Wall Street bonuses dropped sharply last year to $176,700 amid lagging profits and recession fears, New York state's comptroller reported Thursday. The bonuses for employees in New York City’s securities industry dropped 26% from 2021, when the average was a record $240,400, according to New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s annual estimate. “Wall Street’s cash bonuses were expected to fall as several factors weighed on the securities’ industry profitability in 2022,” DiNapoli said in a prepared release.
Stocks continue to edge higher as banking fears ease somewhat.
In eight weeks’ time, one of the biggest rock bands in the world will embark on a new tour. Foo Fighters will play to around one million fans over 17 shows in the US, Canada, Brazil, Japan and Germany. The concerts will mark Foo Fighters’ first tour since their much-loved drummer Taylor Hawkins was found dead in a Bogota hotel room in March 2022 (two tribute shows last autumn notwithstanding).
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