Mad Bets: UFC 251 Preview
Minty Bets and Kevin Iole preview the card for UFC 251.
Minty Bets and Kevin Iole preview the card for UFC 251.
Walgreens lost nearly $6 billion in its second quarter mainly due to a drop in value for the VillageMD clinic business it controls. Excluding that charge, the drugstore chain reported results Thursday that topped Wall Street expectations. Walgreens spent more than $5 billion a few years ago to acquire a majority stake in VillageMD and launch a plan to add hundreds of clinics to its stores and grow its ability to provide care.
A federal judge ruled Bankman-Fried committed perjury under oath and attempted witness tampering. Here's what other factors went into his sentence.
Disgraced cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in jail on Thursday following his conviction in one of the biggest financial fraud cases in history.Calling Bankman-Fried's seven-count conviction reflective of the defendant's "unmatched greed and hubris," the government's sentencing request argued for significant jail time in light of fraud it estimates at more than $10 billion.
The Biden administration on Thursday restored rules to protect imperiled plants and animals that had been rolled back back under former President Donald Trump. Among the changes announced, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened. The blanket protections regulation was dropped in 2019 as part of a suite of changes to the application of the species law under Trump that were encouraged by industry.
Russia's top investigative body said Thursday that another suspect has been detained as an accomplice in the attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 143 people. A statement from the Investigative Committee said the latest person detained was involved in financing Friday's attack on the Crocus City concert hall in which gunmen shot people who were waiting for a show by a popular rock band and then set the building on fire.
Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel first gained national attention when they appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1996.
The Oscar -nominated documentary “ Food, Inc ” helped change the way many consumers think about the systems behind the things we eat. The campaign, announced Thursday, is in partnership with: The Open Markets Institute, a non-profit monopoly watchdog supported by Senators Cory Booker and John Tester; The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, supporting the rights of farmworkers; And FoodFight USA, the nonpartisan movement started by entrepreneurs Todd Wagner and Lori McCreary with a goal of “cleaning up” the American food supply which they estimate is 70% ultra-processed foods. In October, California became the first state to ban four chemicals from processed food and drinks sold in California by 2027.
Latvia’s top diplomat said on Thursday he will step down in the wake of a criminal probe over the use of expensive private flights by his office when he acted as the Baltic country’s prime minister between 2019-2023. Following a meeting with Prime Minister Evika Silina, Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins told reporters that he will leave his post on April 10, enabling lawmakers at the Saeima, or parliament, to vote on his successor the next day. Last week, the prosecutor general’s office announced it was launching criminal proceedings over the alleged waste of public money through the use of private aviation services by Karins and accompanying delegations during his time as a prime minister.
Two years of talks towards striking a landmark global agreement on pandemic prevention were headed for overtime Thursday, with a breakthrough still elusive.Countries remain sharply at odds over what they are prepared to do for each other when the next pandemic strikes.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Dengue cases in the Americas spiked in the first three months of this year by three times the number of infections reported in the same period last year, the Pan American Health Organization said on Thursday. Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay are the countries most affected by dengue, in what PAHO officials described at a press conference as probably the worst season to date observed in the Americas for the often deadly mosquito-borne viral illness. PAHO, part of the United Nations organization, has confirmed some 3.5 million cases of dengue and more than 1,000 deaths this year trough March across the Americas, extending from Canada to the southern tip of Chile and including the Caribbean.
Russia's Investigative Committee says it has evidence that the Tajik gunmen accused of killing at least 143 people at a concert hall near Moscow last week were linked to Ukrainian nationalists. Ukraine denies involvement, and the U.S. says Islamic State - which claimed the attack - bears sole responsibility. Here is what we know about the suspects held by Russia and what has happened to them since they were detained.
The sentence was handed down almost five months after a jury found Bankman-Fried guilty of orchestrating a massive fraud centered on his crypto empire.
The collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge has highlighted what engineers say is an urgent need to better protect the piers holding up spans over shipping channels as the size of cargo ships has grown in recent decades. Federal authorities continue an investigation into why a massive cargo ship lost power and crashed into a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, bringing down the structure and killing six workers who had been filling potholes atop it. The Maryland Transportation Authority did not respond to questions about what, if any, protections were in place for the Key Bridge's foundation piers -- which bore the weight of the structure and all the vehicles on it -- and whether updates might have been needed.
Former billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted for orchestrating a massive financial fraud that led to downfall of crypto trading platform FTX.
Two bodies were recovered Wednesday as four more are still missing and presumed dead, leaving the families of victims in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore in mourning.
Israel has agreed to reschedule talks on Rafah that it called off in protest just days ago; State Department official Annelle Sheline resigned and a new Gallup poll found that a majority of Americans now disapprove of Israel's Gaza war.
Most of the missing workers presumed dead following the Baltimore bridge collapse are originally from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico — illustrating the increasing dangers Hispanic workers face as a third of the nation's construction workers.
Dumplings are so popular that most cultures have them. From xiaolongbao to dim sim, and pierogi to ravioli del plin, here are 35 of the best.
The IMF urged Switzerland on Thursday to strengthen its financial sector regulation as supervising UBS has become "more challenging" since it grew into a global banking behemoth after its takeover of Credit Suisse."Lessons from the CS (Credit Suisse) case should inform further reforms to strengthen the regulatory and supervisory framework," the IMF said in a statement concluding its annual staff mission to Switzerland.
Swedish authorities said Thursday that worker negligence at a construction site was believed to be behind a landslide that tore apart a motorway in western Sweden in September.Prosecutor Daniel Veivo Pettersson said Thursday he believed "human factors" were behind the landslide as "no natural cause" had been found during the investigation.