Author: News Room

The recent revelations of lavish gifts and travel that a Republican megadonor showered on Justice Clarence Thomas reflect a larger Supreme Court culture of nondisclosure, little explanation, and no comment. The justices have provided less and less information regarding travel and gifts on their annual financial disclosure forms over the years. Earlier in the 2000s, for example, Thomas listed some private-plane travel similar in nature to some of the trips he later withheld which were detailed in a ProPublica report last week. In a brief statement responding to the story of his relationship with billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow,…

Joe Biden will discuss Northern Ireland’s economic potential with Rishi Sunak in Belfast on Wednesday, but the US president’s short trip highlighted the fact that the UK prime minister’s new Brexit deal has failed to end the region’s political logjam.The meeting between the two leaders, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, takes place just months after the UK and EU clinched the so-called Windsor framework, a deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.The Good Friday Agreement ended three decades of conflict in Northern Ireland and established a power-sharing executive. But the region’s biggest unionist party…

Watch full video on YouTube

This skyrocketing memecoin presale is set to deliver a high-stakes ecosystem that will pit fan armies in huge community stand-offs. Targeting controversial figures like Andrew Tate and Jake Paul could be the next big earner in Web3.Meet Love Hate Inu (LHINU) – a sensational memecoin project made by Carl Dawkins (legendary Founder of past moonshot projects including Tamadoge). With this sure-to-sell-out presale exploding on the back of Elon Musk’s recent Dogecoin shenanigans at Twitter (or is that Titter now?), this couldn’t be a better time to explore new investments in the memecoin vertical.As Dawkins taps into the explosive growth potential generated…

Tucker Carlson plays a straight-shooter on television. From his prime time perch on Fox News, Carlson portrays himself to his loyal audience of millions as a truth-teller, someone who tells it like it is and calls out BS from whoever peddles it. But it is all an act, as evidenced by his weak excuse for an interview with former President Donald Trump that aired on Tuesday night, Trump’s first since being indicted on dozens of felony counts of business fraud. Carlson sat silent as Trump rambled and ranted his way through the sit-down, making a number of eyebrow-raising comments on…

Warren Buffett said he was “confounded” by the opportunity to buy into five Japanese trading houses two years ago.”I was confounded by the fact that we could buy into these companies,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box” in an interview from Tokyo Wednesday. They had in effect “an earnings yield maybe 14% or something like that, but dividends would grow.”related investing newsThe Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO revealed this week that he had raised his stakes in each of the five major Japanese firms to 7.4%, and added that he may consider further investments. Buffett’s trip to Japan…

There are many factors that separate real estate from other forms of investing but, perhaps the most important is that, unlike stocks or bonds, there is a direct emotional component. When a buyer purchases a property that they are going to live in or an owner sells, the sale is not just a financial investment but an emotional one as well. After all, this is—or is going to be—their home. This mixing of money and sentiment can often be a recipe for unease. Ask any experienced real estate agent and they may share with you numerous stories of volatility, tears…

By Joe Cash and Jorgelina do Rosario BEIJING/WASHINGTON D.C. (Reuters) – Top officials from China will attend the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings in Washington this week, their first attendance in person in three years after COVID-19 curbs limited them to virtual participation. Yi Gang, governor of the People’s Bank of China, will attend the meetings this week, accompanied by a deputy-governor, China’s central bank told Reuters. However, the Ministry of Finance did not respond when asked whether finance minister Liu Kun would also travel to Washington this week, as he is expected to do so. Asian Infrastructure…

(Reuters) – Advocacy groups are suing the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), saying it is incorrectly ignoring renewable energy sources while using billions of dollars in congressional funding to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid. The Center for Biological Diversity and nine Puerto Rican community groups say FEMA is making Puerto Rico less resilient to storms and more likely to experience widespread power outages by restoring its older fossil fuel-powered systems without assessing potential environmental impacts. In a news release, the alliance of advocacy groups said the lawsuit “challenges FEMA’s failure to consider rooftop solar, storage and other forms of…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Fox News channel sign is seen on a television vehicle outside the News Corporation building in New York City, in New York, U.S. November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo By Helen Coster and Jack Queen (Reuters) – One of the most closely watched U.S. defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should pay Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion for spreading election-rigging falsehoods. A critical task for jurors over the five-week trial will be deciding who was responsible for the cable…