Topline Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has an estimated net worth of $198.1 billion, is once again the second-wealthiest person in the world and wealthiest person in the U.S. as of Tuesday, overtaking Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos, who has an estimated net worth…
A millennial manager has received praise online for giving her Gen Z employee so much flexibility. Lucinda Bayly went viral after her Gen Z assistant attended a virtual meeting from a hair salon. Bayly told Newsweek that she doesn’t care where her staff are working as long as the work gets done. …
By Promit Mukherjee and Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s gross domestic product in January increased 0.6%, the fastest growth rate in a year and higher than forecasts, and the economy likely expanded 0.4% in February, data showed on Thursday. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a GDP growth of…
LONDON (Reuters) -A $10 billion battle between reinsurers and aircraft leasing companies seeking payouts for more than 200 jets stuck in Russia should be heard in London rather than Moscow, London’s High Court ruled on Thursday. Aircraft lessors, including Ireland’s AerCap and U.S.-listed Carlyle Aviation Partners, are pursuing insurers for…
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Joe Bavier SAMREBOI, Ghana (Reuters) – Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down. Only last year, the 27-hectare plot in western…
YouTube says hundreds of thousands of creators are now earning a paycheck from posting short-form videos on the platform, as it ramps up its race to compete with rivals like TikTok and Instagram. It hasn’t been cheap: the Google-owned platform is shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to some…
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View MoreEven before most Americans woke up Tuesday morning to news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had “really” happened were running rampant online. The claims ranged from a cyber-attack or a ship captain impaired by side effects from Covid-19 vaccines being responsible for the crash – to claims that Israel, or even the Obamas had something to do with the bridge’s collapse. All of these claims are entirely baseless. Officials investigating the crash said early on that there was no indication it was a deliberate act. But that didn’t stop…
By David Thomas (Reuters) -A California state judge on Wednesday said attorney John Eastman should be stripped of his law license for his efforts to overturn the results of the…
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will get a boost from Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday at a fundraiser in New York slated…
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