Economy

Kathryn Burgum aplauds as her husband Republican Governor of North Dakota Doug Burgum shakes hands with former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump during a Caucus Night watch party in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 8, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum – a potential […]

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolls out in Florida on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Isaac Watson | NASA Boeing’s first Starliner flight with astronauts on board was called off in the final minutes on Saturday, and the backup Sunday launch date was also canceled. The company was targeting a […]

Voters during the South Africa General Elections on May 29, 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gallo Images | Gallo Images | Getty Images South Africa’s governing African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority of 30 years, in the country’s most sweeping political shift since the end of the apartheid. Popular support for the ANC during […]

Retired Navy Admiral Robert Burke. Courtesy: U.S. Navy A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiralwho was once the military branch’s second-highest-ranking officer, was arrested on Friday for a bribery scheme with two tech CEOs, the Department of Justice announced. From 2020 to 2022, Robert Burkea 62-year-old resident of Coconut Creek, Fla., allegedly used his high-ranking status […]

Supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) holding cut-outs of India’s Prime Minister a Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally in Amritsar on May 30, 2024. Narinder Nanu | Afp | Getty Images India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks set for a rare third consecutive term in power, as local exit polls on […]

In May, the national median monthly rent was $1,404, down almost 1% from same month last year, according to a June Apartment List report. Rent costs across U.S. continue to fluctuate, but there are some major areas where prices are trending up year-over-year. CNBC Make It analyzed rent estimate data from Apartment List for April 2023 […]

Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers dribbles against the New York Knicks at Moda Center on March 14, 2023 in Portland, Oregon.Alika Jenner | Getty Images SportWhile playing college basketball at Weber State University, Damian Lillard suffered a broken bone in his right foot as a junior that kept him out of all but… […]

The World Travel & Tourism Council says the global travel and tourism sector won’t fully recover this year — but it will get close.The sector is forecast to reach $9.5 trillion in 2023, just 5% shy of its gross domestic product contribution in 2019, according to the WTTC’s 2023 Economic Impact Research.After a sharp drop… […]

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen holds a press conference at the US Treasury Department in Washington, DC, on April 11, 2023.Stefani Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesTreasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said that failure to raise the debt ceiling will cause a “steep economic downturn” in the U.S., and she reiterated her warning that… […]

Still from Marvel Studio’s “Guardians of the Galaxy. Vol 3.”DisneyJames Gunn’s ragtag group of criminals-turned-heroes snared $114 million at the domestic box office during their third foray in cinemas.Disney and Marvel Studio’s “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3” tallied another $168.1 million from international markets over the weekend, bringing its total global haul to $282.1… […]