A Washington socialite and journalist accused former first lady Jill Biden of “elder abuse” in an explosive new interview after former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. Sally Quinn, a D.C. insider and longtime columnist for the Washington Post, took aim at the former first lady during a wide-ranging interview with journalist Tara Palmeri on the “Tara Palmeri Show” on Wednesday. She accused Jill Biden of pushing him to run for re-election despite his apparent cognitive decline. “I blame Jill Biden for this. Jill Biden is his wife. And if Jill Biden had stood up and gone…
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The University of Maryland (UMD) is welcoming an unlikely commencement speaker on Thursday to usher off the class of 2025: a bright-green Muppet. Kermit the Frog, a famous family favorite and self-proclaimed “Amphibitarian,” announced the momentous occasion in a YouTube video posted by the university. In the video, the speaker was hailed as an “environmental advocate,” “best-selling author,” “Peabody Award winner,” “international superstar,” “friend to all creatures” and “champion of creativity, kindness and believing in the impossible.” The camera then sharply panned to the awkward Muppet with a screeching sound as Kermit stood in front of a red curtain and…
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s daughter Violet Affleck went into detail this week about how she and her mother argued about the causes of the Los Angeles wildfires that destroyed their Pacific Palisades neighborhood in January. “I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room,” the 19-year-old wrote in Yale’s Global Health Review, where she is a student, in a piece published on Sunday titled: “A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles.” Affleck continued of Garner, “She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the…
El presidente de EE. UU. mostró al mandatario sudafricano, Cyril Ramaphosa, un video de lo que dijo eran pruebas de una persecución racial contra los sudafricanos blancos.
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) has big aspirations. In fact, the defining features of the energy company today are centered around management’s long-term goals. That is true on both the positive side and the negative. Oxy, as the company is more commonly known, could possibly set you up for life, but you should understand what you are getting into when you buy it. One key event, two important outcomes In 2019, integrated energy giant Chevron agreed to buy U.S. onshore driller Anadarko Petroleum. The deal made a lot of sense for Chevron, since it would materially expand the company’s position in…
It’s that time of year again: Billionaire investors have offered us a peek into their latest investing moves through 13F filings. These are required quarterly by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from managers of more than $100 million in U.S. securities, and they detail the latest buys and sells of these major investors. Why are 13Fs useful for us? They offer us an idea of what these billionaires are doing in the current market environment — and since these investors clearly have proven their abilities over the years, we might look to them for investing inspiration. Where to invest…
Cathie Wood doesn’t shy away from taking risks. It’s part of what has garnered her a loyal following of investors who like her bold style. Her flagship fund’s 152.8% return in 2020 probably helped, too. Of course, risk-taking often comes with downsides. The same fund, the ARK Innovation ETF, is still down more than 60% since its 2021 peak, while the S&P 500 is up nearly 45%. Still, many continue to look to Wood as a luminary of innovation investing. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to…
Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) stock is finding the opposite of what was set up to be a slightly quiet year for the automaker, which is in between vehicle launches. Rivian is dealing with tariff uncertainty, trying to boost deliveries, and constructing the expansion to its Illinois plant to enable production of its all-new R2 SUV. Despite trading well below all-time highs, the stock is quietly up 56% over the past year, but if you need more reason for optimism amid a slowing EV market, here are two. Operational improvement Rivian churned out its first quarter of gross profit during the fourth…
by Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A short video taken inside an Illinois school captured troubling behavior: A teacher gripping a 6-year-old boy with autism by the ankle and dragging him down the hallway on his back. The early-April incident would’ve been upsetting in any school, but it happened at the Garrison School, part of a special education district where at one time students were arrested at…
The judge ordered a Justice Department lawyer to track down the plane apparently carrying a Burmese migrant and see whether it could be turned around midflight. He also threatened officials with contempt.