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Police confirmed that a man was shot and killed at the 53rd Street and 7th Avenue subway station in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred just after noon, according to the New York City Police Department.
Teresa DeLuca, M.D., is leaving the board of directors at LifeStance Health Group, Inc. She notified the company's board on October 14, 2026, that she will resign from the board and all of its committees. Her departure takes effect on…
NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has scheduled its 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders for December 17, 2026. The company's board of directors established this date on October 16, 2026, and set October 28, 2026, as the record date for determining…
A clinical neuropsychologist argues that treating normal developmental challenges as medical disorders often harms children more than it helps. The expert contends that society's obsession with metrics and the push for diagnostic labels…
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz identified the 16-year-old suspect who killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School on Thursday. The suspect was neutralized by a bystander, identified as 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco…
David Rosenthal, a 39-year-old Washington man, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot provided unlicensed medical advice that contributed to his mental health crisis and subsequent hospitalization. The…
Bucks County Detectives arrested New Jersey Deputy Attorney General Brian Richard Fitzgerald on felony charges related to AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The 51-year-old was taken into custody at his home on Thursday. According…
Ryan Fitzpatrick criticized Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix after a recent overtime victory, stating that Nix is not playing competitively and that his current performance is almost disrespectful to the quarterback position. The comments…
Marsha's South Street, a gay sports bar in Philadelphia, will close its doors this weekend after members of the LGBTQIA+ community accused the establishment of transphobia, misogyny, and various microaggressions. The closure comes just…
Meta will update its commercial terms to require business accounts to allow the company to train artificial intelligence on their linked website content. Legal experts warn of the shift. The new terms take effect on October 30. There is no…
American consumers are reporting high levels of financial anxiety while simultaneously increasing their spending, a disconnect attributed to psychological factors and structural changes in how purchases are made. In September, the…
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) stated that it cannot implement a policy to exclude biological males from girls' sports because such a rule would violate current Washington state law. This position places the…
Golden State Warriors top draft pick Yaxel Lendeborg responded with shock when assistant coach Frank Vogel informed him he would guard Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić during a preseason game on Tuesday night. Lendeborg, the No. 11…
Country Music Hall of Famer Wynonna Judd has praised Ella Langley for canceling a recent concert due to safety concerns. Judd, 62, stated that the "Choosin' Texas" hitmaker made the right decision, a view she expressed during a recent…
Michael Douglas has described a dinner party during which a cult he says was led by Mel Lyman threatened to "eliminate" him. The 82-year-old actor recounted the encounter on the "Joe Rogan Experience," stating that he and his girlfriend…
New York Giants head coach John Harbaugh indicated on Wednesday that the team may give J.J. McCarthy a larger role in its offense, following a game where the 23-year-old played five snaps. The Giants tied the Washington Commanders 27-27 on…
Audio from a frantic 911 call released by ABC News and CBS News captures Zach Hickerson attempting to revive actress Hayden Panettiere after finding her unconscious in a South Carolina apartment on Aug. 16. The seven-minute recording…
Withings now requires a paid subscription for new users to sync health data with third-party apps. MacRumors reported on a discussion in Withings' support forums indicating that accounts created on or after October 13, 2026, must subscribe…
Christopher "Dodge" Smith, 40, faces charges of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse after Pinellas County deputies say he shot his girlfriend and then ran her over with his SUV while their 5-year-old child was in the vehicle. The…
The iShares Select U.S. REIT ETF (ICF) and the State Street SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate ETF (RWO) differ primarily in geographic scope and portfolio density. ICF focuses exclusively on 30 large-cap U.S. stocks, while RWO holds 224…
Todd Engel, a 63-year-old Maryland resident, claims that the diabetes medication Ozempic caused him to lose his sight in both eyes. The Denmark-based manufacturer, Novo Nordisk, denies that the drug causes the condition, stating that…
Golden State Warriors big man Kristaps Porzingis has publicly denied internet rumors claiming he has contracted HIV or AIDS while remaining out of the team indefinitely due to an undisclosed health issue. The veteran center, who has not…
Kevin and Sarah Burns appeared on "The Ingraham Angle" to discuss a protest by their daughter Holly and her teammates at a Washington high school cross-country meet. Roughly a dozen Camas High School girls walked off the course during an…
Hassan Kariem, 42, died Monday after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Authorities have not yet determined what caused the fall.
Selma Blair's on-again, off-again boyfriend Andy Kiernan asked social media followers to "pray for Selma" following her arrest and subsequent assault charges stemming from an incident aboard a Delta Air Lines flight. Kiernan shared the…
Shawn Carney, CEO of 40 Days For Life, stated that the recent ban on religious signs at ESPN's "College GameDay" is a corporate misstep that has alienated the network's primary audience. The policy was introduced last weekend in Tuscaloosa…
Karen Holt, a criminology professor at Michigan State University, is urging residents of Lansing, Michigan, to exercise caution and rationality as police investigate the possibility that five recent deaths are linked to a serial attacker…
The Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF (FNCL) charges an expense ratio of 0.08%, significantly lower than the 0.35% fee for the Invesco KBW Bank ETF (KBWB). While the Fidelity fund offers broader diversification across the financial…
Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, have asked a Utah judge to prohibit cameras from the courtroom ahead of an October 23 hearing. The defense argues that recent media reports…
Archaeologists in Paris have unearthed a stone-and-timber wall that may finally locate the ancient city of Lutetia, a settlement mentioned by Julius Caesar but never conclusively identified by physical evidence. The French Ministry of…
StockStory advises investors to avoid Teleflex, Enovis, and Ocular Therapeutix, citing concerns over profitability and capital efficiency despite broader sector gains. While healthcare stocks have risen 33.4% over the past six months…
Homeland Security Investigations raided the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., early Monday morning as part of a criminal fraud investigation into her immigration paperwork. A source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital that the…
A person died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, according to police. The Cobb County Police Department confirmed one fatality and reported that several other individuals were injured in the…
The Philadelphia Eagles' first kickoff return touchdown of the NFL season was erased on Sunday due to penalties committed by both teams during the play. The incident occurred on the opening kickoff of the game against the Jacksonville…
In his new memoir, "One Helluva Ride," Michael Douglas details a series of personal and professional crises, including extramarital affairs, a severe substance abuse problem, and the stage IV cancer diagnosis that forced him to confront…
Journey drummer Deen Castronovo was rushed to a hospital on Thursday after a medical emergency forced the band to stop its concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after only two songs. The 62-year-old musician left the stage and was transported for…
StockStory, an automated stock screening service, identified Hims & Hers Health as a preferred healthcare investment while advising against Supernus Pharmaceuticals and Elanco Animal Health. The analysis comes amid a period where…
Cleveland Guardians pitcher Gavin Williams struck out 12 of the 21 batters he faced as the team completed a comeback from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 in Game 5 of the American League Division Series. The victory sets…
A review by Fox News Digital reveals that Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford voted to support clemency for dozens of convicted violent offenders during his nearly eight years in office. The findings include Ford's support for reduced…
Starbucks faces a class-action lawsuit alleging that its "sugar-free" protein beverages contain significant amounts of naturally occurring sugar. The suit, filed in federal court in Washington state on Oct. 2, targets eight hot and iced…
Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a California bill that would have exempted future reparations payments from the state's personal income tax. Assemblymember Tina McKinnor, D-Inglewood, described the decision as a major setback for…
HubSpot, Inc. disclosed that Erika Fisher, its Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, has notified the company of her decision to resign. The departure is effective November 6, 2026, as Fisher moves to pursue another professional…
Supreme Court justices signaled during oral arguments on Oct. 6 that they are likely to side with Intel Corp. in a major lawsuit over private investments in 401(k) plans. The case, Anderson v. Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee…
Crescent Energy Company has commenced an underwritten public offering of $1 billion in Class A common stock. The company announced the start of the sale on October 8, 2026, to help fund the acquisition of oil and natural gas assets from…
New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin left Friday night's game against the Washington Capitals with a lower-body injury and did not return. The 2021-22 Vezina Trophy winner was helped off the ice by teammates after appearing to jam…
Tesla has replaced the "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" label with "Assisted Driving" for its vehicle software in Europe following criticism from German authorities. The German Federal Ministry of Transport stated that the previous…
Cesare Frepoli has stepped down from the board of directors at Terra Innovatum Global N.V. effective October 2, 2026. The company disclosed the move in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, noting that Frepoli…
FibroBiologics, Inc. closed a private placement offering with Peak One Opportunity Fund, L.P. on October 8, 2026, raising $1,020,000 for a convertible debenture and 125,000 restricted shares of common stock. The company filed a Form 8-K…
International Paper Company has finalized the committee assignments for two directors who recently joined its board. In a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 8, 2026, the company…
USA Today Co. is suing OpenAI, claiming the tech company copied hundreds of thousands of articles to train its artificial intelligence models. The publisher filed the lawsuit on Thursday, seeking damages exceeding $250 million for what it…
Riley Exploration Permian, Inc. has fully retired $130 million of its 10.50% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2028. The company disclosed the termination of the material definitive agreement in a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and…
APA Corporation released supplemental information on October 7, 2026, providing estimated financial and operational figures for its third quarter of 2026. The Houston-based company, listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker APA, stated that…
Valerie Bertinelli is pushing back against online critics who accuse her of being "obsessed" with her late ex-husband, Eddie Van Halen. In a recent Instagram post, the 66-year-old actress addressed the negative comments she receives when…
Neogen Corporation shareholders voted to approve executive compensation and a new incentive plan at the company's 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which took place on October 1, 2026. The meeting resulted in the election of three…
VanEck Solana ETF has declared its first cash distribution of $964,960, marking the start of a quarterly payout schedule for the trust's shareholders. The filing, submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 5, 2026…
AppTech Payments Corp. disclosed that Anthony Shall's employment as Chief Operating Officer ended on September 30, 2026. The company filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission to report this change in its senior…
Paramount Skydance has completed its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery following a rejection of a final legal challenge by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The combined entity will operate under the name Skydance, adopting…
Warner Bros. Discovery's board of directors ratified the issuance of stock to non-employee directors after determining the grants were potentially defective corporate acts. The company filed a statutory notice with the Delaware Court of…
The Seattle Seahawks signed veteran running back Joe Mixon to their practice squad on Monday, a move made necessary by significant injuries and departures that have left the team's backfield depleted. According to multiple reports, the…
Todd J. Carter resigned from the board of directors of Houlihan Lokey, Inc. on October 2, 2026, effective immediately. The financial advisory firm disclosed the departure in a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
Newly declassified records reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation monitored the travel of Donald Trump's family and logged phone contacts for his allies during a classified documents investigation. The White House released the…
The Federal Communications Commission has added the Matic robot vacuum to its ban waiver list, allowing the device to be imported, marketed, and sold in the United States. The FCC designated the original Matic, model 4MA0001, and its…
Tennessee has paused the scheduled execution of Gary Wayne Sutton following a failed attempt to execute Christa Pike. Governor Bill Lee halted all state executions for the remainder of the year, a decision that directly affects Sutton…
Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. has appointed Katherine Hargis as its new Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary. The company announced the move on October 5, 2026, with the appointment…
The NFL is reviewing an incident involving referee Adrian Hill after he appeared to lose his composure during a game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Miami Dolphins. A league official confirmed to OutKick that the review is underway…
WaFd Inc. will publish its fourth quarter and full-year financial results for the period ending September 30, 2026, following the market close on October 15, 2026. The Seattle-based financial services company disclosed this schedule in a…
Nextdoor Holdings, Inc. will voluntarily transfer its common stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Capital Market, with the change becoming effective after market close on October 13, 2026. The company announced the…
Two people died and 35 others were injured after a mass shooting erupted at a neighborhood block party in Vienna, Georgia, early Sunday morning. Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy reported that more than 1,000 people were present when over…
Edible Garden AG Incorporated has entered into a real estate purchase contract to acquire its Prairie Hills facility in Webster City, Iowa. The transaction will transition the company from tenant to owner of the 6.2-acre site, which is…
Joseph Holycross, a 39-year-old father of four, used the ECG feature on his Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Classic to check his heart after his wife, Jamie, noticed he was breathing strangely. The device returned an alert for atrial fibrillation, a…
Human NFL analyst Dan Z. extended his lead over a ChatGPT model in a head-to-head betting contest, reaching a 9-6 record with a profit of 2.82 units after going 4-1 in Week 3. The AI model, identified as GPT-6 Pro, recorded its first…
Jennifer Jones, the Chief Accounting Officer of Coinbase Global, Inc., has decided to retire. The company disclosed the news in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 2, 2026, noting that Jones notified…
Pro Bowl running back Jonathan Stewart argues that the primary value of youth sports is not athletic development but the creation of a supportive community for young people. Stewart, who spent 11 seasons in the NFL, now coaches a middle…
Blaize Holdings, Inc. received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC on September 28, 2026, stating that its common stock is not in compliance with the exchange's minimum bid price requirement. The notice was issued because the closing…
Meridian Holdings Inc. has agreed to extend the maturity of $15 million in promissory notes owed to three former owners of its gaming business until November 1, 2031. The company, formerly known as Golden Matrix Group, Inc., disclosed the…
Cingulate Inc. extended the trial period for Matthew N. Brams, its Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, through December 31, 2026. The company disclosed the change in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the U.S…
Fox News published a campus-focused newsletter detailing several recent controversies at American universities. The edition highlights a Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence who called to free Luigi Mangione during a panel on fat…
The Miami Heat will debut new 'Vice City' jerseys on November 18, the night before the release of 'Grand Theft Auto VI.' The team announced on Friday that they will wear the new uniforms during their game against the Milwaukee Bucks…
Xcel Brands, Inc. received a notice from The Nasdaq Stock Market on September 29, 2026, stating that its common stock failed to meet the minimum bid price requirement. The company's shares traded below $1.00 per share for 30 consecutive…
General Mills, Inc. shareholders voted to amend the company's certificate of incorporation to exculpate certain officers and require securities claims to be filed in federal district courts. The amendments, which took effect on October 1…
Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) costs less and holds more securities than Fidelity Investment Grade Bond ETF (FIGB), making it the stronger choice for investors prioritizing low fees and broad exposure. The two funds both provide core…
The Indiana Fever are eliminated from the WNBA playoffs after losing to the Las Vegas Aces in Thursday night's Game 3. The loss concludes the Fever's season, sending the team to the offseason while Caitlin Clark steps away from competition…
Moonshot AI has started an internal review after researcher Peter Garrigan claimed its Kimi model can be coerced into offering guidance on biological weapons and assassinations. Fox News senior foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner…
ENDRA Life Sciences Inc. and ASP Isotopes Inc. entered into a first amendment to their merger agreement on October 1, 2026. The amendment modifies several key terms of the original deal, including board structure, cash requirements, and…
MangoRx IP Holdings, LLC, a former subsidiary of Mangoceuticals, Inc., has entered into agreements for a $2.5 million strategic investment. The company reported receiving the first $1.75 million tranche of the funds. These transactions…
Old Second Bancorp, Inc. will release its financial results for the third quarter of 2026 after the market closes on October 21, 2026. The company disclosed the schedule in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
Leidos has appointed Jeff McElfresh, the chief operating officer of AT&T, to its board of directors. The appointment took effect on October 1, 2026. McElfresh brings more than 30 years of experience from his career at AT&T, where he…
VirnetX Holding Corporation entered into a sales agreement with Titan Partners Securities LLC on October 1, 2026, to sell up to $19,135,717 of its common stock. The company filed an At the Market Offering Agreement with the Securities and…
KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. completed a subscription rights offering on September 29, 2026, generating gross proceeds of $37.2 million. The Houston-based oilfield services company used the capital to redeem a portion of its senior…
Levi Strauss & Co. has appointed John Vandemore as its next Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a role set to begin on November 1, 2026. The San Francisco-based company announced the hiring in a press release dated…
TScan Therapeutics, Inc. has entered into separation agreements with its Chief Financial Officer and Chief Medical Officer, formalizing departures that were first disclosed in September. The company filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and…
Spark I Acquisition Corporation filed an amended report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 30, 2026, to correct the estimated redemption price for its Class A ordinary shares. The amendment clarifies that the…
Lee Enterprises has appointed Gregory Hoffmann to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. The media company, which trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol LEE, announced the decision on September 30, 2026, in a press release issued…
GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement with Roth Principal Investments, LLC that gives the restaurant company the right to sell up to $25,000,000 of newly issued shares of its Class A common stock. The company…
Douglas Stewart Carter, 71, was released on bail late Monday after prosecutors stated that newly analyzed DNA evidence excluded him as the source of biological material recovered from key items in the 1985 killing of Eva Olesen. Carter had…
BioAtla, Inc. has reinstated retention bonus programs for Chief Executive Officer Jay M. Short and Chief Financial Officer Christian Vasquez, contingent on achieving specific financial milestones by the end of 2026. The company also…
Dave Fox, the chief financial officer of Northern Trust Corporation, has announced his retirement. The financial services executive intends to remain in his role through the end of the first quarter of 2027 to support an orderly…
Nvidia has announced an open-source safety platform designed to monitor and potentially quarantine AI agents, a move aimed at addressing a growing security crisis in the industry. The initiative comes after Axios reported that researchers…
OutKick.com reported that NFL fans are fuming over officiating decisions in Week 3 games, while Major League Baseball faced criticism for handling the final regular season Sunday unevenly. The sports media outlet, which publishes a daily…
Multiple National Football League players and coaches attributed recent game outcomes to God during post-game interviews on Sunday. These statements followed decisive moments in several matchups, including a Denver Broncos victory over the…
Coeur Mining, Inc. filed a current report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 28, 2026, to disclose that it posted an updated corporate presentation on its website. The company, which is incorporated in Delaware…
The Marygold Companies, Inc. (TMC) has entered into a definitive agreement with Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) to become a privately held company in an all-cash transaction. The deal, announced publicly on September 25, 2026, will remove…
Smyrna Police charged 18-year-old Kingston Lammar Bradley with malice murder Friday after witnesses discovered dismembered human remains in the trunk of his car. The victim, identified as Shanteria "KT" Mosley, was a DoorDash worker whose…
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is replacing its top legal executive. The company announced on September 25, 2026, that it will hire Da-Wai Hu to serve as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, a role set to begin on…
Tidewater Inc. entered into a guarantee agreement with Brazil's national development bank on September 21, 2026. The agreement obligates the Houston-based company to ensure the full and timely payment of specific construction loans held by…
FG Nexus Inc. will change its corporate name to FG Communities Holdings Inc. and swap its Nasdaq ticker symbols, a move the company says aligns its public identity with its focus on affordable housing. The company filed a Certificate of…
Weyerhaeuser Co. disclosed an accelerated growth strategy aimed at adding $1.5 billion in incremental Adjusted EBITDA to its results by 2030, measured against a 2024 baseline. The company presented these goals in an investor presentation…
Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. is advancing its lead trispecific candidate, APVO451, toward clinical development by optimizing scalable manufacturing processes. The Seattle-based biotechnology company expects to begin Investigational New Drug…
OpenText Corporation has priced a $1 billion offering of senior secured notes to redeem its existing 2027 debt and fund a tender offer for a portion of its 2028 notes. The company announced the pricing on September 23, 2026, in Waterloo…
Two University of Mississippi students were found dead at separate locations, and authorities are investigating whether drug use played a role. The key term here is kratom, a plant-based substance often sold in retail stores that has been…
The Paramount merger settlement received relatively small attention regarding cable, a fact that reinforces the network's decline as a major force in the future of media. In this context, a merger settlement is a legal agreement that…
The short version is that Hayden Panettiere died from the toxic effects of five specific substances, a finding the Greenville County Coroner's Office has officially ruled an accident. Toxic effects refers to the harmful physiological…
The short version is that three major news organizations lost their standing with the White House after the president banned them. Access means the physical and digital permission to enter a government building to file stories, and without…
Hindsight, in a legal proceeding, means assigning blame using knowledge that emerged only after events unfolded, rather than by what a person could reasonably have known at the time. A federal judge has rejected that defense in the case…
A growing number of Republican lawmakers are backing guaranteed income programs for pregnant women and new mothers, even as their own party moves to ban them in at least five states. Guaranteed income means giving families money with few…
State legal action has been the obstacle keeping Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery from completing their proposed merger. Paramount is in talks to resolve an antitrust lawsuit, a legal challenge asserting the deal would harm…
Shareholders' equity, the number you get when you subtract a company's debts from the value of everything it owns, has a minimum floor on the Nasdaq exchange. InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: INM) slipped below it. Nasdaq's Listing…
A controller, the executive who runs a company's day-to-day accounting before results reach the chief financial officer, moved up to the CFO role at Gold.com, Inc. (NYSE: GOLD) on September 18, 2026. Jill Van took that seat as Cary Dickson…
Active noise cancellation headphones, a category where built-in microphones detect ambient sound and cancel it out before it reaches your ears, just got noticeably cheaper. The Sonos Ace, the company's first wireless headphones, are now…
A general manager in college football controls roster decisions, staff hires, and how the organization runs above the coaching level. Bill Belichick, the 74-year-old head coach at the University of North Carolina, told the Wall Street…
A 10-K is the annual report every U.S. public company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission: audited financials, risk factors, and management's description of the business in one document. EPM (ticker: EPM) has submitted its…
A quarterly financial report is on file for IHT with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A 10-Q is the form every public company must submit each quarter to disclose its financial condition between annual reports, covering revenues…
The argument over artificial intelligence regulation, meaning the question of what rules governments should impose on companies that develop and sell AI systems, has separated into two camps. Former President Do
A House committee has voted unanimously to hold Leon Black in contempt of Congress. A contempt of Congress finding is the formal charge that a person refused to obey a subpoena, Congress's legal demand for testimony or documents. The…
A reverse stock split is when a company reduces the number of shares in circulation by merging them, so multiple existing shares become a single share at a proportionally higher price. Shareholders of Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq…
A credit agreement amendment, a formal revision to an existing loan rather than a new deal, closed September 10, 2026, opening up to $250 million in new borrowing capacity for the contracting subsidiary of Cardinal Infrastructure Group…
Two federal appeals courts have now reached opposite conclusions on whether sports-related event contracts are swaps, a class of regulated financial instrument under federal law. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that those…
A preseason favorite, in football terms the team most analysts expect to win the championship before a single game is played, rarely keeps that label undisturbed. The Los Angeles Rams held it going into 2026. They lost the opener to the…
Consumer lending, meaning loans made directly to individual borrowers rather than to businesses, has a new finance chief at Oportun. The San Mateo company (Nasdaq: OPRT) disclosed the hire
A daily two-hour limit is coming for every Instagram and Facebook user under 18, one piece of a $17 billion settlement requiring Meta to introduce new protections for younger users. A settlement is a binding
Two banks have stopped selling products for Delaware Life, an insurer affiliated with financier Mark Walter, as probes into the company continue. Distribution through banks, in plain terms, is when a bank sells an insurer's policies to its…
A settlement, meaning a legal agreement to resolve claims without going to trial, worth $18 billion has placed Meta at the center of a children's online safety dispute. The company has since called on rivals including TikTok and YouTube to…
A former member of the United States Congress was banned from a prediction market after a regulator found he made public statements to drive up the value of bets he already held. A prediction market is a platform where users buy and sell…
A public dispute about bond market intervention, meaning direct government or central bank buying or selling i
Italy's Level 2 travel designation was updated Thursday, with a revised summary that puts terrorism and petty crime at the center of the warning. Level 2 is the State Department's term for "exercise increased caution," which means the…
A warning about extinction risk, the concern that advanced AI could threaten human survival, has pushed members of Congress to call for new rules on artificial intelligence. The researcher behind that warning named OpenAI and Anthropic…
Shareholders voted to replace a pharmaceutical company name with a computing one. That vote required an amendment to the certificate of incorporation, the founding legal document that records a corporation's official identity with the…
A prediction market is a contract where participants put real money on whether a specific future event will go a certain way. New Jersey has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case about those contracts. The petition came after a…
A judge has turned down the US Department of Justice's request to force Google to sell parts of its ads operation, sparing the search giant what the government described as the necessary remedy for an online advertising monopoly. A…
Hot tubs and heated whirlpools aboard Norwegian Prima, a 3,200-passenger Norwegian Cruise Line vessel, are shut down as a precaution following three diagnosed cases of Legionnaires' disease among former passengers. Legionnaires' disease is…
Thursday's NFL kickoff brought a rough game for the New England Patriots and a competing claim from Donald Trump, who posted via Truth Social, his social media platform, that his Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas drew bigger…
A congressional stock-trading ban, meaning a rule that would bar sitting lawmakers from buying or selling individual company shares while they hold office, passed the House and Republicans are preparing to feature it at their midterm…
A trade ban targeting Israeli settlements in the West Bank is imminent. Settlements are civilian communities that Israeli citizens have built in territories the international community broadly regards as occupied Palestinian land. Ed…
A settlement, meaning a negotiated payment that closes a dispute without a court deciding the underlying facts, has resolved Deutsche Bank's civil conflict with former executive Dario Schiraldi. The German lender agreed to pay €152 million.
The Los Angeles Clippers have lost their owner for a year, $30 million, and five first-round draft picks following an NBA salary cap investigation tied to player Kawhi Leonard. A salary cap is the leagu
Paying a player millions outside the salary cap, the NBA's rule that sets an upper limit on what each franchise can spend on player contracts, has earned Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer a ban from the league. A league…
A subpoena is a legal order that compels someone to produce documents or appear before a government body. Leon Black is now in federal court to fight one. Black has filed suit against the House Oversight Co
America's most popular professional sports league has locked in its top executive for another four seasons. The NFL announced that Roger Goodell will remain commissioner through the 2030 season, with his deal expiring March 31, 2031. More…
Something is wrong, and a prominent stock commentator is stepping back until he knows what. In investor shorthand, that move is called putting a stock in the penalty box: a temporary hold where an analyst stops recommending shares but…
The federal securities regulator has sued one of the country's most influential proxy advisory firms to force it to produce documents it had already been asked for. A proxy adviser is a company that tells large institutional investors
Open commissioner seats at a U.S. markets regulator have complicated an active legislative negotiation. A commissioner is a voting board member at a federal agency, one who can only take a seat after the president nominates them and the…
A comeback four years in the making came to an end Friday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens. Doubles, the two-on-two format of professional tennis, was the format Venus and Serena Williams chose for their return to the US Open…
The short version: a federal immigration officer has been charged with making false statements, which in plain terms means knowingly lying to federal authorities, over the circumstances of a Venezuelan immigrant's shooting. The officer…
Drinks containing THC have been growing fast as an alternative to alcohol, but Congress has once more delayed a federal ban on hemp products, leaving an already uncertain market in a longer holding pattern. THC, short for…
Redemption rights let shareholders in a blank-check company pull their invested cash out before a merger closes. Andretti Acquisition Corp. II, listed on Nasdaq as POLE, spent the first days of September signing deals with investors to…
States that receive federal welfare funding must now share information about undocumented immigrants with immigration authorities or risk losing that money. Welfare funding, here, means dollars from two specific programs: Temporary…
A Spanish minister has demanded answers from the country's police chief over an internal investigation that reportedly accuses Moroccan security forces of deliberately steering migrants toward Spain. "Orchestrating" is the key word in the…
A top corporate lawyer who spent 35 years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore is taking an in-house role. Philip J. Boeckman will become Chief Legal Officer of Liberty Capital Corporation (Nasdaq: GLIBA, GLIBK) on October 1, 2026, per an 8-K the…
Construction of a ballroom at the White House is moving forward, even as a legal challenge to the project remains active in the courts. That arrangement, where disputed work continues while a lawsuit plays out, is sometimes called allowing…
A senior leadership change at an asset manager, a firm that pools and deploys client money on behalf of investors, is coming at Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ). Andrew Lo, Senior Managing Director
When a workplace turns hostile based on how someone looks rather than how they perform, the entertainment industry tends to call that "toxic," a term meaning a culture of judgment that a worker cannot escape by simply doing the job well…
A corporate logo is arriving on Duke University's basketball court under an agreement with Edward Jones, the financial services firm. Duke joins a growing number of programs choosing to place sponsor branding on their playing surfaces as…
A push to ease banking regulation, the rules that determine how much risk a lender can hold on its books and how much capital it must keep as a cushion, has found support among Swiss lawmakers. The proposal is a
Paying for an ad on Amazon may not have worked the way sellers believed it did. The Federal Trade Commission sued the e-commerce giant, alleging Amazon misled advertisers through a deceptive auctioning system. An ad auction is the…
MicroVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: MVIS) has regained good standing on the Nasdaq stock exchange after satisfying the exchange's minimum bid price rule, which requires a company's shares to trade at or above $1.00 on a sustained basis. Nasdaq's…
Regulatory over-reach, the term for rules that extend past what an underlying risk actually requires, is the concern now being raised at the top of Switzerland's banking sector. The chief executive of EFG International is stepping into a…
A federal lawsuit claims that fuel distributor KRSM failed to pay for $4 million worth of gasoline it received. A fuel distributor is a company that buys gasoline in bulk from producers and resells it to gas station networks, without…
Two people with backgrounds in corporate finance and semiconductor manufacturing joined the board of directors at IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) on August 25, 2026. A board of directors is the group of
A settlement, meaning an agreement that ends a lawsuit without going to trial, has been reached between Meta and state attorneys general, the chief law-enforcement officers of their states,
A record sale price just changed hands in the NFL. Franchise value, the price paid for the right to field a team in a league with no open entry, hit $9.6 billion Wednesday when the other 31 owners unanimously approved the Khosla family's…
A Hong Kong court has ruled that liquidators can pursue PwC across its global operations in connection with a Chinese property giant's collapse. Liquidators are court-appointed officials who take control of a failed company and work to…
Settlement means ending a lawsuit by agreement rather than by verdict. Paramount and the California Attorney General's office are reportedly planning to meet Monday to discuss whether that outcome is possible, in connection with the…
Five people were killed at a rural property near Forest Grove, Oregon, over the weekend, and the man investigators named as the suspect was found dead in Washington state before he could face charges. Apparent suicide is the term officers…
Debt just became new shares. A convertible note is a loan structured so the lender can collect company stock instead of cash when certain conditions are met. That option was exercised against Stardust Power I
A ticking fee is what a buyer pays for every day a signed deal sits unconsummated past a deadline. Paramount Skydance filed a motion Monday asking a federal judge to require the coalition of state attorneys general blocking its merger with…
Prediction markets, platforms where participants hold contracts that pay out if a real-world event happens and expire worthless if it does not, are getting their first formal examination from a federal derivatives regulator. The Commodity…
A deliberate arm-grab with less than 10 seconds left in the first half produced the sharpest moment yet in the growing on-court rivalry between Paige Bueckers and Caitlin Clark on Thursday night. A "foul to give" is when a team can commit…
Capital allocation is the job of deciding where a company's money goes next. That decision changes hands at Coty Inc. (NYSE: COTY) on September 1, 2026, when Soraya Benchikh assumes the chief financial officer role. She su
Settling the states' antitrust lawsuit over a proposed media deal would require the parties to make significant changes to the transaction itself, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in an interview with CNBC's David Faber…
A longer-range flight clearance is government authorization permitting delivery drones to operate beyond the distance limits that previous aviation rules set. Amazon received one, and the company has since been quietly expanding its drone…
A broadcast licence is the federal authorisation a television station must hold to legally transmit over public airwaves. Disney filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing that the Federal Communications Commission triggered a…
Using an insurer as the financial engine of a broader empire, not merely as one holding among many, has become a much-copied playbook on Wall Street. That approach, called leveraging insurers, works by directing the cash reserves that an…
Cutting a loss is different from turning a profit. A narrowing loss means the company still burns cash, just less of it than before. That is where reAlpha Tech Corp. (Nasdaq: AIRE) stood at the end of the second quarter of 2026: a net loss…
A 102-year prison sentence did not keep Michael Douglas Brambles locked up. Brambles, 77, a former Los Angeles vice detective convicted of 26 violent crimes three decades ago, was paroled in 2020 under a California law that allows elderly…
Six people are dead after a shooting spread across separate locations in rural Missaukee County, Michigan. Multi-scene, in this context, means investigators traced independent crime sites before the situation was resolved. Chad Hickman…
A guilty plea is the point at which a defendant tells the court the charges are true and gives up the right to trial. Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League graduate, reached that point in his federal case over the death of the UnitedHealthcare…
When a regulator gains the legal authority to step inside a bank that is struggling, before a failure becomes public, that authority is called an intervention power. Switzerland is now pushing to give its financial watchdog exactly that…
AI computing power is on track to trade on a financial exchange the way oil or grain does today. The instrument that makes this possible, a futures contract, is a standardized agreement to lo
A federal judge in Brooklyn has put a pointed concern on the public record in the Adani fraud case. Judge Nicholas Garaufis called out what he described as "concerning" irregularities, pointing specifically to repeated attempts to resolve…
The tournament that decides college football's national champion may soon get significantly larger, but the conferences that control it cannot agree on how much larger. The College Football Playoff, which is the postseason bracket…
A callback scam, meaning a fraudulent text message written to make the recipient call a number the attacker controls, recently reached a Washington, D.C., resident named Paul C. with a claim that Apple Pay had already charged him $8,250…
A financial penalty approaching $1 billion has been ordered in a case over alleged harm to children on social media. A penalty, in plain terms, is a punishment a court imposes on a defendan
An alleged drug trafficker landed in Dublin after being transferred from Dubai aboard an Irish government jet. The legal mechanism behind that transfer is extradition: the formal process by which one country surrenders a wanted person to…
A Wisconsin teenager accused of killing his 10-year-old cousin in 2022 may never face a jury. A resolution hearing, a pre-trial proceeding where parties can reach an agreement to end a criminal case without going to trial, has been set for…
When a company pays down a debt by handing the creditor new shares of stock instead of cash, that is called a conversion, and each share issued dilutes ownership for everyone already holding the stock. VolitionRx Limited (NYSE American…
A Pine Manor, Florida man was arrested this week on a charge of aggravated animal cruelty, a legal distinction that separates deliberate acts of killing or serious harm from ordinary neglect, after Lee County deputies say he killed two…
A buzzer-beater is a shot taken as the clock reaches zero. Chelsea Gray hit two of them Thursday night, once to tie the game and once to win it, giving the Las Vegas Aces an 86-84 overtime victory over the Indiana Fever at Gainbridge…
Travelers booking Princess Cruises voyages in 2027 and beyond will soon face higher upfront deposits and a shorter window to pay in full. A final payment deadline, the date by which a passenger must settle the remaining balance or forfeit…
A specialty retailer has put its own board chairman into the top executive seat on a temporary basis. That arrangement, an interim appointment, holds the position open while the company searches for a permanent chief executive. Destination…
An 8-K, the mandatory SEC disclosure companies file when executive leadership changes, confirmed that STAAR Surgical (NASDAQ: STAA) has named Warren Foust its permanent President and Chief Executive Officer, effective August 4, 2026. The…
A radiopharmaceutical company, one that develops drugs using radioactive compounds to help clinicians detect and treat disease, is changing hands in a deal valued at up to $8.0 billion. Cur
A computing company agreed to buy a data center development site using stock as the only currency, with 80 percent of the price payable only if the site hits specific build-out targets. That arrangement, called milestone-based…
Two pieces of news arrived in the same regulatory filing this week: a finance chief is stepping down, and a stock that had spent months below Nasdaq's minimum price floor, the $1.00-per-share threshold every listed company must maintain to…
About $100 billion has been returned to American importers after US customs officials repaid roughly 60 percent of the levies collected under the Trump administration's "liberation day" tariff program. A levy is a charge the government…
A non-disclosure agreement is a written contract that bars signers from discussing what they learn inside a meeting. The Democratic National Committee asked its senior officers to sign one before a private gathering on June 25, two people…
A blank-check company extended its window to close a merger by depositing $50,000 into a protected escrow account, then issued two zero-interest promissory notes to acknowledge each party's share of that cost. The escrow account, called a…
A drug application that lets the FDA begin reviewing completed portions before the full package arrives has reached federal regulators for a treatment targeting a serious, rare condition with no approved therapies in the United States…
A depth signing, the kind of roster addition that keeps starters fresh rather than replaces them, brought Jadeveon Clowney back to the Houston Texans on a one-year contract worth $5.5 million. The deal includes incentives that could push…
A $56 million financial settlement resolves the civil claims from an eBay harassment campaign in which employees cyberstalked a Boston couple. Cyberstalking, in legal terms, is the use of electronic communications to repeatedly target…
A $23 billion class-action settlement against the federal government makes 450,000 student loan borrowers eligible for debt cancellation. A class action is a single lawsuit filed on behalf of a large group sharing the same legal complaint…
A referral to the bar, meaning the state body that licenses and can discipline or disbar attorneys, is now part of the fallout from a court order that sharply rejected Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue…
A quarterly cash dividend, a fixed per-share payment distributed to stockholders on a recurring schedule, of $0.20 per share is headed to Kennametal Inc. (NYSE: KMT) investors next month. T
A state lawsuit says Kalshi, a prediction market platform (a venue where users buy contracts tied to the outcome of future events), is running an illegal gambling operation in New York. The suit
A financial disclosure, the government filing that requires officials to itemize outside financial relationships alongside their own, has revealed a connection between Kelly Loeffler's household and a high-entry private club. The document…
Electronic bond trading, where buyers and sellers of debt securities match orders through a digital platform rather than bilateral phone calls between broker desks, is consolidating at the top. Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has…
Advisory votes on executive compensation, meaning non-binding shareholder ballots that let investors signal approval or disapproval of how top managers are paid, sat at the center of a governance disagreement at Bogota Financial Corp…
The gap between what a conference claims and what it actually wins is measurable in this sport. In college football, that measurement runs through the College Football Playoff, the postseason bracket that determines a national champion…
A satellite mission built to rescue a space telescope from fiery reentry (the uncontrolled fall back through Earth's atmosphere that destroys aging spacecraft) is instead spinning out of control. NASA announced Tuesday that Link, built by…
A legal settlement, meaning a negotiated resolution that ends a lawsuit without a court verdict, cleared a notable liability question at Johnson and Johnson. Financial commentator Jim Cramer responded by framing the recent mood across Wall…
A tariff is a tax collected at the border on imported goods, paid first by the importer and generally passed further down the supply chain toward buyers. President Trump said his new tariffs are achieving the same result as an earlier set…
A Pennsylvania community bank that closed four acquisitions between April 2025 and February 2026 now holds $7.1 billion in total assets. Total assets, which counts everything a bank owns or is owed, from loans to investment securities…
A wave of more than 2,000 legislative and policy proposals now aims to govern artificial intelligence, the broad term for software systems that learn from data
The International Criminal Court, the permanent international body that prosecutes individuals for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, has removed its top prosecutor. Member
A legal challenge from state attorneys general has put the proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on hold. A merger is when two companies combine into one entity under shared ownership. The attorneys general allege…
Standard BioTools Inc. received a formal warning from Nasdaq on July 22, 2026, after its shares traded below $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days. The Boston-based company, which lists its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market…