Baseball owners have locked down their commissioner and their main broadcast partner, too. Any decisions on speeding up the game and perhaps making it more enjoyable to watch will have to wait. After wrapping up two days of meetings at a hotel next to the Atlanta Braves’ SunTrust Park, the owners announced a new contract […]
Rare pink diamond sold for stunning price tag on Tuesday
Christie’s sold the “Pink Legacy” diamond at auction Tuesday for more than $50 million including fees, saying it’s a new world record price per carat for a pink diamond. Christie’s said renowned jeweler Harry Winston was the buyer. The auction house had expected to fetch $30 million to $50 million for the nearly 19-carat, rectangular-cut […]
Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair auctions off for $393,000
A wheelchair used by physicist Stephen Hawking has sold at auction for almost 300,000 pounds ($393,000), while a copy of his doctoral thesis fetched almost 585,000 pounds ($767,000), auctioneer Christie’s said Thursday. The motorized chair, used by Hawking after he was paralyzed with motor neuron disease, raised 296,750 pounds in a Christie’s online auction. It […]
Trump’s economy SOARS (Obama will hate this!)
U.S. employers added a stellar 250,000 jobs last month and raised average pay by the most in nearly a decade — an achievement former President Barack Obama never reached. The Labor Department’s monthly jobs report, the last major economic data before Tuesday’s congressional elections, also showed that the unemployment rate remained at a five-decade low […]
Kavanaugh accuser cashes out nearly $1 million payday
The media circus around Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s credible, but unsubstantiated, accusation against Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the final week of his Supreme Court confirmation hearings was anchored on one critical claim from Democrats. Ford had “nothing to gain” by coming forward, Democratic leaders repeated again and again. Sponsored: Why chicken salad is a healthy […]
Trump drops the hammer on “unfair” drug prices
Less than two weeks before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump has announced a plan to lower prices for some prescription drugs. The president explained it would stop unfair practices that force Americans to pay much more than people in other countries for the same medications. “We are taking aim at the global freeloading that […]
California couple wins $1.5 million prize for making water from air
It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out of thin air, put a little contraption on the roof of his office and began cranking out free bottles of H2O for anyone who wanted one. Soon he and his wife, Laura Doss-Hertz, […]
Winning MegaMillions ticket was sold at this gas station
The number of billionaires in South Carolina may have doubled overnight — at least before taxes — after a lottery ticket sold in the state won the $1.537 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot. The ticket, sold at the KC Mart in Simpsonville, matched all six numbers drawn Tuesday night, defying the 1 in 302.5 million […]
WOW! Who won the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot!?
Lottery officials say someone bought a ticket in South Carolina to win the Mega Millions jackpot with a final total of $1.537 billion, just shy of the all-time world record. The earlier Mega Millions estimate of $1.6 billion would have been a world record for lotteries, but actual sales came in below the $1.586 billion […]
Kids of 9/11 firefighter pitch his dream product to “Shark Tank”
The sharks on “Shark Tank” are supporting an invention created by a New York City firefighter who died of cancer after helping clean up the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Kevin Young’s children on Sunday pitched his Cup Board Pro, a chopping block that features a detachable bowl for cleanup. The 53-year-old died in […]
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