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World leader says ditch neckties to conserve energy

Spain’s leader has proposed an energy-saving move that many men have already embraced. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked government officials and people working in the private sector to save energy by giving up wearing neckties at work. Appearing at a news conference in an open-necked white shirt and… Read More

Biden Cabinet scandal erupts Friday

Cabinet officials are all required to disclose their assets, debts and sources of income… but President Joe Biden’s Cabinet is looking odd. Like all Cabinet members, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland makes $210,000 per year. She made $174,000 per year during her one term a member of the House…. Read More

Eurozone experiences modest GDP growth despite high inflation

Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency shot up to another record in July, pushed by higher energy prices fueled by Russia’s war in Ukraine, but the economy managed better-than-expected, if meager, growth in the second quarter. Annual inflation in the eurozone’s 19 countries rose to 8.9% in… Read More

Prosecutors say they seek 8-year prison term for Shakira

Prosecutors in Spain said Friday they would ask a court to sentence Colombian pop star Shakira to eight years and two months in prison, if she is convicted in her expected trial for alleged tax fraud. Shakira, whose full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, is charged with failing to… Read More

Russia fines WhatsApp, Snapchat over data storage

Russian regulators have fined chat service WhatsApp and Snapchat for failing to store Russian users’ data on local servers, part of government efforts to control online activity. A Moscow court on Thursday imposed an 18 million ruble ($300,000) fine on chat service WhatsApp and a 1 million ruble penalty on… Read More

Biden admin announces NEW ‘recession’ policy

by Frank Holmes, reporter   The economic numbers are in, and they aren’t good. This morning, the federal government agency that measures the U.S. economy announced that GDP shrank at an annual rate of 0.9 percent during the second quarter of the year, which ended last month. In other words,… Read More

Golf superstar suddenly leaves PGA?!

Professional golfer Bubba Watson played in PGA in 2002. Since then, he’s been racking up honors, including two wins at the Masters Tournament. Now, he’s joining another league — LIV Golf — for $50 million, The Telegraph reported Wednesday. But the PGA is weighing lifetime bans for defectors to LIV… Read More

JetBlue to buy Spirit for $3.8B after huge bidding war

JetBlue Airways has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.8 billion and create the nation’s fifth-largest airline if the deal can win approval from antitrust regulators. The agreement Thursday capped a months-long bidding war and arrives one day after Spirit’s attempt to merge with fellow budget carrier Frontier Airlines fell… Read More

US economy just shrank… again

The U.S. economy shrank from April through June for a second straight quarter, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace and raising fears that the nation may be approaching a recession. The decline that the Commerce Department reported Thursday in the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of the economy… Read More

Chuck Schumer’s secret deal with Joe Manchin

Earlier this month, Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin — a rare swing voter from West Virginia — reportedly said on a radio show that he would withhold any deal on energy policy until July’s inflation report. “Chuck, can we just wait until the inflation decisions come out in July,” Manchin said… Read More