MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For days, Luis Ramirez had an uneasy feeling about the men dressed as utility workers he saw outside his family’s Mexican restaurant in suburban Minneapolis. They wore high-visibility vests and spotless white hard hats, he noted, even while parked in their vehicle. His search for the Wisconsin-based electrician advertised on car doors … Read more
MacKenzie Scott is sticking to her word and donating the majority of her wealth. Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has an ongoing streak of charitable donations and she isn’t stopping anytime soon. On January 30, MacKenzie Scott donated $59 million to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). “This is a remarkable gift for NAMI,” said CEO … Read more
Mark Cuban said that artificial intelligence is only in its early stages and has the potential to create great wealth—possibly even the world’s first trillionaire. He uses AI extensively in his personal life and sees it as a powerful tool to improve productivity and creativity. Still, he acknowledged the risks and limitations of AI. Some … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Since a racist video was posted on President Donald Trump’s social media account, the White House has offered varying responses. She first dismissed it as a “fake outrage,” then deleted the post and blamed a staff member. Trump later told reporters on Friday that “I didn’t make a mistake.” The Republican President … Read more
High Zone she did not take a pay cut. He made a bet. Instead of picking up the biggest payday of his career, he took the bare minimum allowed by the actors’ union—just $60,000—to work with the director Martin Scorsese. His costar, Leonardo DiCaprioHe reportedly earned $25 million. Hill says he would have done it … Read more
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that while many Republicans praise President Donald Trump in public, some of those same figures criticize him in private, citing Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, RS.C., as one example. During an appearance on “Overtime,” the online segment of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Friday, Christie was asked by … Read more
TOKYO (AP) — Voting opened Sunday in parliamentary elections that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes will give her struggling party a victory big enough to push an ambitious conservative political agenda. Takaichi is very popular, but the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for most of the past seven decades, is not. … Read more
MILAN (AP) — Italian police fired tear gas and water cannon at dozens of protesters who threw flares and tried to enter a highway near a Winter Olympics venue on Saturday. The brief confrontation came at the end of a peaceful march by thousands against the environmental impact of the Games and the presence of … Read more
Irving Rosenberg spent his entire life building up his savings. At 90 years old, with impaired hearing, limited mobility, and early-stage dementia, the Southern California man had no reason to think that his $814,000 in savings at Wells Fargo was at risk. It was. Starting last April, someone started forging Rosenberg’s signature on checks and … Read more
Despite bringing in an annual salary of $156,000, a Chicago family is struggling to afford groceries, something the wife attributes to her husband’s $700-a-month growing tobacco and marijuana addiction. “My husband is an addict,” Megan said during an episode of “The Ramsey Show” last year. She is a stay-at-home mom pregnant with their third child … Read more