It seems that another major chain might be ready to bite the dust: Bloomberg reported today that Hooters, the country’s most famous “breastaurant,” is in talks with law firm Ropes & Gray to prepare a bankruptcy filing, according to sources close to the situation. (Neither Hooters nor the law firm responded to the publication’s requests…
Anne Wojcicki attends the WSJ Magazine Style & Tech Dinner in Atherton, California, on March 15, 2023. Kelly Sullivan | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and New Mountain Capital have submitted a proposal to take the embattled genetic testing company private, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities…
Ben Zhou, chief executive officer of ByBit, during the Token2049 conference in Singapore, on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Joseph Nair | Bloomberg | Getty Images Bybit, a major cryptocurrency exchange, has been hacked to the tune of $1.5 billion in digital assets, in what’s estimated to be the largest crypto heist in history. The attack…
Lucy Manning Special correspondent Reuters Hamas returned the bodies of deceased child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas to Israel this week Kfir and Ariel Bibas were last seen on 7 October with their mother Shiri’s hands around them, holding onto her boys surrounded by gunmen and violence, trying to protect them. She couldn’t. According to…
US stocks tumbled on Friday, extending a sell-off in the wake of dour economic reports and closing the book on a holiday-shortened week fraught with new tariff threats and worries of softening consumer demand. All three major US stock indexes moved decisively lower on the heels of the data, and continued their slide into afternoon…
Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki has revealed that he is married, something that even caught Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts by surprise. “What? I didn’t know he had a girlfriend,” Roberts responded Friday when asked if he had gotten Sasaki a wedding gift. “Well, congratulations. … The wedding gift will be on the way after…
A Frenchman has appealed to two thieves who used his stolen credit card to purchase a jackpot-winning scratch card to come forward, promising to split the €500,000 (£413,664) prize with them. Introducing himself as Jean-David E, the man told RTL radio that since the money would otherwise be seized by the authorities, he is looking…
The tech billionaire Elon Musk has swiftly gained enormous power over the federal government as he works with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to slash the federal bureaucracy — and upend the nation’s politics. We’re taking a close look at this effort in the On Politics newsletter, and we want to know: What are…
Sam Panayotovich FOX Sports Betting Analyst It was a decent start for The Trifecta last week. Michigan State went into Champaign and upset Illinois as 6-point underdogs and Boise State-San Diego State barely cracked 110 points. Auburn’s victory over Alabama was our lone blemish on Saturday’s busy slate. We’re now one week away from college…
Six weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles’s mayor, Karen Bass, ousted the city’s fire chief on Friday following a public rift over preparations for a potential fire and finger-pointing between the chief and city hall over responsibility for the devastation. Bass said in a statement that she was removing Chief…
