Bill Ackman, Pershing Square Capital Management CEO, speaking at the Delivering Alpha conference in NYC on Sept. 28th, 2023. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square took a sizable stake in Hertz, the rental-car company that exited from bankruptcy four years ago, sparking a big rally. Shares of Hertz surged 56% on Wednesday after a…
President Donald Trump spoke Tuesday with top CEOs, many of whom have seen the value of their companies slashed as Trump’s tariff-heavy economic policy has raised uncertainty and fueled a market sell-off. Trump attended the quarterly meeting of the Business Roundtable, a nonpartisan Washington-based economic advocacy group comprising more than 200 CEOs. Apple CEO Tim…
A suicide bombing by Islamic State (IS) targeting a church in Damascus has killed 20 people and wounded 52, Syrian authorities have said. The attack on Sunday night was the first major IS operation and the first suicide bombing in Syria since former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December and replaced by an…
As a college student in Serbia with a passion for math and physics, Ana Trišović found herself drawn to computer science and its practical, problem-solving approaches. It was then that she discovered MIT OpenCourseWare, part of MIT Open Learning, and decided to study a course on Data Analytics with Python in 2012 — something her school…
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…
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At least six people have been killed in a suicide attack at an Islamic seminary in northern Pakistan that has been described as the “University of Jihad”. The blast happened at the mosque within the Darul Uloom Haqqania, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, about 55km (34 miles) from the northern city of Peshawar. Maulana Hamid…
Pharmacies are demanding tougher regulation of the online sale of weight-loss jabs amid a predicted new year’s boom in demand. The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), who represent independent community pharmacies, urged the regulator to require greater consultation with patients before dispensing weight-loss jabs and other high-risk medication online. Current rules, the NPA said, “leaves the…
A federal judge declined to order the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a setback for the former Columbia University student days after a major ruling against the Trump administration’s efforts to keep him detained. Khalil, a green-card holder who has not been charged with a crime, is one of the most high-profile people targeted…
Play video content Whitney Cummings will defend L.A. at all costs … readying for war “Game of Thrones”-style — with a wooden sword in hand, ready to do battle. The actress and stand-up comic shared multiple clips to her Instagram Story detailing her eventful evening Thursday night … beginning when she says a friend told…
