These are the 4 biggest things we're watching in the stock market this week newsthirst.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote are influential events.
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US should not bully us, say opposition parties newsthirst.
Opposition parties in South Africa have called on its president not to be “bullied” by the US after Washington expelled Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, giving him just 72 hours to leave the country. Rasool was declared an unwelcome person after US State Secretary Marco Rubio called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America” on Friday. Tensions…
Russell T Davies: gay society in ‘greatest danger I’ve ever seen’ after Trump win | LGBTQ+ rights newsthirst.
Russell T Davies has said gay society is in the “greatest danger I have ever seen”, since the election of Donald Trump as US president in November. Speaking to the Guardian at the Gaydio Pride awards in Manchester on Friday, the Doctor Who screenwriter said the rise in hostility was not limited to the US…
Fisherman rescued after 95 days adrift, surviving on turtles newsthirst.
A Peruvian fisherman who survived 95 days lost at sea in the Pacific Ocean by eating turtles, birds and cockroaches has been rescued and reunited with his family. Maximo Napa Castro, 61, set off for what should have been a two-week fishing trip from the coastal town of Marcona, on the southern Peruvian coast, on…
Trump Sends Hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order newsthirst.
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador, pushing the limits of U.S. immigration law seemingly after a federal judge ordered that the deportation flights not proceed. President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador posted a three-minute video on social media on Sunday of men…
What to do if you receive a text about $1,400 stimulus payments newsthirst.
If you receive an unsolicited text claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service, it’s almost certainly a scam. This is especially relevant during tax season. The Better Business Bureau warns about phishing attempts in which scammers use the promise of automatic payments for $1,400 stimulus checks as a lure to steal sensitive data. While…
US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order newsthirst.
A plane carrying more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the US has landed in El Salvador – in apparent defiance of a US judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from doing so. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, wrote on social media that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had arrived, along with…
Essex couple’s £1,500 fine for reporting Channel stowaway is cancelled | Immigration and asylum newsthirst.
A couple who were fined £1,500 after reporting a boy who had stowed away on the back of their motorhome for their journey from France to Essex have had the penalty cancelled. Adrian and Joanne Fenton, from Heybridge, were fined by the Home Office for “failing to check that no clandestine entrant was concealed” when…
Trump silences Voice of America as staff put on leave newsthirst.
Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas BBC News Getty Images Voice of America launched in 1942 with a mandate to combat Nazi and Japanese propaganda Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strip back the global, independent and federally funded news organisation Voice of America. The president’s order targets VOA’s parent company US Agency for…
Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions | Health policy newsthirst.
The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he believes there is an “overdiagnosis” of some mental health conditions as well as “too many people being written off” – factors he said were the key drive for the government’s welfare measures. Speaking to broadcasters, Streeting was repeatedly challenged on whether ministers were leaving disabled people uninformed…