U.S. government debt prices were higher on Friday morning ahead of President Donald Trump’s press conference “on China”, which markets expect to further sour relations between the world’s two largest economies. At around 4:10 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was down at 0.6640% and the yield on the 30-year bond fell
View of New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street on March 23, 2020 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. 7:23 am: Stock futures fall as Trump news conference looms Stock futures fell slightly on Friday morning as traders awaited a news
WASHINGTON — SpaceX has received a license from the Federal Aviation Administration allowing the company to carry out suborbital flight tests of its Starship next-generation launch vehicle. The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation published the launch license May 28 for what it calls the Starship Prototype Launch Vehicle. The license allows SpaceX to conduct
The race to automate vehicles on China’s roads is heating up. Didi, the Uber of China, announced this week an outsized investment of over $500 million in its freshly minted autonomous driving subsidiary. Leading the round — the single largest fundraising round in China’s autonomous driving sector — is its existing investor Softbank, the Japanese
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing, China. Artyom Ivanov | TASS | Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would hold a news conference “on China” on Friday, but he offered no details as to what he would say. Even without any details, Trump’s announcement Thursday at the White
Exclusive Lady Gaga and Postmates are teaming up to celebrate her highly-anticipated new album … and the partnership could really benefit the World Central Kitchen. So, here’s the deal … Lady Gaga’s finally dropping “Chromatica” at midnight tonight. Yes, it was supposed to be out around 7 weeks ago but it got delayed due to
Twilight of the Mallrats is going to feature a very familiar cast. Kevin Smith just gave an update about the sequel, noting that everybody from the poster will be making an appearance. Stan Lee is featured on the original 1995 poster, but he sadly passed away in 2018. However, there will more than likely be
Weller and company have got to put together the pieces faster before they all crack up. The stress of being on the run was getting to them all on Blindspot Season 5 Episode 3, except maybe Rich. And if Rich is the most stable member of a team, that squad is in big trouble. They certainly
BANGKOK (Reuters) – The black leather party masks that performers May and Som wear for their fetish shows in Bangkok are definitely not the sort to stop the coronavirus. An 18+ sign is seen inside the Patpong museum at the nightlife and sex trade district, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, May
Electric Lit is committed to publishing—and paying writers—through the pandemic without any layoffs or pay cuts. Please consider supporting us during this difficult time. Donate here. . At the beginning of Enter the Aardvark, Alexander Paine Wilson (R), a congressman so obsessed with Ronald Wilson Reagan that he purchases the same denim cowboy shirt and canary-yellow
Shoppers walk out with full carts from a Costco store in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2020. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Costco saw sales grow in the fiscal third quarter, as it benefited from customers buying huge packs of toilet paper, cases of bottled water and other bulk items during the coronavirus pandemic
Businesses Team-Up & Donate to Nonprofits in Need The COVID-19 crisis has hit many small businesses in the pocket, and many are scrambling to make it through this unheralded time of recent history. Businesses may be suffering, but it seems that small non-profits, particularly those who assist the less fortunate, are more seriously suffering. Recently,
France’s movie theaters will be allowed to re-open from June 22, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced this evening. This is earlier than expected, as French Culture Minister Franck Riester said this week that cinemas were eyeing a July 1 re-start. The decision was made in concert with the industry, Philippe said today, in order to
Protesters are shot with pepper spray as they confront police outside the Third Police Precinct on May 27, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen | Getty Images A second day of protests, unrest and looting Thursday in the wake of the death of George Floyd shut down mass transit in the Twin Cities as lawmakers
David McAbee is the writer and director of the recently released, dramatically exhilarating film “For The Love of Jessee” starring Adrienne Barbeau, Randy Wayne, Bre Blair and Mandalha Rose. Co-written by Curta Schlarbaum and produced by Curta and Dennis Schlarbaum, the film is an inspirational, message driven, happily ever after masterpiece. The behind the scenes
WASHINGTON — Viasat says it is open to building a constellation of nearly 300 satellites in low Earth orbit if it can qualify for some of the $20.4 billion in broadband subsidies the U.S. Federal Communications Commission intends to dole out under the Rural Digital Opportunities Fund. Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg said May 27 that
Tesla’s board certified a financial milestone that unlocks the first tranche — worth more than $700 million — of an unprecedented multi-billion-dollar pay package for CEO Elon Musk, according a document filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The milestone allows Musk to purchase the first grouping or tranche of nearly 1.69 million shares
In this file photo, face masks are stacked before getting technical information printed on them at a new factory in Mexico City, Thursday, May 21, 2020. Fernando Llano | AP Federal authorities busted up a massive coronavirus scheme to sell a foreign government 50 million N95 face masks that didn’t actually exist, prosecutors revealed Thursday.