JPMorgan Chase & Co. signage is illuminated at night at a bank branch in Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — British fintech start-up Thought Machine has raised $200 million in a fresh round of funding that lifts its valuation above the coveted $1 billion mark. The cash injection was led
Six cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been found in Scotland, authorities have confirmed. They are in addition to the three already detected in England. Four cases are in the Lanarkshire area and two have been identified in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. Scotland’s health secretary Humza Yousaf said: “This will be a
A married couple who tested positive for COVID-19 have been arrested after fleeing a quarantine hotel in the Netherlands before attempting to leave the country. The pair were arrested on an aeroplane that was about to take off at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Sunday evening, according to Dutch police. Officers did not release the names
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have invented a soft, jelly-like material that can endure the equivalent of an elephant standing on it and not explode like a water balloon — even though it’s 80 percent water. When the weight is removed, the material returns to its former shape completely without being permanently deformed. The material,
CNN senior legal analyst Laura Coates says that a guilty verdict in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery was “absolutely the right call” and the “essence of justice.” #CNN #News
Elon Musk stayed true to his word and told Tesla employees not to worry as much about delivering as many cars as possible during this end-of-quarter delivery wave and instead focus on cost. It’s a significant change to what has been Tesla’s strategy for years. Tesla has been known to have intense end-of-quarter, and this
A long-time market bull is tempering his outlook due to inflation. Federated Hermes’ Phil Orlando expects the Federal Reserve will lift interest rates six times over the next two years to tame massive price increases from vehicles to shelter to food. “Our best guess is that we will see two quarter point rate hikes out
For a woman known around the world, who has been the focus of documentaries, podcasts and endless news coverage, Ghislaine Maxwell still remains an enigma. She has said very little publicly in the two decades since sexual abuse allegations about her friend Jeffrey Epstein began to surface. We do not know how Maxwell met the
7:47 PM ET Alex KirklandESPN FC Carlo Ancelotti praised Vinicius Junior‘s “extraordinary” late strike in Real Madrid‘s 2-1 comeback win over Sevilla on Sunday, admitting the Brazil star has what it takes “to be one of the best in the world.” The winger’s 87th minute winner — already his ninth goal in LaLiga this campaign
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of 12-year-old Ava White, who suffered “catastrophic injuries” in an assault in Liverpool city centre on Thursday, police have said. The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has also been charged with possession of a bladed article. He is due in court on Monday.
In this article AMC Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark Source: spidermanonbroadway.marvel.com/ AMC is the latest legacy company to get into the NFT game. The theater giant and Sony Pictures will offer 86,000 non-fungible tokens to members of its AMC Stubs Premiere, AMC Stubs A-List and AMC Investor Connect who order tickets for the Dec. 16
US fashion designer Virgil Abloh has died at the age of 41 after a private battle with cancer. The influential Louis Vuitton menswear designer and founder of fashion label Off-White was diagnosed with cardiac angiosarcoma – a rare, aggressive form of cancer in 2019, the design house’s parent company LVMH revealed on Sunday. Abloh first
Have the last few weeks seen a turning point in Boris Johnson’s premiership? Dozens of Tories have refused to follow the prime minister’s orders in the voting lobbies on issues as diverse as sleaze and social care. Meanwhile a handful of Tory MPs have gone public with demands for change, with many more complaining in
Deliveroo is close to naming Goldman Sachs as one of its new brokers, eight months after the Wall Street bank played a major role in what became one of the London stock market’s most calamitous listings. Sky News has learnt that Deliveroo is close to finalising the appointments of Goldman and Barclays as joint corporate
A sentence uttered by a defense attorney in the trial of those accused in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery brought an audible gasp from people in the courtroom Monday — and elicited outrage from his family and legal experts. CNN legal analysts Elie Honig and Joey Jackson weigh in. #CNN #News
Authorities in the Netherlands have detected 13 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant among passengers from South Africa. Health officials said the infected people were on flights from the southern African nation earlier this week. A total of 61 people on the planes tested positive for the virus – and 21% of those had Omicron.
Southern California electric bicycle manufacturer Luna Cycle has just released its latest high power, high performance electric bicycle. But don’t get your hopes up for throwing a leg over a Luna X2 anytime soon; the popular e-bike sold out almost immediately upon its unveiling. The Luna X2 follows two years after the release of the
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the administration will tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a global effort from energy-consuming nations to calm 2021’s rapid rise in fuel prices. The coordinated release between the U.S., India, China, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom is the first such move of its kind.
More than $1.5m (£1.1m) has been raised to help an American man who was freed after spending 43 years in jail for a triple murder he did not commit. The Midwest Innocence Project set up the online fundraiser as they fought for Kevin Strickland‘s release, noting that he would not get compensation from the state
A 16-year-old boy killed in a street stabbing in London has been named as Rishmeet Singh by police. A murder investigation has been launched after the youngster died on Wednesday evening in Southall, west London, following reports of a fight involving a group of people. According to a GoFundMe page claiming to be raising money