Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating to Miami and moving his company with him, quitting Chicago after more than three decades. In a recent memo, the head of Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel told staff he was relocating the company’s headquarters and its associated securities division to Miami. About 300 employees are slated to occupy the new … Read more
CNN had its lowest weekly audience since the Obama administration on June 14 as its rating problems continue to plague the distressed network. After being purchased by Warner Bros. Discovery early this year in a $43 billion deal, CNN averaged just about 393,000 total viewers on June 14. The network additionally experienced its least viewed … Read more
The show “Reliable Sources” on CNN with the left-leaning host Brian Stelter suffered its lowest-rated episode since at least September 2019 on the 12th of June, when a mere 580,000 viewers sat down to watch the struggling program. Ratings were also doing bad five months ago: “Reliable Sources” also had trouble with the advertiser segment … Read more
The price of gasoline has gotten so high that one Michigan police department said it has “blown its fuel budget” and cannot respond to all the 9-1-1 calls in person, ABC News reported. The Isabella County Sheriff’s Office reported that rising gas prices forced them to return some “non-emergency” 9-1-1 calls over the phone rather … Read more
A “suspicious person” was shot and killed by police after he attempted to enter a school in Alabama, law enforcement confirmed. An individual, identified by police as Robert Tyler White, 32, of Bunnlevel, in North Carolina, showed up at Walnut Park Elementary in Gadsden at about 9:30 a.m., authorities said, and was trying to enter … Read more
Inflation in May accelerated again, with prices rising another 8.6 percent from a year earlier, the most rapid increase since December 1981, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The Consumer Price Index, a broad measure of prices for goods and services, increased more than the estimate of 8.3 percent by the Dow Jones. When … Read more
CNN’s numbers have now dropped to just over half a million average prime-time viewers, while Fox News still dominates, according to new ratings figures released Wednesday. The liberal network which bills itself as “facts first” has consistently struggled with ratings. In April, the highly publicized CNN + streaming service was shut down just weeks after … Read more
Something that was literally straight out of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” happened. Two workers working at a Mars Wrigley plant in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, in Pennsylvania, were saved by local firefighters after they had fallen into a vat of chocolate. Unfortunately, no one was available from the Mars Wrigley confectionery site where the incident … Read more
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and tens of other women claiming to have been sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar are seeking over $1 billion from the FBI for not apprehending the sports doctor once allegations against him were received by the agency, lawyers announced Wednesday. There is no doubt that FBI agents in 2015 were … Read more