Mary-Pat Hector, Rise Inc. Program Strategist, joins Yahoo Finance’s Kristin Myers and Alexis Christoforous to discuss the federal lawsuit and boycotts over Georgia’s voting restrictions.
Twelve of Europe's top football clubs launched a breakaway Super League on Sunday, launching what is certain to be a bitter battle for control of the game and its lucrative revenue. The move sets up a rival to UEFA's established Champions League competition and was condemned by football authorities and political leaders. Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus are among the leading members of the new league but UEFA has threatened to ban them from domestic and international competition and vowed to fight the move.
Civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson visited Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 17, on the seventh night of protests against the police shooting of Daunte Wright.Footage of the reverend, captured by Jonathan Stegenga, shows him walking among the crowd gathered outside the Brooklyn Center Police Station.According to local news reports, Rev. Jackson had spoken with Daunte Wright’s brother, Damik Wright. Credit: Jonathan Stegenga/Humanizing Through Story via Storyful
Hong Kong will suspend flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines from April 20 for two weeks after the N501Y mutant COVID-19 strain was detected in the Asian financial hub for the first time, authorities said in a statement late on Sunday. The three countries would be classified as "extremely high risk" after there had been multiple imported cases carrying the strain into Hong Kong in the past 14 days, the government said. Hong Kong has recorded over 11,600 cases in total and 209 deaths.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday the government has made a second payment to the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX initiative to access around 11 million COVID-19 vaccines. Venezuela is in the grip of a second wave of the pandemic, which has strained its already underfunded health system. The country's economic collapse has led to rising food insecurity https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-malnutrition, and Maduro added the U.N. World Food Programme's (WFP) director, David Beasley, had arrived for meetings with officials.
British scientists on Monday launched a trial which will deliberately expose participants who have already had COVID-19 to the coronavirus again to examine immune responses and see if people get reinfected. In February, Britain became the first country in the world to give the go-ahead for so-called "challenge trials" in humans, in which volunteers are deliberately exposed to COVID-19 to advance research into the disease caused by the coronavirus. "The information from this work will allow us to design better vaccines and treatments, and also to understand if people are protected after having COVID, and for how long," said Helen McShane, a University of Oxford vaccinologist and chief investigator on the study.
Hundreds of passengers thronged Australian airports on Monday as an open border system began with New Zealand, a pandemic milestone that allows Australian residents to fly there for the first time in over a year without having to quarantine for two weeks. Though most Australian states have allowed quarantine-free visits from New Zealand residents since late last year, New Zealand had enforced isolation for arrivals from its neighbour, citing concern about sporadic virus outbreaks there. Television footage showed hundreds of passengers crowding the international departure terminals at Australian airports.
Spain's Alex Palou claimed his first IndyCar Series win in his Chip Ganassi debut, fending off a late challenge from Will Power to capture the IndyCar Grand Prix of Alabama on Sunday.
Concerned Chris Packham issued a rousing rallying cry to the British public after shocking new research revealed seven in ten of us admit we’re not doing enough to save the planet.
Adebayo thought about recreating Wade's iconic celebration after hitting Miami's first buzzer-beater since 2019.
Luke Bryan will return to “American Idol” for a live broadcast tonight, sources tell Variety, after being sidelined from last week’s first live episode of the season — and also tonight’s Academy of Country Music Awards — as a result of contracting COVID-19. Shortly after this story was first published, Bryan tweeted (and the “Idol” account […]
Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said his side would not mope about their growing list of absentees after a 0-0 draw at struggling Getafe on Sunday dented their title bid. Real have coped well despite losing a number of influential players in recent weeks and made the short trip to Getafe on the back of a 2-1 win over Barcelona last week and a 0-0 draw at Liverpool to make the Champions League semi-finals. Their personnel problems caught up with them against Getafe, however, as they were missing nine first team players and were fortunate to leave with a draw, which left them three points behind leaders Atletico Madrid with seven games left.
The Dave Grohl-directed series about musicians and their mothers has been given a start date, with a May 16 premiere for a Paramount Plus show that will feature artists from Geddy Lee to Miranda Lambert interacting with their moms. Grohl himself will be one of the musicians showing off his mother, as Virginia Hanlon Grohl […]
A group of investors managing $11 trillion in assets has called on banks to set tougher emissions targets ahead of a meeting of world leaders aimed at accelerating efforts to fight climate change. The group, which includes Pimco, the world's biggest bond investor, and Britain's biggest asset manager, Legal & General Investment Management, said they wanted lenders to set 'enhanced' pledges to decarbonise their lending books. While a number of the world's biggest banks have already said they have an 'ambition' to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, many have yet to specify how they plan to do so and continue to fund heavy emitting activities.
Apr.18 -- A Tesla Inc. electric car that “no one” appeared to be driving crashed late Saturday in Texas, erupting into flames and killing the two passengers. Kevin Miller reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia."
India may build new coal-fired power plants as they generate the cheapest power, according to a draft electricity policy document seen by Reuters, despite growing calls from environmentalists to deter use of coal. Coal's contribution to electricity generation in India fell for the second straight year in 2020, marking a departure from decades of growth in coal-fired power. Environmental activists have long rallied against India adding new coal-fired capacity.
The search for more space and new surroundings is still driving the UK housing market, according to Rightmove,
According to NatWest's UK Small Business Recovery survey, the rebound was led by small construction firms, with output among companies rising at the fastest pace since June 2001.
Taylor Swift’s “Fearless (Taylor’s Version)” has put her back at the top of the album charts — for the third time in a little over eight months. The re-recorded version of her second album — which became her first No. 1 record back in 2008 — debuted at No. 1 this week on Billboard’s Top […]
Minnesota-based advocacy groups gathered outside the governor’s residence in St Paul on April 18 to protest the police shooting of Daunte Wright.Protesters demanded justice for Dante Wright, George Floyd, and “all stolen lives”, according to the Facebook event’s description.“The police have responded to protests of police murder with police violence,” the organizers wrote. “While giving a weak charge to Kim Potter for executing Daunte Wright and releasing her immediately on bail, authorities have brutalized and arrested protesters demanding justice.”Footage filmed by local non-profit organization Women’s March MN shows a crowd chanting “black lives matter” while holding signs saying “Stop causing trauma, police reform now” and “Am I next.” Credit: Women’s March MN via Storyful
The Canadian province of Ontario will begin offering AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday to people turning 40 or older this year, according to a government source. The change will broaden access to vaccines as a third wave of infections threatens to overwhelm hospitals in Canada's most-populous province, and should make it easier to use doses that in some cases have been accumulating at pharmacies. The vaccine has already been distributed to pharmacies but currently can only be given to people turning 55 or older this year.
