A truck passes pumpjacks in the Belridge oil field on November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Joe Biden’s administration stands ready to release even more barrels of oil from its strategic reserves should the need arise again, according to the U.S. State Department’s senior advisor
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12:21 PM ET Star right-hander Max Scherzer and the New York Mets have agreed to a three-year, $130 million contract, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Scherzer can opt out of the contract after the second season of the deal, the sources said. The $43.33 million average annual salary of the deal
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, November 12, 2018. Anushree Fadnavis | Reuters Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role, sources tell CNBC’s David Faber. Twitter stock jumped more than 11% on the news.
The new Omicron variant of COVID-19 is a “cause for concern and not for panic”, Joe Biden has said. The US president told reporters his decision to restrict travel from countries in southern Africa “gives us time” to take more action. The new variant was initially reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) by South
Today fresh measures designed to deal with the emergence of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron have come into force in England. They were announced by Prime Minster Boris Johnson at the weekend amid concern the new variant could be less responsive to vaccines and more infectious. Mask wearing in England is now compulsory in shops,
Ghislaine Maxwell targeted young girls and manipulated them before “serving them up for sexual abuse”, a US prosecutor said in her opening statement in the New York trial of the British socialite. The 59-year-old former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein faces six counts of enticing minors and sex trafficking over a 10-year period. As her trial
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! will not air tonight after extreme weather conditions caused production problems at Gwrych Castle in North Wales, ITV has said. However, the reality TV show is set to return to screens on Tuesday instead following the disruption. Shows on Saturday and Sunday were cancelled because the production
7:00 AM ET The Montreal Canadiens‘ encore to their Stanley Cup Final appearance last season has been an abject disaster, as they have a 6-15-2 record. With general manager Marc Bergevin in the last year of his contract having not signed an extension, it felt like a regime change was coming. Did it ever arrive
CNN’s Chris Cuomo presses defense attorney Kevin Gough over his attempt to ban Black pastors from the courtroom during the trial for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. #CNN #News
Kanye West, Rihanna and Drake are among many celebrities paying tribute to US fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who 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
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is carrying out a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet, with the first departure from his top team confirmed. A Labour source has told Sky News: “It’s all happening – big names being moved.” The reshuffle comes six months after Sir Keir‘s last refresh of his shadow cabinet, in the wake
Credit card borrowing surged last month as households faced up to rising costs across the economy while mortgage approvals fell sharply to levels not seen since before government aid for the housing market was introduced. Bank of England data showed consumers borrowed a net additional £706m during October – a sum dominated by £637m in
The speed with which new variants of the COVID-19 virus spread around the world can leave government’s scrambling to catch up. What is sometimes more remarkable is the speed with which those new variants are detected. It has taken barely two weeks from the initial testing of ‘patient zero’, before potentially the entire globe is
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
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
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,
Millions more adults and children could be offered extra COVID-19 jabs under emergency measures to limit the spread of the Omicron variant. Experts on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) are due to make a decision on offering booster jabs to all over-18s and cutting the gap before a third dose as early
The Prince of Wales will reaffirm the “myriad connections between the people of our countries” as he flies to Barbados for a ceremony to remove the Queen as head of state and transition to a republic. Prince Charles, who said he believes it is “important” for him to attend the ceremony, arrived in Barbados late
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