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Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday reported robust working earnings, which monitor the precise revenue that its array of companies produce, and a document pile of money within the first quarter, underscoring the well being of the conglomerate run by Warren E. Buffett. The outcomes offered a optimistic backdrop for Berkshire’s annual shareholder assembly in downtown Omaha, […] More

Paramount’s proposed merger with Skydance has been probably the most tumultuous media deal in years. Now it has taken yet one more flip after the exclusivity interval for negotiations expired with out an settlement in hand. A month in the past, a particular committee of Paramount’s board agreed to enter into unique talks with Skydance […] More

Elon Musk, the chief government of Tesla, blindsided opponents, suppliers and his personal staff this week by reversing course on his aggressive push to construct electrical car chargers within the United States, a significant precedence of the Biden administration. Mr. Musk’s choice to put off the 500-member staff liable for putting in charging stations, and […] More

Desperate to stem protests which have convulsed campuses throughout the nation, a small variety of universities have agreed to rethink their investments in firms that do enterprise with Israel. The offers, which have eased pressure on campuses with just a few days left earlier than college students break for the summer time, would have been […] More

Sam Ash, the family-owned chain of music shops that provided numerous learners and dealing musicians with guitars, drums and different devices, is closing all of it areas after 100 years in enterprise, it introduced this week. Derek Ash, whose great-grandparents, Sam and Rose Ash, opened the primary Sam Ash retailer within the Brownsville part of […] More

The American job market could also be shifting right into a decrease gear this spring, a flip that economists have anticipated for months after a vigorous rebound from the pandemic shock. Employers added 175,000 positions in April, the Labor Department reported Friday, undershooting forecasts. The unemployment charge ticked as much as 3.9 p.c. A much […] More

The U.S. authorities’s landmark antitrust trial in opposition to Google’s search enterprise is nearing its conclusion. But the parade of main federal instances difficult Big Tech’s energy is simply getting going. Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission began investigating Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, the mother or father firm […] More

An article on a pretend on-line information outlet that Meta has linked to Russia’s info operations attributed the clashes unfolding on American faculty campuses to the failures of the Biden administration. A newspaper managed by the Communist Party of China mentioned the police crackdowns uncovered the “double requirements and hypocrisy” within the United States on […] More

As I exited Harry Reid International Airport on a vivid March afternoon, my hand flew as much as shield my eyes, which had grown accustomed to the boring gentle of a protracted, grey Tennessee winter. I’d headed west for the solar, however much more so for the night time sky, so I hoped for clear […] More

Scott Kidd didn’t count on a very busy job when he grew to become the city manager of Liberty, N.C., a onetime furnishings and textile hub whose rhythms extra lately centered on a yearly antiques pageant. Those quiet instances, lower than three years in the past, quickly grew to become a whirlwind. Toyota introduced it […] More

The Kentucky Derby has been run via two World Wars, the Great Depression, civil rights unrest and, most just lately, a life-paralyzing pandemic. Now, on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of America’s most well-known race, the Sport of Kings faces one other formidable foe: itself. Last 12 months, beneath Churchill Downs’s iconic twin spires, […] More

A California firm is recalling natural walnuts that had been offered at pure meals shops and coop retailers in 19 states due to an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 12 individuals and hospitalized seven, federal officers stated. Gibson Farms, the corporate primarily based in Hollister, Calif., is voluntarily recalling its shelled walnuts branded as […] More