United Airlines is under scrutiny again this week after a passenger posted her horror story on Facebook. Nicole Harper, a nurse and mother of two from Kansas City, Missouri, said she was on a United flight returning home from Houston on April 10 — just one day after Dr. David Dao was infamously dragged off […]
Yet again, cellphone video has captured a chaotic slice of air travel — this time, on the ground. Anger and confusion boiled over at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday night as nine Spirit Airlines flights were canceled, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded, CBS affiliate WFOR News reported. Advertisement What followed was chaos as frustrated […]
In this July 9, 2014 file photo, a sign informs visitors of prohibited items on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. An emergency has been declared Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation after a portion of a tunnel that contained rail cars full of nuclear waste collapsed. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, […]
Every year at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Warren Buffett and his business partner, Charlie Munger, deliver their views and advice on just about any subject their shareholders ask about. The 2017 meeting, which took place in Omaha Saturday, covered topics as diverse as Google and Amazon stock, Wells Fargo, artificial intelligence, the Republican health […]
The WGN Radio sign appears on the side of Tribune Tower, Monday, May 1, 2017, in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) Sinclair Broadcast Group said today it will pay $3.9 billion to buy Tribune Media Company and its 42 local TV stations, beating out 21st Century Fox to land the deal. Sinclair already has 173 local news […]
When we travelled to Omaha this weekend, we had a key question we wanted answered: What do Berkshire Hathaway‘s (NYSE:BRK-B)(NYSE:BRK-A) investors – the owners of his company, and arguably his employers — think of Warren Buffett as a manager? We got our answer quickly: They think he’s fantastic. Perhaps unsurprisingly for owners of a stock that returned […]
Marcus Lemonis, CEO and Chairman of Camping World and host of CNBC’s TV show, “The Profit,” speaks to guests Friday, July 31, 2015, during the Camping World Richmond SuperCenter grand opening.(Photo: Palladium-Item Joshua Smith, Joshua Smith/Palladium-Item) Over the weekend, news spread of Gander Mountain closing all of its remaining stores, worrying employees and loyal customers that […]
When Warren Buffett last hosted his Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, the legendary investor had to face up to the fact that most of his stock picks had fallen over the previous year—a rare occurrence for one of the country’s most celebrated and successful investors. Now, as the Oracle of Omaha prepares to kick off this […]
There’s a reason Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin keeps insisting that his boss’s tax-cut plan will fully pay for itself through faster economic growth. Budgetary politics make it hard for him to say anything else. Senate rules require 60 votes for any tax cut that would raise deficits beyond a window of 10 years from the […]
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