President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday. Bondi’s dismissal comes after reports that Trump was increasingly unhappy about her handling of Department of Justice files about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and the DOJ’s failure to successfully prosecute several of the president’s political enemies. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will serve…
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto and actor and musician Donald Glover greet Nintendo’s Yoshi after the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game against the Cleveland Guardians at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, March 31, 2026. Ryan Sirius Sun | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images A group of regional sports networks is set…
Talk about a confusing and frustrating market. Following two days of gains fueled by optimism on an Iran war resolution, Wall Street went back in sell-off mode Thursday morning after President Donald Trump’s primetime address was filled with escalatory rhetoric. That sent oil prices higher and stocks lower to start the day — the inverse…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to members of the media outside the Senate Chamber after passing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill by unanimous consent at the U.S. Capitol Building on April 2, 2026 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images The Senate on Thursday advanced a deal to fund…
A Starbucks barista fulfills an order in a South Philadelphia store. Mark Makela | Reuters Starbucks will award baristas and shift supervisors quarterly bonuses of $300 if their stores hit certain targets to aid the coffee chain’s turnaround efforts, the company said Thursday. The program will begin in July, with the first payout coming in…
Blue Owl signage outside the Seagram Building at 375 Park Avenue in New York, US, on Thursday, March 12, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Blue Owl is experiencing elevated redemption requests for two of its private credit funds, according to letters to shareholders issued Thursday. The firm’s flagship OCIC, with about $36…
JINHUA, CHINA – JULY 16: Employees work on the assembly line of new energy vehicles at an intelligent factory of Leapmotor on July 16, 2025 in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province of China. (Photo by Jin Sicheng, Zheng Yali, Shi Kuanbing/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images A Hong…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday cautioned that the market’s recent rebound is falling short of what investors should expect from a durable rally. “Whenever the market gets clobbered and then starts crawling back, you always hold out hope that there’ll be a broad advance,” Cramer said on “Mad Money.” But after two days of gains,…
Demonstrators hold posters of Ayatollah Khomeini outside the American Embassy which is occupied by ‘students following the Imam Khomeini’s line on November 16, 1979 in Tehran, Iran. Kaveh Kazemi | Hulton Archive | Getty Images “The hard part is done,” President Donald Trump said in his address to the nation Wednesday night about the Iran…
Nike Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Dec. 31, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Nike reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday night, investors were looking for evidence its recovery is on track. Instead, they learned that the retailer’s turnaround is far from over, sending shares tumbling…
