Month: May 2020

As the Donald Trump administration faces increased criticism for failing to act quickly enough to head off the coronavirus, the Department of Homeland Security has purported that China “intentionally concealed the severity” of the pandemic in January, while simultaneously increasing imports and decreasing exports of medical equipment necessary to combat it. The four-page intelligence report,
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A Tyson Fresh Meats plant employee leaves the plant on Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Logansport, Indiana. Darron Cummings | AP Tyson Foods on Monday reported that its fiscal second-quarter net income fell 15% from a year earlier, as production disruptions weighed on its results.  The company also said that it has secured a $1.5 billion
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The National Trust could lose £200m of income this year because of the coronavirus outbreak, its director general has warned. In a column for the Telegraph newspaper over the weekend, Hilary McGrady said the charity had to make some “incredibly difficult decisions to pause important conservation programmes to clean rivers, prevent upland flooding and improve
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Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBC (Follow live updates of Berkshire’s annual meeting here.) Warren Buffett said Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway is still sitting on its massive cash hoard because the conglomerate hasn’t found a company to buy at an attractive price.  “We have not done anything, because we don’t see anything that attractive to
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On Sunday, Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, teamed up with friends old and new for a videoconferencing bad-movie event. You can replay the “MST3K LIVE Social Distancing Riff-Along Special” below. The Riff-Along was a Russian nesting doll of shows-within-shows. At its innermost core was the 1969 movie Moon Zero Two. This science
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Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., speaks during the virtual Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting seen on a laptop computer in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Saturday, May 2, 2020. Bloomberg A 95% plunge in passengers. Billions in losses. A rush for new debt. A recovery that executives expect to take
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Every fan of the wizarding world fantasized about living in the Harry Potter universe while growing up. Many were even so desperate to live in the magical world that a bit of a temper tantrum may have been thrown when no owl arrived with a Hogwarts letter on that vital 11th birthday. Who wouldn’t want to live in a universe with Quidditch, flying cars,
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Strong charitable foundations will periodically consider their own futures and the rate at which they are spending their funds, a new report recommends.  Strategy and Governance: The Pillars of Strong Foundation Practice is the third publication from the Association of Charitable Foundations’ Stronger Foundations initiative, which was set up in 2017 to help foundations identify
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Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett said Saturday he is optimistic that the U.S. economy will re-emerge even after being dealt a body blow by the coronavirus pandemic.  “Nothing can basically stop America,” said Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, from the conglomerate’s first virtual shareholder’s meeting from Omaha, Nebraska. “The American
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