Joe Biden Turns 81 Years Old
If President Biden’s birthday Monday is anything like his last one, he’ll eat a cake quietly with family and hope nobody else notices. When he turned the big 80 last fall, the White House arranged a marriage as a distraction for the press. Mr. Biden’s granddaughter was wed on the South Lawn. The timing “was […]
California Wants to Ban Your Choo-Choo
Gavin Newsom wants to be President, but in some respects the Governor already is, as the Biden Administration lets California impose its climate rules on the other 49 states. In the latest example, the Environmental Protection Agency has green-lighted Sacramento’s plan to outlaw diesel locomotives. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) in April approved a […]
The GOP Wins One Over George Soros
Buta Biberaj this week conceded she lost to Republican Bob Anderson in her bid for re-election as Loudoun County’s Commonwealth Attorney. It was a small margin—300 votes—but a big victory in an election that otherwise saw Democrats keep the state Senate and take the House. Ms. Biberaj is a progressive, George Soros-financed prosecutor, and Mr. […]
Embattled FDIC Chief Takes Responsibility for Toxic Workplace Culture
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg took responsibility and apologized for the agency’s workplace culture in a video to staff Friday, while indicating he doesn’t plan to bow to pressure from Republican senators to resign. “As chairman, I am ultimately responsible for the actions of our agency, both good and bad,” Gruenberg said in […]
The Score: Target, Boeing, Macy’s and More Stocks That Defined the Week
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Saturday’s gossip: Raphinha, Toney, Neves, Partey, Chalobah, Sarr
Tottenham have dropped their interest in Brentford and England forward Ivan Toney, 27, to pursue a January move for Barcelona and Brazil winger Raphinha, 26. (Football Transfers)external-link Toney feels he has a “debt to repay” to Brentford and is torn about leaving the club in January despite interest from Arsenal and Chelsea. (Sun)external-link Juventus have […]
Who Is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s New Interim CEO?
Mira Murati was elevated from OpenAI’s CTO to its interim leader after CEO Sam Altman was ousted Friday. Like all the company’s leaders she believes that artificial general intelligence is within reach. Source link
Conversations With the New York Times
James Freeman is assistant editor of The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and author of the weekday Best of the Web column. He is the co-author of “Borrowed Time: Two Centuries of Booms, Busts and Bailouts at Citi,” recognized as a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Financial Times Business Book of the Month. […]
Jim Chanos, Short Seller Who Took on Enron and Tesla, to Close Hedge Funds
Wall Street’s best-known bear is going into hibernation. After nearly four decades, Jim Chanos is shutting down hedge funds he manages that wager against companies he believes are overpriced or fraudulent. His career as a short seller spanned a contrarian bet against Enron that paid off when the energy trader collapsed as well as yearslong, money-losing campaigns […]
Premiership: Bath 20-19 Bristol – Bath beat rivals to go second in table
Ollie Lawrence has now scored three tries in his two matches for Bath this season Bath:(17) 20 Tries: Lawrence, Spencer Pens: Russell 2 Cons: Russell 2 Bristol:(7) 19 Tries: Bradbury, Lane, Malins Cons: Sheedy 2 Bath came out on top by one point in the west country derby against Bristol. Magnus Bradbury opened the scoring […]