Dow futures drop more than 700 points as coronavirus spreads to Italy
Dow futures drop more than 700 points as coronavirus spreads to Italy
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Coronavirus cases soar in Italy as authorities scramble to find patient zero
Coronavirus cases soar in Italy as authorities scramble to find patient zero
Digital payments, chips: Where tech stock investors can find big opportunities after US-China trade war truce
Adam Shell Special to USA TODAY Published 6:01 AM EST Feb 24, 2020 Since Donald Trump’s election victory in 2016, the two biggest storylines in the investment World have been tech stock supremacy on Wall Street and the U.S. trade war with China. The tech-tariff saga isn’t fading from the headlines anytime soon, creating opportunities…
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As death toll tops 2,600, Alabama balks at housing coronavirus patients10:26 PM EST Feb 23, 2020
Two 13-year-old boys charged with murder in California library fire
Sheyanne N Romero Visalia Times-Delta Published 5:48 AM EST Feb 24, 2020 VISALIA, Calif. — Charges have been filed against two 13-year-old boys linked to a California library fire that killed two local firefighters. On Friday afternoon, Tulare County prosecutors filed two counts of murder with special circumstances of multiple murders and arson-related charges. In…
Irish technology Irish entrepreneur gets £20m backing for fresh dog food start-up
Butternut Box, a London-based fresh dog food business co-founded by Irish man Kevin Glynn, has secured further investment from backers less than a year after raising £15 million (€17.8 million). Although no financial details of the latest investment have been disclosed, industry sources estimate it to be worth about £20 million. This would bring total…
Get free pancakes Tuesday for IHOP National Pancake Day and enter ‘Pancakes for Life’ contest
Kelly Tyko USA TODAY Published 5:00 AM EST Feb 24, 2020 IHOP is making its National Pancake Day giveaway sweeter. In addition to giving away free short stacks of buttermilk pancakes at participating locations nationwide Tuesday, the chain will serve up 250,000 instant win prizes with a “Pancakes for Life” sweepstakes. The 15th annual free pancake…
Country music sexism: Women fight for equality on the airwaves, and country radio shrugs
opinion Ken Paulson Opinion columnist Published 5:00 AM EST Feb 24, 2020 When a radio station staffer at 98 KCQ in Saginaw, Michigan, recently tweeted that it wasn’t allowed to play songs by women back to back, KCQ tried to dismiss it as a joke. It wasn’t a joke. It was a symptom. Songs recorded by women constitute just…
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As death toll tops 2,600, Alabama balks at housing coronavirus patients10:26 PM EST Feb 23, 2020
Child sexual abuse survivors deal with bankruptcy, old evidence after laws extend statute of limitations
Kevin McCoy USA TODAY Published 4:00 AM EST Feb 24, 2020 Raul Diaz envied the kids from his New York City neighborhood who’d joined the Boy Scouts of America during the 1960s. Hoping to go on camping trips, too, he convinced his mother to let him sign up. The decision led to a half-century-long saga — not…