Trump Media is reportedly in “advanced talks” to buy the cryptocurrency trading firm Bakkt, the Financial Times reported Monday, citing two people with knowledge of the talks. The news sent shares of both companies soaring. Trump Media, which is majority-owned by President-elect Donald Trump, shot up by double digits minutes after the FT report was published. The company, which operates the Truth Social app and ...
Alex Ovechkin’s chase of Wayne Gretzky’s goal record is temporarily on hold after the Washington Capitals star left Monday night’s game with an injury. The team announced Tuesday that Ovechkin is week-to-week with an injury to his lower leg after he absorbed a leg-on-leg hit from Utah Hockey Club forward Jack McBain during the third period. Ovechkin had been on ...
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen took off from the 26-yard line, gripping the football precariously with his right hand. With a head of steam, he bounced off several Kansas City Chiefs defenders in his path and into the end zone for a game-clinching touchdown in the Bills’ 30-21 win on Sunday. Buffalo ended Kansas City’s bid for an undefeated season, ...
NEW YORK — U.S. Soccer received a $30 million dollar gift from businesswoman and Washington Spirit owner Michele Kang, the organization announced Tuesday. The donation, which will be dispersed over the next five years, is the largest ever given to U.S. Soccer’s women’s and girls’ programs and is the largest gifted by a woman to the organization. It will be used ...
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham sent a letter to each of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a memo suggesting the Hunter Biden laptop had the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. ‘In your letter, you claimed that the laptop story was ‘Russia trying to influence how Americans vote,’’ Graham’s letter read to former CIA directors Leon Panetta and Michael Hayden, ...
Discouraging Americans from being vaccinated is ‘very disturbing’ and would result in ‘more severe illness and death in children,’ a top U.S. health official told lawmakers Tuesday following President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli made the comments after Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Fla., ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson declined to answer whether transgender Rep-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., is a man or a woman, vowing to ‘treat all persons with dignity and respect.’ At the House GOP weekly press conference on Tuesday, a reporter asked Johnson, ‘Is freshman elect Sarah McBride a man or a woman?’ ‘Look, I’m not going to get into this. We ...
Dental care supplier Henry Schein advanced in Monday trading as investors bet that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, could recommend removing fluoride from the U.S. water system, a move that would lead to a boom in dental visits. Shares of Henry Schein shares jumped nearly 5%, on track for its best day since ...
Georgia will rise in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings at Tennessee’s expense, while Brigham Young should fall behind Boise State after Saturday night’s loss to Kansas. The playoff selection committee already established the value of head-to-head results in sorting through two-loss SEC teams. Despite last weekend’s 31-17 win against the Volunteers, don’t look for the Bulldogs to move back ...
Usually playing against Mercer doesn’t result in a team improving its College Football Playoff seeding. But this week’s bowl projections see Alabama rise into the No. 2 spot in the field as the Crimson Tide are forecasted as the SEC champions. The team Alabama replaces is Texas. While the Longhorns beat Arkansas, there are questions whether they can defeat both ...