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The electric car maker has clocked up a six-month period with an average market capitalisation of $100bn (£81bn), the main requirement for Musk to receive the first payout under a reward scheme.

A new report by the Thurgood Marshall Institute breaks it down.

Adam Tooze: Our Financial Future Tyler Cowen | Conversations | 6th May 2020 Interview. Interesting throughout. Topics include Spanish flu, China, banks, inflation, oil, Keynes, Weimar, Nazi economics, Bretton Woods, eurozone, Twitter, ravioli, historians. Tooze on post-pandemic recovery: “Frankly, if we could have inflation of 4 percent or 5 percent, in…

IAG said it is 'planning a meaningful return to service' in July. But it conceded the plans were 'highly uncertain and subject to the easing of lockdowns and travel restrictions' globally.

A powerful earthquake shook the Iranian capital Tehran early Friday, according to state media.The magnitude 4.9 quake struck in Damavand county in Tehran and was at a depth of seven km (0.6 miles),

It has long been obvious that the case brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Michael Flynn stunk to high heaven. That has been copiously confirmed over the last three weeks as the Justice Department made a series of stunning disclosures that undermined whatever vestige of propriety remained. General Flynn, former head of the Defense...

GQ’s fitness and wellness columnist Joe Holder on the joys of running the 400-meter oval.

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After inking a definitive agreement in January to acquire B2B optimization firm Optal and B2B travel payments company eNett, WEX Inc. said in its Q1 results on Thursday (May 7) that the pandemic, and conditions stemming from it, “have had, and continue to have, a material adverse effect on the businesses.” The firm said it […]

NBC's sixth annual "Red Nose Day Special" is just around the corner, and the jam-packed lineup can't be missed.

By unhappy coincidence, the anniversary of the most rapturous day in British history, victory in the war against Nazi evil, comes amid a dismal historic message from the Bank of England.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday laid out the broad outlines of the next massive coronavirus-response bill Democrats will seek, with possible votes as soon as next week.

"Stuff like this happens, bro. We try to live the best lives we possibly can, but sometimes it don't go as planned," the Baltimore Ravens safety said.

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Electronic Arts has released the first in-engine trailer for Madden NFL 21. The clip from Madden NFL publisher Electronic Arts featured far more of Madden NFL 20 cover athlete Patrick Mahomes, who introduced the gameplay footage. Mahomes said that people who buy the game on Xbox One will get the Xbox Series X version for free,...

The FTSE-listed group will struggle after the number of hours its engines spent flying in April fell by 90 per cent. Across the first four months of the year, flying hours dropped 40 per cent.

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Reading, PA (May 7, 2020)-TONIGHT, Heavyweight contenders Travis Kauffman and Chris Arreola will be special guests on “In The Ring with Kings.” The show will take place at 7 PM ET and will be streamed live on the King’s Promotions Facebook Page (Search is Kings Boxing). The show will discuss their classic matchup from 2015, …

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A legislative probe into the roll out of Missouri's medical marijuana program has expanded into Gov. Mike Parson's office.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - California regulators on Thursday suspended a $200 million fine that Pacific Gas & Electric was supposed to pay as punishment for the utility's neglect of electrical equipment that ignited a series of deadly wildfires in Northern California.

As Covid-19 devastated the workforce at some of the nation's largest meat-processing plants, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told lawmakers recently that workers' lifestyles exacerbated the spread of the disease inside the plants.

In a friendly hearing on Capitol Hill, incoming service leaders back up the wishful thinking about future budgets we have seen from Pentagon leadership.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A consulting firm hired by Louisiana State University's governing board to review the college system’s administrative structure didn't make a direct recommendation on whether to keep one person in charge of both the system and the Baton Rouge main campus.

Finally, three years coming, the Justice Department is showing a little more leg on the Rosenstein “scope” memo -- the directive by which then–deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein defined the parameters of the investigation he’d appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to conduct.Of course, the games never end in the Trump–Russia probe, so there’s a hitch. The scope memo remains partially, tantalizingly redacted. Disclosure is limited to Rosenstein’s purported grounds for investigating four members of the Trump presidential campaign... Читать дальше...

Formula One could stage a series of races at new venues in an attempt to salvage the coronavirus-hit season, the sport's chief Chase Carey said.