• Reese Witherspoon opens up about mental health struggles

    Reese Witherspoon opens up about mental health struggles

    Reese Witherspoon has opened up about her struggles with mental health over the years. Speaking on Jameela Jamil‘s  “I Weigh” podcast, the “Big Little Lies” star, 44, confessed to not always having it all together. “I’ve definitely had a lot of not sane moments in my life,” she said laughingly. “I’ve had a lot of …
  • Pompeo rips Huawei after China ‘failed to be transparent’ about coronavirus

    Pompeo rips Huawei after China ‘failed to be transparent’ about coronavirus

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says countries should avoid doing business with Chinese telecom giant Huawei after the Chinese Communist Party’s lack of transparency in the coronavirus outbreak. “This moment, where the Chinese Communist Party failed to be transparent and open and handle data in an appropriate way, will cause many, many countries rethink what …
  • Tom Steyer Shutters ‘Need to Impeach’ PAC after Spending $75 Million of His Own Money

    Tom Steyer Shutters ‘Need to Impeach’ PAC after Spending $75 Million of His Own Money

    Activist Tom Steyer at the Democratic primary debate in Charleston, S.C., February 25, 2020. Billionaire Tom Steyer on Thursday decided to shut down his “Need to Impeach” political action committee, months after the Democrat-led impeachment proceedings against President Trump failed to achieve his removal. Steyer founded Need to Impeach in 2017, but has not contributed …
  • Layoffs hitting more white collar jobs — and even health care workers

    Layoffs hitting more white collar jobs — and even health care workers

    First, it was bars, restaurants, hotels. And clothing stores, movie theaters, entertainment venues. And countless small businesses, from bookstores to barber shops. Now, the record-setting flood of layoffs unleashed by the viral outbreak is extending beyond the services industries that bore the initial brunt and are still suffering most. White collar employees, ranging from software …
  • US stocks hit reverse after hopeful early Thursday start

    US stocks hit reverse after hopeful early Thursday start

    US stocks attempted to shrug off another surge in unemployment filings on Thursday only to slip back into negative territory by the afternoon. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 62.01 points, or 0.2 percent, at the open before dropping as much as 292.97 points, or 1.2 percent, in midday trading after being …
  • Hedge fund warns stocks could drop 50 percent from February highs

    Hedge fund warns stocks could drop 50 percent from February highs

    Paul Singer’s Elliott Management said global stocks could tumble further, ultimately losing half or more of their value from February’s high, as the world braces for the deepest recession since the 1930s-era Great Depression. The New York-based hedge fund firm, in a letter to clients on Wednesday seen by Reuters, wrote that the sharp market …
  • Sabrina Ionescu is the ‘rock star’ ready to change the Liberty, WNBA forever

    Sabrina Ionescu is the ‘rock star’ ready to change the Liberty, WNBA forever

    The assists were her ticket onto the court. The boys at the neighborhood park wanted someone to pass it to them, so to make sure she would get picked, the young girl obliged. The rebounds were her chance to get the ball in her own hands for once, so she learned to crash the offensive …
  • Coronavirus Unemployment Total Jumps to 22 Million

    Coronavirus Unemployment Total Jumps to 22 Million

    Another 5.2 million people filed initial unemployment benefit claims last week as the coronavirus pandemic continues to stall the economy and throw Americans out of work, according to data released Thursday by the Labor Department. The eye-popping figure for the week that ended April 11 is nevertheless under the record 6.9 million who filed two weeks …
  • Will Forte engaged to girlfriend Olivia Modling

    Will Forte engaged to girlfriend Olivia Modling

    View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mary Steenburgen (@mary_steenburgen) on Dec 9, 2019 at 8:46am PST Will Forte is getting hitched. The “Saturday Night Live” alum, 49, is engaged to girlfriend Olivia Modling, People confirmed Wednesday, with a source indicating the proposal took place over the holidays at the end of last …
  • Stocks rise despite another surge in unemployment claims

    Stocks rise despite another surge in unemployment claims

    US stocks ticked up Thursday as Wall Street tried to brush off another surge in unemployment filings amid the coronavirus crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 62.01 points, or 0.2 percent, at the open despite the US Department of Labor reporting another 5.2 million initial jobless claims last week. The staggering …