Michael Rubin joined rapper Lil Baby in a scrimmage game that featured the children who attended REFORM Alliance night. Photo: Shareif Ziyadat and Studio 76 Throughout 2021, Fanatics chairman Michael Rubin spent his time bringing his company to an $18 billion e-commerce empire. He took over Major League Baseball’s trading card license, guaranteed $1 billion
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Christmas shoppers in London on Dec. 23, 2021. Hasan Esen | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images LONDON — People are far less likely to be admitted to hospital with the omicron Covid variant than the previous delta strain, according to a U.K. government study published Thursday. The U.K. Health Security Agency said individuals with omicron
A traveler wearing a protective mask waits to board a United Airlines flight at San Francisco International Airport, Oct. 15, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images United Airlines and Delta Air Lines canceled dozens of Christmas Eve flights as Covid hit crews. “The nationwide spike in Omicron cases this week has had
In this article CROX Some investors are not seeing the appeal of Crocs‘ multibillion dollar deal to buy the casual shoemaker Hey Dude. But Crocs Chief Executive Andrew Rees said the retailer sees the chance to expand the Hey Dude brand to new geographies — along the coasts of the United States and throughout the
Huawei Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu announced on Dec. 23, 2021, the first car with HarmonyOS will begin deliveries in February 2022. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Less than a week after Chinese electric car start-up Nio announced its latest competitor to Tesla, Huawei released details on a vehicle with specs it claims
Students queue up for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing at Xi’an Jiaotong University on December 17, 2021 in Xi an, Shaanxi Province of China. Hua Shang Daily | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — A major city in central China that’s seen a flare-up of Covid-19 cases locked down on Thursday, with local authorities
In this article 6758.T-JP DIS Tom Holland stars as Peter Parker in Marvel’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Disney “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has already smashed domestic box office records, and it is now out to tackle a feat no other film has managed in nearly two years — reaching $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
Britain’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid speaks during a press conference at Downing Street on October 20, 2021 in London, England. Toby Melville | WPA Pool | Getty Images News LONDON — The British government has shortened the mandatory Covid-19 self-isolation period in England from 10 days to seven days for those who get negative lateral
Travellers check in for the flight at the Singapore Airlines counter in the departure hall at Changi International Airport in Singapore on December 2, 2021. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images Singapore will freeze new ticket sales for quarantine-free travel in an effort to limit exposure to imported omicron cases, the health ministry said
[The stream is slated to start at 2:30 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President Joe Biden is set to deliver a progress report Tuesday on the fight against the coronavirus pandemic as the new and highly contagious omicron variant spreads around the country.
In this article NKLA Trevor Milton CEO of Nikola Massimo Pinca | Reuters Electric truck maker Nikola has agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission $125 million to settle charges that it defrauded investors by misleading them about its products, technical capacity and business prospects. SEC officials said they hoped the penalty would serve
Aeva Technologies: “We are totally against companies that have no earnings. That was the clarion call of what the Fed did. It’s going to knock out some good stocks, I don’t care. I’ve got to be very careful here, so we’re going to say no.” Enterprise Products Partners: “I think it’s a very good company.