Year: 2025

Trump’s defense pick faced a divided Senate hearing Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, faced hours of questioning yesterday during his Senate confirmation hearing. A vote on whether he will lead the Pentagon – a department with three million employees and an $849 billion budget – could…

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Three locations of McDonald’s spinoff CosMc’s plan to close. The announcement to close the three CosMc locations comes roughly 13 months after McDonald’s began rolling out the “small format, beverage-led” concept in the US. It also coincided with McDonald’s unveiling plans to add two…

Israel and Hamas are “on the verge” of agreeing to a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of hostages held there, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Tuesday, raising hopes for some respite in violence after more than 15 months of war. “It’s right on the edge, it’s closer…

New Yorkers are feeling the pinch in their pockets after a listeria outbreak affected 7 million pounds of cold cuts. (Credit: WNYW) ALDI reminds some frozen taquitos after reports surfaced that the product contained “potential foreign material,” the company said this week. The discount supermarket chain announced the recall on…

Per Paul R. Jones: With awards season in full swing and 2024 in retrospect, I’m counting down the 5 most daring boxing performances of 2024 and giving away gear to honor the fighters who got us here. [⚠️WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS GRAPHIC BOXING IMAGES THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTURBING.…

South African authorities said Tuesday they had pulled dozens of dead miners from a shuttered gold mine where they worked illegally until the blockade, during which police at one point cut off access to food, water and other supplies. By Tuesday evening, police reported finding 60 bodies and extracting 132…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nippon Steel remains interested in working with the new Donald Trump administration to try to seal a takeover of U.S. Steel, Vice Chairman Takahiro Mori said in a Wall Street Journal article. Last week, Nippon Steel and US Steel filed two lawsuits after US President Joe…

The Indian cricket team has made headlines for unwanted reasons, including head coach Gautam Gambhir, known for his no-nonsense approach to the discipline. Gautam Gambhir has reprimanded bowling coach Morne Morkel for being late to practice during the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT). The BCCI vice-president recently dismissed rumors of disagreements…

Watch: The moment horses were saved from a fire in Los Angeles The trailers arrived all at once, carrying hundreds of horses fleeing the Eaton and Palisades fires in Los Angeles. Some horses came alone, others in trailers full of animals. Many had their owners, but others arrived on their…

New York, New York–(Newsfile Corp. – January 14, 2025) – WHY: The Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Applied Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ: ) between January 3, 2024 and December 2, 2024, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”), to the extent February…