{KXLG – Watertown, SD} The inaugural “Breakfast for Scouting” event took place this morning in Watertown at the Life Song Event Space, bringing together community members to celebrate and support Scouting for America. The event, hosted by Watertown Area Scouts, featured personal testimonials from local Scouts and leaders and discussions on the enduring importance of…
Open this photo in gallery: Financial news plays in the background as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading, on April 21, in New York City.Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump roiled markets by reigniting his public tirade against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, sending everything…
John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Open this photo in gallery: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on April 17.Richard Drew/The Associated Press Following the wild gyrations…
Back in 2008, the stock markets welcomed young investors of the millennial generation with a peak-to-trough decline of close to 50 per cent. Lessons about the downside of stocks came regularly after that. The S&P/TSX composite index lost money in 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2022. Obscured by a quick rebound was the 37-per-cent peak-to-trough fall…
Front page of the April 5, 1974 issue of the Las Vegas Optic April 7, 1913 Citizens asked to aid in cleanup With the approach of spring the city authorities expect to begin soon a systematic cleaning up of the city, for the purpose of making Las Vegas a healthy as well as a respectable…
Notes from a March 18 meeting, marked “Internal/Confidential,” show that a DOL lawyer presented colleagues with an overview of DOL’s interactions with DOGE. “So far,” the notes read, “they do not have write access. They have asked; we’ve held them at bay. We’ve tried to get them to tell us what they want & then…
Hong Kong will implement part of its revised HK$2 (26 US cents) transport fare scheme in April of next year, five months ahead of schedule, a minister has said, with the move expected to save authorities HK$260 million. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said on Wednesday that the public transport subsidy scheme…
Open this photo in gallery: Employees work on a production line of caps that will be exported to the United States at a factory in Suqian, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on April 7.STR/Getty Images Countries around the world scrambled to contain the fallout of U.S. tariffs on Monday as Donald Trump threatened higher levies…
China has an opportunity to act as an elder statesman, thanks to the spectacular own goals of Donald Trump’s tariffs. Usually cast as a disruptor of the postwar economic order, and sometimes relishing the reputation, Beijing has much to gain in the public-relations arena. The challenger can now present as the defender of the system….
More than 500 law firms in the United States have rallied in support of Perkins Coie LLP, one of several legal offices that have been targeted under the administration of President Donald Trump. In an amicus brief filed on Friday, the law firms accused the Trump administration of pursuing a campaign of “draconian punishment” against…