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Palestinian President Names Likely Successor In Bid To Reassure World Powers

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that on Saturday the Palestinian Liberation Agency was at a stage where it is widely seen as necessary to ease international doubts about Palestinian leaders, he named his best friend Hussein al-Sheikh his deputy and potential successor. Abbas, 89, has led the Palestinian Liberation Agency (PLO) and the Palestinian Authorities […]

DoorDash offers $3.6B for rival Deliveroo in bid to beef up Europe operations

British meal delivery company Deliveroo said it received a proposal on Friday from the US Piadre Dash on April 5 to buy all of its shares for £2.7 billion ($3.6 billion). Deliveroo has announced that its board has reviewed Doordash’s proposal and is likely to recommend it to shareholders, subject to agreeing to other terms […]

Rules on self-driving cars loosened in bid to challenge China

The Trump administration will allow self-driving vehicles to be exempt from several safety regulations for testing amid efforts to compete with China, Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday. According to a letter from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. developers of motor vehicles are now able to access the exemption program for non-commercial purposes, […]

Democrat Stacey Abrams considering 3rd-straight gubernatorial bid

Democrat Stacey Abrams is seriously considering the third run for the Georgia Governor in 2026. Abrams, a former Democratic leader in the Georgia Legislature and a nationally known voting rights defender, has been defeated slightly by the current GOV. Brian Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial election. She lost nearly eight points to Kemp in the […]

Las Vegas Sands drops bid to open $4B casino complex at Nassau Coliseum site

The Las Vegas Sands have withdrawn a planned bid to open a $4 billion casino complex on the Nassau Coliseum site on Long Island. The gaming giant’s announcement on Wednesday caught a surprising casino industry insider. “Crazy,” said a source in an industry. A rendering of the casino proposed at Las Vegas Sands Corporation’s Nassau […]

Yankees’ Max Fried loses no-hit bid on controversial scoring change

Tampa – Lost for him in the middle of the 8th time before Max Fried could actually lose his no-hit. When a deep-fried jogger for the eighth bottom working on a no-hit bid in seven innings jogged to the mound, the official scorer announced a controversial scoring change to give the Rays the first hit […]

Supreme Court to hear Trump bid to enforce order restricting birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it will hear debate next month on Donald Trump’s bid to widely enforce his executive order to limit automatic innate citizenship, a key pillar of the Republican president’s hard-pressed approach to immigration. The judge did not immediately act on the Trump administration’s request to narrow the scope […]