Over 3 million people in FL are without power
Dr. Kevin Olsen of Tampa, Florida joins Varney & Company. Learn more about the widespread damage Hurricane Milton caused in your community. Hurricane Milton hit Florida on Wednesday night, leaving more than 3 million residents without power. Officials are pleading for patience as crews work around the clock to restore the lights. hillsborough county, home […]
HSBC Cutting Top Managers in $300 Million Savings Plan – PYMNTS.com
Management ranks among major banks HSBC It can start to fade quickly. Financial Times (FT) reported On Thursday (October 10), sources familiar with the matter said the new CEO Georges Erhedery HSBC plans to restructure its senior banking ranks as part of a plan to save up to $300 million. Reports surfaced last month that […]
Meat firm recalls 10 million pounds of chicken due to listeria
Major meat processors have recalled about 10 million pounds of cooked beef and chicken over concerns that it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the federal government. Bluespac, a Durant, Oklahoma-based company whose brand names include “Urban Blues'' and “City Grillers,'' sells instant products manufactured between June 19 and October 8 of this […]
Deaths, Flooding, and Three Million Floridians Without Power as Hurricane Milton’s Toll Climbs
Weary Floridians will face a growing death toll, flooding, homelessness, gas shortages and power outages Thursday morning as Hurricane Milton's overnight path of destruction becomes clear in harsh sunlight. Dew. The massive weather event hit Florida as a Category 3 storm, bringing misery to millions of people still affected by Hurricane Helen, with winds of […]
Yankees’ $166 million quintet needs to start carrying its weight
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The template for what's possible with Juan Soto's 2024 Yankees is Juan Soto's 2019 Nationals. Because those nuts are definitely not gnats. They have top-tier star players, and the only hallmark of championships in the organization's history is that they have star players on a nightly basis. The Washington team's two […]
More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds | Food banks
More than nine million people in the UK experience extreme poverty and hunger, making them more reliant on food handouts from charities, according to research. Report by charity Trussell Labor has discovered that it cannot deliver on its manifesto promise to remove the “moral stain” on food banks unless it tackles the low household incomes […]
Biden’s Deputies Spend $750 Million to Settle Migrants in North Carolina
President Joe Biden's lawmakers have allocated about $750 million to resettle thousands of diverse immigrants in North Carolina communities starting in 2021. This spending shows the administration is prioritizing immigration at a time when many Americans in North Carolina lack decent jobs, homes, and schools. This preference continues even after Hurricane Helen killed hundreds of […]
$100 million naval ship under command of lesbian captain runs aground, catches fire, and sinks
The official is Under investigation The circumstances that led to the sinking of a $100 million Navy ship commanded by a lesbian captain with no experience in commanding a ship. This incident was New Zealand's first naval loss since World War II. “Now we are faced with an environmental disaster caused by the very people […]
Two men scam Apple out of $2.5 million in fake iPhone scheme
Federal authorities say two men tricked Apple into shipping them thousands of iPhones worth $2.5 million by asking them to repair fake iPhones. Haotian Sun, a Chinese citizen living in Baltimore, and Pengfei Xue, who also immigrated from China and settled in Germantown, Maryland, ran what federal authorities called a “sophisticated” scheme to sell Apple. […]
7 executives charged with defrauding Medicare/Medicaid of $40 million using Colorado labs – CBS News
Seven executives of a genetic testing company were recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver for allegedly fraudulently receiving $40 million from state and federal health care systems. The seven executives reside across the country. They used two labs in Colorado to perform genetic tests, which federal prosecutors allege were unnecessary, improperly obtained […]