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Google might be threatened with a breakup after losing two antitrust cases, but in the meantime it can console itself with piles of money.Alphabet, Google’s parent company, posted results on Thursday that included a large jump in profit. Net income for the first quarter was $34.54 billion, up from $23.66 billion a year earlier.Much of that increase, however, stemmed from equity investments, not operations. It’s still money, but less exciting to investors and analysts. Google shares rose modestly in trading after the news was released.Revenue was $90.23 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent from a year earlier. That was…
Dick Barnett, who helped propel the Knicks to their glory days in the 1970s with his strange jump-shooting style, and who played on the only two N.B.A. championship teams in the Knicks’ history, died in his sleep last night in Largo, Fla. He was 88.The Knicks announced the death, at an assisted living facility, on social media on Sunday, soon after a dramatic victory in a first-round playoff series against the Detroit Pistons. Danielle Naassana, a producer of “The Dream Whisperer,” a PBS documentary about Barnett and his college career that came out last year, said he had become increasingly…
Washington — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Cory Booker voiced their opposition to the Republican budget plan key to enacting President Trump’s agenda as the sun rose on Sunday, holding a sit-in protest on the steps of the Capitol that lasted more than 12 hours.Shortly after 6 a.m., the pair began livestreaming their conversation, while Booker warned of a “moment of moral urgency” as Congress is set to return from a two-week recess on Monday. The New Jersey Democrat had pledged to sit and discuss the coming fight for “a good number of hours,” a promise he kept…
Face the Nation: Lavrov, Shaheen, Homan – CBS News Watch CBS News Missed the second half of the show? The latest on…Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the occupation is a “done deal.” Russia does not “negotiate its own territory,” Lavrov said, Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, who voted against advancing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s nomination, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that Hegseth has “created chaos” at the Pentagon, and Tom Homan, the Trump administration’s border czar, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that he is “not aware”…
President Trump made clear Sunday that he would not follow his predecessor’s practice of recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day alongside Columbus Day in October, accusing Democrats of denigrating the explorer’s legacy as he pressed his campaign to restore what he argues are traditional American icons.Democrat Joe Biden was the first president to mark Indigenous Peoples Day, issuing a proclamation in 2021 that celebrated “the invaluable contributions and resilience of Indigenous peoples” and recognize “their inherent sovereignty.”The proclamation noted that America “was conceived on a promise of equality and opportunity for all people” but that promise “we have never fully lived up to. That is especially true when it…
Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel from the federal appeals court in Washington lifted a freeze on firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with some conditions. The judges, ruling on a Friday night, said that workers could be fired if agency leaders determined, after a careful assessment, that they were not needed to carry out the bureau’s legally required responsibilities.Within hours, Trump administration officials — working closely with Elon Musk’s associates at the Department of Government Efficiency — scurried to fire nearly all the agency’s employees. By the following Thursday afternoon, bureau leaders sent termination notices to nearly…
CBS News has obtained a list of 365 federal grant programs halted this week by the Justice Department, disrupting programs to help victims of hate crime and sex trafficking, children who’ve suffered violence, and refugees. The department also paused programs aimed at reducing school shootings, efforts to combat domestic terror and an Emmett Till cold case initiative in the Southeast.At least some of the grants were halted in memos sent Tuesday to nonprofit organizations by the Justice Department. The memos alerted program operators that the projects no longer “effectuate” Justice Department priorities. The cancellation of the federal grants caused disruptions at…
4/27: Face the Nation – CBS News Watch CBS News This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Anthony Salvanto discusses new polling as President Trump’s 100th day in office. Plus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sits down with Margaret Brennan. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link
Out on the plains, around a campfire, the violent drifter sings a beautiful song. “The sky is black but filled with diamonds / You can almost hold them in your hands” goes the yearning lyric, with a fingerpicked accompaniment and twangs from a lap steel guitar.But listen a little longer. “Up there God is preaching,” the man continues, bitterly. “Laughing while you’re reaching.” And then this amateur Nietzsche, wondering why he should care about a universe that evidently does not care about him, jumps up with his gun to go rob a train.That’s the gorgeously perverse opening of “Dead Outlaw,”…
Robert Douglas, who built the Black Dog Tavern on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and transformed its logo of his Labrador-boxer mix into an international emblem for summertime, died on Wednesday at his family’s home on the island. He was 93.His son Jamie Douglas said the cause was prostate cancer.Robert Douglas moved to Martha’s Vineyard in 1960 after growing up spending summers on the island with his family, falling in love with its maritime culture — and hoping he would eventually be the one waving goodbye to summer visitors from the shoreline as they took the ferry back to the mainland.Mr.…