A Delta flight injured more than 40 people after dumping fuel on a Los Angeles schoolyard and school buildings when it declared an emergency shortly after departing for China from the Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday. At least 17 children and nine adults at Park Avenue Elementary were treated for minor injuries after being exposed to the jet fuel, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Another 16 people were treated from two schools, Jordan High School and 93rd Elementa

The movies that got Oscar nods for best picture this year brought in more than $700 million at the domestic box office leading up to Monday’s announcement of Academy Award nominees, an amount that fell short of last year’s total. This year’s nominees had the fourth-best box office haul in North America in the last decade. For comparison, last year’s top earner from the Oscar best picture nominees was “Black Panther,” which sold $700 million worth of tickets in North America. To be sure, the numb

In this December 28, 1999 file photograph, former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is carried off the field after a victory in the Alamo Bowl against Texas A&M. A former Penn State football player claims in a lawsuit that Nittany Lions players hazed him and other younger teammates by imitating sexual acts in the shower and invoking Jerry Sandusky’s name. University police turned over results of their investigation to the local district attorney, who declined to prosecute, Penn Sta

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., January 10, 2020. Shares of Nektar Therapeutics fell more than 11% in extended trading after an FDA panel unanimously rejected use of an opioid product from the drugmaker to treat chronic back pain, according to Reuters. Beyond Meat rose 3.7% after hours following an announcement of a supply chain agreement with plant protein company Roquet. Shares of Beyond Meat have risen more than 50% since the start of the yea

The athletic apparel maker on Tuesday unveiled its new advertising campaign slogan: “The Only Way Is Through.” Plank, who founded Under Armour in his grandmother’s basement in 1996, stepped down as CEO on Jan. 1. As Plank spoke to the crowd in New York, the company held a media event at its Baltimore headquarters. But Plank said the campaign will include some 60-second TV spots, as well as other forms of media. The new Under Armour campaign announced Tuesday “is so, so much more of the Under Arm

“If today’s afternoon pullback turns into a full-blown decline later this week, you need to remember that a sell-off would be a terrible thing to waste,” the “Mad Money” host said. The two countries are preparing to sign a long-awaited, so-called phase one trade deal in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Investors are still waiting to hear the full details of the trade deal, but the latest development is one that Cramer, who has been supportive of President Donald Trump’s trade war, approves of. Ou

The 2020 Democratic presidential contenders will take the stage together Tuesday for the final time before nominating contests start. Tuesday’s Democratic debate, hosted by the Des Moines Register and CNN, will start at 9 p.m. As debate qualifying standards get tougher and more candidates drop out of the race, the number of participants has dwindled. Only six Democratic candidates will take the stage together Tuesday in a field that has skewed older and whiter as it narrows. Biden has 20.7% of s

The evidence includes new text messages and phone records from Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian American business partner of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. “In my capacity as personal counsel to President Trump and with his knowledge and consent, I request a meeting with you on this upcoming Monday, May 13th or Tuesday May 14th,” Giuliani wrote in the May 10 letter. There cannot be a full and fair trial in the Senate without the documents that President Trump is refusing to provide to Congress,”

Keisha Williams orchestrated a $5.4 million fraud and traveled the world with her investors’ money, according to federal officials. In 2018, Keisha Williams, a 43-year-old Virginia woman, pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges stemming from a multimillion-dollar scam that saw her bilk dozens of investors out of over $5.4 million for a fake business opportunity. Keisha Williams traveled to Rome and stayed in a five-star hotel. She also bragged to a friend via text message about a trip to Bor

Currently, women make up 50.04% of payroll jobs in the U.S., signaling that women are benefiting more than men from today’s tight labor market. When looking at the growth rate of these industries, construction and manufacturing added 356,000 jobs to the economy between 2018 and 2019. Also, with women outnumbering men at all levels of post-secondary education, many male-dominated industries are now starting to see an increase of women entering the field. “Whenever you have these economic shifts,

Yang’s platform helped get America talking about universal income again, but his plan is expensive. Now a think tank has laid out a universal basic income plan that would pay more than Yang’s and be zero cost to the government. (With Yang’s plan welfare and social program beneficiaries could choose to keep their benefits in lieu of receiving the cash payment, so number of adults receiving it could vary.) Pomerleau found that to work, Yang’s VAT would have to increase to 22 percent and the paymen

The looming market sell-off would be ‘a terrible thing to waste’ for investors, Jim Cramer says”So many companies [are] doing so well. I’d love to buy them, but at this point only on weakness,” “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer said.

Crisfotolux | Getty ImagesMore than 700 years of history show that the times as they are now, at least in regard to interest rates, aren’t quite so different as we’re led to believe, according to research that goes back to the Black Death plague of the 14th century. In fact, the low interest rate climate has been more rule than exception and indicative that even negative interest rates shouldn’t be considered a major aberration, and may stay there — permanently. The work from Paul Schmelzing at

Beyond Meat “Beyond Burger” patties made from plant-based substitutes for meat products sit on a shelf for sale on November 15, 2019 in New York City. Vegetarian alternatives to burgers and sausages, revived by start-ups like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger, are enjoying a certain enthusiasm that meat giants also want to enjoy. The stock is about 2% for the day and is trading above the target price of every analyst listed in FactSet. Trading of Beyond Meat was briefly halted on Tuesday for vol

A worker pushes Amazon.com Inc. packages in front of a FedEx Corp. delivery truck in New York. The Forum’s analysis suggests that effective double-parking enforcement or allowing the use of express lanes for delivery vehicles could reduce congestion by up to 29% and 18%, respectively. Mandated night time deliveries could have a similar impact, reducing congestion by 15 percent and cutting delivery costs by 28%. Coupled with the rise in everyday e-commerce, companies have ramped up competition ov

The head of Human Rights Watch said Tuesday the Chinese government has not only constructed “an Orwellian high-tech surveillance state” at home but is using its growing economic clout to silence critics abroad. It begins with his keynote essay entitled, “China’s Global Threat to Human Rights.” He indicated that Human Rights Watch is among organizations that support and instigate “anti-China activists … to engage in radical violent crimes, and incite separatist activities hyping Hong Kong indep

PayPal and Square could be this decade’s high flying tech winners, according to Credit Suisse. The firm released its projections for the “next generation of potential winners” in technology, and finance technology companies PayPal and Square top the list. The technology companies need to be reinvesting their cash at “decent rates” and demonstrate earnings growth, Credit Suisse HOLT technology sector specialist John Talbott said in a note to clients on Tuesday. Credit Suisse came up with the crit

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) Drew Angerer | Getty ImagesA bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would pump more than $1 billion into developing Western 5G equipment alternatives to China’s Huawei. The U.S. has long held national security concerns and suspicions about Huawei’s ties to the country’s Communist Party leadership. Last year, it placed the company on a blacklist prohibiting U.S. companies from doing business with the firm without a special license. The fund would

Your iPhone has a hidden area that gives you even more control over your AirPods Pro , Apple ‘s new and more expensive AirPods that feature noise cancellation. But, I changed it to “shorter” and now it switches modes after I just do a quick and deliberate hold. You can also change how fast you need to double press or triple press the side of your AirPods Pro to skip a song or move to the previous song, respectively. That might be useful for people who are hard of hearing in one ear and normally

The French online advertising company Criteo’s logo is seen at the Criteo headquarters in Paris on October 3, 2019. Shares of Criteo, a French ad-tech company, hit a 52-week low Tuesday after Google announced it planned to end support for third-party cookies, which fuel much of the digital advertising ecosystem, in its Chrome browser within two years. Criteo shares fell as low as $13.68, its 52-week low, before recovering slightly. But shares in the company have struggled in the last two years a