Protests against controversial India citizenship proposal continue3 Hours AgoProtests against a controversial citizenship proposal in India continued The law would fast-track citizenship for non-Muslims from neighboring countries India saw two massive demonstrations break out in Bengaluru and Kolkata. However, the proposal has sparked protests nationwide in recent weeks. Protesters say the proposal jeopardizes India’s secular constitution.

Sen. Warren’s fundraising efforts lagCNBC’s Brian Schwartz reports on Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s, fundraising efforts, which are lagging.

Are dealers fudging the numbers for auto loans? Ben Eisen, The Wall Street Journal, reports on a WSJ investigation that found some car dealers are fudging loan applications and putting people in cars they can’t afford.

Jonathan Ernst | ReutersAs stocks close out 2019 with potentially the best gain in decades, strategists expect Wall Street’s bull market to continue in 2020 as long as it appears President Donald Trump will be re-elected. “Since World War II, the average gain in the fourth year of a presidential term is 6.3%, and it’s up 78% of the time,” said Sam Stovall, chief investmentt strategist at CFRA. There could be some hiccups when the Democratic field is narrowed depending on who the candidate is in

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading:Amazon — Shares of Amazon rose another 1.4% a day after posting its best day since January on a record holiday shopping season. American Airlines — Shares of American slid 3.4% on Friday, giving up gains from earlier in the week as major airline stocks ticked lower. Wolfe Research said in a note that American and Spirit Airlines were unlikely to meet “aggressive” guidance for next year. Rite Aid – Shares of the pharmaceutical chain surge

Damage from explosion at a Beechcraft plant in east Wichita, Kansas. A liquid nitrogen explosion at a Textron Aviation plant near Wichita, Kansas, injured 11 people on Friday, potentially setting back the introduction of a new aircraft under development, county and company officials said. Emergency medical services took 11 people to the hospital, one of them suffering potentially serious injuries, Dr. John Gallagher, director of Sedgwick County EMS, told a news conference. Injuries were limited

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. Zuckerberg testified about Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra, how his company will handle false and misleading information by political leaders during the 2020 campaign and how it handles its users’ data and privacy. Facebook’s Libra project has failed in its current form and needs reworking to be appro

A cardinal ousted from the Roman Catholic Church paid dozens of clerics, some of whom were involved in evaluating claims of his sexual misconduct, more than $600,000 over nearly two decades, according to The Washington Post. The Vatican removed McCarrick from public ministry in June 2018 amid allegations of sexual abuse decades earlier involving a teenage altar boy. It was revealed at that time that he had been accused over the years of sexual misconduct by three others. Clerics who received che

U.S. and international companies helped finance a “Taliban-led terrorist insurgency” in Afghanistan that killed or hurt American service members and civilians, according to a new lawsuit filed Friday. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., alleges that the “large Western companies” made protection payments to the Taliban because they had “lucrative businesses in post-9/11 Afghanistan, and they all paid the Taliban to refrain from attacking their business interests.” “Those p

The Federal Reserve may need to continue its efforts to calm the overnight lending market in the new year, former Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart told CNBC on Friday. The market, which banks use to fill short-term funding needs, suffered a sharp rise in rates in September. The repo market is a key part of the financial system where banks can receive short-term loans to fund themselves. Quantitative easing refers to the Fed’s program of buying mortgage backed securities and other assets aft

Spotify has become the latest tech company to enter the conversation around political ads, announcing Friday it will suspend them at the beginning of 2020. Twitter has pursued the most extreme approach to political ads, announcing in October that it would ban them entirely. Facebook has taken the opposite approach, refusing to remove or fact-check ads from candidates even when they contain false information. Snap said it fact-checks political ads. The company is allowing political ads but limiti

But when it comes to productivity, success and health, getting a solid night’s sleep is just as important. Tobias Lutke, founder and CEO of the e-commerce company Shopify, said in a tweet Thursday that he has to sleep a full night in order to be successful at work. “I need 8ish hours of sleep a night,” Lutke wrote. Indeed, it’s recommended that adults get seven or more hours of sleep a night, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Lutke’s tweet was in response to a debate on Twitte

The goal: “Save more money””Save more money” was the top resolution cited in Fidelity’s study, with 53% of respondents saying it’s their top priority for 2020. How to improve it: That goal won’t work for many people, because it needs to be more clearly defined, according to research into goal setting and achievement. Make the goal as specific as possible: “Save $4,000 over 12 months,” not “save more money.” Make the goal as specific as possible: “Save $4,000 over 12 months,” not “save more money

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s campaign told supporters in an email on Friday that, so far, it has raised just over $17 million in the fourth quarter, a significant drop from her fundraising haul during the third quarter. “So far this quarter, we’ve raised a little over $17 million. Sen. Bernie Sanders – who, like Warren, shuns big-money fundraisers – led the field with more than $25 million during the third quarter. If the $17 million total stands that would represent a 30% drop from the previous quar

Everybody and their mom is pouring over fan theories about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker this holiday season. But in order to explain fully, we have to talk about the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise. Which brings us to 2018’s Darth Vader #25, in which Darth Vader goes on a sort of spiritual journey to try and bring Padme’s spirit back to the realm of the living. “There was no father,” reads the page, a quote from Shmi in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. It’s part of my job to ensure the stor

But, with this season 1 finale titled “Redemption,” creator Jon Favreau and director Taika Waititi deliver the goods. Taken all together, the eight episode season evokes the feeling of a Hollywood epic and an intimate miniseries at the same time. The finale also manages to set the stage perfectly for season 2, revealing many — but not all — of the mysteries that have perplexed fans for months. In a lore dump that actually makes sense in context, Moff Gideon finally clues us all in to Greef’s tru

Snow blankets the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles, California on December 26, 2019 after a cold winter storm brought heavy rain, snow and strong winds to much of southern California. ROBYN BECK / AFP / Getty ImagesA cold and blustery winter storm unleashed downpours and extensive snowfall on Southern California, triggering a tornado and snarling post-Christmas travel on major routes Thursday. A snow plows clears the roads in the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles, Californ

President Donald Trump looks on during a campaign rally in Battle Creek, Michigan, December 18, 2019. So here goes:Trump didn’t steal the 2016 electionLet’s start with what is still the toughest pill to swallow for Democrats: Trump won the White House fair and square. But let’s face it, this is a very good way for the Democrats to lose to Trump again in 2020. But all is not lost for Democrats when it comes to economics, thanks to the sticky issue of health care. Of course, that opportunity is al

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. They said a principal focus of the FBI’s investigation is Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein, and other “people who facilitated” Epstein’s allegedly illegal behavior. The sources declined to give further details or identify the people they are looking at apart from

Pedestrains walk in front of a board displaying the Tokyo 2020 logos for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on July 23, 2019, nearly one year before the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. “We will keep telling the public that costs will stay at 1.35 trillion yen ($12 billion) and won’t rise from here,” Toshiro Mutoh, CEO of Tokyo 2020, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. “If we proceeded with our original plan to hold the marathon and race walk games in Tokyo, and ended up having at