Last October, Susie stole my Halloween thunder.  My partner and I had planned to dress as Roy and Keeley from “Ted Lasso,” but when internet-ordered wigs proved less than satisfactory, looking more like Muppets than hair, we made a last-minute pivot, scanning our closet for clothes we already had. We could do “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” I…Continue Reading

Kadary Richmond made a layup with 28 seconds left, capping a back-and-forth final minute as Seton Hall beat DePaul 66-64 on Saturday night at Prudential Center in Newark. On the final possession for the Blue Demons, Javon Freeman-Liberty missed a 3-pointer to secure the victory for the Pirates. Jared Rhoden tallied 18 points and 18…Continue Reading

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has posed the question that’s kept the world on edge for weeks: will Russia attack Ukraine?Not even those in the Russian government — besides President Vladimir Putin — appear to know the answer, but the fact remains that there has been a steady buildup of Russian troops and military hardware…Continue Reading

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday rejected calls from Ukraine’s president to sanction Russia now, saying that Moscow should not be sure “exactly” how the West will respond to a potential invasion.Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at Germany’s annual Munich Security Conference, Scholz said that Western allies were “well prepared” to sanction Russia — and…Continue Reading

A woman walks by a Family Dollar store on December 11, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesDiscount chain Family Dollar is voluntarily recalling several of its products that shipped to more than 400 stores in the South after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigation uncovered a rodent…Continue Reading

Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRules around small business taxes have changed significantly in the last two years. This year is no exception as many of the various pandemic-era deductions and deferrals come to an end. The good news is that even though these benefits are ending, the impact on the overall tax rate for most small…Continue Reading

Inside Liquidity Services’ 130,000-square-foot warehouse in Garland, Texas, the aisles aren’t lined with typical merchandise. Instead, they’re stacked with returns from Amazon, Target, Sony, Home Depot, Wayfair and more, all in the process of being liquidated.”Liquidators are coming in and they’re buying up all of this product in bulk. They’re then packaging it, palletizing it…Continue Reading

ON JULY 15, 2016, a Turkish army faction launched an attempt to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. By daybreak on July 16, it was clear that the coup, one of the bloodiest in Turkey’s political history, had been fended off. But it caused considerable collateral damage, especially to the country’s tourism sector, with its flagship…Continue Reading

THE HUGE VALUATIONS seen over the last few years in the startup sector will likely go through a “compression” in the days to come as liquidity dries up and interest rates rise, said Nandan Nilekani, co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys. “We are already seeing some value compression. As the US moves from an era…Continue Reading