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Uber is reportedly in talks to acquire food delivery giant Grubhub. The ride-hail company is looking to buy Grubhub at a time when it has seen its Uber Eats delivery platform surge in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Wall Street Journal. Reports of the talks sent Grubhub shares spiking more than 25 …
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US stocks posted shaky gains Tuesday as Wall Street nervously tracked states attempting to reopen their economies. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped as much as 160.10 points, or 0.6 percent, to 24,382.09 in early trading before dipping into the red and then recovering. The blue-chip index up 28.79 points, or 0.1 percent, at of …
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A Yale University professor said the Trump administration’s mishandling of the coronavirus resembled “genocide” and questioned whether officials could be held responsible under international law. “What else do you call mass death by public policy?” Dr. Gregg Gonsalves, a professor of law and epidemiology at Yale, asked in a tweet last week. “So, what does it …
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Chinese authorities will test all 11 million residents of Wuhan for coronavirus by the end of the week after claiming the city has seen just six new cases after a 35-day streak of no reported infections. “It is important to realize that a decisive result does not equal a decisive victory, lowering the emergency response …
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Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has predicted that coronavirus could bring about the end of the EU. Soros expressed his doubts about the institution’s survival as it is an ‘incomplete union’ and cited Germany‘s ruling on the European Central Bank as a cause for concern. The 89-year-old also posited that the global pandemic could bring an …
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Some nights, Scott Van Pelt doesn’t know if he’ll have enough content to get through his show. Even as sports remain shuttered, “SportsCenter” carries on. “Well, the analogy that I’ve landed on is that it’s much like being a waiter in a restaurant where there are no chefs and there is no food,” Van Pelt …
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I’ll take “Twitter Feuds” for $2,000, Alex. Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday called greatest-of-all-time “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings a “knucklehead” for joking about him being arrested on the Tesla factory floor. Jennings’ quip came after Musk announced on Monday afternoon that Tesla would be reopening its Fremont, Calif., factory against stay-at-home orders that require …
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Former Vice President Joe Biden was forced to backtrack after saying he knew “nothing” about the investigation of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, after ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pointed out Biden has been in a January 2017 Oval Office meeting in which Flynn was discussed. When first asked about the DOJ’s decision to drop …
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Monday that the company’s only U.S. auto factory will resume production in California in violation of Alameda County’s stay at home measures and asked that he be the only one who is arrested if necessary. Musk he will join workers on the assembly line at the factory as production starts up again. …
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Former congressman Trey Gowdy admitted during a Monday appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight that he had been wrong in “relying on the word of the FBI and the DOJ” during hearings on the Trump-Russia probe, saying he realized his mistake after reviewing the documents related to the opening of the investigation. Carlson played Gowdy a …
Uber is reportedly in talks to acquire food delivery giant Grubhub. The ride-hail company is looking to buy Grubhub at a time when it has seen its Uber Eats delivery platform surge in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Wall Street Journal. Reports of the talks sent Grubhub shares spiking more than 25 …
