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Cody Eggleston winces as the beating sun bakes the empty forecourt of the gas station he manages in Needles, the small town on historic Route 66 hugging the banks of the winding Colorado River.
Following summons issued by the Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) to examine the alleged misdirection of US$ 2.5 million, Treasury Secretary Dr. Harshana Suriyapperuma appeared before the Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) with several senior officials of the Finance Ministry and Central Bank in Parliament yesterday.
Sri Lanka is moving forward, towards becoming a stronger nation. This is most noble and beautiful. In the recent past certain incidents in Government ministries made headline news. Irrespective of the reasons the general public has a right to see that all government sector institutions and departments operate with e…
The working people of Sri Lanka mark this year’s May Day at a decisive moment, as the country secures significant economic achievements despite a challenging global climate shaped by conflict, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in his May Day message.
There was a time when the Lanka Sama Samaja Party marched in May Day parades chanting, “Arise now, ye starvers.” Back then, Leftist political parties held their May Day parades through the streets of Colombo within a tradition of attacking rivals and exchanging blows. May Day was a restless day for the ‘club-and-bat…
WASHINGTON, April 30 (Yonhap) -- Top diplomatic and economic officials of the United States and China held online talks on Thursday, as part of preparations for a summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to take place in Beijing next month.
As Sri Lanka marks International Workers’ Day, shifting party strategies and economic pressures are redefining how the country observes, and understands, one of labour’s most significant dates.
International Worker’s Day, celebrated annually on the 1st of May, is a day dedicated to honouring the rights, dignity, and sacrifices of working people across the world, said General Secretary of the Samagi Sevaka Sangamaya Subash Karunaratne in a massage to mark the International Workers’ Day.
OAKLAND, Calif. — The judge presiding over the bombshell trial over the future of OpenAI has apparently had it with Elon Musk’s favorite line over the last three days – “You just can’t steal from a charity” – at one point reminding Musk that he was “not a lawyer.”
Oil prices whipsawed and surged toward their highest levels since the war with Iran began, only for the leaps to quickly vanish. The US stock market, meanwhile, is rising following strong profit reports from big companies like Alphabet.
A general view of the 18th hole flag pole during the first round of LIV Golf Jeddah at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club, Friday, March 1, 2024 in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia. (Matthew Harris/LIV Golf via AP, File)
Jobs platforms are being inundated with fake job ads generated by artificial intelligence, costing jobseekers time and money.
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The iconic Skipping Girl neon sign in Abbotsford sat down, glued to her phone, last month, part of a health campaign funded by the dairy industry to highlight the dangers of our obsession with technology.
Fractional ownership is taking off among the uber-rich who are also looking at being more sustainable when it comes to investing in high-end collectibles.
A conservative policy group is urging federal regulators to widen their crackdown on deceptive car pricing — warning that hidden fees are costing Americans thousands of dollars on one of the biggest purchases of their lives, The Post has learned.
An advertisement for prediction market platform Kalshi hangs at 13th and L Streets in northwest Washington, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File)
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will override scepticism among his own MPs and plough billions into the Suburban Rail Loop even as inflation fears and war-fuelled building costs force the Albanese government to pull back on road and rail projects.
Hawaiʻi will need nearly 60,000 additional housing units by 2050 to meet future demand driven largely by an aging population and to prevent younger residents from getting squeezed out of the housing market.
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Earlier this month, when much of the attention was largely focused on private credit, we warned that one of the old, familiar credit market time-bombs, commercial real estate which for many years had been penned as the "Next Big Short", was deteriorating rapidly: according to the latest TREPP CMBS monthly report, Ma…
NICOSIA — France and Spain have teamed up in a bid to reserve space for European companies in an upcoming spectrum auction for mobile satellite communications, effectively pushing out U.S. players.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is threatening a total shutdown of Facebook and Instagram in New Mexico if a state judge orders the company to adopt new safety features, according to a court filing Thursday.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference at the Federal Reserve, following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
A young woman is suing Roblox, Discord and Uber after a repeat predator used the platforms to groom her when she was 15 – paying a driver to bring her from Indiana to his New Jersey home where he kept her locked in a small, dank room and repeatedly raped her, according to the suit.
For a stock that's gone nowhere for six months, Apple sure has options traders excited.
The new wireless service in Vietnam will be based on the povo2.0 prepaid plan KDDI offers in Japan. (Photo by Hiroki Sakuragi)
Belgium’s federal government on Thursday approved a ban on flavored vapes, with only tobacco-flavored and unflavored e-cigarettes allowed on the market from September 2028.
A rare, double-wide Gilded Age mansion by Prospect Park in Brooklyn is on the market for $16 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal.
US inflation accelerated in March as the Iran war raised gasoline prices, bolstering financial market expectations that the Federal Reserve could keep interest rates unchanged well into next year.
Gasoline prices are displayed at a Mobil gas station on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi spoke about the naphtha supply situation on April 30. (Photo by Ken Suzuki)
Adani Enterprises oversees units operating in businesses as wide as coal mining, copper smelting, new energy, airports and road infrastructure. © Reuters
Thirteen individuals have been referred to the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal over a multimillion-dollar scheme to illegally procure military equipment for Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF) through UAE-based companies and financial channels.
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Fake humanitarian shipments, falsified documents, and a cast of 13 individuals and six companies, are among the key findings revealed by UAE authorities on Thursday in the Sudan arms smuggling case.
The US economy accelerated at the start of 2026, expanding at a modest 2% pace from January through March after recovering from last fall’s 43-day federal government shutdown. But the outlook is clouded by the Iran war.
Thirteen suspects are to stand trial over a multimillion-dollar plot to buy military equipment and weapons through the UAE's financial system and send them to the Sudanese Armed Forces for use in the country's civil war.
Masanori Morishita, CEO of Verbex's Japanese arm, says error rates of its conversational AI specialized for the Japanese language are 20% lower than the competition. (Manaho Okamura)
Shares of Blue Owl, the private credit firm at the center of recent jitters over exposure to software companies, jumped 10% in trading Thursday after executives disclosed sizable gains tied to SpaceX.
Amazon is exploring a reboot of The Apprentice — and is weighing whether to install Donald Trump Jr. as host of the reality show that helped catapult his father to the presidency, according to a report.
A for sale sign is posted outside a home, Feb. 10, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, file)
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