After more than five years of living in the Santa Monica Mountains, English singer-songwriter Liam Payne is ready to pull up stakes. Payne, who gained fame as a member of the superstar boy band One Direction, is selling his sprawling estate in the hills above Malibu for $10.75 million. Jonah Wilson of Beverly Hills-based brokerage
Family and friends place Humberto Rosales casket, who passed away from Covid-19 complications, at his gravesite at Memorial Pines Cemetery in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, on December 3, 2020. Paul Ratje | AFP | Getty Images The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly revised its estimates for the disproportionately deadly toll that Covid-19 is
Zoom founder Eric Yuan poses with members of his company in front of the Nasdaq building in New York as the screen shows the logo of the video-conferencing software company Zoom after the opening bell ceremony on April 18, 2019. Kena Betancur | Getty Images As the year winds down, the stock market continues to
Caíque de Abreu | E+ | Getty Images As many newlyweds discover, there’s a lot of sharing that goes on in a marriage. Including your taxes. If you tied the knot this year (or plan to do so in December), it may be worthwhile checking out what your new status will mean for your 2020
Vice President of Acquisitions at Fisher Brothers. getty With the continued focus on green development, there is potential for a new trend in New York City: the ushering in of a new phase for development by incentivizing the private market to build more green properties. Supporting this predictive shift is the technological enhancements making the industry
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus R speaks at a daily briefing in Geneva, Switzerland. Chen Junxia | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images World Health Organization officials on Friday warned that recent data suggests that, though it is rare, people who were once infected with the coronavirus could be infected again as their
Fans gather at local Ulta Beauty in Houston to greet Kylie Jenner at the launch of her cosmetics line on November 18, 2018 in Houston, Texas. Rick Kern | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: DocuSign — Shares of DocuSign popped more than 6% after the electronic-documents company posted better-than-expected
It’s the end of an era in Beverly Hills, where Priscilla Presley has sold her home for $13 million. Sale of the actress and former wife of Rock ‘n’ Roll legend Elvis Presley’s estate had been in the cards since this summer when the property hit the market for $16 million. Jonah Wilson of Beverly
A McDonald’s Happy Meal. Emile Wamsteker | Bloomberg | Getty Images McDonald’s plans to pass along more fees to franchisees next year, risking the wrath of its U.S. operators. Starting in January, the fast-food chain will stop paying out a $300 subsidy per month at each restaurant for Happy Meals, according to a memo from
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell Thursday: Ollie’s Bargain Outlet (OLLI) — Shares of the retailer slid more than 11% following commentary around a slowdown in the company’s fourth-quarter trends. “Quarter-to-date, our comparable-store sales increases are tracking in the low single-digits,” CEO John Swygert said in a statement. Goldman Sachs downgraded the
Recently, there has been much debate about whether billionaires should exist, an idea popularized by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But to former Alphabet executive chairman and investor Eric Schmidt, who is worth more than $17 billion, the idea that extreme wealth is a moral failure is reductive. “We would probably all be better off spending more
If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has his way, parents will have a lot more flexibility when it comes to covering the extra expenses that have gone hand in hand with distance learning. McConnell’s proposal for pandemic relief would allow parents of K-12 students at public or private schools to use 529 college savings funds
Big Brother style camera over the entrance to the United States Tax Court getty Nothing like packing several issues into one decision. That’s what we have in the Duffy case. Since the Tax Court will not be issuing any opinions until after Christmas I decided to look at the court’s top hits for 2020. I reached out
After setting a California price record in February with the $165-million sale of his Beverly Hills … [+] estate, media mogul David Geffen has sold another prized property in the 90210 for $33.75 million. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images The hits keep on coming for David Geffen. The media magnate this week unloaded another prized
A nurse administers a flu vaccination shot to a woman at a free clinic held at a local library on October 14, 2020 in Lakewood, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Children and young teens could get a Covid-19 vaccine in the second half of next year, an advisor for the Centers for Disease Control
A customer exits a Big Lots store in Clifton, New Jersey. Emile Wamsteker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Big Lots — The retail stock sank 9% after the company declined to give guidance as part of its third-quarter earnings report. Big Lots beat analyst expectations on
Elon Musk has taken his electric vehicle long-shot, Tesla, from the brink of bankruptcy all the way to the S&P 500. He’s also lead SpaceX from near ruin to using its reusable rockets to courier NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. It may seem bold to bet against the maverick entrepreneur. (If you tell
Jeff Smith, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Starboard Value LP. Chris Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images Starboard Value hit an unexpected stumbling block in its activist campaign in AECOM when one of the hedge fund’s members quit the infrastructure company’s board of directors over the summer. Peter Feld quit the AECOM
SDI Productions | E+ | Getty Images This year, the IRS is willing to let you write off all your adjusted gross income if you give it to charity in the form of cash. But just because you’re allowed to do it doesn’t mean it’s a good call. When the CARES Act went into effect
For close to a decade, the Honeycutts lived in the brick house with white shudders on Patterson Street in China Grove, North Carolina. Vicki Honeycutt and her husband, James, a disabled Gulf War veteran, loved to sit out on the front porch, drinking Pepsis or sweet tea. Vicki’s favorite space in the three-bedroom house was