In this article SPCE Virgin Galactic leaders in front of the New York Stock Exchange, from left: CEO George Whitesides, founder Richard Branson and Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic announced Friday that Chairman Chamath Palihapitiya is stepping down from the space tourism company’s board of directors, effective immediately. Palihapitiya’s SPAC, or special purpose
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs and rethinking what they want when it comes to work and work-life balance. Companies are responding, meeting their employees’ needs in areas like remote work, flexible hours, four-day workweeks, compensation and more. This story is part of a series looking at the “Great Reshuffle” and the shift in
By Chris Farrell, Next Avenue Does the outline of this scenario seem familiar? Paige Wilson, age 60, had a long career in finance with her last position as managing director at an investment bank. She and her family lived in Richmond, Va. not far from her 78-year-old mother. Her mother was vital and energetic, but she
An influx of out-of-towners with big budgets is contributing to the rise in home prices in popular migration destinations, pricing out many local buyers, according to a new report from real estate brokerage Redfin. The average out-of-towner moving to Nashville in 2021 had $736,900 to spend on a home, 28.5% higher than the $573,400 average budget for
The Justice Department has created a new role: Director of National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team. Today it announced that Eun Young Choi will serve as the first Director in that role. The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, or NCET, “was established to ensure the department meets the challenge posed by the criminal misuse of cryptocurrencies and digital
Patients lie in hospital beds waiting for medical treatment at a temporary shelter outside the Caritas Medical Center in Hong Kong, China, on February 16, 2022. Leung Man Hei | NurPhoto | Getty Images Hong Kong needs to protect its health-care system, which is under tremendous stress right now due to a spike in coronavirus
A Doordash delivery person rides their bike on Church Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on December 04, 2020 in New York City. Food delivery startup DoorDash Inc is expected to raise its U.S. initial public offering up to $3.14 billion. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Shares of DoorDash soared as much as
The Great Hall of the People is seen after the closing meeting of the fourth session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) on March 11, 2021 in Beijing, China. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping told top leaders to speed up work on new laws for
In this article TMO Millions of people are now vaccinated, boosted and newly recovered from Covid-19 infections caused by the omicron variant. They have what some outside the medical community have labeled “super immunity.” And many are ready to see the world again. Though the term carries an air of invincibility, medical experts disagree about
A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off with a crew of six, including Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the first American in space Alan Shepard, for whom the spacecraft is named, from Launch Site One in west Texas, U.S. December 11, 2021. Joe Skipper | Reuters WASHINGTON – Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue
Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Long-term care expenses are growing, with sizable hikes for home-based services as the industry struggles to meet soaring demand from aging Americans. That’s according to Genworth’s 2021 Cost of Care Survey, a yearly report covering nationwide senior caregiving. While the median yearly costs rose across all provider types, home-based
Over years of consulting with adult children’s struggles with their aging parents, some issues stand out to me. Some of the hardest ones are about an adult child who was abused, neglected or both by a messed-up parent. These offspring relate that the difficult parent didn’t just get that way with old age. Usually, I’m
Toronto’s Bridle Path neighborhood is known for its lavish mansions and celebrity neighbors. Superstars such as Drake, Celine Dion and Prince have called the sought-after enclave home. A 26,000-square-foot mega-mansion now for sale is just down the street from a spread Mick Jagger once rented. A circular driveway leads to the symmetrical front of the
The preamble to final regs (T.D. 9959) issued January 4 pulls no punches in denying U.S. foreign tax credits for a foreign country’s destination-based taxes imposed on U.S. taxpayers. The new regs finalize proposed regs published in November 2020 (REG-101657-20) that included rules for determining whether a foreign tax is eligible for an FTC under
A COVID-19 testing location is shown set up on the sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles, California, November, 16, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters California on Thursday laid out a plan that manage Covid as a permanent aspect of life, anticipating future surges and new variants that may require public health measures such as facemasks depending
In this article WMT A shopper carries a bag outside a Walmart store in San Leandro, California, on Thursday, May 13, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Walmart will report fourth-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, as investors look for clues about how shoppers are responding to inflation. Here is what
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Feb. 17, 2022. Source: NYSE Stock futures were flat in overnight trading Thursday following the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s worst day of 2022 as investors dumped risk assets amid geopolitical concerns. Futures on the blue-chip Dow were up by 30 point. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures
Prasit photo | Moment | Getty Images The U.S. wealth management industry is poised to grow by about 5% annually over the next five years, while certain segments of the investor population are positioned to see the biggest boost, according to a new report from McKinsey & Company. Three investor sub-groups, in particular, are showing
Circle, the firm behind the stablecoin USDC, has doubled its valuation to $9 billion following a new deal with blank-check company Concord Acquisition Corp. The two companies first revealed their plans to merge in July, in a deal that at the time valued Circle at just $4.5 billion. They have now updated the terms of
Getty Images Just months after a federal $15 minimum wage failed to take shape, Californians may get the chance to vote on even higher minimum hourly pay. A measure to raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 began to collect signatures in February. If the campaign, called the Living Wage Act of 2022, gets 700,000