Some welcome news for inflation: U.S. wholesale producer prices fell unexpectedly in March. What contributed to the drop? Twitter takes a step closer to becoming the “everything” app. It’s now teaming up with a stock trading company. Amazon cranks up AI competition against Microsoft and Google, launching a set of tools to help companies develop…
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Scammers Steal Huge Food Shipments Using Online Technique Agencies Describe as ‘Most Financially Damaging’
Multiple federal agencies have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) warning the food and agriculture sector about incidents of criminal actors using business email compromise (BEC) tactics to steal food shipments. The advisory was issued on Dec. 15 by the FBI, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S….
Scammers Steal Huge Food Shipments Using Online Technique
Multiple federal agencies have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) warning the food and agriculture sector about incidents of criminal actors using business email compromise (BEC) tactics to steal food shipments. The advisory was issued on Dec. 15 by the FBI, the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the U.S….
‘Prairie Boys Made the Best Sailors’: 99-Year-Old Navy Vet Recounts His WWII Experience
REGINA—It was during his first year of study at the University of Saskatchewan in pursuit of an agricultural degree, as World War II engulfed the world, that Osborne Lakness felt the call to join the military. “My friends got together and said, well what are we doing here? Our [other] friends are going to serve…
A ‘Safe Space’ From Cancel Culture in Corporate America and Governmental Overreach
Over the past decade, the rise of “cancel culture” and “woke” ideology has drifted out of the college campus and into mainstream society, becoming what some critics have described as a “cancer” in the American workplace and in the halls of government. Thousands of individuals, including some CEOs, have faced discrimination for their beliefs or…
7 Things to Know About San Diego’s Stunning New Music Venue
By Christopher Reynolds From Los Angeles Times This just in: San Diego does things differently than Los Angeles. Its downtown sits at water’s edge. It neighbors a foreign country. Its people support fewer major sports teams (one versus nine, countywide) and more military bases (nine versus three). And instead of tucking its sleek new…
A ‘Recession Shock’ Is Coming, BofA Warns
LONDON—The macro-economic picture is deteriorating fast and could push the U.S. economy into recession as the Federal Reserve tightens its monetary policy to tame surging inflation, BofA strategists warned in a weekly research note. “‘Inflation shock’ worsening, ‘rates shock’ just beginning, ‘recession shock’ coming”, BofA chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in a note to…
William Barr and Trump’s 2024 Conundrum
Commentary In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper—authors will go anywhere to flog a book—William Barr said he would back a candidate other than Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination. The former attorney general, whose new book is “One Damn Thing After Another,” explained: “Yes, I think the coming presidential election would be a…
Start-Ups Guide to Maximizing Social Media Marketing
In 2021, social media for business marketing is no longer foreign. With 4.48 billion people across various social media, if your startup business isn’t on social media, then your presence is at the base. Let’s face it, social media is the new marketplace, a global one at that. However, just as every other form of…
Soccer Star Rashford Honored for Fighting Child Poverty
LONDON—Soccer star Marcus Rashford has received an honorary award from Prince William for his successful campaign to get the British government to provide free meals to disadvantaged children during the pandemic. Rashford, 24, was made an MBE, or Member of the Order of the British Empire, on Tuesday during a ceremony at Windsor Castle. The…
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