Indian woman misses a train in Italy by just 1 minute after timing change, gets shifted to 11 am train for free A small travel incident in Italy has sparked a wider conversation online after an Indian traveller shared her experience with railway staff. What stood out to her was not simply missing a train,…
WASHINGTON — A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently banned Jeanine Pirro’s office from bringing charges against a former Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Todd Edelman entered an order on Thursday that dismissed the case with prejudice. Attorneys for David “Davey” Hearn and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the…
An exiled Russian opposition figure living in the US says he was warned by American and Lithuanian security services that his life was in danger. Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov said he was one of two dissidents told to take precautions, which he had done. His comments come after the US Justice Department unsealed…
One of the biggest decisions retirees make — when to claim Social Security benefits — would be described differently under a bill that may soon become law. The Claiming Age Clarity Act, a bipartisan bill that changes certain terms to describe the ages when a worker may claim Social Security retirement benefits, passed the Senate…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. If you keep CNBC on your TV tonight, you’ll be able to catch Game 3 of the WNBA Playoffs between the Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces at 9 p.m. ET. S&P 500 futures are higher this morning as the…
Optical illusion personality tests trick our eyes and brain into believing what a person sees first based on their thoughts, mindset, and focus. These brain teasers ask us to look at an image that can be read in more than one way and tell us what the first thing we noticed says about us. Maybe…
Questions remain about how a pilot managed to sneak a weapon aboard a plane and stab his fellow pilot before it plunged thousands of feet in mere seconds. The attacker was thwarted, passengers said, and the plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. “We were so scared. We didn’t know what was going to…
He thought at first that this was simply because of an air pocket, but “it took a lot of time, almost a minute”. Everyone who wasn’t seated fell to the floor, he said. “After a couple of seconds, we started to hear screams. ‘There is blood, there is stabbing, we need help’,” Polovincik said. “At…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering new ways for individual investors to gain access to some private-market investments — including passing an exam. The three-member commission said on Wednesday it is considering expanding the qualifiers for so-called accredited investor status. Certain investments — such as private equity funds, venture capital, and hedge funds, among others — commonly require…
Walmart is aiming to make it as easy as possible for its customers to find exactly what they want. The retailer is leveraging three new tools tied to its digital shelf labels for both customers and store associates to better find products. It’s the latest part of the company’s push to modernize its technology and…
