[Daily Maverick] South Africa's Health Ministry has officially confirmed the presence of the B.1.617.2 variant of Covid-19, which was discovered in India, and another variant first detected in the UK. Minister Zweli Mkhize says new variant threats are a concern and the government is discussing ...

https://allafrica.com/stories/202105090024.html

#AllAfricaNews

The BoE responded to stronger economic conditions and slowed the pace of its QE programme at its policy meeting. Employment numbers in Canada and the US nonfarm payrolls were far short of expectations. Is the US recovery sputtering? This weeks inflation and retail sales numbers may help ...

https://www.forexcrunch.com/forex-weekly-outlook-may-10-14-uk-gdp-us-retail-sales-in-focus/

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The A-10 Thunderbolt II is basically built around the GAU-8 Avenger, a 30-mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type cannon.

The GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun next to a VW Type 1.
US Air Force photo

Wanna know whats behind the trademark BRTTTTT noise of the A-10 Warthogs GAU-8/A ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-a10-warthog-gau8-gatling-gun-really-works-2021-5

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota health officials are trying various strategies in an attempt to get people vaccinated and slow the spread of the coronavirus.Volunteer physicians are working with a brewery in St...

https://apnews.com/article/mn-state-wire-minnesota-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-a3e65dc3358e01ee47d0712687c7d71e

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DENVER (AP) - A nationwide surge in lumber costs is affecting home buyers and homeowners in Colorado.Lumber prices are up 250% compared to a year ago, driving up home construction costs, according to economist Ali Wolf with the housing market research firm Zonda...

https://apnews.com/article/colorado-lifestyle-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-26f95bbe8db884c1fd002d759e598ac7

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CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) - The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 6 cents over the past two weeks, to $3.02 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the increase came as the costs of crude oil and ethanol also rose...

https://apnews.com/article/business-342d43005020fbbc2fb279bd593428f7

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The VEB is the currency abbreviation for Venezuelan bolivar, which was the currency for Venezuela from 1879 to January 2008...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/forex/v/veb-venezuelan-bolivar.asp?utm_campaign=rss_headlines&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral

#investopedia

While the giggles were with Elon Musk's dogecoin jokes, Ethereum is close to $4,000.While the giggles were with Elon Musk's dogecoin jokes, Ethereum is close to $4,000.While everyone is laughing over the gimmicky dogecoin rise and fall over the weekend thanks to a skit by Tesla (TSLA) - Get ...

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/cryptocurrency/ethereum-gets-the-last-laugh

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"We're in the middle of this slow sink," Kinzinger said of the GOP. "We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it's fine."

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday compared the GOP to the ill-fated Titanic passenger liner.
...

https://www.businessinsider.com/congressman-adam-kinzinger-compares-republican-party-to-titanic-2021-5

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The UK has enormous capacity to increase its energy supply from offshore wind. Australia too has vast potential for wind and solar powerWherever you are on the planet, the last 12 months have been very difficult. In seeking the strongest economic recovery from the pandemic, it is understandable that...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/10/investing-in-coal-power-would-be-an-expensive-mistake

#theguardian

Sugar price remains on an uptrend amid a weakening US dollar and rising demand. On Thursday, it rose to $17.90, which is close to the one-month high of $17.98 hit on 27th April. It ended Fridays session at $17.49, down by 0.34%. Mays WASDE report will avail cues on the commoditys supply status. ...

https://invezz.com/news/2021/05/09/sugar-price-rallying-may-wasde-report/

#InvezzNews

Musk's presence was part of a cynical ploy to boost the sketch show's pop culture capital within an entertainment landscape that has passed it by.Last nights episode ofSaturday Night Live, hosted by Elon Musk, was far from its worst ever. And yet it still may have marked the long-running sketch ...

https://qz.com/2006914/snl-used-elon-musk-as-a-desperate-attempt-to-stay-relevant/

#Quartz

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket in February 2021. | Photo: SpaceX

SpaceX is now accepting Dogecoin, and itll be paid exclusively in the cryptocurrency to launch an upcoming satellite named DOGE-1 to yes the Moon.
The DOGE-1 is a cubesat meant to acquire lunar-spatial intelligence using onboard ...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/9/22427588/spacex-dogecoin-satellite-doge-1-to-the-moon

#TheVerge

The growth in SMBs across the country in the last year has been unexpected and is bringing significant benefits. But to support them, innovation needs some new tools. The growth in SMBs across the country in the last year has been unexpected and is bringing significant benefits. But to support them...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexlazarow/2021/05/09/smbs-are-the-key-to-a-stronger-more-resilient-and-inclusive-future-now-we-need-the-tools-to-help-them-succeed/

#Forbes

Bill and Melinda Gates have been married for 27 years and announced on May 3 that their union would come to an end.

Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Melinda Gates reportedly considered divorce for two years before officially filing for one.
Shes met with several ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/melinda-gates-divorce-bill-gates-since-at-least-2019-wsj-2021-5

#Insider

Larry Hogan said the Republican Party needs to start focusing on winning elections rather than staying loyal to Trump...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/maryland-governor-hogan-gop-circular-firing-squad.html?via=rss

#SlateMagazine

Joyous reunions among vaccinated parents and children across the country marked this year's Mother's Day, the second one celebrated during the coronavirus pandemic.Some families separated by worries of transmitting the virus saw each other for the first time in over a year, emboldened by their ...

https://apnews.com/article/business-coronavirus-pandemic-lifestyle-mothers-day-pandemics-8f9fb186519631e629bb7fd921039e12

#APNews

Russia, China, and the European signatories to the so-called Iran nuclear deal agreed on Friday to intensify talks on bringing the United States and Iran back into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the diplomat leading the Russian delegation at the talks said. The Joint Commission of #...

https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Iran-Nuclear-Deal-Talks-Are-Finally-Progressing.html

#oilprice

"Keep As Much Money As You Can": Hunter Biden Disclosures Offer New Details On His Chinese Financial Dealings And Associations

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

There arenew disclosuresfrom Hunter Bidens laptop that offer an added perspective on his dealings with Chinese figures, including Patrick Ho...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/keep-much-money-you-can-hunter-biden-disclosures-offer-new-details-his-chinese-financial

#ZeroHedge

NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA fined David Griffin of the New Orleans Pelicans $50,000 on Sunday for publicly criticizing officiating and making comments the league considered detrimental.The decision came two days after Griffin, the Pelicans' executive vice president of basketball operations, spoke out ...

https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-pelicans-nba-business-sports-4be582623689c2d1a57d08248c9f3762

#APNews

The Commerce Secretary's warning comes two days after a hacking group forced the nation's biggest gas pipeline to shut downThe Commerce Secretary's warning comes two days after a hacking group forced the nation's biggest gas pipeline to shut down...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/05/09/cyberattacks-infrastructure-colonial-pipeline-biden-official-warns/

#ForbesBusinessNews

"B 1.617 is likely to be a variant of concern because it has some mutations which increase transmission," Dr. Soumya Swaminathan told AFP.

Relatives prepare a pyre for cremation of a relative who died of COVID-19 at a crematorium in Ajmer, Rajasthan on May 8, 2021.
Shaukat Ahmed/Pacific Press/...

https://www.businessinsider.com/india-coronavirus-variant-more-transmissible-who-says-2021-5

#Insider

In November 2015, Kisha Loomis signed on to Amazon and ordered her son a hoverboard, a two-wheeled vehicle popular with kids and balanced with gyroscopic gears. Just more than four weeks later, on New Years Eve, its lithium ion battery exploded and the hoverboard burst into flames, setting Loomis ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/california-legal-rulings-may-big-impact-amazons-liability-third-party-products-sells/

#GeekWire

After over a year of exclusivity on iOS, Clubhouse is expanding to Android users. During Sundays town hall, the audio-only social platform announced the rollout for their Android app, which is available to download for all Android users in the U.S. today. Other English-speaking markets, and ...

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/clubhouse-android-app-1234969524/

#variety

The champions of the first season of the Call of Duty League are being honored in a unique way: with their faces plastered at the stadium in Call of Duty: Warzone. Today, Activision revealed that the front entrance to Verdansk Stadium in Warzone will soon display a giant rendition of the CDL trophy...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/9/22424868/call-of-duty-league-cdl-warzone-verdansk-statue-champions

#TheVerge

PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday expressed hope that Europe would rediscover the path of "great projects, great ambitions and great dreams" as the European Union launched a wide consultation process meant to design the shape of the bloc's future...

https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-government-and-politics-dfdcf7e8ba4442e5c3445847ed456634

#APNews

The Dow & S&P 500 will begin the week at record highs, as President Joe Biden hits up Congress to sell his infrastructure package...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/coinbase-disney-earnings-jolts-report-top-week-ahead

#foxbusiness

Elon Musks turn as Saturday Night Live host brought the NBC late-night mainstay its third-highest ratings of the season. The May 8 edition of SNL averaged a 4.8 household rating in Nielsens overnight metered markets and a 2.7 rating in adults 18-49. That put...

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/elon-musk-snl-host-tv-ratings-1234969518/

#variety

Loyal supporters of each bakery have taken to social media to argue which Mas is best...

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/05/09/massachusetts-and-rhode-island-doughnut-shops-feud-over-the-right-to-carry-mas-name

#BostonGlobe

With sales of Rs 352 crore in April, this brand alone accounted for over 2 per cent of the total domestic pharma market sales of Rs 15,662 crore...

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/fabiflu-numero-uno-in-indian-pharma-market-show-april-sales-data-121050900853_1.html

#business-standard

Disney Caught Indoctrinating Employees With Critical Race Theory, "White Privilege" Checklist

According to newly leaked employee training manuals, the Walt Disney Company has been pushing "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) on its employees, including lectures on race and white privilege, and how America...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/disney-caught-indoctrinating-employees-critical-race-theory-white-privilege-checklist

#ZeroHedge

Avelo Airlines just made its Hollywood debut in April and already has plans to expand its low-cost leisure flights to the East Coast by year's end.

Flying on the first flight of Avelo Airlines.
Thomas Pallini/Insider

Avelo Airlines is coming to the East Coast with a new base in New Haven, ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/avelo-airlines-coming-to-east-coast-new-base-in-connecticut-2021-5

#Insider

Richards Packaging Income Fund (TSX:RPI) has developed into a full-service packaging distributor targeting small and medium-sized North American consumer product businesses.
The post Value Stock Pickers: 1 Industrial Stock That Could Significantly Outperform appeared first on The Motley Fool Canada...

https://www.fool.ca/2021/05/09/value-stock-pickers-1-industrial-stock-that-could-significant-outperform/

#MotleyFoolCanada

More than a year after it first welcomed iPhone users, Clubhouse is finally coming to Android. The live audio app, which has gained popularity and forced industry-wide movement in the social media space, has not been able to maintain its user growth this spring after a meteoric rise during the first...

https://www.adweek.com/media/at-long-last-clubhouse-comes-to-android/

#Adweek

The Pivot To Gold Has Begun

Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog,

For the past few weeksIve incurred the wrath of what Im now calling Gold-Only bugs for constantly haranguing them about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. These are the folks which state only gold can beat the central ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/pivot-gold-has-begun

#ZeroHedge

ISIS is better understood as a group of organizations in which the leaders provide resources to the affiliates with the most potential.

A mural with the ISIS logo in a tunnel reportedly used as a training centre by the group, on the southern outskirts of Mosul in Iraq, March 1, 2017.
AHMAD AL-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-isis-operations-look-like-a-venture-capital-firm-2021-5

#Insider

'Mortal Kombat' is playing like a "for fans only" IP cash-in, albeit from a lower opening weekend than would have been expected in non-Covid times.'Mortal Kombat' is playing like a "for fans only" IP cash-in, albeit from a lower opening weekend than would have been expected in non-Covid times...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2021/05/09/weekend-box-office-demon-slayer-nears-40-million-but-mortal-kombat-tumbles/

#ForbesBusinessNews

TheStreet asks Capital Economics' Jennifer McKeown about the rise in prices, comparisons to the 1970s, and more.TheStreet asks Capital Economics' Jennifer McKeown about the rise in prices, comparisons to the 1970s, and more.Will inflation prove a bump in the road of higher economic growth, or will ...

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/inflation-should-it-stay-or-it-go-heres-what-a-top-economist-thinks

#thestreet

Today's column addresses questions about divorcing and remarrying after 60 to allow survivor's benefits from a previous marriage, temporarily avoiding the deeming provision even if you were born after 1/1/1954 and how Social Security uses earnings histories to calculate benefit amounts.Today's ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2021/05/09/ask-larry-can-my-friends-divorce-and-remarry-after-60-to-get-social-security-widows-benefits/

#Forbes

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - A beloved doughnut shop in Massachusetts says it's being forced to reopen under a new name after a Rhode Island company snagged a trademark for its decades-old moniker.The family behind Ma's Donuts in New Bedford was planning to reboot the shop this year after it closed in ...

https://apnews.com/article/ma-state-wire-business-41e1b7527fb8bffe96de1d35be5d2081

#APNews

The Wyoming Republican received a smattering of support ahead of a vote to oust her from the party leadership. The Wyoming Republican received a smattering of support ahead of a vote to oust her from the party leadership...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/05/09/few-republicans-come-to-liz-cheneys-defense-ahead-of-power-stripping-vote/

#ForbesBusinessNews

JetBlue may be helping American Airlines today, but its long-term expansion plans could turn it into a dangerous competitor in a few years.Despite being the largest U.S. airline by many metrics, American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) had some glaring strategic weaknesses even before the COVID-19 pandemic ...

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/05/09/american-airlines-courts-danger-with-partnership-s/?source=iedfolrf0000001

#fool

Among those hardest hit by the pandemic were working moms, who've struggled to balance caretaking with day-job demands.

First lady Jill Biden gestures to a student as she visits the Christa McAuliffe School in Concord, New Hampshire, U.S., March 17, 2021.
Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS

First Lady ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/jill-biden-thanks-moms-mothers-day-message-2021-5

#Insider

Clubhouse

After more than a year of iOS exclusivity, social audio platform Clubhouse is releasing its Android app. It will be available in beta on Googles mobile OS today in the US, allowing users to sign up and participate in its audio-only chat rooms.
Our plan over the next few weeks is to ...

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/9/22424399/clubhouse-android-app-release-date-news-features

#TheVerge

Embers from the 2020 Castle Fire continued to smolder from inside the tree, which could be 1,000 years old, despite rain and snow.

A smoldering tree in Sequoia National Park, California, on April 22, 2021.
Tony Caprio/National Park Service via AP

A tree in California's Sequoia National Park is ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/california-huge-sequoia-tree-still-smoldering-from-2020-wildfires-2021-5

#Insider

Wrath of Man, a heist thriller starring Jason Statham, is leading box office charts with its $8.1 million debut. Its hardly the start to summer movie season, which typically kicks off the first weekend in May, that many theater owners were hoping would ignite with Marvels...

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/box-office-wrath-of-man-opening-weekend-1234969499/

#variety