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  • Politics
    The Canadian Press

    Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November. In a statement Friday, Biden’s top health official gave no timeline for issuing the rule, saying only that the administration would take more time to consider feedback, including from civil rights groups. “It’s clear that there are still more conversations to have

  • Business
    Yahoo Finance Video

    Fed decision, Big Tech earnings: What to watch

    As Yahoo Finance coverage draws to a close for the week, here are the events to watch for next week. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is set to announce a highly anticipated decision on monetary easing policy on Wednesday. Market participants are hoping for a potential rate cut. The earnings season continues, with a multitude of companies slated to release their first quarter results. Tech giants Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), and Qualcomm (QCOM) will take center stage. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination Overtime. This post was written by Angel Smith

  • News
    Reuters

    Emergency slide falls off Delta plane after takeoff

    The emergency exit slide fell off a Delta Airlines jet after taking off from New York en route to Los Angeles on Friday, Delta said. Delta said that crew on the flight, which had 183 people on board, declared an emergency and returned to John F. Kennedy International Airport, that it "supporting retrieval efforts." “As nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people, Delta flight crews enacted their extensive training and followed procedures to return to JFK," the airline said.

  • Business
    The Canadian Press

    Rooting for Trump to fail has made his stock shorters millions

    NEW YORK (AP) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Truth Social itself. Several of these investors