Valtteri Bottas won a dramatic Charles Leclerc Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton’s penalty for contact with Alex Albon knocked him down from second to fourth. Bottas crossed the line as the winner of a wear race 0.6 seconds ahead of his teammate, but Hamilton was immediately demoted, …
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Axl Rose defends his political openness in a July 4 message
A day after Axl Rose tweeted criticism directed at the U.S. Surgeon General, the Guns N ‘Roses singer wrote a message on July 4 in defense of his political outspokenness. “My disdain 4 [our] current administration n ‘what I perceive as its threat to [our] democracy is not a secret, …
Read More »Phone prices have nearly doubled in the past five years. Why is that?
Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority “The smartphone market has become saturated and consumers are holding onto their phones longer, so manufacturers are trying to get more out of every sale they get,” said Avi Greengart, president, chief analyst at Techsponential. “While this is opportunistic, it also reflects consumer demand: …
Read More »The world’s most accurate economist says a full recovery in the United States is unlikely by 2022, and warns of a stock market correction before the end of the year.
Christophe Barraud, chief economist at stockbroker Market Securities, has been rated Bloomberg’s most accurate forecaster of US economic data eight years in a row. He told Business Insider that the United States will not return to its fourth quarter 2019 GDP of 2.1% until at least 2022, and for some …
Read More »Democrats fear the United States has already lost the COVID-19 battle
Democrats are increasingly concerned that the country has lost the fight against the new coronavirus. For months, beginning in March, public health officials promoted, and local policy makers imposed, strict stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines that seemed to contain the spread of COVID-19. But in the past two weeks, …
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