A prominent NBA team owner was among three of President Donald Trump’s diplomatic nominees confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday evening. Tilman Fertitta, owner of the Houston Rockets and CEO of Landry’s Restaurants group was confirmed as the upper chamber to be Trump’s ambassador to Italy and San Marino by a margin of 83-14. Investors Tom Barrack and Warren Stephens ...
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) terminad $2.5 billion in ‘wasteful’ grants that went toward gender-based causes, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Tuesday. The USDA got rid of 420 grants for a savings of $2.3 billion, according to DOGE. Among the programs the money was used for, $361,000 went toward ‘gender non-conforming, non-binary, two-spirit’ BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people ...
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in improper payment requests were identified after going live with its first automated payment system last week. In fact, the system found $334 million in improper payment requests that were flagged because of missing budget codes, invalid budget codes and budget codes ...
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is starting to transition from his role with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and is no longer working regularly from the White House, according to a report from the New York Post. His impending exit is no surprise, as the White House confirmed earlier this month that the plan was always for Musk ...
The Liberal Party of Canada has emerged as the federal election winner under Prime Minister Mark Carney. Carney, who ran the Bank of Canada from 2007 to 2013 and the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, won the Liberal Party leadership race in March, following the resignation of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on January 6. In what turned ...
Ramp Metals Inc. (TSXV: RAMP) (‘Ramp Metals’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce that the Company has intersected semi-massive and massive sulphides with chalcopyrite and sphalerite mineralization at the Rush target. The Rush target is a NE-SW trending conductive anomaly over 1100m in length. Rock samples from the October 2024 field program returned values of up to 1.61% copper, ...
(TheNewswire) April 29, 2025 TheNewswire Vancouver, British Columbia Blue Lagoon Resources Inc. (the ‘ Company ‘) (CSE: BLLG; FSE: 7BL; OTCQB: BLAGF) is pleased to announce that it has completed the final tranche of its previously announced private placement financing (see news releases dated February 24 and March 31, 2025) by issuing 8,900,000 units (‘Units’) at a price of $0.25 ...
NorthStar Gaming Holdings Inc. (TSXV: BET) (OTCQB: NSBBF) (‘NorthStar’ or the ‘Company’) today announces an anticipated delay in the filing of its annual audited financial statements, management’s discussion and analysis and related certifications for the financial year ended December 31, 2024 (collectively, the ‘Annual Filings’). The Company does not expect to file its Annual Filings by the regular filing deadline ...
Wide Open Agriculture (WOA:AU) has announced WOA signs Offtake & Distribution Agreement for China Download the PDF here. This post appeared first on investingnews.com ...
Gold burst through the US$3,000 per ounce mark in March 2025 and continued to climb, with indications it could move even higher this year. Investors now find themselves in a world where the yellow metal is frequently posting all-time highs above the eyebrow-raising US$3,000 price point. But is gold now too expensive to be worth buying, or is a gold ...