Skechers is being acquired for $9 billion and taken private by the investment firm by 3G Capital. The board of Skechers unanimously approved the deal, the companies said Monday. The offer of $63 per share represents a premium of 30% … Continued
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and SALLY HO, Associated Press As a transgender man, the words “you’re a girl” gutted Tazz Webster, a taunt hurled at him from the day he moved into his St. Louis apartment. The government-subsidized building’s manager also … Continued
By ALBERT STUMM, Associated Press INVERNESS, Scotland (AP) — As we crossed the Keswick Bridge into the rolling hills outside Inverness, green fields of early-spring barley still had months to grow until harvest. The grain will be sent to a … Continued
While specific figures for New York under the new federal administration are not yet available, media reports and press releases from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suggest there have been more than 340 arrests of migrants from January to … Continued
President Trump said Sunday that he was ordering the FBI to reopen the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the historic prison on an island off of San Francisco that has been closed since 1963. “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” he wrote in a … Continued
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve will likely keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, despite weeks of harsh criticism and demands from President Donald Trump that the Fed reduce borrowing … Continued