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Rare penny from school lunch change up for auction

More than seven decades ago, a MA teenager found a 1943 Lincoln penny in his lunch change and he chose to hang on to it until his death just a few months ago. ...

Gold prices fall marginally today in futures trade

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday that policy is flexible and officials are "listening carefully" to financial markets . It dipped 0.1 per cent ag...

USA and China wrap up trade talks in Beijing. What happens next?

Washington "cannot push China too far" and must avoid a situation that "spins out of control". The U.S. trade delegation in Beijing is "wrapping up" meeti...

IRS To Send Tax Returns On Time Despite Shutdown

The agency said it will be recalling a "significant portion" of its federal employees, who are on furlough, back to work as tax season approaches. Instead, a se...

Edmonton rally to support B.C. First Nation's anti-pipeline checkpoint

Members of the Gidimt'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation had set up a camp and a checkpoint in the area, southwest of Houston, which they said was to co...

Donald Trump says US-China talks are ‘going very well’

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross predicted on Monday that Beijing and Washington could reach a trade deal that "we can live with" as dozens of officials from th...

Oil prices edge up on trade talk hopes and OPEC cuts

OPEC oil supply fell in December 2018 by 460,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 32.68 million bpd, a Reuters survey found last week, led by cuts from top exporter S...

Sears Takeover Bid Fails, Asks Bankruptcy Judge To Liquidate

In various documents, Sears itself acknowledged the problem, previously noting more than 200 suppliers have stopped or refused to ship merchandise to the comp...

Samsung feels Apple’s pain as technology slowdown hits sales

Samsung once also had a 20 per cent market share in China but has seen its sales tumble to less than one per cent of the world's largest smartphone market i...

Heathrow suspends departures after drone spotted

Heathrow staff are working with the Metropolitan Police and all flights have been grounded "as a precaution", an airport spokesperson said. "They've only given ...

Tesla to break ground on Shanghai 'Gigafactory'

Tesla's US-made cars are now subject to a 15 per cent tariff in the mainland after Beijing rolled back an extra 25 per cent tariff it slapped on USA auto import...

Hyundai's CES concept is a WALKING CAR

When the vehicle is in drive mode, the legs are folded up and power to the joints is cut to extend battery life. It features wheels with robotic legs that all...

PG&E shares plunge on bankruptcy worries

PG&E Corp, the electricity provider in the northern California region ravaged by a deadly wildfire, said it was searching for new directors at its holding compa...

Apple iPhone XI to come with three cameras on back

The three rear cameras are positioned in a squircle manner in the top left corner of the back cover. The entire year leading up to the day of the 2019 iPhones...

Labour’s Gardiner hints at referendum on Corbyn Brexit deal

The vote, pencilled in for Jan 15 or 16, was pulled at the last minute in December when it became clear more than 100 Conservative Party lawmakers were going ...

Elon Musk scrambles to keep Grimes, Azealia Banks out of investor lawsuit

But despite what one might read in Elon Musk's Twitter feed, it's not yet the top dog. Concerns about the shrinking USA tax credit and Tesla's decision to...

United States jobs growth jumps in December

Both were seen as more red flags that the economic expansion, now in its ninth year and the second longest on record, is losing steam. "This will be good news...

United Kingdom house prices rise at slowest pace in almost 6 years: Nationwide

The FTSE 100 , which closed 0.6 per cent, or 41.57 points, lower at 6,692.66, was forecast to open 38 points higher when trading began. Compared with a year ...

Jerome Powell Pledged Allegiance to Data and Some of It Looks Grim

Both of those messages cheered stock market investors who had been anxious about Trump's repeated attacks on his hand-picked choice to lead the nation's centr...

Horsham misses out on launch of Greggs new vegan sausage roll

He said: "The festival is growing every year and to have a popular bakery like Greggs stock a vegan sausage roll would help to make veganism more mainstream...

Polestar 2: Tesla Model 3 competitor teased

The company says its model will be sold in the Model 3 price range, which is between USD44,000 to USD62,000 before incentives in the United States. The automa...

Prince George unemployment rate rises in December

Further, he highlighted how average hourly earnings held steady at 1.5 per cent, which he wrote doesn't suggest the market is "producing the types of healthy wa...

Marriott says hack was smaller but hit 5.25 mn passports

Marriott discovered unauthorized access on a Starwood guest reservation database on November 19. While the passport numbers would be considered sensitive p...

China slashes banks’ reserve requirements again as economy slows

The People's Bank of China said the reserve requirement ratio will be lowered by 1.0 percentage point, with the stimulus going into effect later this month. I...

Ford recalls over 953K vehicles with faulty airbags

The recall includes 2010 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX, the 2010 and 2011 Ford Ranger, the 2010 to 2012 Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ, the 2010 and 2011 Mercury Milan...

Infiniti reveals electric QX Inspiration concept SUV

Unsurprisingly, the QX Inspiration Concept is basically the crossover version of the Q Inspiration Concept Infiniti showed past year. Infiniti QX Inspira...

Military withdraws from Gatwick after drone chaos

A spokeswoman for Gatwick said the airport had spent several million pounds on new defenses after flights were grounded at the airport last month. Flights a...

Lawsuit erases $22M in student loan debt for thousands of Arizonans

Schmidt, along with other Attorneys General, launched an investigation in 2014 after receiving numerous complaints from students. CEC, a for-profit education...

Apple reduces revenue forecast, blames China slowdown

Apple halted after-hours trading of its shares briefly on Wednesday afternoon to announce to shareholders that it had a worse-than-expected holiday quarter. ...

Former Nissan chairman Ghosn to appear in court for detention hearing

The ousted Nissan boss will demand that his detention be brought to an end, according to his lawyer. Renault owns 43 percent of Nissan. His arrest has rocke...

Brexit concerns hit the biggest part of the United Kingdom economy

The IHS Markit / BME Germany Manufacturing PMI slipped to 51.5 in December, down from 51.8 in November and at its lowest reading since March 2016. "The late...

Apple's shock warning sends investors to safe-haven assets

The news also jolted currency markets. Such big moves in foreign exchange markets reflect deep and growing angst about the global economy - the yen has tr...

Female McDonald’s Worker and Former Boxer Punches Violent Attacker

This was a result of a St. Petersburg ordinance passed last month that mandated "plastic straws can be given only upon customer request"- an effort to increas...

Deadline passes as nobody claims B.C. lottery ticket worth $1 million

The BCLC says a Thursday deadline has come and gone for someone who bought a winning lottery ticket a year ago worth $1-million. A Lotto 6-49 ticket purchas...

Qualcomm’s $1.5 billion bond halts certain iPhone sales in Germany

On December 20 a year ago, a court in Munich found that certain iPhone models infringed Qualcomm's patents, specifically those relating to power-saving technolo...