Nearly every day this week, a new lawmaker has lined up behind the growing effort to codify into law a fundamental rethinking of the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. On Monday, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the influential head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement calling for the US to “immediately freeze all aspects of our cooperation with Saudi Arabia.” Later in the week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Ro Khanna released a bill to temporarily halt… Source link

Home Depot co-founder and billionaire businessman Bernie Marcus isn’t sure he would be able to create the home improvement chain today if he tried given onerous regulations on small businesses and a challenging economic backdrop. “I don’t think so,” Marcus — a well-known proponent of free market capitalism and small businesses — said on a new edition of Yahoo Finance Presents. “I think if we had the regulations that we have today, Home Depot would be a chain of 12 stores. I just don’t… Source link

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This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. Baseball brings three playoff games Friday, thanks to Game 2 of the series between the Yankees and Guardians being rained out Thursday. That game will now be the first of the day, and it has the potential to be a great pitching matchup between Shane Bieber and Nestor Cortes. The two National League series will also resume, with both of them tied up at a game apiece. The Phillies could be in a particularly good spot to go up 2-1,… Source link

Cloud News Mark Haranas October 14, 2022, 11:40 AM EDT Here are five of the most important new partnerships Google Cloud formed this week at Google Cloud Next 2022. … Source link

Google announced late Wednesday that it would permit the Trump-backed social media site Truth Social to be downloaded through its app store, making the service available to millions of new users. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption … Source link

The Minnesota Timberwolves will name third-year wing Jaden McDaniels as the starting small forward to begin the 2022-23 season, league sources told Yahoo Sports. McDaniels, 22, has been preparing for the role during this preseason in what will be his first opportunity as a full-time starter. The 6-foot-9 wing will be tasked with defending the opposition’s best perimeter scorers and adding versatility and athleticism to a starting unit that will feature D’Angelo Russell, Anthony Edwards, Source link

Over the years, Google has made it harder to separate ads from organic search results at a glance. In its current iteration, when users perform a search, the only distinction between the two is “Ad” written in bold — and it’s easy to miss. The search giant is making a small change to that today by replacing the “Ad” label with the “Sponsored” label in bold next to the advertisements appearing in search results. The company is also moving the label… Source link

All it took for Elon Musk to set the hearts of Tesla investors aflutter was one simple word. A full week after Singapore-based billionaire Leo KoGuan warned only a stock buyback or 100% earnings growth would pull Tesla out of its current slump, Musk finally replied to his third largest shareholder. “Noted,” he wrote on Thursday. Minutes later the stock reversed its losses as investors took this as a clear sign that Musk might greenlight Tesla spending anywhere between $5 billion to even… Source link

U.S. stocks erased gains Friday as Wall Street’s biggest banks reported earnings and investors digested more inflation expectations. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 1.7%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was down nearly 1%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell by 2%. Stocks turned sharply lower as a consumer survey from the University of Michigan showed inflation expectations increasing, marking the highest level in six months. “The uptick in inflation expectations probably… Source link