Olivia Newton-John Dies: ‘Grease’ Star & Hitmaking ‘Physical’ Singer Was 73
In Search of Mexican Pizza
Taco Bell may have made the name famous, but this pizza — made with leavened dough and traditional Mexican ingredients — has become a genre all its own.
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More Bad News for Alex Jones: The Jan. 6 Committee Now Has His Texts
The Jan. 6 committee is in possession of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ text messages spanning a period of approximately two years, CNN reported on Monday.
The trove of Jones’ communications come by way of Mark Bankston, an attorney representing two parents of Sandy Hook victims in their lawsuit against Jones. Or, rather, they come by way of Jones’ own lawyer. In a stunning moment during the InfoWars host’s defamation trial, which resulted in a jury finding that Jones owes $45.2 million in punitive damages for lying about the 2012 school shooting, Bankston informed the court that Jones lawyer sent him his client’s messages, apparently by accident.
Rolling Stone reported last week that the Jan. 6 committee was preparing to subpoena the communications in order to find out more the extent of the right-wing provocateur’s potential role in the deadly Capitol insurrection, as well as the potential roles of any of the right-wing figures Jones may have been texting with. Jones was first subpoenaed last November and appeared for testimony in January, but said on his Infowars radio show that he pleaded the Fifth “almost 100 times.”
Jones was present in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6.
The committee getting ahold of the texts isn’t surprising. Bankston said in court last week that the Jan. 6 committee and federal law enforcement had reached out to him about Jones’ texts and that he fully intended to hand them over.
UniQure Stock Tanks 30%
Shares of uniQure N.V. (QURE) are tanking nearly 30% on Monday morning after the company reported second-quarter results.
QURE is currently trading at $17.99, down $7.55 or 29.56%, on the Nasdaq, on a volume of 1.9 million shares, above average volume of 0.6 million. The stock opened its trading at $21.03 per share, after closing Friday’s trading at $25.54. The stock has traded between $12.52 and $38.80 in the past 52-week period.
Second-quarter revenues were $0.4 million, compared $4.6 million last year. The company reported second-quarter loss of $39.1 million or $0.84 per share, compared to net income of $399.5 million or $8.51 per share last year.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles History (in a Half-Shell)
After nearly 40 years and a new Netflix film, a look at what continues to make these cartoon heroes so appealing.
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PHOTOS: Meow Wolf hosts Vortex 2022 Music Festival
Meow Wolf’s Vortex music festival returned after a three-year hiatus to a new venue: The Junk Yard, a former junkyard in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver.
Treasuries Regain Ground After Last Friday’s Sell-Off
Following the steep drop seen in the previous session, treasuries regained some ground during the trading day on Monday.
Bond prices moved to the upside early in the session and remained firmly positive throughout the day. As a result, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, slid 7.5 basis points to 2.765 percent.
The rebound by treasuries may partly have reflected bargain hunting, with the ten-year yield giving back ground after spiking by 16.4 basis points to a two-week high last Friday.
Treasuries may also have benefited from their appeal as a safe haven amid lingering concerns about the economy, inflation and interest rates.
Trading activity was somewhat subdued, however, as traders looked ahead to the release of some key U.S. economic data in the coming days.
Economists have suggested that the inflation data could have an even greater impact on Fed officials’ thinking than last week’s much stronger than expected jobs data.
A report on labor productivity and costs in the second quarter may attract some attention on Tuesday, although trading activity may remain light ahead of the release of consumer price inflation data on Wednesday.
Bond traders are also likely to keep an eye on the results of the Treasury Department’s auction of $42 billion worth of three-year notes.
Olivia Newton-John Dies: ‘Grease’ Star & Hitmaking ‘Physical’ Singer Was 73
Olivia Newton-John, the hitmaking “Physical” and “I Honestly Love You” singer who went on to star in the beloved film musical Grease and later Xanadu, died at her Southern California ranch, according to her official Facebook page. She was 73.
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