3 must-knows about employee stock options
If stock options are part of your compensation package, it’s worth your while to get familiar with how they work generally, as well as how your company handles stock options specifically.
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Scholz calls on Germans to unite in solidarity in a new year despite many crises
Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Germany’s 84 million residents to stick together despite the many global crises and wars, the country’s ailing economy and a deadly Christmas market attack. Scholz said a prerecorded New Year’s address that “strength comes from solidarity. And we are a country that sticks together.”
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Are you making any New Year’s resolutions?
Eat better, quit smoking, quit drinking, exercise more. People make plenty of New Year’s resolutions every year. Some are kept, and some are discarded. Doubtless, many will be made and broken in 2025. Are you making any New Year’s resolutions? Let us know by voting in the poll.
Continue ReadingUS and Boeing investigators examine the site of a deadly South Korean plane crash
Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A team of U.S. investigators including representatives from Boeing on Tuesday examined the site of a plane crash that killed 179 people in South Korea while authorities were conducting safety inspections on all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country’s airlines. All but two of the 181 people
Continue ReadingMiddle East latest: Dozens of patients and wounded evacuated from Gaza for treatment
Dozens of patients and the wounded have been evacuated for treatment outside the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where the United Nations says Israel’s attacks on and around hospitals have pushed health care to the brink. The 45 patients left the European Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis early Tuesday and traveled through the Kerem
Continue ReadingFatal beating of Black inmate at New York prison sparks outrage: Here’s what we know
By Karina Tsui, Zoe Sottile, Raja Razek and Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Protesters in New York gathered Monday at separate demonstrations in Manhattan and Albany, holding up signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Justice for Robert Brooks” days after a disturbing video of the Black inmate’s fatal beating at the hands of correctional officers
Continue ReadingBuilding homes, eradicating disease: President Carter’s humanitarian impact around the world
By Christopher Dawson, CNN (CNN) — Jimmy Carter redefined what a post-presidency could be after he lost re-election in 1980. From the Carolina Lowcountry to the Ethiopian highlands, Carter’s humanitarian work eventually eclipsed his White House accomplishments and continues to enrich the world today. In 1982, the former president and his wife Rosalynn founded the
Continue ReadingRussian missile and drone attack on Ukraine hits multiple targets, including Kyiv
Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones. Ukraine’s air force reported a ballistic missile threat at 3:00 a.m. (0100 GMT), with at least two explosions heard in Kyiv minutes later. Another missile alert was issued at
Continue ReadingSister of American teacher jailed in Russia hopeful for his release after US declares him ‘wrongfully detained’
By Edward Szekeres and Teele Rebane, CNN (CNN) — The family of an American schoolteacher serving a 14-year prison sentence at a hard labor camp in Russia is hopeful for his release after the US government recently designated him as “wrongfully detained,” following a yearslong plea for greater efforts to secure his return. Marc Fogel,
Continue ReadingUS repatriates Tunisian detainee held without charge at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened
By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — The US has repatriated a detainee from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Tunisia, the Pentagon announced Monday, the fourth detainee to be transferred this month. Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi, 59, was determined to be eligible for transfer after a “rigorous interagency review process,” the US
Continue ReadingThe world welcomes 2025 with light shows, embraces and ice plunges
Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. The New Year’s Eve ball dropped in soggy Times Square, where thousands of revelers stuck it out in heavy rain to celebrate the start of
Continue ReadingPakistani security forces suffer deadliest year for a decade while fighting insurgency, report finds
Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces suffered their highest casualties in nearly a decade while battling insurgency in 2024, an Islamabad-based research group said in a report. “On average, nearly seven lives were lost daily,” according to the report by the Center for Research and Security Studies, which tallied “at least 685
Continue ReadingAaron Brown, former CNN anchor and influential newsman, dies at 76
By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Brown, the renowned CNN anchor who gained prominence for his coverage of the September 11 attacks and his pivotal role in shaping the network’s evening news format, died Sunday at 76, his family said. Brown’s career in journalism began in local television in Seattle before becoming the founding
Continue ReadingWHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence
By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. On December 31, 2019, the WHO’s China office noted a cluster of “pneumonia” cases in
Continue ReadingAP WAS THERE: Carter announces Middle East peace agreement
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — ___ EDITORS: As part of its coverage of the death of former President Jimmy Carter, The Associated Press is looking back at major events in his life. Carter’s success at Camp David negotiating a Mideast Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was one of his crowning achievements. AP Diplomatic Writer
Continue Reading‘No heating, no light’: Moldovans fear looming energy shortage as Russia halts gas supplies
Associated Press CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldovans are bracing for a difficult winter ahead as a looming energy shortage could leave them without enough energy. On Jan. 1, Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom is set to halt gas supplies to the European Union candidate country over an alleged $709 million debt for past supplies, a
Continue ReadingJimmy Carter sought to expand democracy worldwide long after he left the White House
Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Amid everything else on his desk — the Iran hostage crisis, domestic economic turmoil, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and a grueling 1980 reelection fight — President Jimmy Carter elevated the independence of a country in southern Africa as a top agenda item. Carter hosted then-Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe
Continue ReadingFollow New Year celebrations around the world
By Kendall Trammell, CNN (CNN) — When the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square to herald the start of 2025, it’ll actually be late to the party as dozens of countries around the world will already have welcomed the new year. Kiribati is an island country in the central Pacific Ocean, and its
Continue ReadingAngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt reach divorce settlement after 8 years
AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement, ending one of the longest and most contentious divorces in Hollywood history but not every legal issue between the two. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott J. Nord approved the agreement Tuesday, a day after Jolie and Pitt
Continue ReadingZimbabwe’s new currency woes hit traditional stores while illegal night bazaars flourish
Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — People in Zimbabwe are shunning traditional grocery stores to do their shopping at informal and illegal markets that pop up at night to avoid police raids. The government had hoped the introduction of a new currency in April would resolve a money crisis that has seen southern African countries
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