Month: August 2022

A plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Greece Tuesday after a pilot was said to have fainted at 30,000 feet, reports said.

The co-pilot took control of a Jet2 flight that was bound from Birmingham, England to Antalya, Turkey, Birmingham Live reported.

A Jet2 Boeing 737-800 aircraft as seen towed from the gates for the departure to Manchester, in Athens International Airport ATH Eleftherios Venizelos. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

PHOTOS FROM ALASKA AIRLINES FLIGHT SHOW METAL PANELING BREAKING AWAY FROM PLANE

The plane was forced to land in Thessaloniki, Greece, after the pilot had passed out as the flight experienced turbulence.

“While we were all [seated] we noticed something was going on at the front of the plane,” an unnamed passenger told the Birmingham news outlet. “We thought someone had hurt themselves in the toilet while experiencing

While Donald Trump has been focused in recent weeks on the fallout over the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, two investigations into his business affairs back in New York could require his attention again soon.

Yahoo Finance spoke with a range of experts about what penalties could be ahead for Trump’s bottom line if his company finds itself criminally convicted or the subject of civil action, or both, in ongoing cases where the odds seem to be stacked against the former president.

“I’m anticipating very, very serious penalties,” says Norm Eisen, a former special counsel during the first impeachment and trial of Trump.

The overlapping investigations — and Trump’s exposure in other legal areas — could build on each other, says Eisen, who’s been tracking developments closely.

On one front, a criminal probe from the Manhattan District Attorney recently secured guilty pleas on 15 criminal tax

• A company seeking to merge with Truth Social cited Trump’s reputation as an “important factor” to its financial success in an SEC filing.
• As Trump contends with ongoing legal battles, Digital World said its financial footing “could be adversely affected.”
• Truth Social is accused of stiffing a vendor out of more than $1 million in contractually obligated payments.

The future of the former president’s 10-month-old social media platform, Truth Social, is on uncertain ground as the app faces huge financial losses and is accused of shorting its vendors amid Donald Trump’s continued legal controversies.

A planned merger between the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the business that created the Truth Social platform, and the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Digital World Acquisition Corp, has been postponed indefinitely as the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates the platform’s business dealings.

SPACs like Digital World are companies

MOSCOW — People in Moscow who were disappointed when Starbucks closed its coffee shops after Russia sent troops into Ukraine may now feel a caffeine jolt of hope: A nearly identical operation is opening in the capital.

The name’s almost the same: Stars Coffee. The logo could be the separated-at-birth twin of the Starbucks mermaid, with flowing hair, a small enigmatic smile and a star atop her head — though instead of a Starbucks crown she wears a Russian headdress called a kokoshnik.

The menu, judging by the company app introduced a day before the store’s formal opening Friday, would look familiar to any Starbucks customer.

Starbucks said Thursday it had no comment on the new stores.

Seattle-based Starbucks was one of the most visible of

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This summer is all about sequels. We’ve had Top Gun, Jurassic World, Thor… and now we’re all buying tickets for GameStop Part 2: Bed Bath & Beyond.

Here’s the deal: Bed Bath & Beyond’s business has been circling the drain for a while, but the stock got a boost this spring when a prominent young investor took at 10% stake, aiming to push for changes that would modernize the company.

That investor was Ryan Cohen, the co-founder of Chewy.com. If the name rings a bell it’s probably because Cohen’s appointment in January 2021 to the board of GameStop helped spark a 1,600% rally in GME, turning the screws on short sellers and ushering in a new era for internet-based retail investors. Cohen is now the chairman of GameStop, and something of a Millennial Warren Buffett for non-professional traders on Reddit and other