Spring breakers are back, but this time schools are more prepared for COVID-19 rule breakers. After a year of pandemic schooling, districts and colleges warn students to avoid travel. Some canceled spring break altogether. Even further, some schools put protocols in place to prevent traveling students from coming back to in-person school. They will be required to quarantine or finish the semester […]

Serie A soccer telecasts are shifting from ESPN to ViacomCBS in the U.S., but prized home-country rights to the Italian league are the subject of a fierce battle between Sky and DAZN. CBS Sports and Lega Serie A confirmed details today of the exclusive rights in the U.S., which will move to Paramount+ and CBS linear platforms as of this […]

Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) saw its short interest rise slightly into the most recent settlement date, even though the stock has been correcting recently. Note that the number of shares short was nearly triple that of a year ago. Short sellers increased their positions in the two-week period ending on March 15 to 44.73 million. In the previous period, 44.00 […]

The pace of the spread of COVID-19 has slowed across America. Increases in daily fatal cases and confirmed cases are about half what they were seven weeks ago. Nevertheless, 550,726 Americans have died, which is about 20% of the world’s total. Confirmed cases have reached 30,223,587, or about 25% of the global number. The range of the severity of the […]

DALLAS – Jerry Jones can already hear it on a prime-time NFL telecast. The Dallas Cowboys owner imagines a national broadcast calling attention to the National Medal of Honor Museum and Leadership Institute down the road from AT&T Stadium, honoring the legacy of the medal’s recipients. Jones values that message. “It says everything when I look at (us) saying, ‘We need to […]

CAG recommended fixing a definite time frame for rolling out simplified GST return forms. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has found that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system is prone to input tax credit (ITC) frauds due to complexity in the compliance system. “The originally envisaged system-validated ITC through ‘invoice matching’ had not been implemented. “The […]

(CNN)The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. There are 118,000 cases, more than 4,000 deaths, the agency said, and the virus has found a foothold on every continent except for Antarctica. “We have never before seen a pandemic sparked by a coronavirus. And we have never before seen a pandemic that can be controlled […]

Darden Restaurants stock surged after the company reported quarterly earnings that topped analysts' expectations. The company also issued a strong forecast for its next quarter. Darden said it will hike wages for its hourly restaurant workers and hand out one-time bonuses. Darden Restaurants on Thursday reported quarterly earnings that topped analysts' expectations as customers visited Olive Garden and its other chains more than expected. […]