Oops. Turns out that while personal American Express cards offer rental-car coverage, my Corporate Card doesn’t. (NEWSWEEK would have reimbursed me if I’d been on business.) No matter what card I’d used, my personal automobile insurance would have covered any damage over my $1,000 deductible. What I needed was “secondary” rental coverage to cover the deductible, which most cards offer for gold, platinum or titanium card-holders. The rental manager offered a tip....
California Senator Kamala Harris, the former prosecutor, and Florida Representative Val Demings, the former police chief, have emerged as strong candidates to be the vice presidential nominee, in part because they are African American. But while advocates, including black activists, acknowledge the historic lack of diversity at the top of presidential tickets, they said that being black isn’t enough in this day and age and that truly speaking to the community means records and votes should be given equal weight....
Justino defeated American Leslie Smith early in the first round of UFC 198 in her hometown of Curitiba, Brazil, on Saturday night, and was too busy celebrating to be concerned about trash talking Ronda Rousey. MORE: Cyborg pummels Smith | Stipe Miocic wins heavyweight title “I believe it was my moment. Tonight was my moment, it was historic,” Justino said in her post-fight media conference. “I never thought I’d be sitting here tonight....
The Real Madrid superstar endured a frustrating evening as he failed on several chances to score in his bid to become the first player with goals in four consecutive Euros. His mood was not helped when Birkir Bjarnason’s equalizer canceled out Nani’s opener to earn Iceland a 1-1 draw in their maiden appearance at a major championship. PHOTOS: Ronaldo on soccer’s biggest stages “We tried hard to win the game, Iceland didn’t try anything,” Ronaldo said following the Group F match at Stade Geoffroy Guichard....
‘Ronaldo has lost his appetite for scoring goals’ The Portuguese has netted just twice in the European competition this term and those came in Los Blancos’ first two games in the group stages - at home to his old club Sporting CP and away to Borussia Dortmund. The four-time Ballon d’or winner struck a fantastic free-kick as Madrid came from behind to beat Sporting 2-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu and then opened the scoring for Zinedine Zidane’s side in Dortmund after 17 minutes in a 2-2 draw on September 27....
Ricardo Marques Ferreira was named as the victim whose body was found by a cleaner in Zurich’s Albisrieden neighborhood in the west of the city on Friday. Social media posts showed Ferreira touching up Ronaldo’s hair before a 2015 photo shoot and Portugal’s leading tabloid newspaper Correio da Manha linked him to the 34-year-old Juventus player. The dead man, who is from the Portuguese island of Madeira like Ronaldo, was discovered at roughly 2 p....
MUSIC Gomez, ‘Liquid Skin’ (Virgin) Listening to Gomez is like taking in a dubbed movie: from the mouths of five pasty Brits comes blues like Howlin’ Wolf, Southern rock like the Allman Brothers. A staggering, back-to-basics trompe l’oreille. D.M.G. (4 stars) Stone Temple Pilots, ‘No. 4’ (Atlantic) God bless the English language for all those synonyms for “boring”: tedious, humdrum, dull… there’s one for every song on this derivative, energy-sapping mess....
The absence of Luka Modric, Mario Mandzukic, Ivan Perisic, Marcelo Brozovic, Nikola Kalinic and Danijel Subasic will complicate things for a side coming off a 2-0 defeat to Peru on Friday. But it’s also a chance for fringe players to impress manager Zlatko Dalic. “I think Croatia has a lot of quality with all its players,” forward Duje Cop told Goal before the team’s training session Sunday. “Tuesday, of course when you don’t have players like Modric and they’re gone, you feel their absence....
Julio Otero Fernández was wading knee-deep in the Matina River in Limón, eastern Costa Rica, when the reptile lunged at him, pulled him under and killed him. Julio’s distraught parents have urged authorities to find the crocodile and kill it. The boy’s body has still not been found, and emergency services have run into difficulty with their search in recent days due to heavy rain. Parents Don Julio and Margini Fernández Flores were so traumatized by their son’s death, they plan to move to Nicaragua to try and protect their other young children, aged between three and 16....
It’s not as if the new ruler owed any filial duty to Noor. His mother was Princess Mona, the British-born second wife of Hussein, who divorced her 17 years ago. But Noor was conspicuously absent at Abdullah’s formal coronation two weeks ago. The speed of her eclipse caught many Jordanians by surprise. “It’s something we expected, but maybe we didn’t expect it so soon and so publicly,” says one prominent political scientist....
But six years ago he drastically refocused the business. With Internet travel-planning cutting into industry profits, Stewart needed a new strategy to stay afloat. “I could see the big boys were going to be having a bloodbath in the mass-package market,” he says. He noticed a large number of cruise ships being built and decided to step up his advertising of cruise packages. By 1999, Stewart had launched Scotland’s Cruise Centre, which is now the largest of its kind in the country....
Little Miles of Oklahoma City sure was bummed out. His father, Thunder fan Terry Rimmer, interrupted the boy’s swim session to inform his son of Durant’s departure. Because it’s 2016, he filmed Miles’ reaction to the news and posted it on his Twitter account. The result is a perfect representation of Oklahoma City’s feelings toward Durant. MORE: Durant’s move is good for business | Time to trade Westbrook? Wait for the punch line (literally) at the end....
Key Highlights BTC declined below $40,000 on long liquidation in the futures market. The strength in the US dollar in hopes of aggressive rate hikes has also put pressure on risky assets like Bitcoin. Technical Analysis Intraday trend - Bearish On the daily chart, the pair is trading below Tenken-Sen ($41334), Kijun-sen ($43726), and Ichimoku Kumo cloud ($40956). Bitcoin hit an intraday low of $38,547 and is currently trading around $38,892....
Key Highlights BTC has risen above $40,000 after LUNA Foundation Guard bought over $100 million Bitcoin. The rise in US tech stocks is also supportive of BTC at lower levels. Technical Analysis Intraday trend - Bearish On the daily chart, the pair is trading below Tenken-Sen ($43,209), Kijun-sen ($43,726), and Ichimoku Kumo cloud ($39,953). BTC/USD hit an intraday low of $41,504 and is currently trading around $41,208. Major support is seen at $39,000, any breach below this level confirms further weakness....
The Cote d’Ivoire international had been out of action since their opening day loss to Huddersfield but recently returned to first team training. Palace 7/1 to beat Chelsea Hodgson, impressed with the fitness level of the former Manchester United winger, said he is in his plans for the match against Antonio Conte’s men. “Wilfried has trained for two weeks over the international break so therefore there is no reason why I shouldn’t consider him for the game against Chelsea,” Hodgson told club website....
Dozens of people were sent hurtling into each other when an escalator crumpled prior to the Champions League match between CSKA and Roma on Tuesday. Italian media reported the malfunction occurred after supporters began to jump on the stairs. CSKA promised to replace unused airline tickets and to provide “visa and financial support” to those caught up in the incident. “We’d like to mention that the representatives of the Russian Embassy in Rome and Russian Football Union immediately reacted and are also doing everything possible to help injured people,” read a club statement....
