Allegiant to acquire Sun Country Airlines for $1.5B

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Low-cost airline Allegiant will acquire Sun Country Airlines in a deal valued at about $1.5 billion, including debt, the companies said on Sunday. As part of the agreement, Sun Country shareholders will receive 0.1557 Allegiant shares and $4.10 in cash for each share, valuing the stock at $18.89, representing a premium of about 19.8% to its Friday close of $15.77. The […]


Ford CEO Jim Farley says he can’t fill 5,000 mechanic jobs paying $120K per year: ‘We are in trouble in our country’

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Ford has been unable to fill some 5,000 openings for mechanics despite offering a salary of $120,000 a year — prompting the company’s chief executive to warn of a dire shortage of skilled tradespeople in the US. “We are in trouble in our country. We are not talking about this enough,” Ford CEO Jim Farley […]


More than half of entrepreneurs are considering moving to a new country: HSBC

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The Merlion statue in the central business district of Singapore, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Lionel Ng | Bloomberg | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Moneyed […]


Israel’s most famous novelist says his country is committing genocide. ‹

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August 1, 2025, 1:18pm David Grossman, widely considered to be Israel’s most prominent novelist, has described his country’s campaign in Gaza as a genocide. Speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica, in an interview published earlier today, the award-winning author and recipient of the 2018 Israel Prize for literature said that, after years of resistance to […]


A Love Letter to Country Queers

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Laura Sackton is a queer book nerd and freelance writer, known on the internet for loving winter, despising summer, and going overboard with extravagant baking projects. In addition to her work at Book Riot, she reviews for BookPage […]


“Is Canada a Viable Country?” Yes, According to American Literature ‹

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In his 1953 novel The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow (himself born in Quebec) describes what Augie sees to the north while riding a freight train back to Chicago: Article continues after advertisement …my eyes followed the spin of the fields newly laid out for sowing, the oak woods with hard bronze survivor leaves, […]


How IMF bureaucrats golf at posh DC-area country club — on US taxpayers’ dime

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Jet-setting global bureaucrats can join an exclusive five-star country club outside Washington without coughing up a dime — all part of lavish perks that are effectively subsidized by the US government, The Post has learned. Staffers at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank raking in six-figure, tax-free salaries at both global bodies qualify […]