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McDonald's reported better than expected earnings for the first few months of the year.
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trading. McDonald's has been wooing cost-conscious customers with a new $3 value menu, as well as a discount breakfast meal for $4, the fast food giant says sales that it's existing restaurants rose during the first quarter by 3.8%. Under all prices have come down a bit, not hopeful, snarled tanker traffic in the straight
of Hormuz could start flowing soon, retail gasoline prices however continued to climb. Triple A's is the average price of regular gas rose 2 cents overnight to about $4.56 a gallon. New applications for unemployment benefits rose last week, as 200,000 people applied for aid, will get a more complete picture of the US job market tomorrow when the labor department issues its monthly jobs report.
Scott Horsley and Piano is Washington. The campaign staffers bet on their own candidates and made thousands of dollars on prediction markets.
“As NPR's Luke Garrett reports exclusively, these staffers use inside campaign information”
to bet with an edge and win big. Two campaign staffers granted anonymity for fear of retribution said the method is simple. Campaign staffers would get an unreleased poll, use it to buy advantageous event contracts, and then sell their contracts once the poll was released and their contract price soared. One staffer admitted to doing this themselves, they won thousands, and their bet was verified
by prediction market data reviewed by NPR. Current law bars prediction market betters from using insider information to make money. But former commissioner at the Commodities Future Trading Commission, Kristen Johnson, doubted that the agency could police quote election positions. These bets raised serious questions about how campaign operatives can turn private information
into a quick payday amid an unsettled legal landscape for prediction markets. Luke Garrett and PR news, Washington. There is new research on cell phone bands and schools across the United States and their effectiveness. More than two-thirds of states have implemented some type of restrictions, NPR's Sequoia Karillo reports on the latest findings for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
This week's study found that states with restrictions saw dramatically reduced self-enactivity in schools. Researchers reported that the number of students using cell phones in class dropped on average from 61% to just 13%. On the other hand, the research found that the bands had a "close to zero" effect on test scores.
But Thomas D. a professor of economics at Stanford and a co-author on this study characterized
this research as the first draft of a new approach to schooling.
Even though these bands are very popular with teachers and across party lines, this is a new territory, so quick, real, and care news. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial averages down about 22 points. This is NPR. Iran's foreign ministry says Iranian officials are examining the Trump administration's latest
proposal to end the war. The details have not yet been made public. Officials in several countries are hurriedly trying to trace passengers who were on a cruise ship where the rare haunt of virus has been found. Every passengers have died, several others are sick.
The cruise ship operator says about 40 people disembarked after the first passenger died.
There was a fire in New York City this week at the famous Eugene O'Neill Theater. The century-old building now has water, smoke, and electrical damage. The current production running there is the hit Book of Mormon. Jeff London reports the producer said that they "want to reopen the show on May 19th." The primary damage was to the lighting booth high at the back of the theater where the
spotlights are operated. But firefighters also had to cut into the roof to put out the blaze. The New York Fire Department issued a full vacate order as the theater's owners repair the damage. The fire's cause hasn't been determined.
The show's producers say they hope that the Book of Mormon can resume performances on May 19th so that the production can celebrate its 15th anniversary with nightly cameos from the show's original cast and writers beginning in June. An official announcement of when performances will resume is expected next week. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London, in New York.
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