Melvin Capital Says It Has Been Short GameStop Since 2014

[ad_1] Melvin Capital Management has been betting against GameStop Corp. since 2014 and still believes online video game downloads will overtake the retailer’s business model, the hedge fund founder said in a draft copy of his testimony to Congress released on Wednesday. Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital lost more than 50% of its investments in January … Read more

The Yankees aren’t giving up on Miguel Andujar

[ad_1] It’s unclear where Miguel Andujar stands on the Yankees roster as Gio Urshela is expected to be recovered from off-season elbow surgery in time for opening day. Still, Aaron Boone said the Yankees haven’t given up on Andujar, 26, who spent much of last season at the team’s alternate site in Scranton. Asked about … Read more

NASA’s Perseverance rover ready to land on Mars

[ad_1] NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Thursday. Perseverance is the agency’s fifth rover to Mars, and engineers running the mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California wrote in a press release Tuesday that the rover was on track to descend to Jezero de Mars crater … Read more

NAACP lawsuit will put Trump “out of business,” Congressman Bennie Thompson says

[ad_1] Congressman Bennie Thompson, the Democratic lawmaker who partners with the NAACP in a lawsuit against former President Trump and Rudy Giuliani, says he’s looking forward to his day in court. “Donald Trump has to go. If he doesn’t, we will bankrupt him,” Thompson, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CBSN on Wednesday. … Read more

Utah Reports 901 New Coronavirus Cases, On Third Day In A Row That Number Was Below 1,000

[ad_1] The state reported 901 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nurse Jana Arnold, disinfecting her workspace for the covid-19 vaccination on Friday, didn’t have many adults taking the dumdum suckers she had placed on her table . Jordanian school district employees were invited to West Hills Middle … Read more

New York Mets’ Luis Rojas condemns the actions of fired coach Ryan Ellis

[ad_1] Mets manager Luis Rojas on Wednesday condemned the behavior of former New York performance coordinator Ryan Ellis but said he had never seen his long-time colleague act inappropriately. Ellis was fired last month for sexual harassment. Athletic reported on Wednesday that in the summer of 2018, three Mets employees complained to human resources that … Read more