YELLEN SAYS SHE’S DISAPPOINTED NOT TO GET A SECOND TERM AS FED CHAIR
Janet Yellen said she was disappointed that President Donald Trump didn’t offer her a second term as Federal Reserve chair, but she supports her central bank successor, Jerome Powell, who takes over Monday.
Powell, a Fed board member since 2012, is “thoughtful, balanced, dedicated to public service. I’ve found him to be a very thoughtful policymaker,” Yellen said in an interview with CBS’s “Sunday Morning.”
She also said the stock market — the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 25,520 Friday after a 665-point drop — was “high,” and that the financial system was in stronger shape to handle a sharp sell-off than it was during the 2008 financial crisis. She cited changes put in place since that time; Trump has been critical of that effort.
Billionaire takes a property tax stand over pooping geese.
A billionaire is fed up with the hundreds of Canada geese that flock to his upstate New York vacation home every summer, turning his lawn into a minefield of poop. His solution? He’s refusing to pay his $90,000 school tax bill until officials in the Finger Lakes town of South Bristol find a way to control the birds. The town says geese on Tom Golisano’s private property are his problem to solve, not the town’s.
Man with sledgehammer pounds dozen parked Dallas police cars.
DALLAS» Authorities say a man took a sledgehammer to about a dozen squad cars in a Dallas police station parking lot. Police say the man walked into the Dallas Central Patrol parking lot at the city’s marshal’s office detention center before dawn Sunday and started hitting the cars. The center holds people arrested for public intoxication and other low-level misdemeanors. Authorities say the man has been taken to jail.
Kylie Jenner announces birth of girl.
YORK» After months NEW of speculation that she was pregnant with her first child, Kylie Jenner has announced the birth of a baby girl. In an Instagram post Sunday, Jenner said the baby was born Thursday. It’s the first child for the 20-year-old reality TV star and 25-year-old rapper Travis Scott.
In her post, Jenner apologizes for keeping fans “in the dark through all the assumptions.” She says she chose to keep her pregnancy private and “not to do in front of the world.”
She says pregnancy was “the most beautiful, empowering and life changing experience.”
Jenner says her daughter is healthy and beautiful.
Seven weeks later, “Jumanji” is No. 1 at box office.
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YORK» The heir to “Titanic” is ... “Jumanji: Welcome the Jungle.”
For the first time since James Cameron’s disaster epic, a December release has topped the weekend box office in February. Seven weeks after first opening in theaters, Sony Pictures’ “Jumanji” again took the top spot at the North American box office with an estimated $11 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
On a sluggish Super Bowl weekend, $11 million was good enough to surpass last week’s No. 1 film, “Maze Runner: The Death Cure.” The third installment in the young-adult trilogy slid 58 percent in its second week with $10.2 million in ticket sales.
It’s the fourth weekend out of seven in which the “Jumanji” reboot, starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, has led all films domestically. It has carved an unlikely path en route to its record-setting run. Met with little initial fanfare, “Jumanji” played second fiddle for its first two weeks of release to “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.”
But riding good word of mouth and relatively little family-film competition, “Jumanji” has become one of Sony’s biggest hits ever, ranking behind only its “Spider-Man” films. It has now grossed $352.6 million in the U.S. and Canada.