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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ABn3YXAX_V0/virginia-van-natta.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[LA Mayor Bass Seeks Peace After Trump Calls in National Guard]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-09/la-mayor-bass-seeks-peace-after-trump-calls-in-national-guard</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-09/la-mayor-bass-seeks-peace-after-trump-calls-in-national-guard</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:47:55 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iKKSUJg4KOcI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iKKSUJg4KOcI/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The National Guard, police and protesters stand off outside of a downtown jail in Los Angeles on June 8. Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[US TikTok Users Get Notification That App to Be Down Due to Ban]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-19/us-tiktok-users-get-notification-that-app-to-be-down-due-to-ban</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-19/us-tiktok-users-get-notification-that-app-to-be-down-due-to-ban</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 02:31:20 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icqiBnhlmMSo/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icqiBnhlmMSo/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A smartphone screen displays a message indicating TikTok&apos;s unavailability after the platform went dark due to a nationwide ban on Jan. 19, 2025. Photographer: Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu/Getty Images</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian Western Bank Says Legal Claim Caused Earnings Delay]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-07/canadian-western-says-legal-claim-was-reason-for-earnings-delay</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-07/canadian-western-says-legal-claim-was-reason-for-earnings-delay</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 20:13:54 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iL3hTYsv5e3M/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iL3hTYsv5e3M/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The Canadian Western Bank headquarters in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, June 17, 2024. National Bank of Canada agreed to buy Canadian Western Bank for about C$5 billion ($3.6 billion) in stock in a tie-up of two of the country&apos;s regional lenders.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wynn Resorts Receives Gaming Operator License From UAE]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-05/wynn-resorts-receives-gaming-operator-license-from-uae</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-05/wynn-resorts-receives-gaming-operator-license-from-uae</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 01:38:04 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i1oPRxqCVTVc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i1oPRxqCVTVc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Rendering of Wynn’s proposed resort on the Marjan islands.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tempered Expectations: The Bloomberg Close, Americas Edition]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-24/tempered-expectations-the-bloomberg-close-americas-edition</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-24/tempered-expectations-the-bloomberg-close-americas-edition</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Victoria Cavaliere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 20:32:05 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ivuQgWX_6ru0/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ivuQgWX_6ru0/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A customer pushes a shopping cart outside a Kroger grocery store in Dallas, Texas, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. The US Federal Trade Commission and a group of states are poised to sue as soon as next week to block the tie-up between supermarket giants Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos., according to people familiar with the plans. Photographer: Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[TikTok Troubles, Get Your Green On: Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-16/tiktok-apple-bitcoin-bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-16/tiktok-apple-bitcoin-bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:14:54 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iL4IXPWbrkhg/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iL4IXPWbrkhg/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>WARRINGSTON, NORTHERN IRELAND - MARCH 17: The last pot of shamrocks is seen at Cecil Geddis nursey on March 17, 2005 Warringston, Lurgan, Northern Ireland. The term &quot;shamrock&quot; derives from the Irish word, seamrog, which translates to &quot;little clover.&quot; (Photo by Paul McErlane/Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring Forward, Bitcoin FOMO: Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-09/spring-forward-bitcoin-fomo-bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-09/spring-forward-bitcoin-fomo-bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:27:53 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iuY.scu3b2C0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iuY.scu3b2C0/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Woman in bed yawning. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s JD.com in Early-Stage Talks to Buy UK Retailer Currys]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-18/china-s-jd-com-said-to-explore-takeover-of-currys-telegraph</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-18/china-s-jd-com-said-to-explore-takeover-of-currys-telegraph</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Zheng]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:43:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[S&P Stumbles, WFH Perils: Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-17/bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing-s-p-500-gains-wfh-dangers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-17/bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing-s-p-500-gains-wfh-dangers</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:18:38 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iRA3V3ydwCbQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iRA3V3ydwCbQ/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The groundhog was wrong.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musk Took Drugs With Some Tesla Board Members, WSJ Says]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-04/elon-musk-took-drugs-with-some-tesla-board-members-wsj-says</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-04/elon-musk-took-drugs-with-some-tesla-board-members-wsj-says</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 04:03:33 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6AELmc3blLM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i6AELmc3blLM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks at the Atreju convention in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. The annual event, organized by Giorgia Meloni&apos;s Brothers of Italy party, began in 1998 as a convention for right-wing youths and has evolved into a political kermesse, including ministers and members of the opposition.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stock Market Euphoria, Steel Deal Headaches: Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-03/bloomberg-new-briefing-stock-market-euphoria-steel-deal-headaches</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-03/bloomberg-new-briefing-stock-market-euphoria-steel-deal-headaches</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:18:04 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i9G6elrGbFtk/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i9G6elrGbFtk/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Photographer: Angela Weiss/AFP</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Macy’s Rejects $5.8 Billion Takeover Offer From Investors]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/arkhouse-threatens-to-take-offer-for-macy-s-to-shareholders</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-22/arkhouse-threatens-to-take-offer-for-macy-s-to-shareholders</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:44 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iZLFVRyRA35A/v3/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iZLFVRyRA35A/v3/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire Tied to Ukraine Drones Shuts Novatek Baltic Sea Fuel Plant]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-21/novatek-s-ust-luga-terminal-is-on-fire-leningrad-governor-says</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-21/novatek-s-ust-luga-terminal-is-on-fire-leningrad-governor-says</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 03:10:10 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iC39LjO5BKSs/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iC39LjO5BKSs/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Firefighters extinguish the blaze at a Novatek plant in Ust-Luga, Russia, on Jan. 21. Source: Telegram Channel of Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko/AP Photo</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings Anticipation and an Iowa Showdown: Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-13/earnings-season-gop-iowa-showdown-saturday-us-briefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-13/earnings-season-gop-iowa-showdown-saturday-us-briefing</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:21:14 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHt1lHtyAirs/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iHt1lHtyAirs/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Luxembourg-Belgian designer Nicolas Verschaeve holds the new 2022 handcrafted Meisenthal Christmas tree decoration named EXTRA next to empty glass bottles at the Centre international d&apos;art verrier (CIAV), in Meisenthal, eastern France, on November 14, 2022. - For this thirty-third edited model, Nicolas Verschaeve has reworked the characteristics of industrial bottles by redesigning the base to make a Christmas ball. (Photo by Jean-Christophe VERHAEGEN / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks in Our Stockings, Sugar Shortage: Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-16/bloomberg-news-briefing-stocks-rally-ipos-stall-and-candy-prices-climb</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-16/bloomberg-news-briefing-stocks-rally-ipos-stall-and-candy-prices-climb</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:20:19 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/inzoaoyb1vXk/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/inzoaoyb1vXk/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A performer dressed as Santa Claus greets children from inside a bubble during the Lights on Broadway event in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. With Covid cases rising in the U.S., the job of playing Santa has pivoted for health safety.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stock Shopping Spree, Climate Summit: Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-02/stock-shopping-cop28-bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-02/stock-shopping-cop28-bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 14:48:47 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iElgAboAZHR8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iElgAboAZHR8/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>We’re in the home stretch for cheery 2023 stock market returns.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Rally, Starship Explodes, APEC Winds Down: Your Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-18/bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:50:27 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iY9dXgFv3jKA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iY9dXgFv3jKA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>An advertisement for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on a bus in downtown San Francisco, California, US, on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a gathering of more than 20,000 people including dozens of world leaders and hundreds of CEOs and journalists, is putting the spotlight on San Francisco at a pivotal point as its political and business leaders hope to position the city as a global innovation center on the cusp of yet another reinvention.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[US Strikes Iran-Linked Targets in Syria, Casualties Likely]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-12/us-military-launches-strikes-at-iran-linked-targets-in-syria</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-12/us-military-launches-strikes-at-iran-linked-targets-in-syria</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 22:58:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaza, Scary Markets and Taylor Swift Is a Billionaire: Your Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-28/bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing-ground-operations-in-how-rich-is-taylor-swift</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-28/bloomberg-news-saturday-briefing-ground-operations-in-how-rich-is-taylor-swift</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 14:30:08 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icLVUvWUMzFA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/icLVUvWUMzFA/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A woman dressed as witch arrives at Edinburgh Castle for the worldwide launch of the latest book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at Edinburgh Castle 15 July 2005. Thousands of fans queued to see the events culminating with the author, J.K. Rowling arriving at the launch to give a reading to 70 children, cub reporters, inside the castle. The book goes on sale at midnight. (Photo by Adrian DENNIS / AFP) (Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerball, Panda-monium and a Looming Shutdown: Your Saturday US Briefing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Something for the weekend.]]></description><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-30/bloomberg-saturday-briefing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-30/bloomberg-saturday-briefing</guid><category><![CDATA[world]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia van Natta]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2023 14:34:35 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iLuJC7l1i8tI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iLuJC7l1i8tI/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A US government shutdown is now a near-certainty.</media:description></media:content></item></channel></rss>