Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs has barred employees from trading on prediction-market contracts linked to financial markets and political events, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. A memo was issued some time back in which the policy prohibits staff from participating in event-based contracts that could create real or perceived conflicts of interest with the bank, its clients or the broader financial industry. Bloomberg News, which first reported the policy, said repeated violations could result in disciplinary action, including termination, and that employees may be required to forfeit gains from prohibited trades. The restrictions do not apply to prediction-market…

San Francisco voters will decide whether the city should have a public bank after city supervisors this week approved such a proposal to appear on the November ballot. The city would be the first in the nation to have a municipal government-owned bank. Only the state of North Dakota runs a major public bank in the nation. But the city’s proposal gives no answer as to where the estimated $325 million in start-up costs will come from as the city faces a $643 million budget deficit. “In a moment like this, asking voters to commit San Francisco to potentially running…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Maryland school district is being sued after parents accused school officials of hiding their daughter’s social gender transition and then citing district policy to justify keeping them in the dark.America First Legal (AFL) is leading the lawsuit on behalf of anonymous parents identified as John and Jane Doe. The plaintiffs argue Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ policies violate their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as similar provisions of the Maryland Constitution. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.The lawsuit is part…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A California man says a black bear charged at him outside his Lake Tahoe vacation home over the Fourth of July holiday, prompting him to deploy bear spray in a dramatic encounter captured on video.Cortlandt Koerwitz of Sacramento told KCRA 3 that the encounter began after his daughter spotted the bear rummaging through a garbage can inside the home’s garage.Koerwitz said he grabbed bear spray and went outside to investigate, but the encounter escalated within seconds when the animal rushed toward him.WOMAN STALKED BY CHARGING BEAR ON MORNING DOG WALK CAPTURES TERRIFYING…

T-Mobile is hanging up on a popular perk, and customers are calling foul. This month, the phone giant announced it’s “retiring” over 1,100 older legacy payment plans — specifically, many from its 3G and 4G eras — and automatically switching customers to its higher-tier offerings in the T-Mobile Experience lineup beginning on July 13. That includes T-Mobile users who switched over from Magenta, Simple Choice, ONE, and Sprint plans that carried over when T-Mobile and Sprint merged in 2020. The company’s beloved KickBack discount — $10 off per line for low data usage — will also be discontinued, adding $6…

Justin Baldoni and his wife, Emily Baldoni, found solace in their shared faith following their lengthy legal drama. “We are healing, and if you’ve ever been through something traumatic, you know that healing isn’t linear,” Justin, 42, said in a Wednesday, July 8, social media video, making his first comments since his lawsuit with Blake Lively was settled. “It looks different every day, and we have had to rethink for ourselves what is real and what matters and it’s this, it’s our family, it’s our friends, it’s our community [who] have been there for us, it’s our faith.” Justin and…

Let’s stop with the CM Punk hate.  Too much of the discourse this week was about Punk turning into The Rock and everything he hated in 2013 when the “Brahma Bull” swept in from Hollywood to beat him for the WWE championship and headline WrestleMania 29 to put over John Cena during a short run. It was his last until WrestleMania 40. The Rock was away from WWE for seven years before his return in 2011.  Still others — even MJF in a since-deleted Instagram post — pointed to Hulk Hogan getting Vince McMahon to call an audible and put…

‘A silent pandemic’: How Japan is curbing antibiotic resistance, $5 at a timeThis interview is the second article in a series comparing antibiotic use in Japan and the United States, with a focus on outpatient pediatrics. It was supported by a reporting fellowship from the Association of Health Care Journalists and The Commonwealth Fund. The first piece described a unique incentive program in Japan that reduces antibiotic misuse by shifting doctors’ default behaviors in the clinic.On paper, doctors should know better — antibiotics treat only bacterial infections, and yet, physicians sometimes give them to patients who have viral infections. For…

I was a sick kid — I’m talking genuinely, chronically ill. Mysterious symptoms kept me home from school and bouncing between specialists who spent most of my childhood trying — and failing — to figure out what was wrong. My mother, a lifelong fan of all things woo-woo, did what any desperate parent does: She looked elsewhere. That search took us to a barn in the middle of nowhere Oregon, where a white guy with dreadlocks, crystals and blinking light machines claimed he could heal even the toughest ailments without prescriptions or invasive procedures. Spoiler alert: He couldn’t. Twenty years…

Italian super-yacht designer Achille Salvagni has dropped anchor on Madison Avenue, The Post has learned.  Salvagni just paid $13.5 million for 797 Madison Ave., the former Tory Burch flagship building that last traded nearly a half-century ago. Salvagni, who has a showroom at 817 Madison Ave. a few blocks away, is known for high-end home interiors as well as for $50 million yachts. The deal was brokered by Meridian Investment Sales’ Henry Barnathan and David Schechtman. The five-story building between East 67th and 68th streets has 6,800 square feet of indoor space and several outdoor terraces. Salvagni’s plans for the…