In many parts of the United States, homeownership is now unaffordable due to rising home prices and mortgage rates. In fact, home prices have increased by 20% over the past year, and mortgage rates have increased from about 3% to about 6% this year, with some experts predicting they will
Right-wing users are outraged by claims made by left-wing Twitter users that former President Donald Trump ordered the murder of his ex-wife in order to stall an ongoing civil investigation in New York. Firefighters were called to a report of a cardiac arrest on Thursday, and they discovered Ivana Trump,
The cybersecurity company Proofpoint described the numerous campaigns it claims were run by state-sponsored and state-aligned hacking groups against media professionals in a blog post on Thursday. In order to gain access to information deemed valuable by foreign governments, the hacking groups, also known as advanced persistent threat (APT) actors,
The former philanthropist and co-founder of software titan Microsoft bemoans the way the world is heading. Gates suggests in a series of tweets that our world is regressing on a number of issues by listing what he calls “setbacks” from the previous two years. The philanthropist wrote on his account,
By putting partisanship aside, North Carolina is America’s Top State for Business in 2022 thanks to its strong economy and history of innovation. North Carolina has rarely finished outside the top 10 in CNBC’s annual competitiveness rankings since 2007. Last year, the state placed second. 2022 is its first year
On Tuesday, electric car startup Canoo revealed that Walmart had ordered 4,500 of its Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles. With more cargo space instead of a front passenger seat and slide-out shelves in the back that are sized to fit the totes used by the retail behemoth, Canoo and Walmart are customizing
Google announced that it will now roll out picture-in-picture viewing for the YouTube iOS and iPadOS app, two years after the feature was made available to third-party developers on iPhones and seven years after it arrived on the iPad. Google did not provide a specific release date but stated that
A report from The Associated Press shows that state lotteries have nearly doubled in size over the past two decades, transferring billions of dollars from low-income U.S. communities to multinational corporations. The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland found that lottery retailers are disproportionately clustered in
Light left the first stars and began a long journey through space billions of years ago, long before a swirling cloud of gas and dust coalesced to form the sun. Since then, the light has traveled for trillions upon trillions of miles. Galaxies and their forming stars, some of which
Many of France’s popular natural areas are raising the alarm. In order to prevent erosion, access to some of the Calanques coves in Marseille and Corsica is now restricted. Other towns that are having trouble with mass tourism, like Étretat in Normandy, are reevaluating how they manage the influx of
A weeklong closure of Macau’s casinos and non-essential businesses was announced on Saturday as the Chinese gambling hub battled its worst coronavirus outbreak to date. According to top city official Andre Cheong, Macau will go into “static management” for a week starting on July 11 and residents are required to
The effects of a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on the Seattle Fault are depicted in a simulation released by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The Washington State DNR tweeted on Thursday that tsunami waves “Tsunami waves could be as high as 42 feet at the Seattle Great Wheel and
On Saturday, Massachusetts firefighters were battling a large fire that was initially reported at a hotel on Nantucket Island. An off-duty captain and several other people rushed to the scene to help evacuate guests from the hotel after authorities learned there was a fire at the Veranda House hotel shortly after
According to a Vice, the FBI created a honeypot to keep criminal organizations in check for years. It was a peculiar phone called Anom. The selling point was that it was completely secure and anonymous, allowing criminals to operate without worrying about authorities keeping an eye on them. But law enforcement
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that no one can return a ballot on behalf of another voter. This is a setback for Democrats ahead of important elections in the state’s highly competitive primary and general elections. Continue reading →
In court on Thursday, defense attorneys for a man accused of killing 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket failed to get the state’s case postponed for a year. While a federal case against Payton Gendron is ongoing, the judge was asked for a delay by Gendron’s attorneys. The Buffalo News
Ghislaine Maxwell, a socialite-turned-sex trafficker who received a 20-year prison sentence last week, is currently appealing her conviction. On December 29, 2021, the 60-year-old woman was found guilty of a number of sex trafficking offenses alongside Jeffrey Epstein, her former lover, protector, and wealthy benefactor. The socialite and the billionaire
In order to recover damages after covering settlement payments owed to Girardi’s former clients in the litigation surrounding the 2018 Lion Air crash, the plaintiffs’ law firm Edelson has filed a lawsuit against attorney Tom Girardi’s estranged wife and former employees of Girardi’s law firm. After an Illinois judge in
Companies have slowed their IPOs this year, ending a lucrative run for law firms and a talent war for IPO attorneys. Bloomberg data show that US IPOs raised $14.6 billion in the first half of the year, down from $167 billion last year. The downturn is the largest in recent
Residents in the area of Sioux Falls saw a hauntingly unusual occurrence on Tuesday before severe weather swept through South Dakota: a green sky. The sky was indeed green. And not a light green, the kind of green that characterizes the sky prior to the appearance of aliens in a
A federal judge handed a rare trial victory for businesses connected to the drug epidemic by rejecting claims that the three biggest US distributors of opioids disregarded warning signs when they sent millions of pills to a West Virginia community. In a ruling issued on Monday, US District Judge David
In order to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology, Siemens and NVIDIA have announced an expansion of their partnership. The companies intend to link Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform, and NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for 3D-design and collaboration, as the first step
The short answer to the question of how much money you must earn to live happily in New York is “a lot.” According to a Purdue University and GoBankingRates study, New York’s “empire-sized costs of living” require a minimum annual salary of $155,610 to be happy there. The writers claim,
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) criticizes both sides of the political spectrum in an Op-Ed for the Atlantic, claiming that America is missing the bigger picture. What explains the casual disregard for potentially catastrophic threats? In the article titled “America Is in Denial,” Romney is questions. In recent years, the senator —
Elon Musk has ended a nine-day Twitter blackout to share a surprise visit with four of his seven children to see Pope Francis. He also even joked about his ill-fitting suit. Musk posted a tweet on Friday night saying “Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday.” Four of his five teenage children attended the
After more than a year-long investigation, the Treasury Department has frozen a billion-dollar fund owned by a Russian government official that was invested in American public companies, reports The Hill. A blocked property notice was issued by the Treasury Department to Heritage Trust, a Delaware-based fund that the department claims
The front-runner in the polls for the October presidential election in Brazil, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, declared on Saturday that he will not tolerate threats against institutions and that the armed forces must commit to democracy. “It is necessary to overcome authoritarianism and anti-democratic threats. We will not
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last week resulted in a 10-year-old girl in Ohio being denied access to an abortion, highlighting the real effects of the ruling on people who want to access the medical procedure. After seeing a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and
According to a report in USA Today, farmers in Arcanum, a region of western Ohio, are concerned about maintaining their businesses as costs have skyrocketed this year due to an essential commodity. Fertilizer price increases indicate that farmers are concerned. “Last year, nitrogen (which is used as a fertilizer) was
According to the Asia Times, in Wonsam, Yongin County, 40 kilometers south of Seoul, residents expect seismic changes after a chip cluster groundbreaking this month. Change is afoot. South Korean media say the cluster’s land area makes it the largest semiconductor project ever. SK hynix, one of South Korea’s two
According to a New Report, Americans Are Buying Cheaper Cuts of Meat, Canceling Subscriptions, and Taking Vacation Days to Save Money on Gas in the Face of Rising Prices In the face of skyrocketing prices, US consumers are getting creative to stay afloat. In an interview with The New York
There are still more than ten percent of Army National Guard troops who still have not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, putting them in violation of a federal mandate, and the director of the military force said soldiers will be given “every opportunity” to receive the vaccine. Lt. Gen. Jon Jensen, director of
A gamer who stated that he invested more than 5.6 million Japanese yen, which is equivalent to more than $40,000, in Nintendo stock took advantage of the opportunity to ask a question about a fan-favorite series that he hopes will be brought back during the annual shareholder meeting that was
According to new data released Thursday by the International Monetary Fund, the US dollar has maintained its dominance as the world’s most widely held reserve currency. The dollar’s share of total allocated reserves was 59 percent in the first quarter of 2022, unchanged from the fourth quarter and slightly lower
Eroding wealth is affecting many people in a variety of ways, including rising inflation on goods and services, plummeting equity markets, and falling housing prices, to name a few. Governments and central banks, however, deny responsibility for the economic climate they have created, blaming Putin for higher food and energy
The United States is on the verge of devolving into a failed democratic state. In January 2021, pollster John Zogby conducted a survey that revealed that 46% of Americans believe the United States is on the verge of another civil war. Canadians should be deeply concerned as Canada’s closest neighbor unravels
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro is up against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, in Latin America’s most important election this year. However, an even bigger challenge may come from a Supreme Court judge. Justice Alexandre de Moraes is in charge of a broad investigation into disinformation involving
Despite encouraging headlines about China loosening its covid policies, US stocks fell sharply from earlier highs after bleak consumer confidence data poured cold water on the month-end relief rally. That is in the range it was printing in during the 2015/16 downturn. It’s a difficult market to navigate these days:
After talks with Turkey and ahead of Biden’s meeting with Erdogan on Wednesday, Sweden and Finland have been cleared to join NATO. The leaders of Turkey, Sweden, and Finland have signed a trilateral agreement that will pave the way for the two Nordic countries to join NATO and removes Istanbul’s
According to Gallup’s latest annual global update on negative and positive experiences, the second year of the pandemic was even tougher than the first. 2021’s uncertainty made the world sadder, more worried, and more stressed than the year before, pushing Gallup’s Negative Experience Index to a new high of 33.
In many parts of the United States, homeownership is now unaffordable due to rising home prices and mortgage rates. In fact, home prices have increased by 20% over the past year, and mortgage rates have increased from about 3% to about 6% this year, with some experts predicting they will
Right-wing users are outraged by claims made by left-wing Twitter users that former President Donald Trump ordered the murder of his ex-wife in order to stall an ongoing civil investigation in New York. Firefighters were called to a report of a cardiac arrest on Thursday, and they discovered Ivana Trump,
The cybersecurity company Proofpoint described the numerous campaigns it claims were run by state-sponsored and state-aligned hacking groups against media professionals in a blog post on Thursday. In order to gain access to information deemed valuable by foreign governments, the hacking groups, also known as advanced persistent threat (APT) actors,
The former philanthropist and co-founder of software titan Microsoft bemoans the way the world is heading. Gates suggests in a series of tweets that our world is regressing on a number of issues by listing what he calls “setbacks” from the previous two years. The philanthropist wrote on his account,
By putting partisanship aside, North Carolina is America’s Top State for Business in 2022 thanks to its strong economy and history of innovation. North Carolina has rarely finished outside the top 10 in CNBC’s annual competitiveness rankings since 2007. Last year, the state placed second. 2022 is its first year
On Tuesday, electric car startup Canoo revealed that Walmart had ordered 4,500 of its Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles. With more cargo space instead of a front passenger seat and slide-out shelves in the back that are sized to fit the totes used by the retail behemoth, Canoo and Walmart are customizing
Google announced that it will now roll out picture-in-picture viewing for the YouTube iOS and iPadOS app, two years after the feature was made available to third-party developers on iPhones and seven years after it arrived on the iPad. Google did not provide a specific release date but stated that
A report from The Associated Press shows that state lotteries have nearly doubled in size over the past two decades, transferring billions of dollars from low-income U.S. communities to multinational corporations. The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland found that lottery retailers are disproportionately clustered in
Light left the first stars and began a long journey through space billions of years ago, long before a swirling cloud of gas and dust coalesced to form the sun. Since then, the light has traveled for trillions upon trillions of miles. Galaxies and their forming stars, some of which
Many of France’s popular natural areas are raising the alarm. In order to prevent erosion, access to some of the Calanques coves in Marseille and Corsica is now restricted. Other towns that are having trouble with mass tourism, like Étretat in Normandy, are reevaluating how they manage the influx of
A weeklong closure of Macau’s casinos and non-essential businesses was announced on Saturday as the Chinese gambling hub battled its worst coronavirus outbreak to date. According to top city official Andre Cheong, Macau will go into “static management” for a week starting on July 11 and residents are required to
The effects of a 7.5-magnitude earthquake on the Seattle Fault are depicted in a simulation released by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The Washington State DNR tweeted on Thursday that tsunami waves “Tsunami waves could be as high as 42 feet at the Seattle Great Wheel and
On Saturday, Massachusetts firefighters were battling a large fire that was initially reported at a hotel on Nantucket Island. An off-duty captain and several other people rushed to the scene to help evacuate guests from the hotel after authorities learned there was a fire at the Veranda House hotel shortly after
According to a Vice, the FBI created a honeypot to keep criminal organizations in check for years. It was a peculiar phone called Anom. The selling point was that it was completely secure and anonymous, allowing criminals to operate without worrying about authorities keeping an eye on them. But law enforcement
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that no one can return a ballot on behalf of another voter. This is a setback for Democrats ahead of important elections in the state’s highly competitive primary and general elections. Continue reading →
In court on Thursday, defense attorneys for a man accused of killing 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket failed to get the state’s case postponed for a year. While a federal case against Payton Gendron is ongoing, the judge was asked for a delay by Gendron’s attorneys. The Buffalo News
Ghislaine Maxwell, a socialite-turned-sex trafficker who received a 20-year prison sentence last week, is currently appealing her conviction. On December 29, 2021, the 60-year-old woman was found guilty of a number of sex trafficking offenses alongside Jeffrey Epstein, her former lover, protector, and wealthy benefactor. The socialite and the billionaire
In order to recover damages after covering settlement payments owed to Girardi’s former clients in the litigation surrounding the 2018 Lion Air crash, the plaintiffs’ law firm Edelson has filed a lawsuit against attorney Tom Girardi’s estranged wife and former employees of Girardi’s law firm. After an Illinois judge in
Companies have slowed their IPOs this year, ending a lucrative run for law firms and a talent war for IPO attorneys. Bloomberg data show that US IPOs raised $14.6 billion in the first half of the year, down from $167 billion last year. The downturn is the largest in recent
Residents in the area of Sioux Falls saw a hauntingly unusual occurrence on Tuesday before severe weather swept through South Dakota: a green sky. The sky was indeed green. And not a light green, the kind of green that characterizes the sky prior to the appearance of aliens in a
A federal judge handed a rare trial victory for businesses connected to the drug epidemic by rejecting claims that the three biggest US distributors of opioids disregarded warning signs when they sent millions of pills to a West Virginia community. In a ruling issued on Monday, US District Judge David
In order to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology, Siemens and NVIDIA have announced an expansion of their partnership. The companies intend to link Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform, and NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform for 3D-design and collaboration, as the first step
The short answer to the question of how much money you must earn to live happily in New York is “a lot.” According to a Purdue University and GoBankingRates study, New York’s “empire-sized costs of living” require a minimum annual salary of $155,610 to be happy there. The writers claim,
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) criticizes both sides of the political spectrum in an Op-Ed for the Atlantic, claiming that America is missing the bigger picture. What explains the casual disregard for potentially catastrophic threats? In the article titled “America Is in Denial,” Romney is questions. In recent years, the senator —
Elon Musk has ended a nine-day Twitter blackout to share a surprise visit with four of his seven children to see Pope Francis. He also even joked about his ill-fitting suit. Musk posted a tweet on Friday night saying “Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday.” Four of his five teenage children attended the
After more than a year-long investigation, the Treasury Department has frozen a billion-dollar fund owned by a Russian government official that was invested in American public companies, reports The Hill. A blocked property notice was issued by the Treasury Department to Heritage Trust, a Delaware-based fund that the department claims
The front-runner in the polls for the October presidential election in Brazil, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, declared on Saturday that he will not tolerate threats against institutions and that the armed forces must commit to democracy. “It is necessary to overcome authoritarianism and anti-democratic threats. We will not
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last week resulted in a 10-year-old girl in Ohio being denied access to an abortion, highlighting the real effects of the ruling on people who want to access the medical procedure. After seeing a 10-year-old patient who was six weeks and
According to a report in USA Today, farmers in Arcanum, a region of western Ohio, are concerned about maintaining their businesses as costs have skyrocketed this year due to an essential commodity. Fertilizer price increases indicate that farmers are concerned. “Last year, nitrogen (which is used as a fertilizer) was
According to the Asia Times, in Wonsam, Yongin County, 40 kilometers south of Seoul, residents expect seismic changes after a chip cluster groundbreaking this month. Change is afoot. South Korean media say the cluster’s land area makes it the largest semiconductor project ever. SK hynix, one of South Korea’s two
According to a New Report, Americans Are Buying Cheaper Cuts of Meat, Canceling Subscriptions, and Taking Vacation Days to Save Money on Gas in the Face of Rising Prices In the face of skyrocketing prices, US consumers are getting creative to stay afloat. In an interview with The New York
There are still more than ten percent of Army National Guard troops who still have not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, putting them in violation of a federal mandate, and the director of the military force said soldiers will be given “every opportunity” to receive the vaccine. Lt. Gen. Jon Jensen, director of
A gamer who stated that he invested more than 5.6 million Japanese yen, which is equivalent to more than $40,000, in Nintendo stock took advantage of the opportunity to ask a question about a fan-favorite series that he hopes will be brought back during the annual shareholder meeting that was
According to new data released Thursday by the International Monetary Fund, the US dollar has maintained its dominance as the world’s most widely held reserve currency. The dollar’s share of total allocated reserves was 59 percent in the first quarter of 2022, unchanged from the fourth quarter and slightly lower
Eroding wealth is affecting many people in a variety of ways, including rising inflation on goods and services, plummeting equity markets, and falling housing prices, to name a few. Governments and central banks, however, deny responsibility for the economic climate they have created, blaming Putin for higher food and energy
The United States is on the verge of devolving into a failed democratic state. In January 2021, pollster John Zogby conducted a survey that revealed that 46% of Americans believe the United States is on the verge of another civil war. Canadians should be deeply concerned as Canada’s closest neighbor unravels
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro is up against Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, in Latin America’s most important election this year. However, an even bigger challenge may come from a Supreme Court judge. Justice Alexandre de Moraes is in charge of a broad investigation into disinformation involving
Despite encouraging headlines about China loosening its covid policies, US stocks fell sharply from earlier highs after bleak consumer confidence data poured cold water on the month-end relief rally. That is in the range it was printing in during the 2015/16 downturn. It’s a difficult market to navigate these days:
After talks with Turkey and ahead of Biden’s meeting with Erdogan on Wednesday, Sweden and Finland have been cleared to join NATO. The leaders of Turkey, Sweden, and Finland have signed a trilateral agreement that will pave the way for the two Nordic countries to join NATO and removes Istanbul’s
According to Gallup’s latest annual global update on negative and positive experiences, the second year of the pandemic was even tougher than the first. 2021’s uncertainty made the world sadder, more worried, and more stressed than the year before, pushing Gallup’s Negative Experience Index to a new high of 33.
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