The state plan for addressing complex financial, social and health ills plaguing New York’s aging population is taking shape as Albany’s 2024 political session launches in earnest. Currently, New York has the fourth-largest population of older adults nationally, with 3.8 million people over age 60. The high stakes of the Master Plan for Aging, which […]
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Ford Just Lost Billions of Dollars on EVs. Here’s Why That’s Good News.
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) just released its fourth-quarter sales data for investors to chew on before the company releases its fourth-quarter and full-year 2023 results later this month. The good news is that the company posted a record quarter for electric vehicle (EV) sales, but the bad news is that means billions of losses […]
Trump overstated worth by billions, New York attorney general says in civil fraud case
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump engaged in “outrageous” fraud and overstated his net worth by billions of dollars, the New York Attorney’s office said in a court filing on Friday ahead of closing arguments in a civil fraud case against the former U.S. president. The final briefs for both sides will be followed […]
Saving the Panama Canal Will Take Years and Cost Billions, If It’s Even Possible
(Bloomberg) — The vestiges of an ancient forest tell the story of just how bad things are at the drought-stricken Panama Canal. Most Read from Bloomberg A few hundred feet from the massive tankers hauling goods across the globe, gaunt tree stumps rise above the waterline. They’re all that remains of a woodland flooded more […]
Here’s what happens to the billions that go unspent each year
Gift cards make great stocking stuffers — just as long as you don’t stuff them in a drawer and forget about them after the holidays. Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. Restaurant gift cards are the most popular, making up one-third of those sales. Most […]
Researchers study impact of billions of pounds of microplastics on oceans
Panama City — A team of international scientists working on a research vessel off the coast of Panama is looking for something you might think would be hard to find. “We are exploring the unexplored,” Alvise Vianello, an associate chemistry professor at Aalborg University in Denmark, told CBS News. “…It’s like, you know, finding the […]
Here’s what happens to the billions that go unspent each year
Gift cards make great stocking stuffers — just as long as you don’t stuff them in a drawer and forget about them after the holidays. Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. Restaurant gift cards are the most popular, making up one-third of those sales. Most […]
Here’s what happens to the billions that go unspent each year
[Editor’s Note: In the video above, find holiday gift ideas from Cleveland Museum of Art.] (AP) – Gift cards make great stocking stuffers — just as long as you don’t stuff them in a drawer and forget about them after the holidays. Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday […]
Colombia will try to raise objects from a 1708 shipwreck believed to have a cargo worth billions
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Colombian government said Thursday it will try to raise objects from the 1708 shipwreck of the galleon San Jose, which is believed to contain a cargo worth billions of dollars. The 300-year-old wreck, often called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” has been controversial, because it is both an archaeological and […]