By increasing its use of renewable energy, the US has not only slashed its planet-warming emissions but also improved its air quality, yielding hundreds of billions of dollars of benefits, a new report has found. The study, published in Cell Reports Sustainability on Wednesday and based on publicly available data, focuses on uptick of renewable […]
ConocoPhillips is buying Marathon Oil in an all-stock deal valued at approximately 17.1 billion (£13.4 billion). The deal is valued at 22.5 billion dollars (£17.6 billion) when including 5.4 billion dollars (£4.2 billion) in debt. NEWS RELEASE: ConocoPhillips to acquire Marathon Oil Corporation in all-stock transaction; provides shareholder distribution update https://t.co/C5S1P1HWNT — ConocoPhillips News (@cop_newsroom) […]
An example of redacted legal invoices for services provided to Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita‘s office. (Screenshot of records provided by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office) New, partially-unredacted public records offer a glimpse into public dollars so far spent to defend Attorney General Todd Rokita’s law license. Payments related to the attorney general’s disciplinary case […]
A group of investors will put up six billion dollars (£4.7 billion) to fund development of artificial intelligence by Elon Musk’s xAI. The company said on its website that the Series B funding round will be used to take xAI’s first products to market and speed up research. XAI said it has made “significant strides” […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The future of a charter school in the east Las Vegas valley remains murky, as it owes the state more than $800,000, according to documents. Eagle Charter School, located near Sahara and Eastern avenues, finished its first full year on May 17, but the state agency in charge of policing charter […]
Rapper and singer Sean Kingston and his mother committed more than a million dollars in fraud in recent months, stealing money, jewellery, a Cadillac Escalade and furniture, documents released on Friday allege. Kingston, 34, and his mother, Janice Turner, 61, have been charged with conducting an organised scheme to defraud, grand theft, identity theft and […]
People walk through Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) Salt Lake City International Airport returned to pre-pandemic travel levels in 2023. Another milestone it expects to reach is to produce major economic impact with its construction plans set to […]
May 22—Like many groups in Minnesota, The Hormel Institute was a victim of circumstances when state legislators failed to pass a bonding bill for public works projects. The Institute was asking for around $20 million to go toward its Minnesota Bioimaging Center (MBiC) project. The money would have gone to a phase 1 addition to […]
The mystery is over: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a major stake in the insurance company Chubb, finally revealing the investment he has kept under wraps since last year. Berkshire revealed it acquired nearly 26 million shares of Chubb in a Wednesday Securities and Exchange Commission filing of the company’s first quarter investments. That translates […]
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said on Tuesday. It is the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs […]
A state lawmaker and Houston teachers are calling for Houston Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles to be investigated after a Spectrum News report revealed that millions in Texas public school tax dollars may have been funneled to a failing school in his Colorado charter school system. These findings come less than two weeks after […]
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than 1 billion dollars (£794 million) in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said on Tuesday. It is the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting […]