Lucas Jackson/Reuters This week will be a big one for the stock market as investors confront a wave of data. The two biggest companies in the world, Microsoft and Apple, will report earnings results. Investors also have to navigate a Federal Reserve interest rate decision and the January jobs report. It’s about to be a […]
A police investigation is under way in the UK to determine the cause of a huge fire in Liverpool city centre. A major incident was declared on Saturday amid fears a disused four-storey building on Fox Street could collapse. Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service (MFRS) said 12 engines helped to tackle the blaze, which had […]
A major incident was declared in Liverpool amid fears a building could collapse after a huge fire in the city centre. Firefighters were called to a blaze on Fox Street at 2.18pm on Saturday and arrived to find a four-storey building measuring 100 metres by 50 metres “well alight”. The building is showing signs of […]
JOHNSTON – In an unexpected twist, the town’s Zoning Board voted unanimously Thursday night to reject a controversial proposal by Green Development of Cranston to locate a 158-acre solar farm in a heavily wooded part of the northern end of town. A stunned audience of nearly 150 people, most of whom had endured more than […]
Humana (HUM) plunged after warning that 2024 earnings will be only about half of Wall Street consensus due to higher Medicare Advantage costs. Other health insurers, including Dow giant UnitedHealth (UNH), Cigna (CI) and Aetna-owner CVS Health (CVS) retreated as well. X Humana expects 2024 earnings of about $16a share adjusted vs. analyst views of […]
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — As hotel prices on the Las Vegas Strip remain astronomical during Super Bowl weekend, it appears hotels across Southern Nevada and even on Mount Charleston are also raising their rates. “It’s going to be insane,” Amy Voettiner, who was visiting Las Vegas Wednesday said. Insane and exciting are just a few […]
False-color image of the massive star formation region G333.23–0.06 from data obtained with the ALMA radio observatory. The insets show regions in which Li et al. were able to detect multiple systems of protostars. The star symbols indicate the location of each newly forming stars. The image covers a region 0.62 by 0.78 light-years in […]
Michele cagan My investment accounts don’t withhold taxes from my capital gains, which is causing me to owe large amounts when I file my returns. How can I mitigate this situation? -David As capital gains distributions are unpredictable and usually unknown until the end of the year, it can be difficult to properly plan for […]
Mark Zuckerberg is raising cattle while reportedly building a huge underground bunker in Hawaii — the cows will drink beer to make ‘the highest quality beef in the world.’ What’s he up to? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been making waves recently regarding his expansive property on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Zuckerberg has been […]
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western scientists have lost access to information from Russian research stations in the Arctic, leaving a critical gap in the data from the rapidly warming region. A new analysis investigated the effect of losing this data. For the study, scientists looked at 60 field stations belonging to an Arctic research […]
An intergalactic ring-shaped superstructure of galaxies and galaxy clusters — so large it defies explanation — has been discovered. This is a structure that lives so deep in the universe that we see it as it was some 9.2 billion years ago. The huge superstructure, nicknamed the “Big Ring,” spans 1.3 billion light-years in diameter […]
Israeli soldiers carrying the casket of an Israeli military reservist killed in the southern Gaza Strip at his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, January 23, 2024.Reuters/Ronen Zvulun Hamas killed 21 Israeli soldiers with a single RPG shot on Monday, an IDF spokesperson said. The shot likely set off explosives the IDF […]