The Biden campaign said it raised $33 million after the first presidential debate of the year. The campaign said that half of the funds raised came from first time donors. The spike in donations provides some relief for Biden who is facing growing calls to step aside. Supporters of President Joe Biden may have been […]
Roba Abu Jibba looked shell-shocked as the doctor delivered his news: She couldn’t have the operation she desperately wanted. She nervously scrunched the fabric of her dress, fighting off the tears that began flooding her one remaining eye. The 19-year-old Palestinian woman had pinned all her hopes on getting a prosthetic eye after suffering life-changing […]
Wesley Bell, a St. Louis prosecutor who is mounting a formidable Democratic primary challenge against Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), is campaigning as someone who will produce more tangible results for the district while sharing many of her same left-leaning values. But one line on Bell’s political resume is at odds with his promise to champion […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwanese authorities are investigating how an alleged former Chinese naval officer sailed a small boat into a strategic river mouth that leads to the capital of the self-governing island republic. The small boat was detected off the coast but apparently was not interdicted until it began interfering with ferry traffic across […]
Every so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347 – 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19. Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. To do so, they consider a wide array of evidence: settlement layout, burials, funerary remains, and human skeletons. […]
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: While Nvidia (NVDA) has grabbed the headlines this year — most recently when its market cap topped $3 trillion — the AI halo effect has boosted an unlikely industry. Utilities are typically known […]
Awe, poop! A Delta passenger shared his crappy experience on a recent flight after a fellow traveler “had a poop accident” mid-flight. On a Delta Reddit thread, the man said he was on a flight on Thursday when “a passenger in [first class] had a poop accident that caused an incredibly foul odor throughout the […]
The increase in temperatures brings with it an increase in flies. Flies, if left unmanaged, can present a significant challenge to the welfare and production of all our livestock species. Fly control is not a one-and-done treatment strategy. They require season long management, that may require a variety of approaches to seasonally address. The three main types of […]
Mark Hebner still fumes when he thinks about the extra $30 million he should have today. And he squarely blames one phenomenon for his loss: active investing and lousy mutual funds that lagged the S&P 500. X Hebner, decades ago while in his 30s, sold a medical firm “and had a very large windfall for […]
Climate predictions in Florida, for the most part, make pretty grim reading. Rising oceans threaten to submerge most of the state by the end of the century, and soaring temperatures could make it too hot to live here anyway. But new research by a coalition of prominent universities paints a more upbeat picture of Florida’s […]
Donald Trump has paid his $175m bond in his New York civil fraud case, a week after he was handed an extraordinary lifeline just as deadline day dawned. Judge Arthur Engoron ruled in February that Mr Trump was liable for a decade-long scheme that saw the value of Trump Organization assets routinely inflated in order […]
Getty Images Anne Lester is the former head of retirement solutions for JP Morgan Asset Management. Lester managed billions of other people’s money but often maxed out her own credit cards in her 20s. She said she had to make more “friction” between herself and spending money to curb her bad habits. I was 26 […]