New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) plummeted Wednesday morning after reporting a surprise loss and slashed its dividend as it preps for stricter capital requirements. Several other regional banks retreated, while Treasury yields fell. X The New York-area bank lost 27 cents a share in Q4 vs. views for a 29-cent gain. Credit losses provisions soared […]
Tiger-Lily the snake had a 1-in-100,000 chance of being born and an even lower chance of surviving with her two competing heads, Missouri experts say. But she beat the odds, and now she’s traveling to different nature centers across the state while her home site is under construction, the Missouri Department of Conservation announced Jan. […]
Bookmakers have revised their Eurovision 2024 predictions, showing increased odds for Ukraine securing a second place win, according to a Jan. 12 post on Eurovisionworld.com. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom is in the lead with an 8% chance of victory. eurovisionworld Performers and competition songs for Eurovision 2024 are still unknown. These will be determined during national selections. In Ukraine, selection for Eurovision will take place on […]
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Billie Veach didn’t pause to think last year when asked what issues matter most to her as an Iowa voter who will play an outsize role in selecting the Republican nominee for president. “We are pro-life,” the 49-year-old said one Sunday on her way out of church. Her husband, Lyle […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers have hit an impasse after studying whether the state should forgo more than $1 billion in federal K-12 education money annually, due in part to Republican backlash against rules to protect LGBTQ+ people, as senators caution that the rejection would be unprecedented and raise more questions than answers. Those […]
The 2024 Super Bowl is headed to Sin City. Super Bowl 58 will be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV this February. (AP Photo/Jeff Lewis) We’ve reached Week 18 of the 2023-24 NFL season, so grab your jerseys and start the shopping list for your favorite Game Day snacks — because the 2024 […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republicans who want to unseat Maine’s secretary of state for barring former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot will face long odds impeaching a stalwart and influential Democrat whose party holds firm control over both Legislative chambers. Shenna Bellows is the first secretary of state in history to block someone […]
The Russian Orthodox Church reaffirmed its strict opposition to abortion this week, putting it at odds with the Kremlin’s more relaxed position. A spokesperson for the church released a statement on Wednesday clarifying that the Holy Synod — the church’s governing body chaired by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow — condemns all elective abortion as murder. […]
This article originally appeared on steelersnow.com. The Pittsburgh Steelers salvaged their playoff hopes with a much-needed win over the Cincinnati Bengals at home on Saturday. Now, they’ll sit at home on Sunday and hope they get some help from the rest of the NFL. The Steelers enter the day sitting as the No. 9 seed in the AFC, […]
The Federal Reserve’s primary inflation rate, the core PCE price index, slid to a 2% annualized rate in the third quarter, new Commerce Department revisions revealed on Thursday. The surprisingly tepid inflation data come ahead of Friday’s release of November inflation data that economists expect to be equally tame, if not more so. The data […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The climate negotiations that just finished in Dubai hit upon the essence of compromise, finding common language that nearly 200 countries accepted, at times grudgingly. For the first time in nearly three decades of such talks, the final agreement mentioned fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — […]
President Biden’s week is off to a rocky start as a new 2024 election poll released Monday found him trailing three of the leading Republican presidential candidates in two key battleground general election matchups. According to the CNN poll, former President Donald Trump, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis would […]