ATLANTA (AP) — There’s plenty of worry among Democrats about whether 81-year-old President Joe Biden is up to the job itself or the task of defeating Donald Trump. Previous presidential campaigns offer lessons. None convey reasons for optimism. Going back to Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968, several presidents eligible for reelection faced significant primary challenges […]
“It was extremely difficult to get ahold of anyone,” Laichas said. She said the government workers she did end up reaching “were of no help” in explaining why her claims were rejected seven times. When the pandemic hit and threw a wrench into Ohio kids’ education, the state launched a savings account program to reimburse […]
(Bloomberg) — US equity-index futures slipped after Micron Technology Inc.’s disappointing sales outlook highlighted the risks of relying on artificial intelligence chip makers to fuel the stock rally. Most Read from Bloomberg Also on investors’ radar Thursday is a raft of US economic data that will help set the path for Federal Reserve policy, after […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — In the wee hours of the morning, Master-at-Arms 1st Class Imani Solomon pulls on her Navy uniform, loads her 5-year-old son Isaiah’s stuffed backpack into the car, and heads back upstairs to gather her still-sleeping son. The sky is still dark as she gently buckles Isaiah into the car. Most days, […]
FALL RIVER — The city’s new director of Veterans’ Services, Talos “Doc” Farris, knows firsthand how the horrors of battle can affect servicemembers mentally and physically. Farris knows, because after serving 15 years as a Navy hospital corpsman — on the battlefield for a good portion of his service with the Marine Corps in Iraq […]
As summer temperatures continue to soar into the 90s, inmates say they struggle to breathe in the hot, thick air inside the overcrowded Clark County Detention Center in Winchester, where the air conditioning has not properly worked for at least a year. Allison Tippins, who has a loved one in the jail, told the Herald-Leader […]
Hired security personnel wait for voters outside the Leon County Supervisor of Elections office on Nov. 3, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The federal government has sought to bolster election security for years through a popular grant program, but the wildly fluctuating funding levels have made it difficult for […]
Recycling trucks and work pickups speed down Carson Street, kicking up dust in this small enclave of homes sandwiched between sprawling scrapyards and massive warehouses on the border of Fort Worth and Haltom City. Trina Sanders has watched her whole life as the industrial buildings have gradually encroached on what was once a vast, fertile […]
Giant Keir Starmer moving through the City Battered by the financial crisis and pandemic, Britain has lost its culture of risk-taking. In the fourth and final part of a special election series, The Telegraph examines how this has affected the economy and whether Labour can bring swashbuckling back to the City. Not long ago, Sir […]
Crypto majors such as SOL, AVAX, APT, SUI saw 40% to 70% corrections over the past months, weighing on altcoin sentiment, while BTC and ETH are down only 15% from their yearly highs. Venture funds are under pressure to sell tokens to realize profits on their investments made in the past years, Markus Thielen noted. […]
Since the proliferation of the internet roughly 30 years ago, there hasn’t been a next-big-thing technology, innovation, or trend that’s come remotely close to rivaling it… until now. The arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) is forecast to add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, according to analysts at PwC. With AI, software and […]
Life as the commander in chief is “in a sort of protected bubble,” says Alan Schroeder, a presidential debate historian. “It’s four years of people saying ‘Mr. President,’” a Democratic strategist put it. Then comes the first debate of a re-election campaign — when the shock of personal confrontation with a hungry adversary has for […]