Russia’s war against Ukraine has improved conditions for some poor Russians. War-related activities drive economic resilience, with 3.6% GDP growth last year. High interest rates and military focus pose risks to Russia’s economic stability. Russia’s war against Ukraine has made some poor Russians better off, complicating any calculus over how to end it. Russia’s sanctions-hit […]
Pattie Roberts said her son died in 2018 after overdosing on heroin laced with fentanyl, an extremely powerful opioid linked to at least hundreds of deaths in the area in recent years. Daniel “Danny” Roberts, 22, had anxiety and battled addiction for eight years, she said. He “was in and out of a minimum of […]
During Jessica Juma’s first week of work, her husband disappeared. For nearly six months, the husband and wife from a rural Ecuadorian town had struggled to find jobs in Chicago. They had gone to clinics and panhandled in front of grocery stores. But then, the 36-year-old mother found a therapist, who helped soothe her trauma […]
Is there anyone as successful, yet down to earth, as Jamie Oliver? He’s known – and adored – the world over, is the top-selling non-fiction author in UK history, has a TV career spanning a quarter of a century and somehow, always seems so normal. Maybe it’s his enormous brood of kids. Oliver and his […]
Republican voters in southeastern Texas on Tuesday will settle a bitter primary battle for their party’s future that pits state House Speaker Dade Phelan against conservative activist David Covey, who is backed by former President Donald Trump. Phelan angered his party’s right flank after he oversaw the impeachment efforts against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, […]
DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — The 59-year-old Dumisani Ndlovu has voted in every South Africa national election since he and the rest of the Black majority finally won the right 30 years ago. He has faithfully supported the liberation party-turned-ruling party African National Congress every time. That ends on Wednesday. In a way, nostalgia is […]
Tesla Cybertruck: at home on flat surfaces. – Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg (Getty Images) For a couple of months now, the Tesla Cybertruck has been out there clogging our roads, struggling with puddles and falling apart in myriad ways. Now, the truck has taken on a pretty basic off-roading test and failed quite spectacularly. The test […]
Home buyers struggle to become owners, with investors snatching up nearly 30% of single-family homes in the US Buying a home has become, well, completely out of reach for many. Increased demand combined with dwindling home supply, supply chain issues, and rising mortgage interest rates have all contributed to higher costs that have rendered homes […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s been one issue after another for residents at a downtown Albuquerque apartment complex, Downtown @ 700. What started as a fire inside one of the units in the building, later led to further problems. “We’re doing what we can to help them out,” said Debbie Davis, chief administrative officer for Supportive Housing […]
May 19—1/1 Swipe or click to see more CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARADVERTISER.COM State lawmakers passed a bill that says roasted, instant and ready-to-drink coffee sold with packaging using Hawaii place names must contain at least 51% of coffee grown in a region of Hawaii. Hualalai 100% Kona coffee, left, sells for $17.99 for 4 […]
Many of the ADHD medication shortages that have plagued the U.S. for the last two years have now been resolved, the Food and Drug Administration says. Yet some doctors and patients report they are still struggling to get prescriptions filled. Dr. Royce Lee, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago Medicine, said supply has gotten […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Family members of an Army reservist who killed 18 people in Maine gave an emotional apology on Thursday and said Army officials and law enforcement frustrated their efforts to get him mental health care before the deadly rampage. Hearing public testimony from Robert Card’s family for the first time, an independent […]