Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to drive awareness and education around key sustainability issues and to inspire positive action. A photograph of a solitary man walking along terraces in China, […]
SeaTac International Airport (SEA) is bracing for its busiest travel day so far of 2024, and it’s expected to get worse throughout the summer, officials said. FRIDAY TRAVELS: SeaTac says it’s expecting more travelers beginning Friday as many students are now kicking off their summer break following the 2023-24 academic school year. “This is actually […]
Republicans were quick to spin Donald Trump’s decision to call Milwaukee a “horrible city” after his private meeting with House GOP lawmakers Thursday, offering a confused array of cover-up possibilities. And Trump’s own explanation seemed to make the least sense out of the bunch. GOP representatives rushed to provide justifications that included whining about the […]
China conducted massive drills around Taiwan last month, surrounding the island. It demonstrated how easily China can launch a drill with little to no warning. These exercises could easily escalate. Last month, China conducted large-scale military exercises around Taiwan with the intent to send a message. As elements of the Chinese joint force surrounded the […]
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. After being found guilty on all 34 felony counts in New York last week, Donald Trump got better news this week in his other three criminal cases, as the Supreme Court’s latest opinion day passed without a ruling on his immunity claim that’s holding up the federal election interference […]
Jun. 5—About one in 10 residential properties in the city of Dayton need major repairs and rehabilitation work and many could end up on the nuisance property list without intervention, according to city officials and data from a comprehensive citywide survey. The survey found that about 5,800 residential properties in the city have condition issues. […]
A few years ago, in the race to launch a COVID-19 vaccine, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) stock was a hot buy after the company ended up with a highly successful product in Comirnaty. The uncertainty surrounding COVID and the potential for there to be a need for ongoing annual shots made investors bullish that the public […]
Economic damage due to a warming world is now expected to be six times worse than scientists had previously projected, according to new research. What’s happening? The Guardian reported on a new study that projects that a one-degree Celsius (1.8-degree Fahrenheit) increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product. […]
New York had a history of poor state government transparency before Gov. Kathy Hochul rose to power in 2021 and, unfortunately, things have gotten worse since, a new report says. Despite Hochul’s vows to make public records and data more easily accessible, many state agencies have become more secretive over the past three years, according […]
STORY: “This is our old position.” “It is a bit further. Where the explosion was, just there.” 27-year-old Oleksii is a soldier in an artillery unit of the 57th Motorized Brigade. He’s been stationed in Kupiansk, a city in the Kharkiv region that was captured by Russia in early 2022 and retaken by Ukrainians later […]
May 28—J.W. “Bill” Sheehan lives in an all-electric home in Waterford he has owned for more than half a century, and he currently pays about $435 a month on his energy bill, or more than $5,000 a year. But that’s based on the current relatively low 8 cents a kilowatt-hour he’s paying to electric supplier […]
FED Warns Against Rising Delinquency Rates, Calls It A “Leading Indicator That Things Are About To Get Worse” Austan Goolsbee, President of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, highlighted that consumer delinquencies are among the most worrisome economic indicators currently being monitored. His concerns now appear prescient as new data reveal a significant uptick in delinquency […]