Global Supply Chain Crisis: Tri-Nation Partnership Takes a Stand The United States, South Korea, and Japan have declared their intention to counteract the supply chain crisis caused by China’s overproduction and low-cost dumping in the electric vehicle and solar ... 04/19/2024 - 6:59 am | View Link
Wells Fargo has worn its dunce cap long enough The problem child of U.S. banking has been sitting on the naughty step for six long years. Wells Fargo was prohibited from getting any bigger for a series of flagrant customer abuses. Either it has ... 04/18/2024 - 7:15 am | View Link
A parched place: the Alberta drought crisis is bigger than one summer The province says it will soon release its emergency response plan and details on how water will be shared as it runs dry. But Alberta has been outspending the water supply for decades ... 04/18/2024 - 4:06 am | View Link
China is pushing fentanyl crisis in US, House panel says: ‘It wants the chaos and devastation’ China is “knee deep” in fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S., even offering tax rebates for illicit drugs to capitalize on the chaos and devastation, congressional leaders charge. 04/16/2024 - 9:31 am | View Link
The overlooked threats to the global financial system As western governments shy away from debt reduction and structural reform, investors must reassess their view of ‘safe’ assets ... 04/15/2024 - 4:59 pm | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.