Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty Images The warming planet is already proving expensive. U.S. weather and climate disasters cost more than $617 billion between 2018 and 2022 — a record figure, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The October report found that around 13% of Americans reported economic hardship over the prior year due to climate change.
More people are likely to experience financial pain as temperatures climb and extreme weather events become more common, experts say.
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Cases of HIV have been traced to an unlicensed spa in New Mexico. Infections may be linked to PRP microneedling facials, also known as vampire facials.
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Sebastien Salom-gomis | Afp | Getty Images Airbus is ramping up production of its A350 aircraft because of consumer demand and not the ongoing crisis at U.S. rival Boeing, according to the French planemaker's chief financial officer.
Toulouse-based Airbus on Thursday announced plans to increase its production rate for the long-range aircraft to 12 units per month in 2028.
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UK company’s offer from Thoma Bravo is 44% higher than average share price over past three months.Business live – latest updates
The Cambridge-based cybersecurity and artificial intelligence company Darktrace is likely to become the latest British technology champion to be swallowed up by a US suitor, after it agreed a $5.3bn (£4.2bn) sale to US private equity business Thoma Bravo.
Darktrace, whose co-founding investor Mike Lynch is currently on trial for fraud and conspiracy in the US, agreed to an offer 44% higher than its average share price over the past three months.
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Both were pilloried, but that was then. Today, one has beaten a rape conviction, the other may return as president.
According to his representatives, former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is still digesting the overturning of his rape conviction by a New York court, but they did come out to say he was “cautiously excited”. Cautiously excited? I’m not sure these are the words I’d alight on to paint a word-picture of a rapist. You might as well say “tentatively aroused”. Then again, as we’re about to discuss, quite a lot of guys don’t particularly have to worry about what they say or do, or how they say or do it. It’s only natural that Harvey should very much want to be one of them again.
Speaking of word-pictures, though, how’s this for a vignette of our times? When they heard the news that Weinstein’s conviction had been overturned on Thursday, a whole host of reporters happened to be looking at the exact spot in the exact New York courtroom that he’d sat in when that original judgment had been handed down. This was because they were waiting for Donald Trump to sit in it for Thursday’s proceedings in his hush money trial. Mr Trump, you might recall, is in such a lot of trouble that he is the presumptive Republican nominee and current bookies’ favourite to win the US presidency again, though admittedly he lags behind Weinstein on the sexual assault and misconduct front, given that only 26 women have accused him of it. Ultimately, though, I guess the question is: if #MeToo “went too far”, what would “going just far enough” have looked like?
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Asked about the ruling on Thursday, Don Lemon, a television journalist and former CNN news anchor, said: "I'm not a fan of Harvey Weinstein, it doesn't mean that I think that he's innocent, but everyone deserves equal and fair treatment under the law.
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Former President Donald Trump's political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him unprecedented influence over the Federal Reserve, including a plan that could make him an "acting" central bank board member, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The plans, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, are part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions. In addition, the Treasury Department would be used as an added check and balance to oversee the Fed's bond-buying activities.
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Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker will continue to be cross-examined by attorney Emil Bove, who's been trying to call his memory into question.
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Google offers a range of productivity products, across Drive, Gmail, and Photos, and with all of it, storage is a consideration. Every Google account hands users 15 gigabytes of free cloud storage across these products, but for many, this isn't enough.
Enter Google One, the company's subscription cloud storage service. Here's a guide to the service and how it works.
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WASHINGTON—There was a guy in a three-cornered hat. Usually these guys are attached to MAGA-adjacent gatherings, but this guy was clearly aligned against the former president*. And there was a Palestinian flag, for reasons that eluded me. (Maybe they just show up any time there's a crowd of more than three people gathered in one place these days.) But the brass band was a very nice touch, playing jazzy tunes in the bright sunshine. On the front steps of the Supreme Court building, which is where the day's business usually starts and ends, there were far more people making far more noise on Wednesday, when the Idaho abortion case was argued than on Thursday, when the Supreme Court took up—God knoweth why—the case of Shoot-'Em-On-Fifth- Avenue v. United States Constitution, aka Trump v. United States, and the facially absurd notion of absolute presidential immunity from the criminal law. I guess people are more moved to protest MEDEVAC-ing pregnant women out of state to keep them from dying than they are a discussion of hifalutin constitutional principles. (This is something I talked about a couple of weeks ago.) Judging by what happened inside the building on Thursday, I'd say those people have a good argument.
(I will applaud the group of people who showed up in kangaroo suits.)
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US stocks tumbled after the first-quarter GDP report on Thursday. Economic growth slowed to 1.6% in the first three months of the year, badly missing expectations. Commentators pointed out that the data was still mostly strong but inflation is problematic.
Stocks fell on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing 375 points as the market took in weaker-than-expected economic data.
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Students demonstrating and hunger-striking face arrests and hospitalization – but they think they can make a difference.Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. What does that mean?
The arrests of more than a hundred Columbia University students, who were protesting against Israel’s actions in Gaza, shed more light on arguably the most energetic pro-Palestinian movement in the US: the one taking places on college campuses around the country.
Since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October, in response to terrorist attacks by Hamas, students have launched protests, sit-ins and, most recently, encampments, in a wave they hope will encourage universities to divest from companies which have ties to Israel’s military.
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A high school athletics director was arrested after a deepfake of the school's principal was shared online.The deepfake recording imitated Eric Eiswert making racist and antisemitic remarks.Local authorities have called for changes to the law to protect against the misuse of AI technology.
A Maryland high school athletics director, Dazhon Darien, has been arrested and charged with stalking and theft after an AI deepfake audio recording of the school's principal, which included racist remarks, was shared online.
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The indictment details the steps to push the concept of alternate electors in an alleged effort to overturn Biden’s victory.
The indictment against the slate of fake electors in Arizona and the Trump allies who advanced the scheme there includes a host of public statements and private exchanges that show how the group intended to overturn the state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden in 2020.
Arizona’s Democratic attorney general Kris Mayes announced Wednesday that a state grand jury charged the 11 false electors and seven others with nine felony counts of fraud, forgery and conspiracy. The indictment from Mayes’ office is sure to be a talking point in this year’s elections , nearly four years after the acts themselves occurred.
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Wang Yi says recent improvements in ties face ‘disruptions’ amid threats of sanctions over support for Russia’s defence industry.
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, has warned the US that the recent improvements in the two countries’ relations were being jeopardised by “disruptions” which could take them back to a “downward spiral” leading to rivalry, confrontation and even conflict.
Wang was speaking at the start of a meeting in Beijing with the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, at a time of renewed tension in the relations between the superpowers.
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José Andrés, founder of organisation, told mourners gathered at Washington National Cathedral how the loss of his staff ‘should inspire us to do better’
The seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes represented the “best of humanity” and risked everything “to feed people they did not know and will never meet,” José Andrés, the celebrity chef who founded the organisation, told mourners on Thursday.
Speaking at Washington National Cathedral to those gathered to honour the aid workers, Andrés said there was no excuse for the killings and renewed calls for an investigation into the deaths.
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Drew Baglino, who announced he'd be leaving Tesla on April 15, is selling 1.14 million shares of the electric car company, according to a filing on April 25.
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Elon Musk’s X says it opposes demands from Australia’s eSafety commissioner that it remove the content globally.Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast
Social media platform X says it has complied with Australian federal court orders to remove footage of the Wakeley church stabbing, even as the video itself appeared in a post directly below the announcement, visible to users in Australia.
The company says that it complied with the law by “restricting” some posts for Australian users. It also argues that the posts should not have been banned in Australia at all, and that the Australian government should not be able to censor what users posted in other countries.
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Chona Kasinger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft is increasing spending at a rate not seen since at least 2016. It still might not be enough.
In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion. The company is spending much faster than it's increasing revenue — sales climbed 17% in the period.
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Video shows chaos erupting at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as police clear an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
According to the university, people "not affiliated" with the school have been arrested. An official from the school's police force told local news that those arrested will be charged with criminal trespass and assaulting police officers.
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Joan Donoghue, who has just retired as president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), spoke to BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur about the case brought by South Africa to the ICJ over alleged violations of the Genocide Convention by Israel.
Ms Donoghue explained that the court decided the Palestinians had a “plausible right” to be protected from genocide and that South Africa had the right to present that claim in the court.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pfizer’s treatment for a rare genetic bleeding disorder, making it the company’s first-ever gene therapy to win clearance in the U.S.
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This is not a repeat of the Covid pandemic. Yet global governments should follow the US and prepare a response.
Avian flu, or H5N1, is making headlines in the United States. The past few years have seen concerning signs of it spreading across the world – whether in chickens in Britain, sea lions in Peru, or Caspian seals in Russia. This time, it is has been confirmed in American cows, and the World Health Organization has warned that the risk of it spreading to humans is of “enormous concern”.
While it is early days, the hypothesis is that in late 2023, a single cow was infected by coming into contact with infected birds’ faeces, or having infected dead birds in its feed. This began cow-to-cow transmission, and potentially even cow-to-bird transmission. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also confirmed one human case of H5N1 in a farm worker, which could either represent cow-to-human (not seen before) or bird-to-human transmission.
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh.
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He added the countries should "be partners, not rivals", saying that if the US took "a positive view of China's development", relations could "truly stabilise, get better and move forward".
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Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elliott Management has built a roughly $1 billion stake in miner Anglo American in recent months, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC.
Anglo American shares were up 5% on the news Friday.
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"Challengers" screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes said the film was inspired by the US Open.Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka's 2018 final struck Kuritzkes as an "intensely cinematic situation."Kuritzkes said he wanted to explore drama on and off the court through the charactershe created.
Luca Guadagnino's "Challengers" isn't based on any real tennis players, but an infamous moment from the US Open unintentionally planted the seed for the film's juicy premise.
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A 2020 study found that when a couple tries to get help for infertility, the man does not undergo any kind of fertility evaluation 25% of the time. Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Savannah Sellers sits down with couples who are trying to break the stigma of male factor infertility.
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken met China's Xi Jinping in Beijing Friday. The pair remain at loggerheads over issues including the economy, national security, and Ukraine. Xi told Blinken that the US should avoid "vicious competition" with China.
Ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's meeting with China's leader, Xi Jinping, China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, had a stark warning.
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I reached out to investing educator Amanda Holden, who told me it's smart to start with a brokerage account. Instead of investing in individual stocks, she suggests ETFs and index funds. She also says it's better to start investing now — it's the best way to learn.
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The core personal consumption expenditures price index was expected to increase 2.7% from a year ago in March, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.
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The core personal consumption expenditures price index was expected to increase 2.7% from a year ago in March, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.
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When it comes to retirement, Americans worry about uncertainties they cannot control, like a higher cost of living or changes to the retirement system.
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As Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China this week, the most important issue for hundreds of families in the U.S. was when their loved ones imprisoned in the country are coming home.
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French singer dedicates top prizes at Les Flammes ‘to all the blacks’ after backlash over rumoured Paris show.
The French pop star Aya Nakamura has won three big prizes at France’s Les Flammes awards for rap, R&B and pop, and she thanked fans for their support after a racist row over rumours she would sing at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
“I’m very honoured because being a black artist and coming from the banlieue is very difficult,” Nakamura told the ceremony, which she opened with a medley of her songs. She dedicated her awards – female artist of the year, pop album of the year, and international star of the year – “to all the blacks”.
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Centene reported first quarter profits of $1.1 billion as membership and premium revenue grew thanks to a big increase in Obamacare enrollment, the health insurer said Friday.
Centene, which sells an array of government subsidized health insurance including individual commercial insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare, said total managed care membership held steady at 28.42 million at the end of the first quarter of this year, compared to 28.45 million at the end of the first quarter of 2023.
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Philadelphia 76ers All-Star center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a form of facial paralysis he says has affected him since before the play-in tournament.
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Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Pfizer's treatment for a rare genetic bleeding disorder, making it the company's first-ever gene therapy to win clearance in the U.S.
The agency greenlit the drug, which will be marketed as Beqvez, for adults with moderate to severe hemophilia B who meet certain requirements.
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The highly anticipated trading debut of private equity group CVC Capital Partners shows that Europe's initial public offering market is back on track, Euronext CEO Stéphane Boujnah told CNBC on Friday.
Shares of Amsterdam-listed CVC, one of Europe's largest buyout companies, jumped around 23% on Friday morning.
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Exxon Mobil first-quarter earnings missed expectations as the industry came under pressure from eroding refining margins and collapsing natural gas prices.
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TL;DR: Stream the 2024 Madrid Open for free on RTVE. Access this free streaming platform from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN.
We're entering into a very busy period for the best players in the world, with the French Open and Wimbledon looming on the horizon. Fortunately, tournaments like the Madrid Open present the perfect opportunity to build momentum and fine-tune all the skills players will need to succeed in the Grand Slams.
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Chevron beat earnings expectations Friday, but its profit fell from the year-ago period as its refineries and international gas business faced headwinds.
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When developing new therapies for diseases, biotech researchers are often limited by two time-consuming steps: first, screening thousands of drug candidates in test tubes and second, taking the best candidates and testing them on multiple animals to make sure it’s safe and effective. Combined, these steps can be slow and expensive.
Today, a startup called Gordian Biotechnology debuted a technology that could make this process better for both animals and people. The San Francisco-based company has developed a new animal screening platform which allows multiple gene therapies to be tested at the same time with just one animal. Instead of the gene treatment being given to the animal and affecting an entire area of its body, Gordian’s innovation enables it to test a drug inside of a single cell. That means one mouse could potentially support the evaluation of hundreds of possible new gene therapies in a way that’s faster and impacts fewer animals with less risk of harm to them.
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Russell Crowe plays an actor who takes the word "method" to a whole new level in The Exorcism, Joshua John Miller's film about a man spiralling while shooting a horror movie.
In the trailer above Crowe plays Anthony Miller, a star whose past addictions lead to his daughter Lee (Ryan Simpkins) unsure whether her dad is struggling psychologically or if there's something supernatural afoot. Sam Worthington, Samantha Mathis, Adam Goldberg, Chloe Bailey, and David Hyde Pierce also star.
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A volcanic eruption in Indonesia, a tilting tower in Taiwan, a growing refugee camp in Chad, the Tokyo Rainbow Pride Parade in Japan, humanitarian aid parachuted into Gaza, protests opposing Israel’s attacks on Gaza in the United States, a performance by Phish at the Sphere in Las Vegas, and much more.
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There comes a time in every sportswriter’s career when they realize they have no idea what they’re talking about. The game they watched as a child, it turns out, is far more complex than it appeared to be on television. The players and coaches speak in impenetrable jargon and the front-office nerds spend their time poring over proprietary spreadsheets that you can’t find on the Internet. Like a child who has brought a beloved action figure to a sleepover only to discover that his new friends, people he idolizes, have long since moved on to video games, the writer realizes that all his beloved sports clichés—about the “will to win,” or whatever else—are embarrassing.
And yet conventional wisdom within sports media holds that the writer’s audience still believes in old-fashioned narratives, rather than spreadsheets, and wants the game presented in simple terms. So begins a career of negotiating one’s discoveries about the actual game with the supposed desires of readers. Along the way, the sportswriter might even find that some of those childhood narratives, in fact, are real. There are moments—Tiger Woods’s improbable win at the Masters in 2019, say, or LeBron James’s performance in Game Six of the 2012 N.B.A. Eastern Conference Finals—when athletes summon up everything inside of them and embody the old truisms about greatness. The best sportswriters learn to serve as both translators and therapists. They tell you what you’re watching in relatable terms, and they also tell you why you cried when Woods hugged his son after walking off the eighteenth green at Augusta National.
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The meaning of gender-affirming care for young people, and what it looks like on the ground, isn’t always clear. The cloud of politics surrounding it has obscured the medical reality of how and when trans youth can get the treatments they seek.
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Some of the most horrific images from the war so far have come from a maternity hospital in Mariupol bombed by Russian troops in mid-March. The upheaval spurs a troubling question: Could the stress and condition of war affect a fetus?
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Dave Zirin.
A Q&A with the creators of The Occupation of the American Mind, a documentary analyzing media coverage of the occupation of Palestine.
The post How the US Media Failed to Tell the Story of the Occupation of Palestine appeared first on The Nation.
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Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.
The post The Crackdown on Campus Protests Is Happening Everywhere appeared first on The Nation.
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