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Don't resign yourself to failure. Here's how to regroup and tackle those resolutions like a rock star.
Parades, balls and parties have been called off this year due to COVID-19. But in New Orleans, people are still indulging with king cake.
Tech billionaires have a lot of money and power. And that power ties directly to one of the greatest conundrums of our time, which is the unprecedented command and control tech giants like Amazon have over us.
The IRS generally won't take a bite out of your Social Security benefits, but there's a very real chance that you could.
With rising demand and interest in concierge medicine, Barron’s Retirement spoke with a number of practitioners and experts to get a better understanding of the offerings and considerations.
The hack stands to drive an uptick in corporate and government spending to protect both on-premise and cloud assets.
Specifically, three Fool.com contributors think Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG), and Taiwan Semiconductor (NYSE: TSM) could be huge winners in 2021. Nicholas Rossolillo (Fortinet): Legacy cybersecurity firm Fortinet has been my favorite investment among security-software stocks for a while now. The "legacy" stigma gets attached because Fortinet isn't growing nearly as fast as cloud-native computing (and more narrowly focused) security names like Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) and CrowdStrike Holdings (NASDAQ: CRWD).
NASA's Boeing-built deep space exploration rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), is set to fire its behemoth core stage for the first time on Saturday, a crucial test for a years-delayed U.S. government project facing mounting pressure from emerging private sector technology. Space Launch System's hot fire test, expected to begin at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) Saturday at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, caps a nearly year-long 'Green Run' test campaign to validate the rocket's design. It is seen as a vital step before a debut unmanned launch later this year under NASA's Artemis program, the Trump administration's push to land humans on the moon again by 2024.
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British finance minister Rishi Sunak has proposed giving a one-off 500 pound ($679) grant to recipients of the country's main unemployment and wage support benefit instead of extending a temporary increase on the welfare payments, The Times reported on Saturday. The weekly increase to Universal Credit, which is paid to nearly six million working-age households affected by unemployment or low income, costs about 6 billion pounds a year and is due to expire at the end of March. Sunak will announce future plans at an annual budget on March 3, where he will seek to rein in a budget deficit on track to hit 400 billion pounds, its highest as a share of the economy since World War Two.
As premier of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous, Armin Laschet has a background in executive leadership lacked by the rivals he defeated on Saturday to become chairman of the Christian Democrats (CDU). A centrist, he had presented himself as the man with the best credentials to plough the same political furrow as the party's long-time leader Angela Merkel - and to run as its candidate for chancellor in federal elections in September. Laschet is the person she has come closest to endorsing as her successor as national leader, saying he has "the tools" to run for that job too.
The designer embraced a laid-back, languid take on tailoring with his genderless collection.
Investors in Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA) may have breathed a sigh of relief when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted the companies' coronavirus vaccines Emergency Use Authorization in December. Over the past few weeks, new strains have emerged: a strain found in the U.K., one that started in South Africa, and more recently new strains in Japan and in Columbus, Ohio. Now, the big question is whether the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can protect against these new versions of the coronavirus.
*Spoilers for episodes 1 and 2 of WandaVision below*
Tension mounts ahead of Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia, Oliver Carroll writes, but will the poisoned Kremlin foe be arrested on arrival — and if so, how?
Duke of Cambridge is ‘worried’ about effect of coronavirus pandemic on frontline workers
Vaccinations will be delivered to some ‘lovely soothing Bach, Handel, Pachelbel’
Consulation launches over suggested plan for grading
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Volkswagen's Skoda Auto will not sponsor this year's ice hockey world championship if the event is held in Belarus, due to the host country's recent human rights record, the carmaker said on Saturday. Belarus, which is due to host the tournament in May-June, is facing calls for it to be stripped of the event because of President Alexander Lukashenko's crackdown on protesters opposing his re-election.
