The Artist Tree, which doubles as an art gallery, will be the first cannabis dispensary to open within Fresno city limits and will offer more than 800 different products.
A fresh 2023 closing high is in reach for stocks on Thursday as investors digest further data which show inflation is cooling.
Miriam Adelson is one of the richest women in the world, a U.S. and Israel newspaper publisher and political powerbroker who, after selling $2 billion in stock to buy the Dallas Mavericks, will still be the majority shareholder of Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino company her late husband built. A company statement on Wednesday confirmed the deal on behalf of the Adelson and the Dumont families — referring to relatives of her son-in-law, Sands company president and board member Patrick Dumont. The transaction could close in less than five weeks, the statement said, if it gets approval from the NBA board of governors.
About 1,000 Palestinians who were stranded outside the Gaza Strip when war broke out between Israel and Hamas have returned home during the seven-day truce, braving the prospect of renewed bombardment, a Palestinian border official said on Thursday. At the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, yellow taxis with suitcases and cardboard boxes piled high on their roofs and trunks so full of luggage they could not be closed were carrying Palestinians back into their ravaged homeland. One of them was Abu Nader, who said he had travelled to Turkey on Oct. 4 to accompany one of his daughters who was starting her studies there.
In protest of a dog meat ban which aims to end South Korea’s dog meat trade by 2027, dog farmers are striking back at government officials.
Major oil-producing nations led by Riyadh and Moscow were moving towards an agreement to further slash production to prop up volatile prices, a source close to the negotiations told AFP. Ministers from the 13-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) headed by Saudi Arabia and its 10 partners led by Russia have agreed to "further cut production by 600,000 to one million barrels a day", the source said.Moreover, Saudi Arabia is expected to roll over its existing voluntary
China has become one of the most aggressive actors attempting to sway U.S. public opinion through fake accounts on social media, Meta said Thursday, despite still finding little success in those efforts.
EU countries are digging in against parts of the Commission's latest proposed package of sanctions on Russia, namely the so-called "no Russia clause", retaliatory financial limits and dual-use goods for personal use, six sources said. The package, which would be the bloc's 12th since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, also seeks to close more loopholes on sanctions circumvention. However some member states, which the sources declined to identify, say the new proposal goes too far and would backfire on EU global trade and ultimately, fail in its aims.
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General Motors is losing money on every electric vehicle it sells, but the company says it's on track to generate mid single-digit pretax profit margins in 2025 as it produces more higher margin EVs, works out kinks in battery manufacturing, and sees battery cost reductions. Specifically, the company has had trouble with machinery that stacks battery cells into modules at its Ultium Cells battery plant near Warren, Ohio, a joint venture with LG Energy Solution of Korea. Jacobson said current margins on electric vehicles are “substantially negative” as the company builds battery plants, retools factories and then underutilizes them as EV production and demand grow.
Nearly 200 nations agreed Thursday to launch a fund to support countries hit by global warming, in a "historic" moment at the start of UN climate talks in the oil-rich UAE. The announcement came as the Emirati host of the COP28 talks declared that fossil fuels must be part of any climate deal negotiated over the next two weeks.The UAE sees itself as a bridge between the rich developed nations most responsible for historic emissions and the rest of the world, which has contributed less to global
The OPEC+ group on Thursday agreed to additional output curbs of 1 million barrels per day, in a move that could send oil prices higher.
You aren't crazy—your cell phone service is probably getting worse, primarily because of overcrowded frequency spectrums.
More than 400 oil and gas projects were approved globally in the last two years despite calls to abandon all new hydrocarbon development, new figures showed as the UN COP28 climate talks opened Thursday.All of the 437 new projects since 2022 have received their "final investment decision" -- a key commitment where investors sanction the development and production of a new hydrocarbon field.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen travels to North Carolina on Thursday to tout hundreds of billions of dollars worth of new clean energy investments enabled by U.S. tax incentives as President Joe Biden struggles to win voter credit for their benefits. Yellen will tour a Livent Corp facility in Bessemer City, North Carolina, that processes lithium hydroxide, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries. The plant near Charlotte is doubling its capacity due to increased demand for electric vehicles spurred by consumer tax credits of up $7,500 approved in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
Two people were found near the boat and charged with drug-related crimes, the Colombian navy said.
Pope Francis, who cancelled his trip to the United Nation climate talks due to flu, urged participants Thursday to reject "vested interests" and focus on the common good."May participants in COP28 be strategists who focus on the common good and the future of their children, rather than the vested interests of certain countries or businesses," he said in a statement posted in English on X, formerly Twitter, as the Dubai conference opened.
The 2023 astronomical calendar has been packed with a variety of captivating celestial sights, and the year will conclude with a slate of events that includes a highly-anticipated meteor shower. December's longer nights present more time for stargazing, including the chance to see the return of the famous constellation Orion. Early morning stargazers have been able to spot Orion for months, but the constellation will return to the evening sky before the end of the year, rising in the east every
A German court on Thursday sentenced a Gambian man to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist. Hailing Thursday's ruling as a "historic day for the entire Gambian press", which Deyda Hydara had championed, RSF head of advocacy Antoine Bernard stressed: "The real instigator, dictator Yahya Jammeh and all his accomplices, must now be held accountable for their crimes."
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Extensions of the cease-fire were becoming more difficult to broker, and both Israel and Hamas appeared poised to take up the fight.
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