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Participants in the meme-stock mania have demonstrated an almost cult-like ability to imagine scenarios where the firms' fortunes can be revived, creating astounding — and almost entirely speculative — run-ups in their share prices.
A whistleblower says the Environmental Protection Agency's Aspect plane could have provided crucial data about the chemicals spewing into the air and water around East Palestine as the wreckage burned and forced people from their homes. The man who wrote the software and helped interpret the data from the advanced radiological and infrared sensors on the plane said it also could have helped officials realize that it wasn't necessary to blow open five tank cars and burn the vinyl chloride inside — like the NTSB recently suggested — because the plane's sensors could have detected the temperature of the cars more accurately than the responders on the ground who were having trouble safely getting close enough to check. Robert Kroutil said even when the plane did fly, it only gathered incomplete data.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the central bank is unlikely to raise its key interest rate in response to signs of stubborn inflation and underscored his view that price increases would soon start to cool again. Powell stressed that the Fed's preferred approach was to keep its benchmark rate at its current two-decade peak rather than increase it. “I don’t think that it’s likely, based on the data that we have, that the next move that we make would be a rate hike," Powell said.
Gunmen attacked a prison van at a motorway toll in northern France on Tuesday, killing at least two prison officers and freeing a convict who had been jailed last week.The incident took place late on Tuesday morning at a road toll in Incarville in the Eure region of northern France.
The rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported, according to a new FBI report released Tuesday. The report analyzes data from state, local, federal and other agencies across the U.S. to determine trends in violence against law enforcement. Agencies reported 466 assaults with firearms in 2023, which is the highest level in a decade, FBI officials said.
April's CPI report is one of the most important data points the Federal Reserve will consider in its next interest rate decision.
Tackling corruption was the key to making democracy work in the 20th century. Trump's plans could bring back an age of graft and patronage.
US stock markets were mixed after the first of two eagerly awaited US inflation reports did not provide conclusive clues about the future direction of US interest rates.While the stock market did not appear to be betting that US interest will remain higher for longer, the dollar gained against its major rivals.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff's deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. In its ruling Monday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was tasked with determining whether a health insurance provider can be held liable under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for denying coverage for a procedure because an employee is transgender. Houston County Sgt. Anna Lange, an investigator for the Houston County sheriff's office, had sued Sheriff Cullen Talton and the county in 2019 after she was denied coverage.
An unknown number of orcas managed to sink another sailing yacht near coastal Morocco in the Strait of Gibraltar.
Last year's northern hemisphere summer was the hottest in 2,000 years, according to a new study published on Tuesday.By contrast the coolest summer of that 2,000-year period was nearly four degrees below 2023 summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere due to a major volcanic eruption.
The company released an apology and is offering billboard space to groups advocating for individuals it offended.
A metal billboard bigger than an Olympic swimming pool crumpled onto a gas station in Mumbai, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens more.
Last week, an agency official told Reuters about U.S plans to make public data collected by its surveillance system. Testing wastewater from sewers proved to be a powerful tool for detecting mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the week ended May 4, the agency's surveillance system did not show any indicators of unusual influenza activity in people, including the H5N1 virus.
Ben Carson, who is often talked about as a potential running mate for Donald Trump, is out with a new book in which he calls for a federal ban on abortion — a notable difference from the former president.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday as he became the highest-ranking Republican to attend court with Donald Trump, echoing unsubstantiated or disproven arguments made by the former president and his allies. The powerful House speaker signaled a turn of his political party against the federal and state legal systems and demonstrated further loyalty toward Trump, who is accused of having arranged secret payments to a porn actress to hide negative stories during his successful 2016 campaign for president. Johnson, a lawyer who is second in line for the presidency, called the court system “corrupt” and the case against Trump a “sham," while alleging without proof that the special counsel who's charged Trump in two separate cases has doctored evidence.
A manhunt has been launched for armed attackers who killed two prison officers and injured three more while breaking a prisoner out of a van in northern France.
An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation's capital was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly five years in prison. Lauren Handy, 30, was among several people convicted of federal civil rights offenses for blockading access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic on Oct. 22, 2020. Police found five fetuses at Handy's home in Washington after she was indicted.
The UK needs to reduce its reliance on imports of fruit and vegetables, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told farmers on Tuesday, as he sought to make food security a top priority against climate and geopolitical threats.The UK has signed several trade deals since leaving the EU in 2020 but farmers say some of the deals, and a lack of import checks, is allowing poorer quality food to come into Britain from countries with less stringent regulations.
The University of Amsterdam canceled classes Tuesday and shut buildings for two days after the latest pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the war in Gaza turned destructive. Protests continued to simmer at several European universities where students faced off with academic authorities on whether relations with Israel should be broken off or drastically reduced, as the death toll continues to climb during the seven-month Israel-hamas war. Overall, the protests in Europe have failed to reach the intensity of demonstrations at several U.S. universities.