Midwest Forecast
A look at weather conditions in the Midwest, updated twice each day.
A look at weather conditions in the Midwest, updated twice each day.
A quirk with one of the most popular tech ETFs has seen the product lag this year because it couldn't own enough Nvidia. On Friday, that looks set to change.
Dr. Angela Shippy, a medical doctor turned executive at Amazon Web Services, is leading the charge for AI in healthcare at the world's biggest cloud provider.
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.Saudi Arabia has not provided information on fatalities, though it reported more than 2,700 cases of "heat exhaustion" on Sunday alone. bur/th/it
Russian attacks damaged a Ukrainian power plant and several energy facilities overnight, Kyiv said on Thursday, the latest in a series of strikes that have pushed its power grid to the brink.- 'Crisis this winter' - DTEK's CEO Maxim Timchenko echoed the calls for more military aid, and said the power plant struck early on Thursday had already been damaged in a previous attack.
Russia and Vietnam pledged Thursday to deepen ties as President Vladimir Putin made a state visit aimed at bolstering his alliances to counter Moscow's growing isolation over the war in Ukraine.The US State Department said deepening Russia-North Korea ties were "of great concern", while a top Ukrainian official accused Pyongyang of abetting Moscow's "mass murder of Ukrainians".
Hailed by Kim as “the most powerful treaty” in the history of Russia-North Korea relations, the pact marks a new era.
After 12 weeks stuck aboard a cargo ship that lost power and crushed a famed Baltimore bridge, some of the vessel’s 21 crew members could soon return to their families halfway around the world.
The Bank of England was set to hold its interest rate steady on Thursday despite slowing UK inflation, with higher price risks and Britain's looming election preventing a cut, according to analysts. While UK inflation slowed in May to a near three-year low of 2.0 percent, matching the central bank's target, analysts say the BoE is unlikely to cut rates ahead of the election to avoid appearing to take sides.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday, fresh from agreeing a new strategic partnership with North Korea, driven by Moscow’s need for weapons for its war in Ukraine.
China should further relax data export rules, building on the recent easing of some curbs for global firms enacted by the city of Shanghai, senior executives from investment management firm Neuberger Berman and global bank Citi told a forum on Thursday. Foreign banks and asset managers have been lobbying the Chinese government to allow cross-border sharing of information after Beijing tightened control of data flows citing national security concerns. Last month, Shanghai launched a pilot project under which companies registered in the city's Lingang Area may transfer so-called "ordinary data" overseas without security assessments.
Amid waves of gentrification, James Jackson has been selling watermelon on a Bed-Stuy street corner for nearly 50 years.
Japan's tourism chief said Thursday its ambitious goal of luring 60 million foreign tourists a year -- more than double the current level -- is well within reach, despite surging overtourism concerns. Ichiro Takahashi, head of Japan's tourism agency, acknowledged the previously announced target of 60 million remains "tough", but stressed it is within the realm of possibility.
Democratic Reps. Jamie Raskin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called into question whether US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has taken any action to address the storm cloud of scandals surrounding the Supreme Court, in a new letter obtained first by CNN.
Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine’s power grid and Kyiv’s forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, officials said Thursday. With no major changes reported along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, where a recent push by the Kremlin’s forces in eastern and northeastern Ukraine has made only incremental gains, both sides in the war have taken aim at distant infrastructure targets. In its seventh major attack on Ukrainian power plants since Moscow intensified energy infrastructure attacks three months ago, Russia fired nine missiles and 27 Shahed drones at energy facilities and critical infrastructure in central and eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said.
PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance would lower power bills, soften inheritance tax and link pensions to inflation if it wins a snap election, the prime minister said, seeking to counter the far right and a new left-wing bloc. The ruling Together alliance is the underdog in the parliamentary vote, which Macron called after suffering a drubbing at the hands of the far-right National Rally (RN) in this month's European elections. The snap legislative election will take place in two rounds on June 30 and July 7.
The Philippines has accused China’s Coast Guard of launching a “brutal assault” with “bladed weapons” during a South China Sea clash earlier this week, a major escalation in a festering dispute that threatens to drag the United States into another global conflict.
Belgium, which holds the rotating EU presidency until July 1, said on the X platform that the package "maximises the impact of existing sanctions by closing loopholes". The dropped measure would have forced subsidiaries of EU companies in third countries to contractually prohibit the re-exports of their goods to Russia. The EU is keen to stop the flow of dual-use technology such as washing machine chips that could be used by Russia for military purposes.
The latest confrontation in the South China Sea has allegedly resulted in a Filipino navy serviceman losing a thumb and risks escalating the conflict.
Thailand hopes to become a member of the BRICS group of emerging economies at the organisation's next summit in Russia in October, a foreign ministry official said Thursday. The Southeast Asian nation submitted a formal request to join at a BRICS ministerial meeting a week ago, foreign ministry spokesperson Nikorndej Balankura said.
Asian markets were mixed Thursday as investors tried to gauge the outlook for US interest rates, while also keeping tabs on developments in France as it heads for crucial elections.On currency markets, the euro remained under pressure against the dollar owing to France's political uncertainty, while Switzerland's franc dipped against the greenback after the country's central bank cut interest rates for the second successive meeting.