HSBC is pushing even harder into Asia as the bank seeks to shore up its business in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also bringing back its dividend, a sign that it’s optimistic about its ability to navigate the year ahead. The bank — which is still headquartered in London even though it makes
Continue ReadingA version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. More than 500,000 Americans dead from Covid. More than 500,000 lives cut short by a pandemic the rest of us will never forget. Journalists are stretching for words and illustrations and imagery to meet the
Continue ReadingFederal regulators are looking closely at the Texas energy market after natural gas prices rocketed during last week’s deep freeze. And they’re warning that extreme weather will continue to stress the power grid. “We are monitoring irregularities in the Texas energy markets following last week’s freeze,” Rostin Behnam, acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading
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Click here for updates on this story RACINE, Wisconsin (WDJT) — A Racine alderman was arrested this weekend after allegedly attempting to escape police. Edwin Santiago was taken into custody Saturday morning, Feb. 20. Jail records show Alderman Santiago could be charged with felony fleeing or eluding an officer. The arrest happened at 4:03 a.m.,
Continue ReadingTalking to someone on the phone for 10 minutes multiple times a week — if you’re in control of the conversation — can decrease loneliness, a new study revealed. Half of the 240 study participants were selected to receive brief phone calls from volunteers over the course of a month, and they reported feeling 20%
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A new app to help travelers store and manage their certifications for Covid-19 tests and vaccines is set to launch next month. The IATA Travel Pass is being developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global trade association of which 290 airlines are a member. The IATA hopes the free-to-use mobile app will
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — A 14-year-old Manheim Township girl is charged with killing her older sister in their family home early Monday morning. Claire Miller, 14, is facing Criminal Homicide charges as an adult for her role in the incident. According to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story YORK COUNTY, Pennsylvania (WPMT) — A Newberry Township man is facing charges after he allegedly killed one of his family’s cats. Norman Dalton Denslow, 68, of Newberry Township has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals in connection to the incident. On Jan. 28, the Newberry Township Police
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Sunshine and highs well above normal are features of today’s forecast, as high again soar into the 80s. A weak trough up North will drop into the Great Basin tomorrow afternoon, giving us some gusty conditions but making it quite windy in areas around the San Gorgonio Pass, in Northern California and parts of Nevada.
Continue Reading(CNN) — Se ha demostrado que muchos pacientes con casos graves de covid-19 tienen niveles extremadamente bajos de oxígeno en la sangre. Otros que han resultado positivos para coronavirus tienen dificultad para respirar. Quizás es por eso que las personas están tan interesadas últimamente en los oxímetros de pulso, que son dispositivos médicos que miden
Continue Reading(CNN) — En la lucha contra el covid-19, el pulsioxímetro ha sido una herramienta fundamental para los médicos y otros profesionales médicos. Pero el pequeño dispositivo que monitorea los niveles de oxígeno puede no funcionar bien para personas con piel oscura, según múltiples estudios y agencias de salud gubernamentales. Los oxímetros de pulso, cuyo uso
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story Clayton, Georgia (WGCL) — The Clayton County Public Schools (CCPS) Board of Education on Monday approved a $2,000 ‘pandemic bonus’ for all CCPS employees to be paid out by Mar. 31. “We are proud to provide our employees with this one-time pandemic bonus as a show of appreciation
Continue ReadingOatly, the popular oat milk maker backed by Oprah, is making plans to go public. The Swedish company said it filed confidential IPO forms with the SEC, the company said in a statement Tuesday. The move is “the first official step towards pursuing a potential IPO,” said Sara Fletcher, an Oatly spokesperson. The price and
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story LINCOLN, Nebraska (Lincoln Star Journal ) — Lincoln became the first city in Nebraska to ban conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth after a 5-1 City Council vote Monday. The move bars counselors, psychiatrists and therapists from seeking to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of a minor.
Continue ReadingVaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration will meet Friday to discuss whether to recommend Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization. The vaccine is the third under consideration for the US market, and would be the first single-dose Covid-19 shot available here. Like the earlier Covid-19 vaccines, it was developed
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story DAVENPORT, Iowa (Quad-City Times ) — Parents and the public would receive monthly reports on police officers’ activity within Davenport public schools, and students and faculty would be asked to evaluate their level of comfort and safety in school buildings with officers present under a new, proposed agreement.
Continue Reading We have heard the phrase “grim milestone” so often in the past year that it now falls into the realm of journalistic cliché. Monday’s news that the US has surpassed half a million Covid-19 deaths should not, however, be any less poignant for its morbid familiarity. These are the moments in which individual and shared
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Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the long-serving Saudi oil minister who masterminded an OPEC embargo that plunged western economies into recession in 1973, has died at the age of 90, Saudi state TV reported on Tuesday. Yamani became Saudi oil minister in 1962, a rare instance of someone from outside the Royal Family being promoted to such
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Victoria Richardson turns away from her favorite show, “Chicago Med,” every time a plotline revolves around the coronavirus pandemic. The educator, who lives in the Bronx borough of New York City, says such scenes are upsetting after the loss of her grandmother to Covid-19. Ashley Sanford, a makeup artist in Detroit, also cringes every time
Continue Reading Along the beaches of Mexico, typically teeming with vacationers, there is a struggle between two powerful forces that won’t be going anywhere anytime soon: The very real concern for health and safety during the pandemic and an equally valid concern for economic survival. Though Mexico has logged more than 180,000 Covid-19 deaths, it has some
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