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By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos has long been a lightning rod for conspiracy theories. Extremist figures such as Infowars host Alex Jones have reliably used the event to drive up fear and paranoia about sinister schemes the “globalists” are supposedly plotting. In the past, however, these farcical
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind, CNN The largest six banks in the United States have been given until July to show the Federal Reserve what effects disastrous climate change scenarios could have on their bottom lines. Noting the risks could be “material,” the Fed said the banks will have to show how their finances fare under a
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation. The Tokyo High Court upheld a 2019 lower court decision that
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court has found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation. The Tokyo High Court upheld a 2019 lower court decision that
Continue ReadingAmarachi Orie, CNN Archeologists in Norway have discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone, featuring runic inscriptions from up to 2,000 years ago. Researchers at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History found the stone while investigating a burial ground in the municipality of Hole in eastern Norway in fall 2021, according to the museum.
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By Paul Drewes Click here for updates on this story HONOLULU (KITV) — Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke unveils the state’s “Ready Keiki initiative”, a program to greatly expand early childhood education. It will take ten years and hundreds of millions of dollars, but the program will eventually provide access to pre-K learning for every Hawaii
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans cut back on spending in December, the second consecutive month they’ve done so, underscoring how inflation and the rising cost of using credit cards slowed consumer activity over the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales fell 1.1% in December, following a revised 1% drop
Continue ReadingBy HOLLY RAMER Associated Press He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Virginia. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, police say, and then he pulled the trigger. And across the nation, people … didn’t quite know how to react. Even in a country where gun violence is sadly commonplace, the story
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Warsaw’s Jewish history museum has presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were recently discovered in a family collection. The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews describes
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin museum authority says it is ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa after having researched their origin for several years. During their research at the city’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History, scientists examined 1,135 skulls. Of
Continue Reading By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Americans cut back on spending in December, the second consecutive month they’ve done so, underscoring how inflation and the rising cost of using credit cards slowed consumer activity over the crucial holiday shopping season. Retail sales fell 1.1% in December, following a revised 1% drop
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN It was a ho-hum end to 2022 for spending in America. US retail sales continued their fall in December, dropping by 1.1% as inflation remained high, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. That’s the largest monthly decline since December 2021, and practically every category (except for building materials, groceries and sporting goods)
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 6.2% in December from a year earlier, a sixth straight slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures will continue to cool. The latest year-over-year figure was down from 7.3% in November and from a recent peak of 11.7%
Continue Reading By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 6.2% in December from a year earlier, a sixth straight monthly slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures will continue to cool. The latest year-over-year figure was down from 7.3% in November and from a recent peak of
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street saw modest gains before the bell Wednesday as investors await a pair of important economic reports and more corporate earnings results. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials inched up 0.2% and futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.3%. Wall Street will get another inflation
Continue Reading By ELAINE KURTENBACH and MATT OTT AP Business Writers Wall Street saw modest gains before the bell Wednesday as investors await a pair of important economic reports and more corporate earnings results. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials inched up 0.2% and futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.3%. Wall Street will get another inflation
Continue Reading By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker government has approved opening credit lines totaling $116 million to help fix its crippled state electricity grid. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Wednesday that his government agreed to open a credit line of $62 million for a shipment of fuel at the port and
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The Agua Caliente Casinos Polo & Balloon Classic is back from February 2 to February 4 with several shows and events. Kicking off the event on February 2 is the Runway Fashion Show. Clothing from Chrissy’s on El Paseo and Grayse will be featured. This fashion show will include 60 different clothing changes. El Paseo
Continue ReadingBy Avis Favaro, CTV National News Medical Correspondent Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — A growing number of patients who request medical assistance in dying are asking to donate their organs for transplant, says an international review that found that Canada is performing the most organ transplants from MAID patients
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Mae Jones, CTVNews.ca writer Click here for updates on this story TORONTO (CTV Network) — The world has been grappling with the spectre of long COVID since mid-2020, when some patients realized their COVID-19 symptoms hadn’t fully disappeared — but nearly three years later, how much do we really know about this persistent
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