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“We’re Not Going to Die This Way”: Father Jumped into Ocean with 5 Kids to Escape Maui Fire
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What links toothbrushes and weapons systems? A $52 billion investment.
First Look What links toothbrushes and weapons systems? A $52 billion investment. The U.S. government has reached a rare bipartisan agreement to invest $52 billion to develop advanced computer chips. Factories, autos, appliances, electronics, toys, toothbrushes, and weapons systems all depend on semiconductors. | View caption Hide caption | A 77-year-old factory in a hard-luck…
Would taxing robots help the people whose jobs they’ll take?
Would taxing robots help the people whose jobs they’ll take? Bill Gates recently offered a simple solution to the problem of automation: Tax the robots. But that premise raises several thorny issues. | View caption Hide caption Automation may soon affect even industries and jobs we thought were immune, so what should countries do to prepare for those…
Trump pleads not guilty to charges he tried to overturn 2020 election
First Look Trump pleads not guilty to charges he tried to overturn 2020 election Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in court Thursday to four felony charges that he tried to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss. The magistrate judge set the next hearing on this case for August 28. | View caption Hide…
Ukrainian children duck and scream as Russian missile strikes
Horrific footage showed the moment children screamed in fear and ran when a missile hit a hotel. Two of Moscow’s Iskander missiles hit the Reikartz Hotel in Zaporizhzhia city center on Thursday evening. One died and 16 were left injured, including four children, from the attack on the hotel on the bank of the Dnipro…
Putin considers going to G20 summit in India
Russian President Vladimir Putin is weighing whether to attend his first in-person meeting with Western leaders since his forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, a Kremlin source tells NBC News. Putin still hasn’t ruled out appearing in person at the G20 meeting of major economies on Sept. 9-10 in the Indian capital, New Delhi, according to…
Cruise ships sail to the top of the S&P 500
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: ARMs lose their allure Adjustable-rate mortgages are a losing proposition for most homebuyers right now, said Veronica Dagher in The Wall Street Journal. The average rate on ARMs is currently “nearly equivalent to the average 30-year fixed rate of…
Is the threat of impeachment the new presidential normal?
To be the president of the United States is to exist under pressures virtually unimaginable to nearly everyone else on Earth; you control a vast arsenal of weapons capable of destroying the planet many times over; you sit at the top one of of the most powerful, complex economies in history; the lives and wellbeing…