Determined to thwart the automating of their jobs, about 45,000 dockworkers along the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on Oct. 1, a move that would shut down ports that handle about half the nation’s cargo from ships. The International Longshoremen’s Union is demanding significantly higher wages and a total ban on … Read more
JPMorgan Chase is talking with Apple about taking over the tech giant’s credit-card program from Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Discussions started earlier this year and have advanced in recent weeks, but a deal could still be months away, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. Key details, including price, are still … Read more
An experimental weight-loss pill is showing promising results, helping people drop 13% of their body weight in a three-month period. The results from early clinical trials were presented by Novo Nordisk — the Danish drugmaker behind Ozempic and Wegovy — at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) annual meeting in Madrid this … Read more
Lincoln Riley is not the type of coach to divulge more information than is absolutely necessary. Especially when that information might offer an upcoming opponent even a sliver of a hint about USC’s plans or personnel. Specifics are regularly side-stepped. Injury inquiries are stiff-armed away. Sherrone Moore, his coaching counterpart at Michigan, appeared to share … Read more
Editor’s Note: This story was updated with the final sale price and other details following the auction. CNN — In 1998, Michael Jordan laced up a pair of his iconic black and red Air Jordan 13s to bring home a Bulls victory during Game 2 of his final NBA championship — and now they are … Read more
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Michael Landsberg, CIO at Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management, joins CNBC’s ‘The Exchange’ to discuss why he thinks the Fed shouldn’t cut rates by 50 basis-points, why stocks are having mixed reactions to macro data, and more. Source link
The following are seasonal favourites for January and February. I find seeds are very hard to have success with at this time of the year due to the extreme heat we often see. If you are putting seedlings in make sure they are as advanced and as healthy as possible. Using a root mycorrhizal Inoculant … Read more
I am often grateful when I visit community gardens where there are generous gardeners willing to share and who follow a few rules. Where there is a scarcity of gardeners, unwilling to engage weeds or one another, there is a path to abandonment. At the exuberant Chuckanut Center in Bellingham, Washington, there was steadfast … Read more
WASHINGTON — Having all but tamed inflation, the Federal Reserve is poised to do something Wednesday it hasn’t done in more than four years: Cut its benchmark interest rate, a step that should lead to lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses just weeks before the presidential election. And yet an unusual air of uncertainty … Read more
Story highlights Latest craze in Moscow is war game in which players race to find nuclear codes Russian officials are playing on fears, staging a mass nuclear drill CNN — “Attention! Attention!” blares the Russian voice from a loudspeaker. “The nuclear bombs will be launched in one hour.” Inside a room styled as a Soviet-era … Read more