2024-12-06

Bitcoin falls below $100,000 after reaching the milestone level for the first time

The price of bitcoin soared past the long-awaited $100,000 benchmark for the first time ever late Wednesday evening. By Thursday afternoon, the flagship cryptocurrency pulled back from the milestone. It was recently higher by 0.28% at $99,140.00, according to Coin Metrics, trading at the lows of Thursday’s trading following some profit taking by investors. On Wednesday night, it rose…

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2024-10-11

Crunch time + last-minute Thanksgiving recipe ideas

Hi friends! How are you? I hope you’re enjoying the morning. With Thanksgiving inching closer, I’m beginning to look forward to enjoying a couple of days with the family, eating pie, and planning our Black Friday plan of attack. 😉 I’m also looking forward to the Thanksgiving turkey burn Peloton ride! Before I get into what’s been going on…

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2024-09-14

Boeing factory workers strike for first time since 2008

Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Co. manufacturing facility during a strike in Everett, Washington, US, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.  M. Scott Brauer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boeing‘s factory workers walked off the job after midnight on Friday, halting production of the company’s bestselling airplanes after staff overwhelmingly rejected a new labor contract. It’s a costly…

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2024-09-09

Leqembi could give Alzheimer’s patients more time, but road to treatment is long

Hannah Yoon | The Washington Post | Getty Images Leqembi, an Alzheimer’s drug from Biogen and Eisai, isn’t a cure for the mind-damaging disease.  But the treatment promises to give patients such as Missie Meeks more time to live their daily lives normally and independently of others. Meeks, an English professor based in Ellisville, Mississippi, was diagnosed with an…

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2024-08-27

Trump says Tesla CEO Elon Musk has no time for White House cabinet

Elon Musk (L) and Donald Trump (R). David Swanson | Vincent Alban | Reuters Former President Donald Trump said that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk likely couldn’t serve in his hypothetical White House cabinet due to the demanding schedule of running his various companies. “He wants to be involved. Now look, he’s running big businesses and all that,…

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2024-08-26

‘The time has come for policy to adjust’

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell laid the groundwork Friday for interest rate cuts ahead, though he declined to provide exact indications on timing or extent. “The time has come for policy to adjust,” the central bank leader said in his much-awaited keynote address at the Fed’s annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “The direction of travel is clear, and…

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2024-08-18

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is highest-grossing R-rated film of all time

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds star in Marvel’s “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Disney The trio of Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Shawn Levy has captured lightning in a bottle with “Deadpool & Wolverine.” As of Thursday, the Disney and Marvel film is the highest-grossing R-rated title of all time, surpassing Warner Bros.’ “Joker.” With $516.8 million in domestic ticket sales…

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