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It was an intimate setting befitting their years of service. At a long table in a small room overseeing the Boston campus, interspersed among President Joseph E. Aoun and seven members of his Northeastern leadership team, sat nine exceptional students who will be graduating this weekend. They were the inaugural recipients of Northeastern’s Senior Leadership […]
Memphis, New Orleans, and Richmond rank as America’s homicide hotspots, with scholars linking their rising murder rates to soft-on-crime Democratic leadership and low police morale. A study . . .
WASHINGTON — For the first time, Black mayors run the four largest cities in the United States — Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Houston. And Friday at the African American Mayors Association conference, the “Big Four” were together for the first time, a historic gathering to discuss their work. “If you look back when […]
FTX’s collapse was the catalyst for a new bullish cycle in cryptocurrency markets, Bernstein said in a research report Monday. The crypto exchange’s demise cleaned up the final tranche of “toxic crypto leverage” and taught digital asset investors the importance of decentralization and self-custody wallets, the report said. Macro catalysts are aligning for bitcoin, the […]
Despite tenuous times for the banking industry, some of the largest U.S. lenders reported banner first-quarter earnings on Friday that easily exceeded investor expectations. JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, reported revenue that rose virtually across the board, helping it pull in $12.6 billion in profit, a 52 percent jump from the same quarter a […]
A team of astronomers have discovered one of the biggest black holes ever found, taking advantage of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. The findings are published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The team, led by Durham University, UK, used gravitational lensing – where a foreground galaxy bends the light from a more […]
Holy smokes. A group of astronomers have found a black hole containing (checks notes) 30 billion times the mass of our Sun. That’s more than seven thousand times the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope The team used gravitational lensing to […]
London(CNN) The United States is now the biggest supplier of crude oil to the European Union. In December, 18% of the bloc’s crude imports came from America, EU data office Eurostat said Tuesday. That is a big turnaround. Russia was until recently the bloc’s top supplier of . . .
By Mike Henson BBC Sport in Nazare 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Since it was first surfed, a little over a decade ago, the Portuguese town of Nazare has become the undisputed home of the world’s biggest wave As he looks out from his balcony, over slumped, drying wetsuits, Andrew Cotton […]
As the race for Los Angeles mayor began to tighten late last year, Karen Bass, the presumptive favorite, received some notes of encouragement from a kindred spirit: Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago. Ms. Lightfoot had successfully navigated a similar political path in 2019, becoming the first Black woman to be elected mayor of her […]