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Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi scoured the Wall Street community’s avalanche of research notes from the past 48 hours to see what analysts are saying about the winners and losers of President Trump’s trade war. First up, the good news. Analysts at Evercore ISI and RBC Capital Markets found seven stocks that are relatively tariff-proof. They […]
First there was the sauna, which I loved. A small building with a stove inside to make you sweat seemed perfect for the middle of winter, when the priority was getting warm. I felt my sinuses clear from the sauna heat, and that alone is enough of a health benefit for me – I have […]
The Trump administration is cutting more than 6,000 jobs at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the middle of a tax season when millions of Americans file their returns, US media report. The layoffs, believed to be part of the administration’s push to shrink the federal work force, began on Thursday across the country. The […]
MIAMI — As Jimmy Butler is set to serve out the first game of his team-issued suspension Saturday against the Utah Jazz, the Miami Heat are looking to move forward, with team captain . . .
First came “joy”, with some cosy but unmemorable TV sit-downs with sympathetic hosts, a Vogue cover, and a billion dollars to spend on TV ads. Then reality . . .
Michael Crowley runs his air conditioner nonstop on hot summer days to keep his cat, Arya, comfortable. But when the Richmond, Virginia, chef got home after work on 7 August 2022, it “felt like 100 degrees”. His power was out. He phoned his leasing office and was told his electricity bill was unpaid. Crowley protested, […]
The widespread and extreme western U.S. heat wave in 5 maps The Washington Post Source link
A heat wave was expected to bring record-high temperatures to the midwestern United States this week before spreading to the East Coast, forecasters said. At the same time, a bout of severe thunderstorms was forecast to follow a similar path from the Great Lakes region toward the Mid-Atlantic and southern New England over the next […]
As temperatures in Baltimore neared 100F earlier this month, 36-year-old sanitation worker Ronald Silver II died after he was found lying on the hood of a car and asking for water. It’s the kind of tragic workplace heat-related death that advocates say could have been avoided with the right labor protections. So this week, during […]
Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He said breaks were short and infrequent, with nothing to protect workers from the heat. “I saw guys collapse,” Gross said of his […]