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“Akiya banks are run by municipal office workers, the majority of which often do not have any experience in real estate,” said, Matthew Ketchum, a Pittsburgh native and co-founder of Akiya & Inaka, a Tokyo-based real estate consultancy. “The existing solutions do not align with the needs of modern buyers and sellers.” Mr. Ketchum’s firm […]
Editor’s Note: (“The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America” premieres on April 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN’s new Sunday primetime series, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.) Darién Gap, Colombia . . .
The Biden administration has supercharged existing efforts by putting billions toward the problem. While exact figures are tough to come by, experts believe hundreds of thousands of orphan wells remain around the country. April 11, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT Workers cap an orphaned well near Oil City, La., on March 8. (Cooper Neill for […]
The U.S. has millions of “missing” workers, according to a new study. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images Lifestyle choices are having more influence on people’s working patterns than any residual effects of COVID-19, a new study has suggested. In a research paper published Wednesday ahead of an annual conference run by the Brookings Institution thinktank, Katharine Abraham, […]
New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 to each of hundreds of demonstrators who were penned in by the police in the Bronx during racial justice protests in 2020, then charged at or beaten with batons, according to a legal settlement. If a judge approves the settlement filed in federal court late Tuesday, the […]
Over five million Ukrainians have been displaced within their country because of the war. The number of those seeking refuge across Europe has reached eight million. Photo: WFP/Marco Frattini In Ukraine, it’s the scale of things that strikes one the most – the scale of the challenge, of the threat, of the country itself. “We […]
A major winter storm will unfold over the northern part of the United States this week, bringing a mixed bag of precipitation that will be “extremely disruptive,” forecasters said.The storm was taking shape in the West by Tuesday morning. More than 30 million people were under winter weather alerts in a nearly continuous stretch from […]
The situation for many in Ukraine remains desperate, amid “relentless” shelling of civilian targets and infrastructure, the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, told journalists in Geneva. Humanitarian funding is needed to continue supporting lifesaving aid convoy deliveries to communities on the front line, “into areas of great danger and difficulty and priority needs”, said […]
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Some of the health impacts of climate change are obvious and already apparent in Florida, such as more cases of heat stress and mosquito-borne tropical diseases. But it may be surprising that as climate conditions intensify, health experts say it also will increase the risk of sickness and death for people with diabetes. That’s significant […]