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The United States’ booming fossil-fuel industry continues to emit more and more planet-warming methane into the atmosphere, new research showed, despite a U.S.-led effort to encourage other countries to cut emissions globally. Methane is among the most potent greenhouse gases, and “one of the worst performers in our study is the U.S., even though it […]
Rising child mortality in the U.S. has the most impact on Black and Native American youth VCU News Source link
“It does take precious minutes to get an EMS and transfer,” she says. But “situations that need such immediate care during birth are very rare,” and midwives bring emergency equipment to every birth, including oxygen and medication to stop a hemorrhage. Experts say women should consider a home birth only if they have a low-risk […]
For anyone slow on the uptake, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un provided some helpful show-and-tell in Pyongyang on Wednesday. A year ago, I warned that a new “Axis of Ill Will” was forming. Now you get my drift. Kim gave Putin a vintage 1930s reception, complete with vast flags, red carpets and temporarily well-fed […]
By Olivia Trani Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU are shedding new light on how the increasing rate of child mortality in the United States has disproportionately affected certain racial and ethnic groups. Their previous research found that child and adolescent mortality rates in the United States rose by […]
Dow futures sank over 200 points as US stocks waded in the red on Wednesday, after a spike in Treasury yields unsettled investors already weighing whether recent data will shift the needle on interest rates. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F) and the S&P 500 (ES=F) both fell 0.6%, coming off a lackluster […]
A striking disconnect remains in the US economy: continued growth and softening inflation along with Americans’ pervasive pessimism and uncertainty about the future. “I think people are just uncertain,” President Biden recently told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview. “And that’s why we’ve got to be steady, stay the course, and continue to produce these […]