The flooding in Vermont last summer illustrates climate change’s impact on U.S. localities and their financial responses. Severe floods that were triggered by several days of heavy rainfall in Vermont left homes washed out and businesses and municipal facilities with severe physical damage. It also left some of the rural communities in the state, which
The nation’s political eyes this weekend will be affixed on a spectacle that rarely attracts significant attention: the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C. But instead of coming to watch presidential candidates such as Lars Mapstead, Michael Rectenwald, Chase Oliver, and Mike ter Maat duke it out for the Libertarian Party (L.P.) nomination, journalists will
On Capitol Hill, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is moving ahead with a plan to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress. Johnson is urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to sign on to the invitation despite strong pushback from many Democrats. This comes just days after the chief
A brilliant debut — Daily Telescope: The initial results from Europes Euclid telescope are dazzling “Euclids instruments can detect objects just a few times the mass of Jupiter.” Eric Berger – May 24, 2024 12:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Messier 78 is a nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust.ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA
Fiery news — Rocket Report: SpaceX focused on Starship reentry; Firefly may be for sale “Teams are in the process of completing a follow-on propulsion system assessment.” Eric Berger – May 24, 2024 12:00 pm UTC Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches the NROL-146 mission from California this week. SpaceX reader comments 9 Welcome
As states and the federal government grapple with ways to replace or complement the diminishing gas tax, the idea of a per-mile user fee has gained public support over the last decade. That’s according to the latest annual survey from the Mineta Transportation Institute, based at San Jose State University, which for the last 15
Phynart Studio | E+ | Getty Images Coming up with the down payment as an aspiring homeowner can be a daunting task. Many have already begun working toward that goal. About 77% of future homebuyers have started putting money aside for a down payment, according to a new survey by Clever.com, a housing and real
Debt issued by the California Community Choice Finance Authority, a conduit for the state’s community choice aggregators, has climbed to nearly $10 billion in the three years since its inception. The first California CCA agency was created in 2010 to offer communities alternatives to purchasing power from private utilities and to encourage growth in more
4.6K We all know that one guy with six different AR-15s, each only slightly different than the last. That guy is never going to run out of parts to keep his guns runningwhen he needs a new extractor or recoil spring, he can just cannibalize it from one of his many extras. For the rest
Check your sources — Googles AI Overview can give false, misleading, and dangerous answers From glue-on-pizza recipes to recommending “blinker fluid,” Google’s AI sourcing needs work. Kyle Orland – May 24, 2024 11:00 am UTC Enlarge / This is fine.Getty Images reader comments 0 Further ReadingGoogle is reimagining search in the Gemini era with AI
Searching for new search — Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks. Kevin Purdy – May 23, 2024 8:01 pm UTC EnlargeGetty Images reader comments 93 Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today.
Car Thing becoming nothing — Unacceptable: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds Spotify stopped making Car Things in July 2022 but kept selling them. Scharon Harding – May 23, 2024 8:32 pm UTC EnlargeSpotify reader comments 157 Owners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open-source the gadgets
DISORDER IN THE COURT — Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world It’s unclear how the malicious version of JAVS Viewer came to be. Dan Goodin – May 23, 2024 10:46 pm UTC EnlargeJAVS reader comments 15 A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application
Co-planar — US officials: A Russian rocket launch last week likely deployed a space weapon “Naming space as a warfighting domain was kind of forbidden, but that’s changed.” Stephen Clark – May 23, 2024 11:08 pm UTC Enlarge / A Russian Soyuz rocket climbs away from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on May 16. reader comments 100
The U.S. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority’s financial situation is the worst in more than 30 years, one board director said Thursday. Board Director Hubert Turnbull made the remark at the board’s monthly meeting as a prelude to asking CEO Andrew Smith to explain the authority’s financial situation. WAPA had to turn to the
Municipals sold off Thursday with more cuts across the curve as a correction has ensued for the asset class just ahead of the summer reinvestment season. U.S. Treasuries saw losses and equities were also in the red. Municipal bond mutual funds saw the second week of outflows as investors pulled $217.6 million from the funds
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In this article AZN-GB BMY LLY NVS NOV.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Skynesher | E+ | Getty Images Big pharma is betting billions on an up-and-coming class of cancer treatments that some on Wall Street are calling a “massive opportunity.” It’s called targeted radiopharmaceuticals. The therapy essentially delivers radiation directly into tumors by
A pile of lumber at a home under construction at the Cold Spring Barbera Homes subdivision in Loudonville, New York, US, on Wednesday Nov. 8, 2023. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of newly built homes dropped 4.7% in April compared with March, and dropped a larger 7.7% from the prior year, the
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has retired nine separate pieces of interpretive guidance related to Rule G-12(c) on inter-dealer confirmations following the board’s request for comment on the rule. The move follows recent comments submitted by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association that urged the board to knock out the provision altogether, and the
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