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Billion-dollar disasters.
The effects of climate change are felt most strongly by communities that are already overburdened, includingIndigenous peoples, people of colour, and low-income communities, according to a new report by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It said the effects of climate change were felt most strongly by low-income communities. “The effects of climate change are…
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What is the UN Climate Summit?
UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres said on Monday that corporations should help pay for the costs associated with climate change. “Cooperation or perish,” he added. Guterres further said that the world is “on a highway to climate hell” and urged the US and China to work together to avert it. The world is likely to face…
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The Fed may have changed markets forever.
The US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate for the fourth consecutive time in November, the first time it has done so in a decade. It has raised the rate by 0.75 percentage point every month for the past five years. The Fed has now raised the rate four times in a row…
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Chaos will be created ahead of the top meeting.
China’s state media reported that the death toll from coronavirus in China rose to 2,075 after new cases of the virus were reported. According to a government data, the total number of coronavirus cases in China have risen to over 9.41 lakh. The country has reported over 2.5 lakh coronavirus cases in total, according to…
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The UK is in a recession while Europe is going to do the same.
The US economy grew at a slower-than-expected 2.3% in the third quarter of 2022, according to GDPNow, the Federal Reserve’s real gross domestic product (GDP) forecasting service. The Atlanta Fed’s estimate for real GDP growth in the third quarter of 2022 is 2.3%, suggesting that while the economy is growing much more slowly than it…
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The Half-Baked Robot is a Clunky First Step.
Amazon is testing its new robot named Sparrow that can handle 65% of the more than 100 million items in its inventory. The company’s Chief Technologist Tye Brady said that no one has the inventory that Amazon has. He further said Sparrow can handle up to 20 kilograms of stock on its own, adding that…
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The woman doesn’t want to talk about the scandal, but she has to.
Responding to the controversy over ‘Arizona State Gamergate’, Anita Sarkeesian, a journalist and feminist, said, “It’s important to realise there is no one silver bullet.” Sarkeesian shared two screenshots of a Twitter user threatening her with a gun. Sarkeesian, who appeared on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ in 2018, said she was “heartbroken” as it was…
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What is the big UN climate summit?
The UN climate summit in Egypt’s Sharm-el-Sheikh will bring together over 35,000 delegates, including President Biden and more than 100 world leaders. Over 40,000 registered participants were invited to the event which brought together 120 world leaders. While world leaders are in Sharm-el-Sheikh to highlight the Egyptian government’s dismal human rights record, a growing number…
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The success of the CRISPR cancer trial paves way for personalized treatments.
University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a new approach to personalise personalised T-cell therapies for solid tumors. They isolated T cells from blood of 16 patients with solid tumors, including colon, breast, or lung cancer. The team chose up to three receptors for each patient and added the genes for these receptors to the person’s…
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The verification plan was going to be delayed until after the elections.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said he’s “absolutely” considering bringing back Vine. The comment came in response to a user’s suggestion to rethink the platform’s character limits. Earlier, Musk had vowed to restore accounts of former US President Donald Trump and others, who were previously banned from the platform. Musk has also said he’ll restrict…
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The lowest price ever on a AirPods Pro 2 was on Amazon.
Apple has released its new Arm-powered MacBook Pro with a 13.3-inch Retina display. The laptop, which comes with an 8GB RAM and 256GB storage capacity, is powered by Apple’s second-generation A12 Bionic chip, which also powers Apple’s new AirPods. The laptop features a battery life of up to seven hours on full charge, the company…
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Liz Cheney is hitting the trail for Democrats.
US Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney said, “People coming together to say we think in democracy. And a real rejection of the toxicity, and hate, and vitriol, and of Donald Trump.” Cheney, who lost to Democratic candidate Adam Kinzinger in August, added, “We know from history that it’s impossible to tolerate hate speech or antisemitism. There…
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The GOP blame game spread after the results of the elections.
The Senate Leadership Fund has poured millions of dollars into key Senate races across the country in a bid to bail out candidates effectively crowned as party nominees by US President Donald Trump. The super PAC, affiliated with the minority leader, has spent tens of millions of dollars in key races including Ohio and Georgia.
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Legal challenges to the plan on student debt have been rejected.
The US Department of Education has warned students seeking student loan forgiveness from the government about scams aimed at taking advantage of them. “We’re warning borrowers of scams related to the student loan forgiveness programme that ask for payment in return for help getting debt relief. We’ll review your application, determine your eligibility for debt…
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There are homes collapsing into the ocean in Florida.
The St Johns River in Florida, US, has been flooding for a long time and hundreds of homes are still submerged in floodwater. “We’re not sure that people understand fully that this river is not going to go down very quickly,” an official said. The river drains the historic rainfall that Hurricane Ian dropped nearly…
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Meta is planning significant layoffs, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Following reports that Amazon is planning to reduce its workforce, a spokesperson said, “As part of this year’s review, we’re of course taking into account…macro-environment and considering opportunities to optimise costs.” Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook had said, “We’ll be taking a look at our spending going forward.” Earlier, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said…
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The Supreme Court has a problem of trust.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted an emergency stay of execution to a death-row inmate in Kentucky in a case that had been pending for more than a year. Earlier, the apex court had denied the state’s request to put the inmate to death over concerns about whether he would be able to hear…
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Six states will be watched for the upcoming midterms.
Republicans are trying to take back Arizona after Democrats made inroads in the swing state in 2020 when Joe Biden won the state and Mark Kelly flipped a Senate seat for Democrats. GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Republican senatorial nominee Blake Masters were both endorsed by President Donald Trump. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hobbs Hobbs…
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Voting day and election results are available on a live stream.
Voters in five states and the District of Columbia will cast their votes on Tuesday in elections to the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. The first phase of voting is scheduled for 8 am to 7 pm, with the final phase scheduled for 9 am to 4 pm. The general elections are…
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Senate control is hanging in the balance in the midterms.
The race for the state’s first black senator is a tight one and is being fought by Democrat Corinna Beasley and Republican Ted Budd. Polls will close on competitive House races in Iowa, Nevada and Washington state in this two-hour span, all states where Democrats believe it is likely they will pick up seats.
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It is opinion that you can prevent the next epidemic.
A new study has claimed that if you take the drug Paxlovid early in your illness, it can help prevent post-COVID-19 symptoms. Researchers reviewed hundreds of thousands of electronic health records from the US Department of Veterans Affairs for patients who tested COVID-19 positive between March and June 2022, and found that most of them…
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According to the UN, countries that are hit hardest by climate change need more money to prepare.
The world’s developing countries will need more money to deal with climate change, a UN report said. “The discourse needs to be raised substantially, the level of ambition…so that you can actually continue to do what you’re doing on mitigation even more,” Mafalda Duarte, CEO of Climate Investment Funds, which works with development banks like…
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Gina Rinehart pulled her sponsorship from the women’s sport due to the racist comments of her father.
Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has withdrawn her support of the Australian Netball Players’ Association after the players refused to wear her Hancock Prospecting’s logo during the New Zealand games. The players’ union had claimed that Rinehart, along with her father, made “racist comments” about the country’s indigenous people. Hancock Prospecting said that they didn’t…
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Politics areDividing Parties, and Friends and Families.
A survey has found that only 42% of people who are Democrats say that they’re very motivated to vote while 45% of people who’re Republican in a competitive congressional districts say they’re very motivated to vote. This comes ahead of the US congressional elections on November 3. However, the survey showed that Democratic groups are…
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Changes might be coming in the election results.
Former US President Donald Trump ignored the mid-term elections, a Republican candidate for Texas governor said. “Not in Ted Cruz’s state of Texas. Pennsylvania could take days,” Doug Mastriano told a right-wing audience. He added that it could take days for vote counts in Pennsylvania to be complete, after the acting elections chief said last…