The US$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package President Joe Biden signed in March 2021 will expand the child tax credit for one year. Instead of providing families with up to $2,000 per child under 17, the…
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The Alpine Fault marks the boundary between the Pacific and Australian plates in the South Island of New Zealand. Author provided The chances of New Zealand’s Alpine Fault rupturing in a damaging earthquake in the…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Oil prices tumbled as much as 2% on Tuesday on fears about a Covid resurgence in major oil consumers India and Japan, a stock market selloff and U.S.…
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President Joe Biden promised to forgive up to US$10,000 in student loan debt during his 2020 campaign. Now, a few months into his presidency, over 415 organizations have urged him to use his executive authority…
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Yesterday at 9pm Australian Eastern standard time, the Ingenuity helicopter — which landed on Mars with the Perseverance rover in February — took off from the Martian surface. More importantly, it hovered for about 30…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of a refinery in Hobbs By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Tuesday as a weaker U.S. dollar supported commodities and on expectations that crude inventories…
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed his country’s participation in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. for April 22 and 23, vowing in a recent letter to U.S. President Joe Biden to end illegal…
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South Africa’s Karoo region is world famous for its wealth of fossil remains. Many of these are from long extinct land animals that lived between 280 and 200 million years ago. This was a time…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Splinters of ice peel off from one of the sides of the Perito Moreno glacier By Emma Farge and Kate Abnett GENEVA/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – 2020 was one of the three hottest…
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For decades, the frozen Arctic was little more than a footnote in global economic competition, but that’s changing as its ice melts with the warming climate. Russia is now attempting to claim more of the…
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