2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks to his friend’s home in a neighbourhood without electricity as snow covers the BlackHawk neighborhood in Pflugerville 2/2 By Devika Krishna Kumar and Laila Kearney NEW YORK…
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Which former president pitched a Family Assistance Plan to the American people that would have provided many families with children a monthly stipend? It may surprise you that it came in 1969 from Richard Nixon,…
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Digital platforms like Facebook and Google give us easy access to media and information. But our collective dependence on these tech giants could in the long run reduce the quality of journalism, making us all…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun is seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday as the slow return of output…
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The UK housing market has been affected by the pandemic, but in ways that were not anticipated at the outset. Initially, forecasters thought that the sharp reduction in economic activity could lead to a housing…
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El Niño Southern Oscillation or ENSO, an anomalous warming of the surface waters in the tropical Pacific Ocean, is famous for producing months-long unusual weather patterns across the globe. A similar, albeit lesser known circulation…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Jerry Jones, majority shareholder of Comstock Resources (NYSE:), is being roasted on Twitter for suggesting the Texas-based shale gas driller hit the “jackpot” from skyrocketing gas prices as…
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It was all going so well. When China sparked the greatest winter sports boom in history by trying to inspire 300m people ahead of the Olympics in Beijing in 2022, the forecast for the industry…
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When one of us (Ilya Mandel) started grad school at the California Institute of Technology 20 years ago, he was greeted with a series of bets hanging on the wall outside the office of his…
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4/4 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Winter weather caused electricity blackouts in Houston 2/4 By Tim McLaughlin and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) – As Texans cranked up their heaters early Monday to combat plunging temperatures, a record…
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