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Most left when they were told to. But some chose to stay, even though officials warned Hurricane Milton would turn their homes into coffins. Along Florida’s Gulf coast, where millions of people were urged to get out of harm’s way, cities were largely deserted on Wednesday afternoon as time ran out to evacuate. Those who…
Oil held steady after a day of choppy trading as US crude inventories swelled and traders monitored China’s plans for fiscal policy. West Texas Intermediate edged lower to close at $73.24 a barrel after earlier falling as much as 2.8%. Brent settled below $77 a barrel. Both benchmarks plunged 4.6% on Tuesday amid a broader…
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Mainland China stocks plunged on Wednesday, October 9, snapping a 10-day winning streak after officials failed to inspire confidence in stimulus plans to revive the economy. Following the losses, the frontline benchmark Shanghai Composite index fell over seven per cent, its worst loss since February 2020, when fears were rising about COVID-19 emanating from Wuhan…
The Dow jumped more than 400 points on Wednesday after the release of minutes from the Fed’s Sept. 17-18 meeting showed how officials agreed to a half-point rate cut. Despite being divided on the economic outlook and uncertain about how aggressive to be, the Fed settled on a 50-basis-point reduction—the first in over four years….
Apparently, Chinese researchers have made a breakthrough in low-temperature distillation of boron-10 isotopes, and that brings this country one giant step forward in terms of nuclear power capabilities. According to a report in a news source in China, the China Institute of Atomic Energy at China National Nuclear Corporation has reportedly developed the technology to…
In the storm’s path? Bookmark CNN’s lite site for fast connectivity on low bandwidth. Isla del Sol, Florida CNN — With the rain already slicing diagonals into the water off this transformed mangrove island in St. Petersburg, Vivienne Marran stood firm in her choice. “We can ride it out,” she told CNN less than 20 hours before…
Named Alasemenia tria, the new specimen from the Wutong Formation in the Chinese province of Anhui dates back to the Famennian stage of the the Late Devonian epoch, making it the second-earliest known winged seed. Fertile branches and seeds of Alasemenia tria. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.7554/eLife.92962.3. Many plants need seeds to reproduce….
WASHINGTON (AP) — As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with as many as 64 legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like. That’s because many of the fossils of these creatures are headless shells that were left…
Former President Trump’s “God Bless America” bibles are actually manufactured in China — and sold at a huge markup. A company tied to the Republican candidate paid a firm based in Hangzhou, China to produce 120,000 copies of the holy books at a cost of about $3 each. Trump is hawking the bibles, emblazoned with…