View of the Anchorage skyline from the Don Young Port of Alaska on Tuesday. (Bill Roth / ADN) Local officials, military personnel and businesses are scrambling to figure out basic details and get ready for an influx of visitors ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit Friday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in…
Want to gauge the temperature of this stock market at record highs? Jim Cramer says to take a look at the stock chart of a Wall Street firm founded a few years after the end of the Civil War: Goldman Sachs . “Goldman encapsulates everything — IPOs, M & A, trading volume. This is the…
Bettmann/Getty Images Princess Diana was a trendsetter in many ways; a champion for human rights, a true fashionista whose looks are still iconic today, and an early adopter of certain foodie trends that wouldn’t hit the mainstream until many years later. One such example was Princess Di’s…
Just a year ago, it would perhaps have taken a big leap of faith for PM Narendra Modi to travel to China. The two countries’ relationship was still on ventilator. The border was relatively quiet, but disengagement of troops at the remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh was still incomplete.Now, as Modi gets ready to…
Getty Images Lai is on trial for breaching national security and colluding with foreign forces Hailed by some as a hero and scorned by others as a traitor, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is in the final stage of his national security trial. Closing arguments were scheduled to start on Thursday for Lai,…
SAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) — Wednesday marked the first day of school at Neil Armstrong Elementary School in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District which is seeing more than 28,000 students come back to class districtwide. Students at the elementary school were greeted not just by their new teachers and the principal, but the…
A federal appeals court rules the Trump administration can withhold $4 billion approved by Congress for global health programs and more than $6 billion for HIV and AIDS prevention. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption toggle caption Ben Curtis/AP A federal appeals court handed President Trump a victory on Wednesday. The court ruled that the administration can…
Cryptocurrency exchange operator Bullish was valued at about $13.16 billion after its shares surged more than 143% in their NYSE debut on Wednesday, underscoring investor confidence in the sector and lifting prospects for future U.S. listings by other digital asset firms. Source link
At least two buildings have been destroyed and residents of others have been evacuated in Juneau after flooding caused by water coming from a glacier-dammed lake, officials said Sunday. The Mendenhall River flooded Saturday because of a major release from Suicide Basin above Alaska’s capital city, a news release from the City and Borough of…
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email The extreme heat that gripped Norway, Sweden and Finland in July was about 2 degrees Celsius hotter and made at least 10 times more likely by the human-caused climate crisis,…