November 8, 2024

Experts hail breakthrough in bid to save native bird

Desert National Park A great Indian bustard chick was recently conceived through artificial insemination in India’s Rajasthan Last month brought good news for the great Indian bustard, a critically endangered bird found mainly in India. Wildlife officials in the western state of Rajasthan have performed the first successful hatching of a chick through artificial insemination. A lone adult male in one of two breeding centres in Jaisalmer city was trained

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November 8, 2024

California-led EV mandates ‘impossible’ to meet

A sign is displayed outside a Toyota Motor Corp. dealership on Jan. 30, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images News | Getty Images DETROIT — Toyota Motor sounded the alarm Friday that California-led electric vehicle mandates that are set to start next year are “impossible” to meet and, if they’re not changed, will lead to less customer choice in several states. Current requirements under the California Air

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November 8, 2024

Trump victory boosts book sales from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “1984” to “Hillbilly Elegy”

11/7: CBS Morning News 20:45 “The Handmaid’s Tale” is selling again. Since President-elect Donald Trump clinched his return to the White House, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic about a country in which women are brutally repressed has been high on the Amazon.com best seller list. “The Handmaid’s Tale” was popular throughout Trump’s first term, along with such dark futuristic narratives as George Orwell’s “1984” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” both of

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November 8, 2024

Restaurant Brands International (QSR) earnings Q3 2024

Restaurant Brands International on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts’ expectations as domestic same-store sales growth for all four of its chains fell short of Wall Street estimates. Shares fell about 2% in early trading following the report. Here’s what the company reported for the third quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: 93 cents adjusted vs.

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November 8, 2024

Post-election Wall St booms as Fed cuts, China spurs By Reuters

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Wall Street’s looks poised to test 6,000 for the first time as the Federal Reserve underscored a post-election stock surge with its second interest rate cut of the year on Thursday and a nod to more. Overseas, Friday’s focus was on China’s widely expected debt-raising stimulus plans – although the readout was these were in line

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November 8, 2024

Embattled FTX Co-Founder Gary Wang Is Building US Authorities a Tool To Track Illicit Activity on Crypto Exchanges

FTX co-founder and former CTO Gary Wang continues to work with US authorities after giving his testimony at the trial of his college roommate and ex-colleague, Sam Bankman-Fried. Wang is among the FTX executives who were charged following the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange. He pleaded guilty to four criminal counts in December 2022. In a sentencing memorandum filed on November 6th, Wang’s lawyers ask the court to consider how their

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November 8, 2024

Ethereum Price Breaks 90-Day Accumulation Amid Whales Sell-off; Is $4,000 Close?

The crypto witnessed an accelerated bullish momentum following Donald Trump’s victory in in the 2024 presidential election. Bitcoin, the pioneer digital asset reached a new all time high, fueling a recovery in the altcoin market. Despite aggressive whale selling, the Ethereum price maintained its upward trajectory and breached the key resistance of the 6-months correction trend. By press time, ETH price had traded at $2,931, with an intraday gain of

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