International News (Page 565)

Companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of a drive across the government to address climate change. Under the proposals adopted on a 3-1 SEC vote, public companies would have…Continue Reading

Apple Inc. suffered a widespread outage on Monday, knocking services such as Apple Music, iCloud and the App Store offline for some users and briefly hobbling its internal corporate and retail systems. The problems prevented corporate employees from working from home and kept retail workers from completing tasks, according to staff members who asked not…Continue Reading

Rachel Zegler’s face will be all over the Oscars telecast this weekend: as the co-lead of West Side Story, she’ll appear in ads, montages, and posters. But as of now, Zegler won’t be there in person: she wrote on Instagram that she wasn’t even invited to the ceremony. “I have tried it all but it…Continue Reading

It’s hard not to love the Kepler Space Telescope. Launched in 2009, the venerable spacecraft discovered nearly 5,000 suspected or confirmed exoplanets—or worlds orbiting other stars—during its 11-year lifetime. Built and launched at a relative bargain price of $600 million, it generated 4,306 scientific papers written by 9,606 authors. So all good, right? Well, not…Continue Reading

Democrat Midterm Chief Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) released an internal poll of him leading Republican challenger New York state Rep. Colin Schmitt in a hypothetical matchup but only receiving under 50 percent of support. Maloney showed a 12 point lead against the Republican challenger, with less than half of the vote, 49 percent. Thirty-seven percent…Continue Reading

The Georgia Elections Board granted subpoena power to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday to secure evidence into possible illegal ballot harvesting in the 2020 election. In January, Raffensperger announced he would probe a complaint submitted in November by True the Vote, which details digital data of 242 people making visits to drop boxes to dump…Continue Reading

Host Alex Marlow is back behind the microphone after a relaxing vacation and a not-so-relaxing week helping an ailing family member. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is likely to make history as the first Supreme Court justice who will be on the Court as a direct result of race and gender-based preferences. That should be cheating!…Continue Reading

U.S. economic activity expanded at a slower rate in February and January’s expansion was slower than reported earlier, data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago showed Monday. The Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell to 0.51 in February and January’s reading was revised down to 0.59 from the prior reading of 0.69. The Chicago…Continue Reading