The pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of a food system built around high-volume production and national supply chains, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Wednesday. As a remedy, he said, the USDA would help independent processors start or expand their operations and encourage local marketing. During a speech at Georgetown University, Vilsack said the USDA … Read more
LONDON — In December 2010, Adam Kay was working in a British maternity hospital helping a younger doctor perform a caesarean section. Kay has successfully given birth to over 1,200 babies, but this operation was a disaster. The mother had an undiagnosed condition affecting the placenta, and she should not have been allowed to go … Read more
Mercury Direct opens the door to impulse in love. If your sign is one of the three that will benefit from today’s transits, you will be experiencing more than luck in love. You will have a renewed sense of purpose and a burning desire to do new and fun things with the person you love. … Read more
A protester waves a sign that said “unionize” near the Country Club Plaza Starbucks store, where dozens of Starbucks employees and union supporters protested the company’s alleged anti-union tactics on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Jill Toyoshiba | Tribune News Service | Getty Images From Starbucks to Amazon to Apple, recent headlines show that the world’s … Read more
Growth stocks typically trade at premium prices. But in this market, rising interest rates have turned small-cap growth stocks into a bargaining chip. This can be a nice setup for long-term investors. The following chart, provided by Alger’s Director of Market Strategy Bradford Neuman, highlights the opportunity: Algiers, FactSet The chart shows the weighted price-earnings … Read more
LONDON (AP) — Four days of celebrations The tribute to Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th birthday on the throne began on Thursday with a display of British military traditions ranging from the horse and cannon days to the jet age. The formal Platinum Jubilee celebrations began with Trooping the Color, an annual military magazine that marks … Read more
A new study using archived astronomical observations across the entire electromagnetic spectrum has come to a rather surprising and somewhat unsettling conclusion: supermassive black holes at the centers of many galaxies may have suppressed star formation shortly after these galaxies formed, effectively killing them. In very general terms, when we look around the nearby Universe … Read more
On a sunny day in the Puget Sound area, when the ubiquitous pull of anything outside the physical walls seems to delight us all, and your allergies don’t seem This one bad, and even the birds seem to stay up late to enjoy the last remaining shades of the sun, there’s only one thing that … Read more
Placeholder while article actions load The country’s power grid is under stress like never before, with regulators warning that the kind of outages that are now familiar to California and Texas could be much more widespread with the arrival of hot summer weather. A large part of the Midwest that has enjoyed steady electricity for … Read more
The Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly employment report is due out Friday morning. The consensus among economists polled by Refinitiv is that 350,000 jobs were created last month, with an unemployment rate of 3.5%. This would be a new low of the pandemic era. The job market has almost recovered to its pre-pandemic strength, with … Read more