Grain futures were higher Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. 0 Wheat for May delivery was up 18 cents at $5.24 a bushel; May corn gained … Click to Continue »
Sports are on hold, theaters are closed and so are amusement parks, a disaster-movie scenario that has Hollywood reeling. But Americans held captive at home by the coronavirus can turn … Click to Continue »
Washington on Thursday imposed sanctions on five United Arab Emirates-based companies, accusing them of having collectively purchased in 2019 hundreds of thousands of metric tons of petroleum products from Iran. The US Treasury Department said the blacklisted companies – Petro Grand, Alphabet International DMCC, Swissol Trade, Alam Althrwa General Trading and Alwaneo – purchased the...
A social services organization in Washington state has asked the city of Edmonds to help fund construction of a 26,000-square-foot (2,415-square-meter) senior center scheduled to open in October. The Edmonds … Click to Continue »
Western countries are in lockdown due to Covid-19, but if leaders, their advisers, and the political class in general had paid attention to what was going on in China at the turn of the year, the crisis might have been averted. Imagine you're a passenger on a ship. You'd expect, wouldn't you, that the captain...
Civil liberties activists asked Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday to suspend cellphone monitoring put in place under emergency regulations to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Surveillance began this week after the government approved special orders that circumvented customary parliamentary oversight and enabled the Shin Bet counter-terrorism agency to tap into cellular location...
The number of critically endangered African rhinos is slowly increasing following “immense” conservation efforts, according to the latest figures.
