MAY 28, 2022
New York — Who wants to be a millionaire?
Americans say it takes exactly $2.2 million in net worth to be considered “wealthy,” according to a new Charles Schwab study. The figure was part of the financial group’s annual Modern Wealth survey.
The figure is up slightly from 2021, when it sat at $1.9 million, but down from a...
MAY 28, 2022
If you're waiting for longer range, faster charging and lower sticker prices before buying an EV, you might already be missing the boat: An electric car's total cost of ownership is challenging that of combustion engine cars and may soon make an EV the only logical car to buy.
TCO isn't a concept unique to EVs: It applies...
MAY 28, 2022
Crossings at land borders, like this one at the Peace Bridge connecting Canada and the United States, do not require negative coronavirus tests. - Joshua Bessex/AP
Michelle Fishman calls it the “worst-case scenario that you don’t really think through.”
After a three-week vacation in Greece, the 52-year-old hotel art consultant from Miami and her husband took pre-departure coronavirus tests...
MAY 28, 2022
Costs are soaring as demand for oil and gas rises much faster than output. - Getty Images
Texas oilman Jason Herrick is scrambling to pump more oil, chasing the promise of profit as oil prices soar.
But despite his best efforts, he suspects output from his family-owned company will fall this year, for the third year in a row.
It's...
MAY 28, 2022
Police stand in the parking lot of a mass shooting on Saturday afternoon at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York on Sunday, May 15 2022. Ten people were killed and three injured during a mass shooting at a supermarket on Saturday afternoon in Buffalo. Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI
Vice President Kamala Harris decried an "epidemic of hate" she...
MAY 27, 2022
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) in April, 2022. Hogan vetoed 18 bills late Friday, including some that offered tax breaks to union members, staved off eviction for tenants awaiting rental assistance and allowed voters to fix mistakes on mail-in ballots. - (Brian Witte/AP)
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed 18 bills late Friday, including legislation that would have let...
MAY 27, 2022
Mumbai: For Shah Rukh Khan's son, Aryan Khan, Friday (May 27, 2022) brought a big relief as he was given a clean chit in the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). NCB director-general SN Pradhan said it was a case of "underwhelming evidence" as compared to the golden principle of gathering "overwhelming evidence" against...
MAY 27, 2022
The metaverse is the future, says Facebook, which since late October has called itself Meta Platforms .
For now, more questions than answers are emerging around this concept, of a virtual world in which we will interact via technological tools, like virtual-reality headsets, powered by technology such as augmented reality.
But Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of the social-media giant,...
MAY 27, 2022
Actress Ketaki Chitale (left) was arrested over a derogatory post against NCP chief Sharad Pawar (right).
A Magistrate court in Thane rejected the bail plea of Marathi actor Ketki Chitale who was arrested for allegedly uploading a social media post against Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. Support for the young actor is growing online with #ketakichitale...
MAY 27, 2022
A stock photo shows a cheetah looking off-camera. Researchers have identified extinct cheetah fossils in the Grand Canyon. - LuCaAr/Getty
Snow leopard-like cheetahs roamed America tens of thousands of years ago, hunting mountain goats across tricky terrain, according to fossilized remains.
The big cat, called the American cheetah (Miracinonyx trumani), has long been extinct. But a study has...
