Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Sibile Marcellus discuss UBS' latest note on market outlook.
A year since Snohomish County confirmed the first known U.S. case of COVID-19, locals reflect on how they have been navigating the pandemic.
Despite fears of new attacks by domestic extremists, inauguration staged without incident. On Thursday, troops were leaving and security easing in DC.
Joe Biden’s nominee for transportation secretary would make him first openly LGBT+ person confirmed to post by Senate
Joe Biden’s new climate envoy says: ‘all nations must raise ambition together – or we will all fail, together’ John Kerry: ‘We need to all move together, because today very few are on a trajectory of the steep reductions needed to meet even current goals.’ Photograph: Mark Makela/Getty Images The world is lagging behind the required pace of change needed to avert catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis, John Kerry has warned in his first remarks as the US’s new climate envoy. Kerry, the former US secretary of state, acknowledged that America had been absent from the international effort to contain dangerous global heating during Donald Trump’s presidency but added that “today no country and no continent is getting the job done.” There will need to be a “wholesale transformation of the global economy” if the world is to reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, Kerry said. He said it was necessary for coal to be phased out five times faster than recent trends, the planet’s tree cover to be increased five times faster, renewable energy to be ramped up six times faster and a transition to electric vehicles to be 22 times faster than present. “We need to all move together, because today very few are on a trajectory of the steep reductions needed to meet even current goals, let alone the targets we need to avert catastrophic damage,” Kerry said. Kerry’s comments, made to business leaders in a G20 forum, are the first since he began his role as an international climate envoy in Joe Biden’s new administration. Biden, who was sworn in as US president on Wednesday, has launched a blizzard of executive actions to halt fossil fuel pipelines and drilling, protect public lands and return the US to the Paris climate agreement. Biden is expected to convene an international climate summit ahead of crucial UN talks, known as the conference of the parties (or Cop), to be held in Glasgow later this year. The talks are aimed at escalating cuts to planet-heating emissions agreed in Paris in 2015. A recent UN report starkly outlined the inadequacy of the current targets, which would need to increase more than fivefold to avoid the planet heating up 1.5C above the pre-industrial era and causing a cascade of climate-driven disasters. “At the Cop in November, all nations must raise ambition together – or we will all fail, together,” Kerry said. “Failure is not an option.” Under Trump, the US exited the Paris deal, set about dismantling pollution limits set on power plants and vehicles and opened up vast swaths of federal land and waters to oil and gas drilling. The international community has welcomed the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases back into the fold but Kerry admitted the US was returning with “humility” due to the jarring reversals of the previous administration. “Humility because we know that the federal government of the United States, until yesterday, walked away from the table for four wasted years when we could’ve been helping to meet the challenge,” said Kerry, a Democrat who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2004. The Biden administration is already facing its first difficult international climate conversation after moving to block the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would bring vast amounts of oil from Alberta, Canada, to be refined in the US. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, supports the pipeline and is expected to bring it up with Biden during the US president’s first call with a foreign leader on Friday. The challenge of tackling the climate crisis also contains optimism, Kerry stressed, due to the falling cost of solar energy and record investments in clean energy technology and associated jobs. “A zero-emissions future offers huge opportunity for business, for clean, green jobs and economic growth and, to use the president’s words, to ‘build back better’ from the global economic crisis,” Kerry said.
Forensics teams in war-shattered Libya have discovered 10 more bodies in mass graves in a once militia-controlled town outside the capital Tripoli, the Government of National Accord said on Thursday.
Elizabeth Shelby had her inauguration outfit planned weeks in advance: blue jeans, a Kamala Harris sweatshirt, a green coat, and pink Chuck Taylors as an homage to her sorority’s colors and Vice President Harris’ signature shoe. Shelby, a member of the Alpha Psi chapter of AKA, had hoped to wear her pearls at the inauguration in Washington, D.C. Instead, she donned them at home in Nashville, Tennessee.
A bronze bust of Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez sits behind the Resolute Desk in President Joe Biden's Oval Office.
Before the election, FBI agents warned Trump and Biden that an untimely removal of Wray could 'undermine stability' within the agency.
Donald Trump is returning to a family business ravaged by pandemic shutdowns and restrictions, with revenue plunging more than 40 percent at his Doral golf property, his Washington hotel and both his Scottish resorts. Trump's financial disclosure released as he left office this week was just the latest bad news for his financial empire after banks, real estate brokerages and golf organizations announced they were cutting ties with his company following the storming of the Capitol this month by his political supporters. The disclosure showed sizable debt facing the company of more than $300 million, much of it coming due in the next four years and a major bright spot: Revenue at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, his new post-presidency home rose by a few million dollars.
"I don't believe he provoked it if you listen to what he said at the rally," House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters on Thursday.
New York opened up its eligibility requirements after hospital systems reported throwing out doses
The story touches on just about every part of public life, and is making its way into the mainstream
The story touches on just about every part of public life, and is making its way into the mainstream
This week, Google completed the rollout of new landing pages that organize videos using metadata tags.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Buttigieg "put on a clinic on how a nominee should work and act," lauding his straightforward answers to questions.
via TwitterSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem hosted a dinner for legislative pages on Wednesday night. And if the pictures she posted are any indication, it was a largely mask-free affair.The Republican tweeted two photos: one showing a dozen of the pages crowded together on a staircase, and the second of them seated at a long dinner table. Only one page was wearing a mask, and none of the adults were.A spokesman for Noem did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast about why masks were not worn and whether any COVID precautions were taken.Noem has famously refused to put in place a statewide mask mandate, even as COVID-19 cases skyrocketed this fall, and she is rarely seen wearing one herself.Fun page dinner tonight at the Governor’s residence. Our future is bright! pic.twitter.com/eUlW28Kopt— Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) January 21, 2021 But she should we aware of the risks of a mask-free gathering indoors. Last month, a state lawmaker tested positive for coronavirus two days after attending a dinner with other legislators at the governor’s official residence.Noem, who has not yet been vaccinated, had also been traveling before the dinner: She attended President Joe Biden’s inauguration even though she was one of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters and had called the election rigged.The lack of masks did not go unnoticed by Noem’s Twitter followers. “Superspreader event. Very irresponsible,” one replied.Gov. Kristi Noem Sneers at a Handout—Except for the Family RanchNew COVID-19 cases in South Dakota—where some cities have imposed their own mask mandates in the absence of action by Noem—have been declining since early December. But they are still higher than before the region’s massive coronavirus surge began in September, likely fueled by an enormous, mostly mask-less biker rally in Sturgis in August. And hospitalizations have only just fallen to a pre-surge level.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she would "soon" send the Senate the impeachment of President Donald Trump, setting the stage for a trial.
Facebook is passing the buck for its indefinite suspension of former president Donald Trump to a quasi-independent oversight board, setting up a major test of the recently established panel. The social media giant said Thursday that it believes it made the right decision to suspend Trump after he incited his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in a deadly assault on Jan. 6. Facebook’s panel is intended to rule on thorny content issues, such as when posts constitute hate speech — or if the decision to ban a world leader was the right one.
A New York National Guard helicopter crashed on a routine training mission Wednesday, killing three soldiers on board.
If confirmed, Janet Yellen’s immediate task will be selling Congress on the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package. But the former Fed chair will also have her hands full on a number of other issues.
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