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Stock market today: Wall St. points higher before the bell, oil prices rise ahead of OPEC meeting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

Wall Street was poised to open with gains on Wednesday despite a gloomy global economic forecast and oil prices rose ahead of an OPEC meeting later this week.Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4% before the bell while futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.5%.A report forecasting that the global economy will slow next year didn’t seem to bother markets, which have flourished in November despite ongoing inflation, elevated interest rates and geopolitical calamities.Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated Wednesday that international growth would slow to 2.7% in 2024 from an expected 2.9% pace this year. That would amount to the slowest calendar-year growth since the pandemic year of 2020.The report said that a key factor in the global slowdown is the expected deceleration of the world’s two biggest economies, the United States and China.Despite the tepid forecast, the organization is “projecting that recessions will be avoided ...

Wolverines threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy mountain refuges, US says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges.Across most of the U.S., wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns. About 300 surviving animals in the contiguous U.S. live in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations.In the coming decades, warming temperatures are expected to shrink the mountain snowpack wolverines rely on to dig dens where they birth and raise their young.The decision Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service follows more than two decades of disputes over the risks of climate change, and threats to the long-term survival of the elusive species.The animals resemble a small bear and are the world’s largest species of terrestrial weasels. They are sometimes called “mountain devils” for...

US says wolverines are threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy refuges in the Rocky Mountains

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — US says wolverines are threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy refuges in the Rocky Mountains.Source

Prince William Co. supervisors approve data center project near Bristow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

The Prince William Board of County Supervisors in a party-line vote early Wednesday approved a rezoning to make way for the contentious Devlin Technology Park data center complex near Bristow that will back up to a residential neighborhood. Demonstrators opposing Devlin Technology Park prior to the Nov. 28 meeting. (Ben Peters/InsideNova) Demonstrators opposing Devlin Technology Park prior to the Nov. 28 meeting. (Ben Peters/InsideNova) The rezoning of 269 acres on the county’s western end to allow for 4.2-million square feet of between seven to nine data centers northwest of Devlin Road that’s directly adjacent to hundreds of homes came after a 5 a.m. vote following hours of public comment and hearings with develo...

Leipzig’s Lois Openda has announced himself as one of the Champions League’s brightest prospects

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Keep an eye on Lois Openda. On a night when Erling Haaland set yet another scoring record, Openda announced himself on the big stage with two goals at the home of the European champions. Manchester City recovered from going 2-0 down against Leipzig in the Champions League on Tuesday to win 3-2 and Haaland became the fastest player to score 40 goals in the competition. But Openda’s performance is likely to have earned him admiring glances from rival clubs.“He just came to Leipzig. I think he stays a little bit longer. That’s what I hope,” said his coach Marco Rose, who is used to losing his most talented players. One of those was defender Josko Gvardiol, who left for City in the offseason in a deal worth $99.2 million. But the Croatia international could do nothing when Openda took the ball past him in the first half to score his second goal of the match. He made similar light work of Manuel Akanji and Ruben Dias in the buildup for each of his goals. ...

UPS hiring seasonal employees for the holidays

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — The holiday season is here, which means people will be sending packages and gifts all over the country for the next couple of weeks. But have you ever wondered what is actually going on with your package before it arrives at your door?The UPS automated hub in Aurora is designed to push out 300,000 packages each and every day to be delivered to houses like yours. By the end of the holiday season, UPS delivers over 20 million packages. Noah Gustafson, an operation manager for UPS, said during this time of the year, certain adjustments are made in order to meet the growing demand for deliveries.  USPS shipping changes coming in January Gustafson said UPS increases its employees for the holiday by hiring up to 45% more people in order to ensure that packages are delivered to the proper address in a timely manner. UPS said it is hiring right now for the holiday season and is paying seasonal employees up to $30 an hour to assist in deliveries. If you are looking f...

Biden to visit wind tower manufacturer in Pueblo on Wednesday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

PUEBLO, Colo. (KDVR) — On Wednesday, President Joe Biden is expected to visit CS Wind in Pueblo to highlight how "Bidenomics" is creating jobs and opportunities in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District. CS Wind is a South Korean-based company and is the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world. The investment to expand will create 850 new jobs by 2026.  Biden targets GOP Rep. Boebert in her district in a fresh political attack on Republicans While at the facility, the White House said Biden will deliver a speech promoting the impact of “Bidenomics” on clean energy manufacturing and job creation.“As a consequence of all of that historic legislation, we're now seeing absolutely historic levels of private sector investment, including over $5 billion of private sector investment coming directly back to Colorado. And along with that 1000s of good paying jobs for which you don't necessarily need a four-year degree,” said White House spokesperson Olivia Dalton. Pueblo is in Colorado’...

'Die Hard' back in theaters for Christmas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — "Die Hard," the highly debated holiday movie, is returning to theaters right before Christmas.On Monday, 20th Century Studios announced the rerunning of the movie.The movie, featuring Bruce Willis as John McClane, takes place on Christmas Eve. McClane is visiting his family for the holidays when a party is interrupted by a group of terrorists. New pizza shop serving ‘mountain-sized’ pies in Colorado "Die Hard" is highly controversial because there are split opinions as to whether it's a Christmas movie or not.While 20th Century Studios didn't mention its ties to the holidays, other than the film occurring during the season, the movie is rerunning during Christmas."Die Hard" originally premiered in July 1988, 35 years later, the movie will be back on Dec. 8, 2023.Whether you're in the mood for a (debatable) Christmas movie, or you want to watch an old classic, tickets are on sale now.The movie is in theaters for less than a week. Catch the film before Dec. 14.

Truck plunges from overpass onto I-95 in Jacksonville

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A dramatic wreck unfolded in Jacksonville as a truck plummeted from an overpass onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 95. The incident occurred Sunday morning when the driver, who admitted to falling asleep at the wheel, awoke to the nightmare of his truck freefalling 20 feet.The truck driver was taken to a local hospital with head and neck injuries. Authorities cited him for careless driving in the aftermath of the crash.

Our galaxy’s black hole spins fast and drags space-time with it, scientists say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:40:07 GMT

(CNN) — The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is spinning rapidly and altering space-time around it, a new study has found.Space-time is the four-dimensional continuum that describes how we see space, fusing one-dimensional time and three-dimensional space together to represent the space fabric that curves in response to massive celestial bodies.A team of physicists observed the black hole, which is located 26,000 light-years from Earth, with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a telescope designed to detect the X-ray emissions from hot regions of the universe. They calculated Sagittarius A*’s rotational speed by using what is known as the outflow method, which looks at radio waves and X-ray emissions that can be found in the material and gases surrounding black holes, otherwise known as the accretion disk, according to the study published October 21 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.The researchers confirmed that the black hol...