Good morning, there’s some upbeat news to start the day: a new poll shows Democrats have momentum ahead of the midterms, and in the markets, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield inched toward levels not seen since 2007 as oil prices keep climbing, fueling inflation worries.
This Day In History
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, a move that helped trigger the global financial crisis.
The 10-year Treasury yield breached levels last seen in 2007, with intensifying worries about energy-driven inflation contributing to bond investors’ angst.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote that the administration’s reasons for a rule limiting the length of stay for academics and journalists were “exceptionally weak.”
The director of “The History of Concrete” discusses the value of comedy, NIMBYs, and making films out of both found moments and the rules that govern the Hallmark Channel.
Tyler Rustein, who has held positions with sports-focused apparel companies as well as the alternative Overtime sports leagues, will join the PGA Tour as its new chief marketing officer on October 5. He joins the league as its CEO, Brian Rolapp, a former NFL executive, has articulated a plan aimed at modernizing its tournaments.
Chile’s Francisca Alegría and Fernanda Urrejola, co-showrunners of Prime Video’s epic saga “The House of the Spirits” lead the slate of Alma Media Lab, a fledgling publishing-to-screen company based in Miami. Inspired by such companies as Hello Sunshine or Alloy Entertainment, Alma Media Lab will focus on books and series conceived simultaneously in close collaboration […]
Nepal’s Academy Awards entry “Elephants in the Fog” is the sole Nepali film at the Toronto Film Festival, where director Abinash Bikram Shah has turned the film’s international visibility toward the floods devastating communities back home – among them people directly connected to the production. Lead actress Puspa Thing Lama is from Nuwakot district, one […]
Mikel Gurrea’s “Saints,” starring Victoria Luengo, who played opposite Javier Bardem in “The Beloved,” will be brought to market at San Sebastián by Berlin-based M-Appeal which has acquired its international sales rights. M-Appeal will launch its campaign as “Saints” (“Sants”) weighs into San Sebastián Festival, running Sept.
Maddalena Ravagli, who is known for penning some of the most successful Italian scripted series including “Gomorrah” and “ZeroZeroZero,” is making her directorial debut with Sicily-set story “The Place of Eternal Summer” (“La terra dell’estate”). Shooting is now underway in Sicilian locations on Ravagli’s first feature, which will mix coming-of-age and action movie tropes under […]
He wanted to save money, but it insisted on selling costly packages and seemed not to accept ‘cancel’ as an optionI was helping my father, who has dementia and Parkinson’s disease, reduce his £113.50 Sky TV bill.We explained to the Sky call centre agent that, as his eyesight and attention span have deteriorated, he wanted the cheapest available TV package to free up money for his care. Continue...
Hiking alone in the countryside can be joyous, but for women it can sometimes feel unnerving. Here’s how to enjoy it safely, plus four stunning routes to walk soloI did my first solo hike during a sunny September, seven years ago.
My job made me the envy of the cool girls; it made me visible. Then Johnno, Stevo and Whack paid a visitIn the summer of 1982, at the age of 14, I was hired to work in the ticket office and kiosk at the Sale Memorial Pool in Victoria’s Gippsland region.
Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.
The PIF, which was implicated in the premeditated murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and in several human rights violations, is tightly controlled by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Kyiv's attacks on Russian refineries and commercial warehouses have brought the war into Russians' daily lives, just ahead of elections scheduled for September 18-20.
The incident occurred on Monday, the same day that NATO jets shot down a drone over Lithuania, the latest security incident on the alliance's eastern flank during Russia's war with Ukraine.
Clips created using stolen footage from the internet shows deepfakes of prominent US stars denouncing the Democrats. Disinformation researchers said the deepfake videos appear to be the work of a Kremlin campaign known for littering social media with doctored videos.
Humpty Dumpty signed an executive order in March seeking to restrict mail-in voting, saying without evidence that it is vulnerable to fraud. The order quickly prompted multiple legal challenges.
A former Athens airport site is set to host one of the continent’s most ambitious urban greening projects. Called the Ellinikon Park, it won’t only add an unforgettable attraction to the birthplace of Democracy, but also a shaded refuge for residents of the continent’s hottest city.
A feather preserved inside dinosaur dung could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction that wiped out most life on Earth. Specifically, it could explain whether it prepared a certain lineage of birds to weather the unnatural winter that followed in the wake of the asteroid impact.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced it has certified Timor-Leste as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The leading infectious cause of blindness, the achievement on the island nation now means that the entire Southeast Asian region, as defined by the WHO, is trachoma-free.
A conservation charity in the UK has turned what was once a dumping ground for material dug up during canal dredging into a nesting habitat for two-thirds of the UK’s black-necked grebes. These beautiful waterfowl with thin ochre-golden feathers sashaying away from their ruby-red eyes have a very unusual migratory pattern which in the UK […]
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The average price of a gallon of diesel in the U.S. hit a fresh record of $6.27 on Tuesday, boosting expectations that the Fed would hike interest rates Wednesday.
Sterling looked vulnerable as the Bank of England was likely to keep interest rates steady Thursday as other central banks lifted rates, Monex Europe said.
Macklemore says he has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour following pro-Palestinian comments he made onstage earlier this month at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium