James Van Der Beek purchased the sprawling Texas ranch that he and his family lived in just one month before he died at the age of 48, following a battle with colorectal cancer.
James Van Der Beek purchased the sprawling Texas ranch that he and his family lived in just one month before he died at the age of 48, following a battle with colorectal cancer.
Opposition campaigners claim top figures in regime use state wealth to fund lifestyles counter to those they preach Members of Iran’s ruling elite have been accused of brazen hypocrisy by allegedly using the state’s wealth to help to fund their adult children’s lives in the west while presiding over growing economic misery and repression at home. Opposition campaigners made the accusation against ...
Opposition campaigners claim top figures in regime use state wealth to fund lifestyles counter to those they preach Members of Iran’s ruling elite have been accused of brazen hypocrisy by allegedly using the state’s wealth to help to fund their adult children’s lives in the west while presiding over growing economic misery and repression at home. Opposition campaigners made the accusation against some of the clerical regime’s most powerful figures as a military confrontation with the US appears increasingly likely. Donald Trump has deployed a vast armada in the Middle East and confirmed he is considering strikes. Continue reading...
It makes rejection, teasing or criticism feel unbearable, often prompting a strong physical reaction. Sufferers describe life with a condition that is only just starting to be understood Jenna Turnbull’s chest is tightening. The 36-year-old civil servant, who lives in Cardiff, can picture herself as she speaks: an 11-year-old in her PE kit waiting with the other kids for her lesson to start. “We w...
It makes rejection, teasing or criticism feel unbearable, often prompting a strong physical reaction. Sufferers describe life with a condition that is only just starting to be understood Jenna Turnbull’s chest is tightening. The 36-year-old civil servant, who lives in Cardiff, can picture herself as she speaks: an 11-year-old in her PE kit waiting with the other kids for her lesson to start. “We were outside by the courts waiting to play netball,” she says. “Somebody commented that I had hairy arms, one of the boys.” Her voice wobbles. The incident was clearly juvenile; rationally, she knows that. Yet 25 years on, her embarrassment is still visceral, with the power to cause instant physical discomfort. She searches for another example of her acute reaction to teasing and recalls a trip to the pub with her friends six years ago. Amid the loud conversation and laughter, a quip was made in the group about her being untidy at home. Or that’s how she perceived it. “About me not keeping on top of the house,” she recalls. The person “was having a laugh. It was just something that was said off the cuff.” Yet while the memory and detail is hazy, the shame she feels about it is not. “That comment still haunts me,” she says. After that pub outing, she started cleaning her house obsessively – to such an extreme that it became one of the symptoms leading to her diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). “I’ve been known to spend four or five hours cleaning my bathroom,” she says. Continue reading...
As ordinary people feel the effects of divisive rhetoric, a local group is taking action to empower the community “I don’t want to talk about him,” Selina Ullah said, when asked what she thought of Matt Goodwin , the GB News presenter running for Reform in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection. She would rather talk about the hope she took from the national reaction to the murder of her b...
As ordinary people feel the effects of divisive rhetoric, a local group is taking action to empower the community “I don’t want to talk about him,” Selina Ullah said, when asked what she thought of Matt Goodwin , the GB News presenter running for Reform in the Gorton and Denton parliamentary byelection. She would rather talk about the hope she took from the national reaction to the murder of her brother, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah – and the memorial campaign afterwards – in the same Greater Manchester constituency in 1986. Continue reading...
Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows Chronic ocean heating is fuelling a “staggering and deeply concerning” loss of marine life, a study has found , with fish levels falling by 7.2% from as little as 0.1C of warming per decade. Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 populations in the northern hemisphere between 1...
Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows Chronic ocean heating is fuelling a “staggering and deeply concerning” loss of marine life, a study has found , with fish levels falling by 7.2% from as little as 0.1C of warming per decade. Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 populations in the northern hemisphere between 1993 and 2021, and isolated the effect of the decadal rate of seabed warming from short shifts such as marine heatwaves. They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year. Continue reading...
Instead of being obvious like a dark foundation, these tints will make you look as if you’ve had a touch of summer sun Having one’s foundation match one’s skin tone exactly is a classic case of beauty industry dogma v popular opinion. The truth is that many people seek a little more warmth in their complexion – not only but especially come winter – and are disinclined to use another method such as...
Instead of being obvious like a dark foundation, these tints will make you look as if you’ve had a touch of summer sun Having one’s foundation match one’s skin tone exactly is a classic case of beauty industry dogma v popular opinion. The truth is that many people seek a little more warmth in their complexion – not only but especially come winter – and are disinclined to use another method such as tanning drops or bronzer to achieve it. And I’m always for whatever someone wants to do with their own face. All that concerns me is recommending the right product for the job. A full coverage foundation in too dark a colour stands out like a sore thumb. The key to subtly deepening, or “warming up”, any skin tone is in choosing a sheerer base with clear pigment better able to “stretch” across any disparity in tone between skin and makeup. Continue reading...
The Reform vote is being eaten into by the Musk-backed Restore Britain, led by Rupert Lowe. I fear that Labour may read the wrong message from all this It’s just one bookie and it’s just one February day in the week of a chaotic byelection, but it’s happened: for the first time in 18 months, Star Sports has staked Labour as most likely to win the general election . “Keir Starmer’s party have been ...
The Reform vote is being eaten into by the Musk-backed Restore Britain, led by Rupert Lowe. I fear that Labour may read the wrong message from all this It’s just one bookie and it’s just one February day in the week of a chaotic byelection, but it’s happened: for the first time in 18 months, Star Sports has staked Labour as most likely to win the general election . “Keir Starmer’s party have been in the ascendency in the market,” said their head of betting, William Kedjanyi, “shortening into 13/8 from 15/8 in the past week to supplant Reform at the head of the betting.” Meanwhile, Reform UK has gone the other way as the party’s odds have drifted from 13/8 to 15/8. Normally, I would query how meaningful that was; how do you tell the difference, in a political gambling market definitionally run on hot air, between rising fortunes and last-ditch flailing? But Kedjanyi, outside a conference fringe meeting some years ago, successfully explained to me how odds worked, when I’d already been pretending to understand them for decades. So at the very least, I know he’s right about one thing: if you’d score 13 quid off an £8 stake at Starmer’s victory, and £15 from the same at Nigel Farage’s, then things are less bleak for Labour than they seem. In no particular order, here are the reasons to be cheerful, but not giddy: Star Sports attributes this as Reform’s loss rather than Labour’s win, pointing to the challenger party Restore Britain , founded by the Elon Musk-backed MP Rupert Lowe, as the real source of Farage’s problems. The fringe organisation’s policies include returning the Great British pub to the centre of Great British cultural life, and bringing in “ a Great Clarification Act to reassert parliamentary sovereignty over the courts, the repeal of the Equality Act and Human Rights Act, withdrawal from the European convention on human rights, and the abolition of Britain’s asylum system in its current form”. Let’s not sweat the far-right posturing and the eery, gaslit ...
Marketing and corporate communications firm Omnicom is raising euro currency debt for the first time in two years, days after announcing quarterly earnings and a sizable share buyback The company plans to sell an expected €500 million ($589 million) eight-year bond via its Omnicom Finance Holdings Plc unit, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified. Initial pri...
Marketing and corporate communications firm Omnicom is raising euro currency debt for the first time in two years, days after announcing quarterly earnings and a sizable share buyback The company plans to sell an expected €500 million ($589 million) eight-year bond via its Omnicom Finance Holdings Plc unit, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified. Initial price talk was announced at around 155 basis points above midswaps, with pricing expected later on Wednesday. The issuer was last active in the euro bond market in February 2024 , when it raised €600 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The only other time it has raised euro currency debt was in 2019 , the data show. It also issued pound bonds in 2021 . Proceeds from its new offering will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital spending, acquisitions, debt refinancing, or stock repurchases, the person added. The company, one of the top performers in the S&P 500 index over the past five days, recently announced a $5 billion share repurchase program and declared a quarterly dividend of 80 cents per share when it reported earnings on Feb. 18. The company is also lining up a new dollar debt deal. Citigroup Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, BNP Paribas SA and HSBC Holdings Plc are arranging Omnicom’s debt sale. The deal is expected to be rated Baa1 by Moody’s Ratings and BBB+ by S&P Global Ratings, with stable outlooks. Read more: The S&P 500’s Top Performer Today Just Completed a Big Merger. Why the Stock Is Rising Issuer Profile Debt distribution: OMC US Equity DDIS Capital structure: OMC US Equity CAST Related securities: OMC US Equity RELS Ratings history: OMC US Equity CRPR This story was produced with the assistance of Bloomberg Automation
More than 1,000 American nurses have successfully applied for licensure in British Columbia since April, a massive increase over prior years. (Image credit: Taylor Pradine)
More than 1,000 American nurses have successfully applied for licensure in British Columbia since April, a massive increase over prior years. (Image credit: Taylor Pradine)
The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's signature tariffs. But the president has other tariff tools, and consumers shouldn't expect cheaper prices anytime soon, economists say. (Image credit: Timothy A. Clary)
The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's signature tariffs. But the president has other tariff tools, and consumers shouldn't expect cheaper prices anytime soon, economists say. (Image credit: Timothy A. Clary)
Rising interest in the health benefits of fiber has prompted food and beverage makers to fortify everything from soda to snacks. That’s now boosting the earnings outlook for the suppliers of the raw ingredients. PepsiCo Inc. recently just released a prebiotic soda after proclaiming that “fiber will be the next protein.” One of the companies making the all-out push into fiber possible is British ho...
Rising interest in the health benefits of fiber has prompted food and beverage makers to fortify everything from soda to snacks. That’s now boosting the earnings outlook for the suppliers of the raw ingredients. PepsiCo Inc. recently just released a prebiotic soda after proclaiming that “fiber will be the next protein.” One of the companies making the all-out push into fiber possible is British household staple Tate & Lyle Plc , which has traded its historic roots as a sugar refiner to make a range of ingredients, including various dietary fibers. “We’re definitely seeing a broader and deeper range of products being considered for added fiber,” Nick Hampton , chief executive officer of the UK-based maker of sweeteners, texturizers and nutrients, said in an interview. “There’s lots of excitement around this consumer trend.” Demand for the nutrient is growing, buoyed by “ fibermaxxing ” content on social media and the rapid expansion of weight-loss drugs. Fiber helps with satiety and acts as a prebiotic that feeds good bacteria, making it appealing to both GLP-1 users who are trying to maintain their weight and consumers more broadly who care about gut health and general wellness. That’s great news for suppliers of ingredients to the food industry. “It’s a huge opportunity,” Goodbody analyst Patrick Higgins said in an interview. “Consumers globally are much better educated as to what they’re putting in their bodies and what they’re lacking in.” Denmark’s Novonesis A/S , Ireland’s Kerry Group Plc and US-based Ingredion Inc. are some of the other names that stand to benefit from the growing fiber trend, operating behind the scenes as business-to-business providers of fiber. This fiber moment is reminiscent of the protein craze, which has brightened prospects for yogurt giants , makers of workout shakes and poultry producers alike. The difference, according to Barclays analyst Alex Sloane , is that the world really does need more fiber. Average global consumption remains...
Trump Admin To Launch New Free-Speech Site To Combat Censorship Abroad Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In response to what the Trump administration says is a rising tide of censorship in Europe, the State Department is launching a new app that will give users worldwide access to content that has been censored in other countries. European Commissioner Thierry Breton ...
Trump Admin To Launch New Free-Speech Site To Combat Censorship Abroad Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In response to what the Trump administration says is a rising tide of censorship in Europe, the State Department is launching a new app that will give users worldwide access to content that has been censored in other countries. European Commissioner Thierry Breton speaks during a news conference at the European Union office in San Francisco on June 22, 2023. Josh Edelson /AFP via Getty Images This includes not only Europe but also China and Iran. The platform, called Freedom.gov , will go live over the next several weeks, according to the State Department, and will be operable on iOS and Android devices. “Freedom.gov is the latest in a long line of efforts by the State Department to protect and promote fundamental freedoms, both online and offline,” the State Department stated in an email to The Epoch Times. “The project will be global in its scope, but distinctly American in its mission: commemorating our commitment to free expression as we approach our 250th birthday.” Lauding the move, Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a civil rights legal group that has been critical of recent EU speech laws, stated on X that “for 250 years, this is what America does,” citing examples such as Radio Free Europe, which broadcast into communist countries during the Cold War. “ If Europe’s bureaucrats don’t want you to see it, that tells you everything ,” Tedesco stated. “Because even if your government fears freedom—ours doesn’t .” The First Amendment, which prohibits the U.S. government from “abridging the freedom of speech,” has provided a legal restraint against government censorship that most other countries lack. Recent European speech laws, most notably the Digital Services Act (DSA), were ostensibly written to combat what lawmakers deemed “hate speech,” “harmful speech,” and “misinformation,” as well as pornogr...
This market will resolve to "Down" if the official NASDAQ closing price for NVIDIA (NVDA) on Thursday, February 26, 2026 is lower than the official NASDAQ closing price for NVDA on the most recent prior trading day. E.g., ordinarily, a market on Monday would refer to the previous Friday for its most recent closing price, unless that Friday were a market holiday, in which case it would refer to Thu...
This market will resolve to "Down" if the official NASDAQ closing price for NVIDIA (NVDA) on Thursday, February 26, 2026 is lower than the official NASDAQ closing price for NVDA on the most recent prior trading day. E.g., ordinarily, a market on Monday would refer to the previous Friday for its most recent closing price, unless that Friday were a market holiday, in which case it would refer to Thursday, or the next most recent trading day. If the two specified closing prices are exactly equal, this market will resolve 50-50. Note that all figures will be rounded to the nearest cent using standard rounding. If NVDA does not trade at all during the regular session, the market will resolve 50-50. If either of the relevant days are shortened (for example, due to a market holiday schedule), the official closing price published by NASDAQ for that shortened session will still be used for resolution. If either of the relevant days have no official closing price (for example, due to a trading halt into the market close, system issue, delisting, or other disruption), the market will use the last valid on-exchange trade price of the regular session as the effective closing price. The resolution source for this market is NASDAQ, specifically the exchange-certified Close values published at Created At: Feb 25, 2026, 8:00 AM ET Volume $81,158 End Date Feb 26, 2026 Created At Feb 25, 2026, 8:00 AM ET Resolution Source https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/nvda/historical Resolver 0x65070BE91... This market will resolve to "Up" if the official NASDAQ closing price for NVIDIA (NVDA) on Thursday, February 26, 2026 is higher than the official NASDAQ closing price for NVDA on the most recent prior trading day.This market will resolve to "Down" if the official NASDAQ closing price for NVIDIA (NVDA) on Thursday, February 26, 2026 is lower than the official NASDAQ closing price for NVDA on the most recent prior trading day.E.g., ordinarily, a market on Monday would refer to the pr...
AI 的进化不会因为春节假期而按下暂停键，好学的 A 股股民们也不会因为休市就停下学习的热情。 当春晚舞台上人形机器人的“神仙打架”还余温未散，一张由 Damian Player 发布在个人领英主页上的统计图又在各大投研群里刷屏：数据显示，全球仍有 84% 的人完全没有接触过 AI。 AI 的拥趸们一边自嘲于身处“信息茧房”，另一边又迫不及待地宣告：就凭这刚刚起步的渗透率，现在谈什么“AI 泡沫”...
AI 的进化不会因为春节假期而按下暂停键，好学的 A 股股民们也不会因为休市就停下学习的热情。 当春晚舞台上人形机器人的“神仙打架”还余温未散，一张由 Damian Player 发布在个人领英主页上的统计图又在各大投研群里刷屏：数据显示，全球仍有 84% 的人完全没有接触过 AI。 AI 的拥趸们一边自嘲于身处“信息茧房”，另一边又迫不及待地宣告：就凭这刚刚起步的渗透率，现在谈什么“AI 泡沫”都为时过早。 市场的焦点，显然已从 2025 年末一度甚嚣尘上的泡沫恐慌，再度转向了 FOMO的焦虑之中。当 AI 已成为全球高科技巨头一个极其确定的长期资本开支方向，资金的共识变得简单而粗暴：即便做不了第一个发现新叙事的人，也绝不能做最后一个相信未来的人。 在千千万万的 AI 投资流派里，“基础设施派”是笃定的在场者。他们信奉古老的淘金逻辑——要致富先修路，要上算力必先投电力。 然而，在这份投资世界的共识之下，产业世界的微观切面却暗流涌动，上演着极致的“冰火两重天”。 放眼国内，尽管有“东数西算”工程与制造业高端化升级的大趋势托底，但在过于庞大的供给能力面前，电力产业仍面临阶段性的需求错位。多省份 2026 年的长协电价，在 2025 年已然下调的基础上继续探底。 再看大洋彼岸，极度缺电的欧美正陷入焦灼。多年的产业空心化，让其羸弱的本土工业体系无力应对因 AI 而急剧膨胀的电力需求。中国制造本可以借此顺势走出一条“东电西送”的电力丝绸之路，但高筑的关税壁垒和层出不穷的贸易审查，又让这种全球化的共同体想象显得有些脆弱。 简言之：中国不缺供给缺需求，海外不缺需求缺供给。这种极度错位的供需关系，同时夹杂着沉重的供应链安全与地缘政治博弈。 从成长的确定性来看，电力产业是一道投资的必做题；但从产业内部的复杂性与外部环境的不可测性来看，电力又是一道极难做对的选择题。 在这片诱人的迷雾之中，值得关注的结构性机会究竟是哪些呢？ 又一个四万亿 理解国内电力产业的思路，绕不开 2026 年 1 月一个新的“4 万亿”数字。 1月中旬，国家电网宣布“十五五”期间的固定资产投资预计达到4万亿元，主要投向特高压、配电网、抽水蓄能电站三大板块，投资额相较“十四五”大幅增长 40% 。 “4万亿”不是一个陌生的数字，上一次如此大规模的投资，是在2008年，彼时的4万亿是一针把经济从金融海啸的狂风巨浪里...
Cricket board and eight franchises issue joint statement ECB sent email to teams warning against discrimination The England and Wales Cricket Board and all eight of The Hundred teams have jointly insisted the competition is “inclusive and open to all” amid claims Pakistan players could be frozen out by the Indian-owned franchises. It had been reported by the BBC that Manchester Super Giants, MI Lo...
Cricket board and eight franchises issue joint statement ECB sent email to teams warning against discrimination The England and Wales Cricket Board and all eight of The Hundred teams have jointly insisted the competition is “inclusive and open to all” amid claims Pakistan players could be frozen out by the Indian-owned franchises. It had been reported by the BBC that Manchester Super Giants, MI London, Southern Brave and Sunrisers Leeds would not consider any Pakistan cricketers at The Hundred auction in March. Continue reading...