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The Secret Day My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door; So I have built To-day, the day that I desired, Lest joy come not again, lest peace return no more, Lest comfort come no more. So I have built To-day, a proud and perfect day, And I have built the towers of cliffs upon the sands; The foxgloves and the gorse I planted on my way; The thy...
The Secret Day My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door; So I have built To-day, the day that I desired, Lest joy come not again, lest peace return no more, Lest comfort come no more. So I have built To-day, a proud and perfect day, And I have built the towers of cliffs upon the sands; The foxgloves and the gorse I planted on my way; The thyme, the velvet thyme, grew up beneath my hands, Grew pink beneath my hands. So I have built To-day, more precious than a dream; And I have painted peace upon the sky above; And I have made immense and misty seas that seem More kind to me than life, more fair to me than love — More beautiful than love. And I have built a house — a house upon the brink Of high and twisted cliffs; the sea’s low singing fills it; And there my Secret Friend abides, and there I think I’ll hide my heart away before tomorrow kills it A cold tomorrow kills it. Yes, I have built To-day, a wall against To-morrow, So let To-morrow knock — I shall not be afraid, For none shall give me death, and none shall give me sorrow, And none shall spoil this darling day that I have made. No storm shall stir my sea. No night but mine shall shade This day that I have made. This poem by the novelist, journalist and suffragist Stella Benson appears in her collection, Twenty, published in June 1918, shortly before the end of the first world war. (Some of her own reactions to the first world war are recorded here.) Benson (1892-1933) went to California that same year, largely because she was in poor health and her doctor had recommended the climate. I imagine that most of Twenty had been put together before she embarked on her travels. The Secret Day may have emerged from her fears concerning the journey and her future in a strange country. Interestingly, it illustrates the psychological need to find a sanctuary in time rather than space. Benson is aware that the device is an artificial one, but launches a convincing ap...
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their most rewatched comfort films is a trip back to 1992 for the unique rock comedy When the conversation of the most overrated band in history crops up I often want to put Queen forward as my suggestion. Their omnipresent hits represent the worst of bands who favour stadium-sized grandeur over true ambition. However, I can never truly get beh...
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their most rewatched comfort films is a trip back to 1992 for the unique rock comedy When the conversation of the most overrated band in history crops up I often want to put Queen forward as my suggestion. Their omnipresent hits represent the worst of bands who favour stadium-sized grandeur over true ambition. However, I can never truly get behind the idea of trashing Freddie and co when their music helped create one of my most beloved scenes in cinema history. Early in 1992’s Wayne’s World, a bunch of rockers squeeze into an AMC Pacer with custom flames painted on the side. As they drive past the automarts, car washes and beef stands of downtown Chicago, Bohemian Rhapsody plays on the car stereo. The song’s operatic verses are used for laughs (the “Let me go” line becomes a cry for help from a friend who is partied out and might “honk” in the backseat) while the breakdown in the middle creates space for a spot of high-speed headbanging. To me it’s as thrilling a car scene as anything in Bullitt or the Mad Max franchise. Continue reading...
A Chinese couple who left their young children at a hotel following a fight have ignited a heated discussion over how to punish irresponsible parents. The Beijing Chaoyang district police posted on January 22 that they received a phone call from a man who claimed to have been looking after his friends’ two children at a hotel. The children, a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, had been a...
A Chinese couple who left their young children at a hotel following a fight have ignited a heated discussion over how to punish irresponsible parents. The Beijing Chaoyang district police posted on January 22 that they received a phone call from a man who claimed to have been looking after his friends’ two children at a hotel. The children, a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, had been abandoned by their parents after the couple had a fight during a family trip to Beijing. Advertisement Both parents reportedly considered looking after their children as a sign that they had lost the fight, so they ended up leaving the city without them. The two children pictured with officers in the back of a police car. Photo: Sohu Their friend called the police, saying he was forced to look after the children on their behalf and he could not get in touch with them.
The PM has told Labour it is in the ‘fight of our lives’ against Nigel Farage’s challengers. To win, it must first agree on a line of attack After the past fortnight in which Labour’s internal bickering has once again distracted attention from government decisions that will affect real lives, it’s worth remembering how Keir Starmer briefly lifted his party’s gaze from its own navel to a higher pur...
The PM has told Labour it is in the ‘fight of our lives’ against Nigel Farage’s challengers. To win, it must first agree on a line of attack After the past fortnight in which Labour’s internal bickering has once again distracted attention from government decisions that will affect real lives, it’s worth remembering how Keir Starmer briefly lifted his party’s gaze from its own navel to a higher purpose a few months ago. That was back in September, the previous occasion when Andy Burnham’s name was being bandied around, when the prime minister seemed to galvanise Labour’s conference by telling it “we’ve got the fight of our lives ahead of us” against Reform UK and “racist” policies that would “tear the country apart”. This would be a “different battle”, he warned, because Labour was up against opponents who represented a strain of rightwing politics alien to a Britain that had never faced “a proposition like Reform before”. He has reiterated this view several times since, not least in a pre-Christmas interview , in which Starmer said that while he could still “sleep at night” under the Conservatives, that wouldn’t be the case if Nigel Farage’s party was in power. Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starmer , The Biography Continue reading...
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With an ACA fix uncertain in the Senate, Republicans replay old health care fights toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP At the beginning of the year, it seemed like a bipartisan deal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies was within reach. A three-year extension passed in the House, but talks have sputtered in the Senate. Many Republicans in Congress assert the reason for those stal...
With an ACA fix uncertain in the Senate, Republicans replay old health care fights toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP At the beginning of the year, it seemed like a bipartisan deal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies was within reach. A three-year extension passed in the House, but talks have sputtered in the Senate. Many Republicans in Congress assert the reason for those stalled talks goes all the way back to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010. "You gotta remember, Democrats created Obamacare," Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told reporters on Thursday. "It's been an abject failure in terms of lowering costs." Moreno helped lead bipartisan talks in the Senate to come up with a solution to the sudden absence of enhanced subsidies that caused many people's premiums to double or triple. Most people affected by this live in states that Trump won, and Moreno is among the Republicans who have tried to come up with a deal to cushion the blow of these high premiums. Sponsor Message But even as the parties tried to work together to solve a present-day problem, anger over the original passage of the ACA keeps coming up. "Congressional Republicans can't seem to quit the Obamacare repeal fight, even though the politics of the Affordable Care Act have changed a lot over the past 15 years," says Jonathan Oberlander, a political scientist focused on health care at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "It is, on balance, now a very popular program. Its main coverage policies, including the enhanced subsidies, have been in place for many years and helped tens of millions of Americans." That makes letting the enhanced subsidies expire politically hazardous, he says. "It is a terrible political look for congressional Republicans, and it's a terrible reality for many of their constituents who are going to face these skyrocketing premium payments," Oberlander says. Republicans are "likely to pay a price" in the upcoming midter...
Refugees relive the trauma they fled as ICE targets them in Minnesota toggle caption Zaydee Sanchez for NPR MINNEAPOLIS — Early one morning three weeks ago, before his kids were up, J.J. says ICE agents started knocking on his family's front door. His wife grabbed documents to show they and their four children are lawful refugees from Venezuela. "They told me they just needed to verify the fingerp...
Refugees relive the trauma they fled as ICE targets them in Minnesota toggle caption Zaydee Sanchez for NPR MINNEAPOLIS — Early one morning three weeks ago, before his kids were up, J.J. says ICE agents started knocking on his family's front door. His wife grabbed documents to show they and their four children are lawful refugees from Venezuela. "They told me they just needed to verify the fingerprints for our oldest son, but he would not be detained," he said. The family asked to use only their initials for fear of retaliation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. J.J. and his wife, A., didn't understand why one child's fingerprints would need checking, but they opened the door. And then they watched as their 20-year-old son was, in fact, arrested and driven away in a black SUV. Sponsor Message "When I saw him being handcuffed, I felt so scared," A. said. "They were treating him like a delinquent. And they had guns with their fingers on the trigger." toggle caption Zaydee Sanchez for NPR toggle caption Zaydee Sanchez for NPR The Trump administration has repeatedly said its immigration crackdown in Minnesota targets the worst of the worst — "vicious, horrible criminals," as the president put it recently. But more than 100 refugees with no criminal background have been unlawfully arrested, with many flown to a detention center in Texas, according to a class-action lawsuit filed by refugees and advocates for them. It's part of a push the Department of Homeland Security announced Jan. 9 to re-examine thousands of refugee cases, starting in Minnesota, to investigate for potential fraud. The focus is on those who arrived in the past few years and have not yet received a green card for legal permanent residency. "The Trump administration will not stand idly by as the U.S. immigration system is weaponized by those seeking to defraud the American people," the agency said in its announcement. President Trump has dramatically cut refugee admissions to a record low, and in...
The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says toggle caption Bill Clark/Getty Images A new report from a government watchdog suggests the Trump administration's efforts to fire staff at the U.S. Department of Education cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. The report, from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), focuses on the depa...
The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says toggle caption Bill Clark/Getty Images A new report from a government watchdog suggests the Trump administration's efforts to fire staff at the U.S. Department of Education cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. The report, from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), focuses on the department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which investigates complaints of discrimination in schools based on students' sex, race, national origin, disability and more. In March, the administration attempted to fire more than half of OCR's civil rights attorneys and staff. At the time, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the cuts reflected the department's commitment to "efficiency" and "accountability." Sponsor Message But, when that reduction-in-force (RIF) was blocked by the courts and the Education Department was forced to retain and continue paying these staff, the department prohibited them from returning to work. For nearly nine months, from March 21 to mid-December, "there were 247 people on administrative leave from OCR who were being paid while not being allowed to work," says Jackie Nowicki, lead investigator of K-12 issues at GAO, "and that decision came with a cost." A cost of between $28.5 million and $38 million, according to GAO. How GAO came to these numbers Nowicki says the Education Department did not share a complete accounting of the RIF's costs and/or savings, leaving GAO investigators to arrive at their own rough calculation using workers' salaries and benefits. The report recommends that the department do a full accounting now. Kimberly Richey, who was appointed by President Trump to run OCR, rebuffed that suggestion in a written response to GAO's report. Richey argues, because the Education Department eventually rescinded its RIF notices to OCR staff and returned attorneys to active duty in December, the topic is "moot." "We do not concur with the ...
After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny toggle caption Joann Moschella Joann Moschella has been biking the steep streets of San Francisco since the late 1980s. "The insanity of the hills, not to mention the relentless westerly winds that bring the fog, are not the real danger, though they are a challenge," Moschella said. "Everyone who rides a bike in a big city knows that the ...
After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny toggle caption Joann Moschella Joann Moschella has been biking the steep streets of San Francisco since the late 1980s. "The insanity of the hills, not to mention the relentless westerly winds that bring the fog, are not the real danger, though they are a challenge," Moschella said. "Everyone who rides a bike in a big city knows that the real danger is other cars." About eight years ago, Moschella was reminded of this risk. She was biking the mile-long commute from her workplace to a station of the local subway system, known as BART. When she was a block away, a car cut into the bike lane. Moschella veered to the right. Sponsor Message "[I] was about to congratulate myself on avoiding a collision, but the car clipped my rear tire," Moschella recalled. "I went down so quickly I was still gripping the handlebars when my helmet hit the ground, then my face met the pavement and a big gash opened above one eye." Luckily, Moschella didn't lose consciousness, and she was able to move herself and her bike to the sidewalk. Her glasses had fallen off during the collision, and she started to look for them. Just then, a young man approached her. He was wearing a furry lavender bunny suit and riding an electric unicycle. "Are you OK? Can I help you?" she recalled the young man asking. "Stunned by the impact, I thought to myself, 'Wow, when you die in San Francisco, you're greeted by a spirit animal,'" Moschella said. After realizing the man in the bunny suit was in fact real, Moschella asked if he could help find her glasses. "We turned, and there they were in the middle of the intersection. He made a high-pitch sound of triumph and moved to retrieve them, but as he did so, a big truck ran them over and they exploded into a dozen pieces," Moschella said. The young man gathered the pieces of the broken glasses and returned them to Moschella. He then asked if she required an ambulance. Sponsor Message "I'm a physician, an...
Too old to compete? This 87-year-old triathlete has tips for staying in the game toggle caption Shawn Green/Cleveland Clinic With the Winter Olympics starting this week, the attention on world-class athletes may motivate some of us to get off the couch and move more ourselves. And if you think you're too out of shape, or too told to accomplish any physical feat, take it from Luise Easton, 87: You ...
Too old to compete? This 87-year-old triathlete has tips for staying in the game toggle caption Shawn Green/Cleveland Clinic With the Winter Olympics starting this week, the attention on world-class athletes may motivate some of us to get off the couch and move more ourselves. And if you think you're too out of shape, or too told to accomplish any physical feat, take it from Luise Easton, 87: You may be capable of more than you think. Easton has competed in triathlons near and far to her home in Cleveland, and she's still at it. "When I was 80 I won in Denmark," she says. She also won a medal in Ibiza in 2023. "It feels good," she says with a girlish laugh. Sponsor Message "There's not much competition in my age category," she acknowledges, so it's a bit easier to come in first, but it's just as thrilling. "You still get on the podium and everybody claps," she says. Staying athletic as you age presents its challenges, of course. Like most Americans over the age of 60, Easton has chronic health conditions — including some issues with her heart — that require treatment and monitoring. But she's tackled them proactively. Want the latest stories on the science of healthy living? Subscribe to NPR's Health newsletter. And her story shows the payoff of focusing on early diagnosis and treatment, combined with smart choices, and an awareness of evidence-backed lifestyle habits that can slow down or prevent chronic heart conditions. These steps can help improve your health at any age. A wake-up call Easton has always been active. In high school she attended a school that stood up girls basketball and field hockey. But five years ago, she feared her athletic days were behind her when she started feeling short of breath during workouts. She made an appointment with a sports cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. toggle caption Lisa DeJong/Cleveland Clinic "They did all kinds of tests and found out that my heart isn't as strong as it's supposed to be," Easton says. Doctors measur...
Construction material suppliers’ strong earnings performance in the US probably faced a setback as the government shutdown and a lack of storms blowing off roofs stymied demand in the fourth quarter. Providers of building materials with significant US exposure — including Chicago-headquartered Amrize Ltd. , Denmark’s Rockwool A/S , and France’s Cie. de Saint-Gobain — are expected to report weaker ...
Construction material suppliers’ strong earnings performance in the US probably faced a setback as the government shutdown and a lack of storms blowing off roofs stymied demand in the fourth quarter. Providers of building materials with significant US exposure — including Chicago-headquartered Amrize Ltd. , Denmark’s Rockwool A/S , and France’s Cie. de Saint-Gobain — are expected to report weaker earnings in the period, putting an end to a steady growth streak. Buoyed by strong pricing and robust demand, courtesy of both a remodel boom after the pandemic and the increased frequency of severe weather, the $40 billion annual US roofing market saw 10% compound nominal growth from 2019 to 2024, Morgan Stanley analyst Cedar Ekblom calculated. In 2025, the market declined 8%, she said. No hurricanes made landfall in the continental US last year for the first time since 2015, a welcome reprieve for homeowners but a significant lull for construction companies. Given that weather can drive as much as 35% of volumes, a lack of storm-driven demand combined with more subdued new build activity should have reverberated across the industry, Ekblom said. Owens Corning — another major player in the US construction market — expects “the lowest roofing volume in about a decade” in the fourth quarter, Chief Executive Officer Brian D. Chambers said on an analyst call in November. Volumes in the next few quarters will be “pretty light relative to the last couple of years,” he added. Saint-Gobain’s full-year operating profit should have declined about 1% in 2025, as the North America division sees “continued softness in new build, further weighted on by risk of roofing de-stocking from distributors,” according to Citigroup analyst Ephrem Ravi . “Accelerated de-stocking in US roofing following a lack of storm activity in 2025 is likely to lead to weaker performance for stocks with US roofing exposure,” JPMorgan analyst Elodie Rall said, singling out Amrize in particular and removing it fr...
Colombians are on edge ahead of President Gustavo Petro ’s visit to the White House this week over fears that he might antagonize Donald Trump as much in the flesh as he has done online. The Tuesday meeting is an opportunity to reset the once-close relationship between Washington and Bogota that has frayed badly over the last year. Petro wants Trump to remove Colombia from a rogue list of drug nat...
Colombians are on edge ahead of President Gustavo Petro ’s visit to the White House this week over fears that he might antagonize Donald Trump as much in the flesh as he has done online. The Tuesday meeting is an opportunity to reset the once-close relationship between Washington and Bogota that has frayed badly over the last year. Petro wants Trump to remove Colombia from a rogue list of drug nations, and also get sanctions lifted on himself and his family. Trump, meanwhile, wants Petro to curb soaring cocaine production. The meeting between the two ideological opponents is fraught with risks. Petro has repeatedly criticized Trump for his policies toward Venezuela, Cuba and Gaza, as well as his policies on migration and climate change. The Colombian leader has also been disinclined to display the kind of deference that Trump feels is his due, and any friction will undermine months of patient work by Colombian business leaders to prevent an economically-damaging rupture. “It’s pretty unpredictable what’s gonna happen,” said Will Freeman, a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Worst-case scenario is Petro tries to use this opportunity to lecture or embarrass Trump, which will not go well.” An acrimonious meeting might result in further cuts to security assistance to Colombia, and even tariffs, according to Freeman. The US buys about 30% of Colombia’s exports and supplies 23% of its imports. Trump’s face-to-face meetings with Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and New York’s newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani did result in more cordial relations. However, his White House encounter with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last year generated tension which overshadowed their discussions on trade. An Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in February 2025, also caused relations to sour. Relations with Colombia began to worsen shortly after Trump returned to power in January 2025, when Petro briefly refused to accept US deportat...
Ethereum may be down, but it's not out. It could soar almost 50% based on two key catalysts. Popular cryptocurrency Ethereum (ETH 4.68%) may be trading significantly below its all-time high from August 2025, but there's good reason to think that it could be headed for a major breakout this year. Within the next six months, Ethereum could soar to a price of $4,000 or higher. That's a blistering gai...
Ethereum may be down, but it's not out. It could soar almost 50% based on two key catalysts. Popular cryptocurrency Ethereum (ETH 4.68%) may be trading significantly below its all-time high from August 2025, but there's good reason to think that it could be headed for a major breakout this year. Within the next six months, Ethereum could soar to a price of $4,000 or higher. That's a blistering gain of almost 50% based on today's prices. Here's a closer look at the two powerful catalysts leading the way. Regulatory clarity It's impossible to overstate how important regulatory clarity is for the crypto market. It's what leads to faster institutional adoption of crypto, and it's what leads to greater transaction activity on popular blockchain networks. In other words, if market participants know the rules of the road (even if they don't agree with them), it's a huge positive for the crypto market. That's why I'm keeping my eye on one key piece of crypto legislation that is likely going to be signed into law this summer: the aptly named Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Clarity Act). This new piece of legislation attempts to establish a clear regulatory framework for the crypto market. It will close existing loopholes, outline the roles of different regulators, define key concepts, and specify how digital assets can be traded. If there's one cryptocurrency that's poised to benefit the most from this new crypto legislation, it's Ethereum. As a Layer 1 blockchain network, it's exposed to every nook and cranny of the blockchain world. And it plays an especially important role in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), which is one of the key areas affected by the Clarity Act. In theory, passage of the Clarity Act should open the floodgates for more activity on the Ethereum blockchain. And it should make it much easier for financial institutions and big institutional investors to get involved in the crypto market. Overall, this new regulatory framework should be very bul...
US Approves New Massive Arms Deals For Israel, Saudis - Bypasses Congressional Review Via The Cradle On Friday, the US government authorized significant arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia, amounting to approximately $15.7 billion , as the White House continues to escalate threats of war against Iran. The US State Department approved four arms packages for Israel totaling $6.67 billion , which i...
US Approves New Massive Arms Deals For Israel, Saudis - Bypasses Congressional Review Via The Cradle On Friday, the US government authorized significant arms sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia, amounting to approximately $15.7 billion , as the White House continues to escalate threats of war against Iran. The US State Department approved four arms packages for Israel totaling $6.67 billion , which includes a $3.8 billion deal for 30 Apache attack helicopters and a $1.98 billion sale of 3,250 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles. via Associated Press Additional approvals include $740 million for power packs for armored personnel carriers and $150 million for light utility helicopters. House Democratic Representative Gregory Meeks called the move shameful for "bypassing the Congressional review process" and a repudiation of Congress' oversight role by Donald Trump. "Shamefully, this is now the second time the Trump administration has blatantly ignored long-standing Congressional prerogatives while also refusing to engage Congress on critical questions about the next steps in Gaza and broader US policy," Meeks declared. White House officials justified the approvals by citing Washington’s commitment to "upholding Israel’s security," even as war monitors have alleged Israeli forces have commit war crimes in Gaza, including ongoing violations that have killed over 500 Palestinians since the "ceasefire" began in October 2025. In parallel, the State Department also approved a $9 billion sale to Saudi Arabia , covering 730 Patriot interceptor missiles intended for air defense systems. The sales come amid a heightened risk of a new US war against Iran and the heavy militarization of West Asian waters. US President Donald Trump has publicly referred to the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier and its accompanying warships as a "beautiful armada" currently stationed in the Arabian Sea and moving toward the Persian Gulf. Iranian officials warned that any US base used to attack t...
TLDR Qualcomm reports Q1 fiscal 2026 earnings on February 4, with analysts expecting EPS of $3.39 and revenues of $12.12 billion QCOM stock fell 0.41% to $151.59 ahead of earnings, down nearly 11% over the past year Analysts maintain Moderate Buy rating with average price target of $193.33, implying 27.5% upside Apple’s plan to produce its own modems poses risk to Qualcomm’s revenue from its large...
TLDR Qualcomm reports Q1 fiscal 2026 earnings on February 4, with analysts expecting EPS of $3.39 and revenues of $12.12 billion QCOM stock fell 0.41% to $151.59 ahead of earnings, down nearly 11% over the past year Analysts maintain Moderate Buy rating with average price target of $193.33, implying 27.5% upside Apple’s plan to produce its own modems poses risk to Qualcomm’s revenue from its largest customer Global handset shipments projected to decline 4% in 2026 due to memory chip shortages and pricing pressures 💥 Find the Next KnockoutStock! Get live prices, charts, and KO Scores from KnockoutStocks.com , the data-driven platform ranking every stock by quality and breakout potential. Qualcomm stock closed down 0.41% at $151.59 last Friday as investors prepared for the company’s first-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings release after market close on February 4. The stock traded between $149.83 and $153.07 during the session before dipping to $151.44 in after-hours trading. QUALCOMM Incorporated, QCOM Wall Street expects adjusted earnings per share of $3.39, a slight decline from last year’s $3.41. Revenue projections sit at $12.12 billion, representing 3.8% year-over-year growth. The company has beaten earnings expectations for eight consecutive quarters. Qualcomm’s guidance from its Q4 FY25 earnings projected Q1 revenues between $11.8 billion and $12.6 billion. Its QCT segment was forecast to generate $10.3 to $10.9 billion, with adjusted EPS ranging from $3.30 to $3.50. The earnings call scheduled for 1:45 p.m. Pacific time will give investors insight into premium Android demand and licensing royalties. These metrics often matter more than raw quarterly figures because they signal future trends. Market participants are watching for updates on customer inventory levels and chip content wins in new devices. Any weakness in handset demand or licensing collections could pressure the stock in an already cautious market environment. Apple Modem Threat Looms Apple remains Qua...
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Monday for limited traffic, a key step in the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic development on the ground as few people will be allowed to travel in either direction and no goods will be going into the war-torn territory. Within the first hour of the opening, no one was actually seen crossing in or out of Gaza. An Egyptian official sa...
Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Monday for limited traffic, a key step in the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic development on the ground as few people will be allowed to travel in either direction and no goods will be going into the war-torn territory. Within the first hour of the opening, no one was actually seen crossing in or out of Gaza. An Egyptian official said 50 Palestinians would cross in each direction on the first day of the crossing’s operation. About 20,000 Palestinian children and adults needing medical care hope to leave devastated Gaza via the crossing, according to Gaza health officials. Thousands of other Palestinians outside the territory hope to enter and return home. Advertisement State-run Egyptian media and an Israeli security official also confirmed the reopening. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue. Before the war, Rafah was the main crossing for people moving in and out of Gaza. The territory’s handful of other crossings are all shared with Israel. Under the terms of the ceasefire, which went into effect in October, Israel’s military controls the area between the Rafah crossing and the zone where most Palestinians live. Advertisement Violence still continued across the coastal territory, and Gaza hospital officials said an Israeli navy ship had fired on a tent camp, killing a 3-year-old Palestinian boy.