Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s coal plant construction surged last year to the highest level in almost a decade, conflicting with President Xi Jinping’s promise that carbon emissions would peak before 2030, researchers have said. In a report released … Read more
Sevastopol’s Kayla Ranly (3) is all smiles while being congratulated by teammates and fans upon reaching 1,000 career points in Thursday’s Packerland Conference game at Sturgeon Bay. Photo by Kevin Boneske. Sevastopol’s girls basketball team now has two 1,000-point career scorers on this season’s team after Kayla Ranly reached that milestone in Thursday’s 77-39 Packerland … Read more
Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP and Nathans & Biddle, LLP reached a historic $48 million settlement in the case of three Baltimore men who were wrongfully convicted at age 16 of the 1983 murder of DeWitt Duckett at Harlem Park Junior High School. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins—known as the Harlem Park Three—were … Read more
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the state has secured a settlement with Marriott International, Inc., that resolves an investigation into a breach of one of the company’s reservation databases. The breach exposed 131 million guest records pertaining to customers in the United States and these records included contact information, gender, dates of birth, legacy … Read more
The United States on Friday, October 18 reported a budget deficit of $1.8 trillion for the past year, widening from 2023’s level on greater spending, including for interest on the public debt. The overall deficit expanded by $138 billion for the year ending September 30, said the Treasury Department. The nation’s debt remains a key … Read more
