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15 States Vote in Contests to Set the Stage for November
Millions of Americans in 15 states and one territory headed to the polls on Super Tuesday for contests that will set the stage for November’s pivotal elections. President Joe Biden, who has no major opponents for the Democratic nomination, notched Tuesday’s first victory in Iowa, where the results of caucuses that had been conducted entirely by mail came shortly before 6 p.m. Eastern time.
Is Crypto Back? What to Know About Bitcoin’s Surge.
SAN FRANCISCO — Cryptocurrency enthusiasts celebrated Tuesday as the price of bitcoin reached a record high of more than $69,000. For believers, it was a moment of vindication after a 2022 industry downturn that sent several major companies into bankruptcy and tainted crypto’s reputation.
Bank Runs Spooked Regulators. Now a Clampdown Is Coming.
One year after a series of bank runs threatened the financial system, government officials are preparing to unveil a regulatory response aimed at preventing future meltdowns. After months of floating fixes at conferences and in quiet conversations with bank executives, the Federal Reserve and other regulators could unveil new rules this spring. At least some policymakers hope to release their proposal before a regulation-focused conference in June, according to a person familiar with the plans.
Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme
WASHINGTON — Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results.
Apple Fined $2 Billion by EU for Using App Store to Thwart Competition
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple on Monday was fined 1.8 billion euros ($1.95 billion) by European Union regulators for thwarting competition among music streaming rivals, a severe punishment levied against the tech giant in a long-simmering battle over the powerful role it plays as gatekeeper of the App Store.
In Texas’ Largest Fire, a Race to Save Animals Big and Small
CANADIAN, Texas — Horses with singed tails and bellies licked by flames. Cows whose hides are spotted with burns. A baby goat, just two weeks old, orphaned by the blaze. These are the scenes that emergency veterinarians and volunteers are finding as they traverse the wide-open fields of the Texas Panhandle, trying to save what animals they can and ease the suffering of many others. Their cases in recent days show the devastating effects that the state’s largest-ever fire — still burning — has wrought on a region where a person’s wealth can often be measured in herd size and acreage.
Two Young Climate Scientists. Two Visions of the Solution.
STANFORD, Calif. — Two good friends, Rebecca Grekin and Yannai Kashtan, met up one crisp December morning at Stanford University, where they both study and teach. The campus was deserted for the holidays, an emptiness at odds with the school’s image as a place where giants roam, engaged in groundbreaking research on heart transplants, jet aerodynamics, high-performance computing — work that has changed the world.
How a ‘Body Farm’ Might Help Tackle Fentanyl Abuse
The two women lifted a stiff corpse from the ground, revealing a squirming bug in the dirt. “That one is a live larva!” said Alex Smith, the lab manager of Colorado Mesa University’s Forensic Investigation Research Station, plucking the larva off the ground and stuffing it into a glass tube. Maggots aren’t just maggots, Smith explained — they’re potential evidence.
I Don’t Have Enough for a Down Payment. Can I Still Buy a House?
With mortgage rates and housing prices remaining stubbornly high, many potential first-time buyers are wondering whether homeownership is in the cards for them, or if they’re destined to pay rent forever. For most of these would-be homeowners, it’s not the monthly costs (like taxes and mortgage payments) that are preventing them from putting their name on a deed. It’s the down payment.
Why a $1 Billion Gift to a Medical School Moved So Many People
NEW YORK — A few days before it was announced that a former professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx was giving the school $1 billion to ensure free tuition pretty much forever, came word of another significant donation, though one not nearly as astonishing in sum or association. Julia Koch, one of the richest women in the world, was giving $75 million to a medical center in West Palm Beach, which, as The Chronicle of Philanthropy noted, serves “one of Florida’s fastest-growing wealthy enclaves.”
Freight Cars Derail on Lehigh River in Pennsylvania After 3-Train Crash
Several freight train cars derailed onto the banks of the Lehigh River, a tributary of the Delaware River, in Pennsylvania on Saturday in a crash involving three trains that spilled diesel fuel and plastic pellets into the water, authorities said.
Alone on the Ocean, With 400,000 Friends
Video dinner parties, spa days, stuffed animals, favorite hoodies and cozy, colorful fleece blankets. Cole Brauer’s Instagram feed hardly feels like the work of someone racing a 40-foot sailboat around the world in the Global Solo Challenge. But Brauer, 29, is not an average ocean racer.
Court Overturns Sentencing Enhancement Used in Jan. 6 Rioter Cases
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court panel on Friday ordered the resentencing of a Jan. 6 rioter after overturning a trial judge’s decision to apply a longer sentence range on the grounds that the rioter had interfered with the administration of justice, potentially opening the door for scores of other convicted rioters to be resentenced on the same basis.
Developers Got Backing for Affordable Housing. Then the Neighborhood Found Out.
FLORENCE, S.C. — When developers set out to build 60 subsidized apartments in an affluent corner of Florence, South Carolina, the chair of the County Council waxed enthusiastic. Affordable housing “would serve a great need,” he wrote, and its proximity to services and jobs fit county planning goals. He pledged a small grant.
AI Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green
West Texas, from the oil rigs of the Permian Basin to the wind turbines twirling above the High Plains, has long been a magnet for companies seeking fortunes in energy. Now those arid ranch lands are offering a new moneymaking opportunity: data centers.
Fast-Spreading Wildfires in Texas Panhandle Prompt Evacuations
CANADIAN, Texas — The second-largest wildfire on record in Texas raged across 850,000 acres Wednesday, as firefighters from around the state tried to contain it. The blaze has consumed houses, burned vast ranch lands, killed livestock and forced evacuations across the sparsely populated Texas Panhandle.
U.S. to Ask Court to Reauthorize Disputed Surveillance Program for a Year
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is moving to extend a disputed warrantless surveillance program into April 2025, according to officials familiar with the matter. The decision by the administration, which requires asking for court approval, seemed likely to roil an already turbulent debate in Congress over its fate. The program has scrambled the usual partisan lines, with members of both parties on each side of seeing the program as potentially abusive of civil liberties or as necessary for protecting national security.
1 in 6 Abortions Is Done With Pills Prescribed Online, Data Shows
A growing share of abortions is now being administered through telemedicine, with clinicians prescribing mail-order abortion pills after online consultations, according to the first nationwide count of telehealth abortions in the U.S. medical system. At least 1 in 6 abortions, around 14,000 a month, was conducted via telehealth from July through September, the most recent months with available data.
Companies Were Big on CBD. Not Anymore.
Just below rows of energy and kombucha drinks at Westside Market, a deli in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, sit a few glass bottles of Vybes. The drink, which comes in flavors including strawberry lavender and blood orange lime, is made with cannabidiol, more commonly known as CBD.
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