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Inside the Minnesota Gas-Station Speakeasy That Grossed Almost $5 Million in Its First Year
Tony Donatell turned an empty Lakeville storefront into The Farmer’s Cellar, a Prohibition-style cocktail bar hidden beh...
California Community Midwives Face Medicaid Barriers That Limit Perinatal Care Access
A University of California study identifies low reimbursement, costly liability insurance, and administrative complexity...
Doctors Cite Teen Deaths in Push to Curb NCAA-Monster Promotion
Physicians want the NCAA to pause youth-facing Monster Energy branding in Big 12 sports, citing teen deaths and data sho...
Egypt’s FRA Extends Liquidation of Damanhour Carpet Workers’ Insurance Fund by One Year
Egypt’s financial regulator gave the fund’s liquidation committee another year from 23 July 2026 — or until completion —...
US Diesel Prices Jump 19.7 Cents to $5.454, Highest Since May
The national average diesel price hit $5.454 per gallon after a 19.7-cent weekly jump, adding fuel-surcharge pressure as...
European Gas Storage Hits 61.37% as Injection Rates Trail Five-Year Average
GIE data show EU gas storage at 61.37% on Aug. 17, 17.06 points below the five-year average, with August LNG imports for...
Ukrainian Long-Range Drone Unit Strikes Moscow-Area Logistics Hub in Deep-Strike Campaign
A rare Associated Press look at Ukraine's 413th Raid Unmanned Systems Regiment shows how long-range FP-1 drones are stri...
Political Backlash Threatens the U.S. AI Data Center Boom
State-level reviews, moratoriums and cost-shifting proposals are rewriting the assumptions behind America's AI data cent...
Moody's Upgrades ECOWAS Development Bank BIDC to B1, One Step Closer to Investment Grade
Moody's has lifted BIDC to B1 with a stable outlook, citing capital strength and AfDB's new institutional stake. The upg...
Columbia's Two-Year Campus Lockdown Is Now Policy, Not a Protest Response
Two years after pro-Palestinian encampments, Columbia's Morningside Heights campus is still closed to the public — a sta...
Sounders star Jordan Morris sells Kirkland home for $4M in eight hours
The 4,500-square-foot Eastside house sold within hours at roughly $889 per square foot, a data point in a stretch of Kin...
China Opens Community-Level Posts to College Graduates in New Employment Push
A joint circular directs urban and rural communities to expand hiring of graduates in sociology, social work, psychology...
German Gas Storage at 50% as TTF Hits Eight-Month High: Regulator Presses Traders
Germany's gas reserves are roughly half full weeks before the key injection period ends, with the Dutch TTF contract at ...
Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork to Mobile, Web and Cloud
Anthropic is bringing its Claude Cowork AI platform to browsers and iOS and Android for the first time, adding cloud pro...
Strait of Hormuz Traffic Hits Record Low as Attacks on Tankers Mount
One vessel crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Aug. 16 — a record low — as attacks hit ADNOC-linked tankers and traffic thro...
UK Hiring Stalls as Oil and Bond Yields Threaten Inflation Fight
UK payrolled employment is falling and vacancies are at the lowest outside the pandemic since 2014, while Brent crude ab...
Sensex and Nifty Extend Slide as Oil, U.S.-Iran Tensions and Rising Yields Pressure Indian Equities
The Nifty 50 slipped below 24,100 as its losing streak reached seven sessions, with Brent crude near $92, Hormuz risks a...
Gold Steadies Near $4,337 as Traders Wait for Fed July Minutes
Gold stabilises after Tuesday's bond-yield slide, with FOMC minutes due at 18:00 GMT and CME pricing showing a 64% chanc...
Fintech Revenues Hit $504 Billion in 2025, Growing Four Times Faster Than Banks
BCG and FT Partners report global fintech revenues reached $504bn in 2025, up 22%, with 52 IPOs and a 53% jump in equity...
Inside Marketscreener’s 40-Stock Global Wine and Spirits Screen
A curated list of about 40 listed wine and spirits names mixes LVMH and Oregon’s Willamette Valley Vineyards with niche ...
Japan Details 61.6 Billion Yen Disaster Aid for Kumamoto and Chiba
Prime Minister Takaichi outlines special subsidies, SME debt relief and front-loaded local funding after requests from K...
Cape Verde Hosts Mozambique Audit Team for Public Finance Systems Exchange
Mozambique's General Inspectorate of State is spending ten days in Cape Verde studying the information systems behind fi...
J&T Banka Profit Falls 11.4% as IT Costs Outweigh Asset Growth
The private bank reported €150 million in first-half net profit as technology spending and a tough year-ago comparison o...
Iran Truce Expiry Lifts Oil Above $90 and Hits Global Stocks as Bond Yields Surge
Brent's rise above $90 and a 30-year US yield near 5.33% punished equities in Europe and the US, with the DAX and Nasdaq...
CBSA Checks End Calgary PGWP Protest; 12 Possibly Inadmissible
A 22-day Calgary protest by international graduates ended after CBSA identified 12 attendees as possibly inadmissible. T...
Alliant to Acquire AI-Native Benefits Brokerage Nava, Betting on a New Operating Model
The deal pairs Alliant's national scale and advisory expertise with Nava's HQ platform, which reports resolving 81% of m...
Nasdaq Leans on Kevin Davitt to Teach Retail Investors Index Options
Nasdaq's Index Options Insights Hub is pushing XND and NDX options education for retail traders, with Kevin Davitt leadi...
Cass Freight Index: July Shipments Drop 4.8% Annually as Expenditures Rise 9.1%
July Cass data shows freight volumes fell for a second straight month while expenditures kept climbing on rate gains; an...
Stripe Strikes Reported $7 Billion Deal for AI Startup OpenRouter
Stripe is said to have agreed to buy AI model-routing startup OpenRouter for about $7 billion, a sharp premium to its la...
SBI Research Sees $50 Billion Balance-of-Payments Surplus for FY27 as Inflows Surge
The bank expects another $25–30 billion in FCNR(B) inflows this month, taking total collections to around $85 billion an...