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Banks channeled $385 billion into coal industry since COP26Jul 12, 2025 1:00 pm - Global banks channeled more than $385 billion to the coal power industry over the past three years, with annual flows increasing last year from 2023, according to analysis by a group of nonprofits.
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Powell silence on his future complicates Trump Fed chair searchJul 03, 2025 10:45 am - As President Donald Trump and his advisers begin weighing replacements for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, they’re running into one significant complication: It’s not clear that Powell will leave the US central bank next year.
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US probes ex-ransom negotiator accused of scheming with hackersJul 02, 2025 1:27 pm - Law enforcement officials are investigating a former employee of a company that negotiates with hackers and facilitates cryptocurrency payments during ransomware attacks, according to a statement from the firm, DigitalMint
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Why rice is poised to survive better in a warming worldJun 30, 2025 1:57 pm - New research looking at future production of six staple crops including wheat, soybeans and sorghum found that rice alone should have the smallest decline in global yields.
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How big batteries could prevent summer power blackoutsJun 23, 2025 8:53 am - This summer will be an energy doozy in the U.S. as climate change exacerbates heat waves and a rash of new data centers and crypto mines come online. But these new power vacuums arrive in concert with a stack of big batteries.
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Thousands of laid-off government workers are flooding a shrinking job marketJun 22, 2025 12:24 pm - Thousands of private government consultants laid off during the Trump administration’s cost-cutting crusade are increasingly flooding a shrinking labor market. Job postin...
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At Home files bankruptcy, with lenders set to take overJun 18, 2025 4:29 pm - At Home Group Inc. filed bankruptcy to implement a restructuring deal which will see its lenders take over the business.
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Experts say caller ID is destroying our understanding of jobs marketJun 14, 2025 1:36 pm - Getting households to pick up the phone is just one of many obstacles facing the world’s stats geeks, including government agencies tasked with collecting numbers on everything from joblessness to agricultural output.
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Chicago’s dire finances hold it back in competition among citiesJun 09, 2025 1:48 pm - Chicago native Warren Baker started buying and converting apartment buildings into student housing in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood in 1985. His once-scrappy company ...
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Chicago’s wealthy back new fund for U of C tech startupsJun 05, 2025 1:53 pm - A Silicon Valley venture capital firm has lured investment from billionaires including Don Wilson, Michael Polsky and Ashley Duchossois Joyce to fund University of Chicago technology startups.