California declares emergency after severe U.S. case of H5N1 bird flu
California declares emergency after severe U.S. case of H5N1 bird flu – CBS News
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Oil may ‘collapse’ below $50 a barrel in 2025 if this perfect storm hits the market
Oil prices look set to end the year lower as demand weakness, particularly from China, prevails — but 2025 may bring an even steeper loss, with the possibility of a drop below $50 a barrel if the market sees a “perfect storm” of factors, including sharp economic declines in China and Europe. Source link
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Luxury safaris are changing — here's what affluent travelers want now
Luxury safari-goers were once all about spotting lions, leopards, elephants, buffaloes and rhinos â albeit while staying in nicer tents and dining on gourmet food. But that’s changing. “Safaris are not just about the ‘Big Five’ anymore,” said Lori Cohen, a writer who covers luxury safaris. “People have got limited time off in their lives,
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Holiday Cheer at L. Ron Hubbard’s Winter Wonderland in Hollywood
A tradition begun in 1983 as a gift from L. Ron Hubbard to the children of Hollywood, Winter Wonderland continues to bring happiness to local youngsters and those visiting from around the world. I’ll bet you didn’t know that Santa plays the sax. Well, he does, and he proved it when he pulled out his
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A Year in Reading: Edwin Frank
The book that held my attention through most of the year, that I went back to again and again—perforce, it is a very long book—was Volume 1 of Capital, the only volume of his magnum opus that Karl Marx saw into print. It is a long book and an essentially unclassifiable book: a study in
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A Year in Reading: Sophia Stewart
A mortifying admission in light of my 2023 Year in Reading essay: this year, I fell in love with a man. I also fell back in love with making music. Both developments shifted my priorities and altered my reading practice (I read more while in transit, to and from dates or practice). As a result,
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Congo says mysterious disease killing dozens of kids finally identified
Johannesburg — For weeks it was dubbed simply “Disease X.” But the mysterious flu-like disease that has killed more than 143 people — mainly women and young children — in the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally been identified. “The mystery has finally been solved,” Congo’s health ministry declared in a statement on Tuesday. “It’s a
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2 sisters, 7 years apart in age, also receive heart transplants 7 years apart
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two sisters have grateful hearts after they both received heart transplants at the same age—seven years apart. Younger sister Meredith Everhart and older sister Abbey Cannon are now bonded by a genetic condition and a second chance at life. “What’s ironic is that when she needed a heart transplant, was exactly the
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Trump could target Affordable Care Act, Medicaid for cuts, experts say
The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, remains popular with the public, garnering the approval of 54% of U.S. adults, according to a recently released Gallup poll. But experts say that may not insulate the federal health insurance program from change as President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans look to renew $4 trillion
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A Year in Reading: Jeremy Gordon
I have long made lists of my favorite cultural artifacts of the year—as a college blogger blathering about movies to a single-digit readership, as a Pitchfork voter trying to advocate for Fred Thomas’s “Cops Don’t Care Pt. II” for the Best of 2010s List. (Mission: unsuccessful.) A few years ago, I decided to consolidate everything—books,
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