Yahoo Finance / YouTube Send Dillard’s stock as high as 46% on Monday with a vote of confidence from one of Warren Buffett’s lieutenants. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment manager, Ted Weschler, announced a 6% stake in the illness department-store chain Friday. Wechler’s 1.08 million shares rose to 66 million on …
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Global development of the war for firefighters to keep the blaze on Kilimanjaro
Heavy fires have broken out at Kilimanjaro, a major tourist attraction in Kenya and Tanzania, and Africa’s highest peak. The fire broke out on Sunday afternoon and has not yet been captured, according to Tanzanian National Park officials. Brief media release on Twitter Tanzania National Parks (Tanapa) said the fire …
Read More »Amy Connie Barrett went to my All-Girls High School. I hope she is not confirmed Lisa M. O’Neill | Opinion
aU.S. Connie Barrett, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, went to my all-girls Catholic high school. We wore the same black-and-white plaid skirts and saddle oxfords and walked around the same hall, albeit about a decade apart. As students at St. Mary’s Dominican High School, with education associated with …
Read More »Younger Americans are more likely to refuse alcohol, studies show
Between 2002 and 2018, the number of 18- to 22-year-olds in the United States who stopped drinking for people with alcoholism increased from 20% to 28%. The percentage of those who are not in school was 30%, up from 24% in 2002. Alcohol abuse has been reduced by almost half …
Read More »Astronomers ‘spaghetify’ a black hole to a star in real time
Impressions are gained in a fluid, global, diffused way. ESO / M. Cornmeaser It’s an amazing phenomenon that sounds like science fiction, but it’s just plain science. Astronomers say they were able to capture the process of a star cracking through a black hole in unprecedented detail. The powerful event …
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