The Texas Public Utilities Commission indicated Friday that it has no intention of reversing the 16 16 billion in electric overcharge that is being raised by independent market monitors from the state’s week-long black market. Commission Chairman Arthur C. Nd Ndriya said the markets were very difficult to replenish and …
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Millions of Texans remained without electricity Wednesday morning, although temperatures in most parts of the state rose above freezing, potentially signaling the state’s power grid service could make significant progress to the restored service. Texas’ pockets plunged into widespread power outage on their third day amid extended winter storms, as …
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More than a dozen Google services, including Gmail and YouTube, flew offline in the world’s beds on Monday morning, blocking access for individuals and businesses. Alphabet Inc. Google -0.13% According to users’ social-media posts, the company’s services showed errors when users tried to sign in, trying to access their emails …
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Historians and health professionals say that the “cytokine storm” was a common feature of the 1918 influenza. But how big of a potentially fatal immune response do coronavirus epidemics play? About 500 million people, or a third of the world’s population, became infected with the Spanish flu in 1918. About …
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Alex Trebeck Getty Images “ ‘Crash is a golden opportunity to make money, because the American economy is always solid enough to bounce back.’ ” It’s Alex Trebek, the longtime host of “Crisis”! The man, who died Sunday at the age of 80, revealed in a Reuters interview in 2017 …
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