Marianne Williamson drops long-shot 2024 presidential bid

Marianne Williamson drops long-shot 2024 presidential bid

Democratic Presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson speaks at the California Democratic Party 2019 Fall Endorsing Convention in Long Beach, California on November 16, 2019. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Author Marianne Williamson announced her exit from the 2024 presidential race. “As of today we are suspending our campaign,” she wrote Wednesday evening in a … Read more

Biden’s clean energy plan to cost far more than initial estimates

Biden’s clean energy plan to cost far more than initial estimates

Phillip Swagel Danny Moloshok | Reuters WASHINGTON — The U.S. budget deficit will grow by an estimated $1 trillion over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected in a new report Wednesday. Part of that growth will be driven by unexpectedly high costs related to President Joe Biden’s signature policy goal: Reorienting … Read more

Trump SPAC insider trading defendant charged with money laundering

Trump SPAC insider trading defendant charged with money laundering

Michael Shvartsman, hides from journalists using an umbrella after exiting Federal Court, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in New York. John Minchillo | AP A man already charged with insider trading related to a shell company’s planned merger with Donald Trump’s social media firm was hit with a new money laundering count in Manhattan federal court. … Read more

Enphase CEO says solar industry poised to rebound on falling interest rates and rising utility costs

Enphase CEO says solar industry poised to rebound on falling interest rates and rising utility costs

Rafael Henrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images Enphase Energy sees light at the end of the tunnel this year for the solar market after the industry has taken a beating from high interest rates. High rates have depressed demand for residential solar installations in 2023, leaving companies like Enphase saddled with too much inventory. Enphase … Read more

U.S. engineer contacted China before stealing missile tech

U.S. engineer contacted China before stealing missile tech

A deactivated Titan II nuclear ICMB is seen in a silo at the Titan Missile Museum on May 12, 2015 in Green Valley, Arizona.  Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors charged an engineer who worked at a Los Angeles-area company with stealing trade secret technologies developed for use by the U.S. government … Read more

Milei lashes out at governors after key reform bill setback

Milei lashes out at governors after key reform bill setback

Argentines gather in front of the National Congress in Argentina to celebrate that the ruling party could not continue with the debate on the ‘Omnibus Law’ because they were losing the votes on each article of its general content, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on February 06, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Argentina’s President … Read more

Public utilities fall short on wildfire risk mitigation

Public utilities fall short on wildfire risk mitigation

Five years and 2,500 miles apart, fires devastated thriving communities — and major U.S. utility companies stood at the center of the infernos. It’s a story increasingly familiar in the energy industry: Some utility companies don’t properly assess the risks wildfires pose to their operations. A failure to mitigate these risks can have disastrous consequences … Read more

China appoints ‘Broker Butcher’ Wu Qing as new chairman of securities regulator

China appoints ‘Broker Butcher’ Wu Qing as new chairman of securities regulator

BEIJNG, CHINA – NOVEMBER 13: Illuminated skyscrapers stand at the central business district at sunset on November 13, 2023 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Gao Zehong/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s cabinet on Wednesday appointed markets veteran Wu Qing as chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, state … Read more

Geert Wilders leadership hopes sink as coalition talks collapse

Geert Wilders leadership hopes sink as coalition talks collapse

Leader of the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV), Geert Wilders. Anadolu | Getty Images LONDON — Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders’ hopes of becoming prime minister of the Netherlands are dwindling after coalition talks fell into disarray Tuesday. Pieter Omtzigt, founder and leader of the upstart center-right New Social Contract (NSC), walked away from negotiations, … Read more

Biden wins Nevada Democratic primary, NBC News projects

Biden wins Nevada Democratic primary, NBC News projects

U.S. President Joe Biden holds a campaign rally ahead of the state’s Democratic presidential primary, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. February 4, 2024. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden has won Nevada’s Democratic primary, NBC News projects. The other Democrat on the ballot was self-help author and former 2020 Democratic candidate Marianne Williamson. Biden’s … Read more