Monthly Archives: October 2022

Photos show the Mississippi River is so low that it’s grounding barges, disrupting the supply chain, and revealing a 19th-century shipwreck

Randy Statler sits on a rock to watch people walk to Tower Rock, an attraction normally surrounded by the Mississippi River and only accessible by boat, in Perry County, Missouri, on October 19, 2022. Jeff Roberson/AP Photo The Mississippi River is receding to historic lows amid drought across the Midwest. Barges are getting stuck on…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz urged Kelly Loeffler to join efforts to object to the 2020 election results on January 6: texts

Marjorie Taylor Greene holds a joint press conference with U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) on October 15, 2020 in Dallas, Georgia. Dustin Chambers/Getty Images Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz reached out to Kelly Loeffler ahead of January 6 about joining efforts to object to the 2020 election results. Loeffler at the time had been…

US Treasury yields hit post-crisis highs as expectations for more aggressive Fed rate hikes ramp up

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid US treasury yields touched their highest levels since the Great Recession on Thursday.  The two-year yield inched up to 4.60% and the 10-year climbed to 4.16%. The rise is fueled by expectations of big rate hikes at the next two Fed…

Tesla is flirting with its first-ever share buyback – and it’s a signal the company thinks its stock is undervalued

Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images The potential for Tesla to buyback stock for the first time has gained steam in recent days.  CEO Elon Musk said late Wednesday that Tesla was considering a share buyback of $5 billion to $10 billion. He also said Tesla could one day be worth more than Apple…

Texas AG sues Google over its facial data collection practices

The office of Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Google over the company’s alleged years-long practices to capture and use of biometric data from, “millions of Texans without properly obtaining their informed consent to do so.” This is allegedly a violation of the state’s Capture…

James Webb telescope captures ‘knot’ of galaxies in the early universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has produced its second revelatory image in as many days. Scientists using the observatory have discovered a tightly-packed “knot” of at least three galaxies that were forming around a quasar 11.5 billion years ago, just over 2 billion years after the Big Bang. The telescope’s near-infrared spectrograph not only showed…