Janet Yellen warns nothing is off the table to fend off potential second ‘China Shock’
China is increasingly growing its influence and power in the green energy industry, leaving U.S. and European officials worried about being flooded by the country’s subsidized exports. Chase to share customer data with advertisers Share Subtitles Off English U.S. treasury secretary Janet Yellen told CNBC on Monday that she wouldn’t rule out any measures, including tariffs,…
Read MoreJessica Tisch, the Ex-N.Y.P.D. Official Trying to Tame New York’s Trash
Tisch believes that she and her aides have developed a plan that will clean up New York City. It’s a program they refer to, grandly, as the Trash Revolution. Bags off the sidewalks. Clean highways. Citywide organic-waste pickup. Beefed-up enforcement of sanitary laws. Tisch has committed her department to implementing these changes, along with other…
Read MoreMaggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religious Studies
In 2016, Rogers was “discovered”—though the word almost feels too intentional—by the polymath hitmaker Pharrell Williams, while she was attending New York University. Williams visited one of Rogers’s classes at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, a program within the Tisch School of the Arts; he was an artist-in-residence there, and she was a…
Read MoreBattling Under a Canopy of Russian and Ukrainian Drones
“Grenades! Grenades!” Perun screamed. “More! ” They needed to hit the cellar entrance. Kyivstar’s companion had left him behind and was walking there alone. His call sign was Wolf. He was a welder from a rural village in western Ukraine who, when the war started, had been working in the Czech Republic, sending money home…
Read MorePark Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
Park was sitting nearby, in a shaded corner that served, for the day, as video village, the spot on a film set where the production team gathers around monitors to review each take. At sixty, Park, who is Korean, has a mop of silver hair and an obscurely regal demeanor. He wore woven leather sandals…
Read MoreHow Chinese Students Experience America
I asked whether they would serve in the Chinese military if there were a war. “They wouldn’t ask people like us to fight,” one boy said. He explained that, in a war, he wouldn’t return home if his country was the aggressor. “If China fires the first shot, then I will stay in America,” he…
Read MoreTSMC will get $6.6 billion in CHIPS Act funding for its first major U.S. chipmaking hub
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) at Hsinchu Science Park on September 16, 2022 in Hsinchu, TaiwanPhoto: Annabelle Chih (Getty Images) Another major chipmaker is getting a share of the U.S. funding meant to bring advanced chipmaking to American soil. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will get $6.6 billion in grants through the federal CHIPS and Science…
Read MoreA Boeing engine cover fell off a Southwest Airlines plane and hit the wing flap
Photo: Lucy Nicholson (Reuters) A Boeing plane operated by Southwest Airlines was forced to return to Denver International Airport on Sunday after an engine cowling fell off during takeoff and struck the 737-800’s wing flap. Southwest Airlines Flight 3695 was heading to William P. Hobby Airport in Houston when the incident happened, according to the…
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The total solar eclipse is today. Here’s everything to know
Start Slideshow Graphic: Images: Gizmodo/Vicky Leta, Marco De Swart, NASA/Gopalswamy, NASA After months of anticipation, a rare total solar eclipse will finally sweep across the North American skies on Monday. We’ve got everything you need to know, from the timing, the path of totality, all things eclipse glasses (real and fake), the weather, how to…
Read MoreDaily Brief: Total solar eclipse day, Southwest engine troubles, and pricey purses
Experts cautioned against buying solar eclipse glasses on Amazon, Temu, or eBay. The American Astronomical Society said it found counterfeits and unsafe glasses for viewing the eclipse today in the U.S. Separately, the eclipse has been a boon for hotels and Airbnb. A Boeing engine part fell off a Southwest flight. The 737-800 aircraft was…
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