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Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve started to notice twinges of a feeling to which I have become unaccustomed. At first I thought it was indigestion, but I’m beginning to think it is actually cautious optimism. That’s because the recent Omicron surge underscored how well our COVID-19 vaccines are working. Omicron was first documented…
U.S. Inflation Hits 40-Year High After Larger-Than-Forecast Gain
U.S. consumer prices surged in January by more than expected, sending the annual inflation rate to a fresh four-decade high and adding more urgency to the Federal Reserve’s plans to start raising interest rates. The consumer price index climbed 7.5% from a year earlier following a 7% annual gain in December, according to Labor Department…
Biden Wants an American Solar Industry. But It Could Come at an Emissions Cost.
When it comes to emissions and climate action, some compromises may be better than others.
Why Olympic Bronze Medalists Are Happier Than Silver Medalists
With the Beijing Winter Olympics upon us, Team USA has made clear that it is approaching this year’s Games with a special emphasis on the mental health of its athletes. This perhaps comes as no surprise after American gymnast Simon Biles set off an impassioned conversation about the emotional tribulations of elite athletes when she…
Inside the Chess Match That Led the Feds to $3.6 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin
The anatomy of the DOJ operation to seize $3.6 billion Bitcoin stolen in the Bitfinex hack is a cautionary tale in an era of rapid blockchain ascendancy
How China’s Fiction Writers Have Learned to Survive Its Politics
A grandmother, desperate to protect her family from a poisonous, airborne disease, locks everyone up in a hermetically-sealed flat. Years go by and the family survive the pandemic, only to discover that they lack the extra nostrils and yellow puss developed by those exposed to the illness which are needed to re-enter the real world.…
Mikaela Shiffrin Makes Super-G Training Runs as She Looks for Olympics Reset
Shiffrin will take part in the super-G on Friday after crashing out of her two best events
Amid Rising Tensions, Kim Jong Un Plans to Follow His Missile Barrage With a Military Parade
Coming in the wake of several missile tests, the parade will ensure that North Korea's arsenal is back on Biden’s agenda
Nathan Chen Finally Gets His Olympic Gold
The 22-year-old Salt Lake City-native skated the program of his life in Beijing’s Capital Indoor Stadium on Thursday afternoon to stand on top of the podium.
‘COVID Isn’t Finished’ Warns the WHO’s Director-General
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the highly-transmissible omicron variant has shown that “any feeling of safety can change in a moment”
Chloe Kim Makes History With Gold Medal in Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe
The 21-year-old's win makes her the first woman to take back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the snowboard halfpipe
What to Know About Kamila Valieva’s Reported Positive Drug Test and the Heart Medicine’s History in Doping
The positive test could jeopardize the Russians’ gold in the team event