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Anyone with evergreens in their yard probably knows the familiar feeling of putting their hand on the trunk and coming away with a sticky film on their fingers. This sticky stuff is better known as resin. Under the right conditions, tree resin hardens. Humans, like with so many natural substances, realized that resin could be made synthetically with a soup of petrochemicals. Synthetic versions harden even more into a durable, heat-resistant material used in everything from adhesives and coatings to plastics and electronics. Resin is a critical component in the manufacturing of printed circuit boards, which are used in everything from…

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Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOPEC+ is set to agree on Sunday a fourth increase in oil output targets in as many months, three OPEC+ sources said, even though the U.S. war with Iran is still preventing several of the group’s members from pumping more.The war has cut oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, creating the world’s biggest-ever supply crisis, as key OPEC+ members, including Saudi Arabia, have been unable to supply customers in full since the end of February. The crisis for OPEC+ deepened when the United Arab Emirates left the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries…

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Global stock markets remain volatile amid uncertainty in the Middle East and a focus on artificial intelligence stocks. Investors seeking steady income can bolster their portfolios by adding dividend stocks with attractive yields.Top Wall Street analysts can help pick stocks that pay regular dividends while having the ability to generate capital appreciation and boost total returns. Here are three dividend-paying stocks that are highlighted by Wall Street’s top pros, as tracked by TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance.Viper EnergyViper Energy is a subsidiary of Diamondback Energy and is focused on owning and acquiring mineral and royalty interests, primarily…

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Mammoth Brands wants to take on traditional consumer packaged goods companies, armed with a portfolio of disruptors in the personal and baby care categories that have won over consumers and retailers alike.For the last decade, upstarts like those owned by Mammoth have challenged the relevance and longstanding dominance of legacy giants like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Kimberly-Clark. The trend has also played out across packaged food and beverage companies, like Poppi and Olipop taking on Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Consumers’ loyalty no longer draws on just brand recognition. Newcomers can offer shoppers something different: better prices, higher quality or fewer…

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The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter. According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert either knew or should have known that there were “significant operational limitations in its gun detection system that could result in detection failures during actual emergencies, including limitations based on camera placement, proximity of the weapon to camera sensors, camera angle, lighting, and weapon visibility.”…

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A view of a housing project in the ghost town of Pripyat near Chornobyl’s nuclear power plant in 2006. Chornobyl’s number-four reactor, in what was then the Soviet Union and is now Ukraine, exploded 26 April 1986, sending a radioactive cloud across Europe, becoming the world’s worst civilian nuclear disaster.Sergei Supinsky | Afp | Getty ImagesRussian forces deliberately struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near Ukraine’s Chornobyl power plant, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday, in an “extremely vile” attack that did not lead to a spike in radiation.The strike significantly damaged a fuel-reception building meters away from…

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