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It was a tough week for stocks, as investors navigated everything from escalating tensions in the Middle East to key tech earnings reports to healthcare developments. Logging their second straight weekly losses, the S & P 500 slipped 0.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2.1%. Here’s a closer look at what drove the trading action. Oil prices are back in the driver’s seat Oil spiked for a third week in a row on Iran war uncertainty. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude jumped more than 8%, while international Brent crude surged nearly 10%. Oil prices jumped on Monday after President…

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The source said: “He has the courage to fix the most difficult issues that have been ignored for years and seen as impossible to resolve. He doesn’t accept that they are. They can’t be ignored any longer.”The prime minister is determined to show that governments can make people’s lives better if they choose to. He wants to get Britain believing again.”Unlike the NHS, social care is not free at the point of use, and people with savings worth more than £23,250 are not entitled to help with the cost of care from their local council.Burnham would not be the first…

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SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from South Texas to an on-target, intact splashdown in a remote section of the Indian Ocean. Starship has made precise splashdowns before. This time, however, the ship gently tipped over and came to rest floating in a remote stretch of ocean west of Australia. Previous splashdowns ended with conflagrations, an outcome SpaceX officials have come to expect with each water landing of Starship. The buoyant Starship looked to be in fine shape after reaching the Indian Ocean. SpaceX engineers flew drones over the…

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Sara Lips, the director of communications at Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division, says that the agency is “determining whether proposed federal rule changes would affect the public participation requirements per the state regulations.” Kentucky also has stronger public participation laws for minor source permits. Byron Gary, a senior attorney at the Kentucky Resources Council, says state agencies have made an “informal commitment” behind the scenes to keep their public participation rules the same, even if the EPA changes its rules. But, he says, that could shift: “Who knows [if] the next administration, whether they would actually change it.” Texas is an…

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Even for researchers who secure approval, “there’s no guarantee that the data is good,” said L. K. Seiling, coordinator of the DSA40 Collaboratory, a German initiative that tracks 46 DSA applications. API data is often difficult for a colleague to reproduce, so a researcher’s work cannot be checked for errors, which Iamnitchi said is a “basic requirement of science.” DSA40 data shows that of 46 tracked applications, 20 were approved and 14 rejected. But approval rates vary widely: TikTok approved 11 of 13 applications, while X rejected 11 of 23. The true rejection rate is likely higher because the tracker…

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