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Welfare is a system that provides assistance from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) to people who qualify for services. Services include Medicaid, food stamps, and more. However, it is a bit strange that someone who lives in a county like Cleveland County has to drive 90-180 miles or more to see or speak with the DHS employee assigned to their case. That employee lives in another county, 90-170 miles away. It is not surprising that something adverse happens to their benefits, reducing their Medicaid health insurance coverage or reducing the amount of food stamps they receive. Perhaps due…
California farmers say heirloom tomatoes are on track to arrive on schedule this year. For those who love tomatoes in their simplest and tastiest form, the arrival of summer’s exquisite heirloom tomatoes is an annual treat. They are currently in harvest season, and we can look forward to seeing these beauties of fantastic color, shape, size and flavor arriving at farmers’ markets very soon. Local farmers told us at the Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association that heirloom tomatoes are on track to arrive this year. Rains last winter benefited production and growth, allowing farmers to get started on a bumper…
From left, 10-year-old Joseph Lacy of Arvada and his mother, Cindy, visit Sasquatch Outpost in Bailey, Colorado, on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (Photo by Hyun Chang/The Denver Post) For $650 a pop, Jim Myers sends cryptid-curious people from around the world on a three-day camping trip into the wilds of Park County, Colorado, in search of the elusive Bigfoot. Myers’ company, Rabbit Hole Adventures, provides tents, meals, guides, first aid kits and satellite phones as part of the expedition. He also brings night vision binoculars, thermal imaging equipment and cameras. Myers charges $1,400 per person for the horseback trek. For…
(Bloomberg) — The artificial intelligence boom helped drive a strong first half of the year for the U.S. stock market, and traders are betting the second half of the year will be just as strong, or even stronger.Most read articles on BloombergThe S&P 500 has risen 14% since the start of January, its second-best performance so far this century, thanks to a recovering economy, improving corporate earnings and robust demand for AI-related companies. The rally comes despite signs of a slowdown and is being helped by the Federal Reserve, which is considering when to cut interest rates after the most…
My job is to follow legal news in the news. Apparently, I’m not very good at my job. A month ago, a non-journalist friend messaged me asking what I thought about the Karen Reed murder trial. I replied, “Who’s Karen Reed?” I had no idea what they were talking about. A few weeks later, I got multiple messages from other friends and realized who Karen Reed was. You can’t help but know who Karen Reed is. This feels like a rare trial that has already transcended the realm of popular true crime documentaries and burst into the mainstream.Speculation is rife…
The S&P 500 (SP500) ended a three-week streak of gains on Friday, but the bigger story is that the benchmark index closed the first half of 2024 with an astounding 14.5% gain. The S&P (SP500)’s stellar performance in the first half of the year, when it rose to record-breaking speed, was mainly due to a surge in technology stocks driven by the artificial intelligence boom and progress toward a scenario where the Federal Reserve can finally start cutting interest rates. But the index’s modest decline this week suggests that recent concerns about the breadth of the market and the dominance…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday announced 42 billion euros ($45 billion) of investment in Egypt by European companies and cash contributions from Brussels to support the country’s struggling economy. Speaking at the Egypt-EU Investment Conference in Cairo, von der Leyen said the two companies had signed more than 20 new agreements and memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with the Middle Eastern country. The European Union has pledged 7.4 billion euros in financial aid to Egypt for economic reforms, and on Saturday the two sides signed an agreement for the first 1 billion euros. European officials say they…
It’s an Intifuda! The halal food vendor claims his 10-stall empire in Midtown has been upended by jealous rivals who tried to take his prime locations, hired vagrants to sabotage his business and even had him wrongfully arrested. Ayman Afifai’s American dream became a nightmare because of the “petty” pranks of Nasser Aissa, a fellow Jersey City resident who allegedly harbors a “long-standing grudge” against him, Afifai said in his lawsuit. Nasser Eissa (pictured) insisted that the differences between him and Ayman Afifi had been resolved. Robert Miller Afify carts are located in high-traffic areas such as West 34th Street,…
Quattro Securities trader and “Wall Street Genius” Peter Tuchman is one of the best-known faces on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He’s genuinely concerned about people investing in meme stocks like GameStop (GME). “It’s true that 90% of the people playing in this pond lose money and blow up their trading accounts,” he said on Opening Bid with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, where he offered some sage advice and words of wisdom to new traders and market participants.You can listen to every episode of “Opening Bid” on our website or on your favorite podcast platform.Video…
XINJIANG UYGUR AUTONOMOUS REGION – A large number of journalists from Asian, European and African countries visited an e-commerce entrepreneurship incubation center in Aksu city, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.The visit was part of a week-long trip to Xinjiang arranged by the China International Press and Communications Center (CIPCC) and sponsored by the program “China Up Close”, hosted by China Global Television Network (CGTN). The aforementioned e-commerce entrepreneurship incubation center includes a 15,000-square-meter e-commerce building and a 43,000-square-meter sorting center, both of which have been operational since 2019. The base offers enterprises six comprehensive preferential policies, including three-year free…