The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that they found over 3,000 guns at airport security checkpoints during the first six months of 2022.
ISTANBUL—An international agreement to restore Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports is showing early progress, with 18 ships moving to and from ports in Odessa nearly six months after Russia’s invasion bottled up a chunk of the world’s agricultural products.
EXPANDING TRANSMISSION? — Monkeypox may already be spreading more significantly beyond men who have sex with men — the population with the most reported cases so far.
How many times have you heard variations of this sentiment from friends who have quit something in a rage, taken a leap of faith by switching industries mid-career or finally decided to take a sabbatical to traipse around the world without a concrete plan?
Supply chains this year have been plagued by long delays and shortages. What can be done to assure a more reliable and resilient supply? We asked Dr. Christopher Tang of UCLA to weigh in.
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New findings from a team of renowned researchers calls for transparency and rigorous oversight of the U.S. Medicare Advantage (MA) program, the United States' largest healthcare capitation program.
Mpox is spreading across several African countries. The World Health Organization declared mpox a “public health emergency of international concern.” The Democratic Republic of Congo has been hardest hit, though Burundi has also seen a recent surge of cases. To date this year, 36,000 suspected cases have been reported, with more than one-half among children younger than 15 years old. In Burundi alone, two-thirds of the recent cases have been in those younger than 19.
The supply chain for many small parcel shipping companies is typically long. Products are often made in distant lands, travel on oceans and waterways, arrive at ports, are then transported to warehouses, from where a third-party logistics provider delivers the product to its intended destination. In a stable world, shippers and customers alike can expect a product to be delivered within the promised time window. However, in a world facing high levels of uncertainty caused by war, pandemic, political instability, raw material shortages, freak accidents (recall the regional and national impact of the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore caused by a container ship), and weather, the shipper must work overtime to ensure customer expectations are met at no additional cost, despite these uncertainties.
BALTIM0RE -- Experts say the longer the thousands of port workers strike, including at the Port of Baltimore, the more catastrophic the impacts could be.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban's question to Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, on energy costs took off on social media on Saturday.
Florida lawmakers have banned wind turbines off its shores and near the coast, saying the bill is meant to protect wildlife and prevent noise.