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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Arafat Barbakh and Tyrone Siu GAZA/ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER (Reuters) -Israeli tanks stormed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip they had left last week, residents said on Tuesday, reigniting some of the most intense fighting since the New Year when Israel announced it was scaling back its operations there. Massive explosions could be seen over northern areas of Gaza from across the border with Israel – a rarity over the past two weeks after Israel announced a drawdown… Source link

New Orleanians stranded on a roof in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Aug. 30, 2005. (Vincent Laforet/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) A recent report from ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, reveals data showing that some of the hardest-hit victims of Hurricane Katrina were shortchanged tens of thousands of dollars on average by a federal program meant to help residents to rebuild. ProPublica, in partnership with New Orleans media outlets the Times-Picayune, the Advocate and WWL-TV, Source link

‘The tide has changed’: This investing veteran says hot inflation and a tight Fed call for a shift in strategy. He likes 3 specific areas for protection 2022 continues to give growth stocks — particularly those in the tech sector — a blunt reality check. The tech-centric Nasdaq index is down 24% year to date, more than double the 10% decline of the Dow over the same period. Story continues MoneyWise recently interviewed investing veteran Claudio Chisani — investment advisor and portfolio… Source link

Facebook parent Meta (FB) took a huge earnings hit last week in part because of privacy changes Apple (AAPL) made to its iOS platform, but lawmakers may be poised to force Big Tech to take additional steps to protect users’ privacy. In a new interview with Yahoo Finance Live, Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Calif), whose district is in the heart of Silicon Valley, outlined three areas that lawmakers should focus on when it comes to tech regulation: privacy, antitrust regulation, and free speech. On… Source link

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo Jan 25 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) is slated to hire 200 engineers in Brazil this year, as it seeks to bolster its privacy, security, and anti-abusive content technologies, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, its director of engineering for Latin America, told Reuters on Tuesday. The 2023 hiring push would double the current number of engineers working in… Source link

Nvidia’s (NVDA) $40 billion ARM deal faces a slew of roadblocks from regulators here and abroad. But Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said if the deal doesn’t go through the company will still continue to perform at the same high level it has been. Jensen, who was fresh off of a virtual keynote at Nvidia’s GTC 2021 conference, told Yahoo Finance Live that the company wants to continue to see a large diversity of central processing units (CPUs) available, because it provides more opportunity for… Source link

Mattar Al Tayer witnesses the agreement signing by Hani Weiss, Chief Executive Officer of Majid Al Futtaim Retail and Artem Fokin, Head of Business Development at Yandex Self-Driving Group. Image Credit: RTA Dubai: Robots will be used to deliver food and groceries in Dubai in future as part of the Roads and… Source link

Increased public focus on the Delta variant has coincided with slowed spending in key sectors, according to a JPMorgan (JPM) Research report by senior economist Jesse Edgerton and economist Peter McCrory. “COVID case counts are still growing rapidly, even in highly-vaccinated states,” the report reads. “Google (GOOG, GOOGL) search data suggest that public focus on the Delta variant has intensified in recent weeks, and Chase card spending in some travel and entertainment categories has… Source link