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Florida were in for a frightening surprise when a shark was spotted casually swimming among people. The incident occurred on Navarre Beach and a brief 56-second video was captured of the event. In the video, the shark can be seen gracefully flapping its fins and tail, as it swims near the shore.

A former South Florida police officer has pleaded guilty to stealing about $285,000 in COVID-19 relief funds

NBA Summer League is scheduled to commence on Monday, July 3, marking the start of an exciting basketball event. Over the course of two weeks, a total of 88 games will be played, involving all 30 teams in the league. The competition will take place primarily in Las Vegas, and on Monday, July 17, a champion will be crowned, concluding the Summer League with a thrilling finale. Fans can look forward to witnessing the skills and talent of both established players and emerging prospects during this highly anticipated basketball extravaganza. The Los Angeles Lakers have a promising roster filled with young and talented players, notably including Jalen Hood-Schifino from Indiana and Maxwell Lewis from Pepperdine, who were acquired in the 2023 draft. As part of the Summer League, most of the games will be held in Las Vegas. However, the Lakers will commence their participation in the California Classic by playing two games in Sacramento. This gives the team an opportunity to showcase their skills and start the preseason competition on a strong note.

The country’s largest banks are well positioned to weather a severe recession, according to the results of the Federal Reserve Board’s annual bank stress test.

Try as you might, you can’t spell “financial advisor” without F-L-O-R-I-D-A.

Technology companies are selling for an average of 23.9 times their last 12 months’ revenue in initial public offerings (IPOs), the highest price-to-sales ratio since the tech bubble of 2000, recent research from a University of Florida professor said.

Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan sits at the center of the storm after thousands of canceled flights during the holiday travel season, even as the company's shares rebounded Thursday amid falling cancellations.

cruise ship.Put simply, Royal Caribbean International‘s Icon of the Seas is a monster. At 365 metres long and weighing approximately 250,000 tonnes, it’s the biggest cruise ship ever built.

Shrewd business legend Warren Buffett has a whimsical side, buying companies whose products he personally enjoys like Dairy Queen and See's Candies. Now count plush toy phenomenon Squishmallows.

While I had a relatively regimented schedule and spent long stretches of every summer at camp, there were weeks when my parents, who both worked, hadn't filled my schedule with much of anything, and they didn't give a hoot about whether I felt sufficiently engaged or amused. That has been on my mind as my own sons make their way through the summer with a hodgepodge of camps, babysitters and grandparent time that is breathtakingly expensive and yet feels insufficient in terms of actual child care or stimulation. I am hardly alone in feeling like it is my parental duty to stuff their days full of activities and learning opportunities. A study cited in a 2018 New York Times article that lamented the relentlessness of modern parenting found that regardless of education, income or race, parents believed children who are bored should be enrolled in extracurricular activities. As Erin Westgate, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Florida, explained it to me, there is a kind of cultural stigma attached to boredom, particularly in the United States. Only boring people get bored, the saying goes.

European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched the Euclid space telescope on July 1 at 11:12 am ET. It was launched with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It reached orbit and sent a signal to mission control at 11:57 am ET.

Europe's Euclid space telescope is scheduled to blast off Saturday on the first-ever mission aiming to shed light on two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark energy and dark matter. The launch is planned from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 11:12 am local time (1512 GMT) on a Falcon 9 rocket of the US company SpaceX. The European Space Agency was forced to turn to billionaire Elon Musk's firm to launch the mission after Russia pulled its Soyuz rockets in response to sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

US private equity firm Sun Capital Partners has raised $1.4bn for its eighth flagship fund.

As the bear market rages on, the die-hards, evangelists and Bitcoin believers just keep building. In this week’s episode of Decentralize with Cointelegraph, reporter Joe Hall spoke to CEOs, key opinion leaders and cryptographic visionaries at two of the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) conferences: Bitcoin 2023 in Miami, Florida, and BTC Prague in the Czech Republic.

The former New York Stock Exchange broker Micahel Ackerman has been ordered to pay $54 million in penalties by a federal court for running a crypto fraud, as per a release from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

There are two broad categories of life insurance, and data suggests many households aren't buying the most cost-effective one.

Raymond James’ chief executive has ruled out layoffs in its UK investment bank and is looking to bolster its team in the City as many larger rivals have scaled back.

The world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) conference, Bitcoin 2023, in Miami, Florida, passed without major fanfare this year. Past conferences announced nation-state adoption, massive crypto integrations in the United States, and islands and territories worldwide embracing Bitcoin. 

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that the agency is “working hard on a concept of global infrastructure” to make sure there is interoperability of settlements between digital currencies that are issued by national central banks, according to Bloomberg News. 

The pro-bitcoin mayor of Miami Francis Suarez is running for US president.

The European Union’s executive branch will unveil plans for a digital euro that would require the European Central Bank to set limits on its use, according to a report from Bloomberg News.