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NASA officials said on Wednesday that the two astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who are on a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) by Boeing's Starliner, could return on SpaceX's Crew Dragon in February 2025 instead if Starliner is still deemed unsafe to return to Earth. t was meant to be a weeklong trip to the ISS for the first NASA astronauts to fly with Boeing could extend to eight months The U.S. space agency has been discussing potential plans with SpaceX to leave two seats empty on an upcoming Crew Dragon launch for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became the first crew to fly Boeing's Starliner capsule to the ISS in June. A final decision on whether to persist with Boeing's Starliner — which experienced concerning propulsion system problems as it flew up to the orbital platform in June — is expected later this month, officials said Wednesday in a call with reporters.

Arbitrum Orbit chains now support bridged USD Coin (USDC) as a custom gas token.

As a significant portion of today’s advisors are set to grey out of the industry, a new report by Cerulli underscores the pressing need for wealth firms to help their rookie advisors succeed.

Fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has launched a new alcohol-free perfume for dogs called ‘Fefé’ in honor of Domenico Dolce’s poodle, but not all vets and pet owners agree it’s safe or appropriate

Avinash Sable failed to keep pace with the best in the business as he finished 11th in the Paris Olympics men's 3000m steeplechase final race here on Wednesday. The 29-year-old Sable clocked 8 minutes 14.18 seconds while crossing the finish line after running in the lead briefly in the dramatic race. Sable had recently broken his own national record with a time of 8: 09.91 seconds at the Paris Diamond League. He has been training abroad for a long time in preparation for the Paris Games on funding from the government. Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco defended his title, clocking his season's best of 8:06.05 while Kenneth Rooks (8:06.41) of USA and Abraham Kibiwot (8:06.47) of Kenya took silver and bronze respectively.

Mijain Lopez has gone out on top. The 41-year-old Cuban defeated Yasmani Acosta Fernandez of Chile 6-0 in the 130-kilogram final at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday to win his fifth consecutive gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. He's the first Olympic athlete to win gold in the same event at five consecutive Games, and the first wrestler to win five gold medals.

Pershing is being fined and censured by Finra for failing to report fractional share trades executed for customers for 16 years, the self-regulatory agency disclosed Tuesday.

Three years ago in Tokyo, NBC's Peacock streaming service was a laughingstock, riddled with glitches and unfulfilled promise

Disney returned to a profitable third quarter as its combined streaming business started making money for the first time, along with a very strong showing in theaters for the movie “Inside Out 2.”

Day passes to resorts and hotels really took off during the pandemic and have remained popular

Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Amgen, Airbnb fall; Fortinet, Dynatrace rise

In the face of economic uncertainty and Japan’s sustained low-interest rate environment, Bitcoin is drawing increased attention from investors seeking higher returns.

Rents are up nationally, but there is some good news for renters — the rate of growth is the slowest it’s been in 31 months.

Reliance Industries Ltd wants to be the partner of choice for leading global climate technology and product companies, the telecoms-to-petrochemicals conglomerate said in its fiscal 2024 annual report released on Wednesday. Over the next 12 months, RIL said, its focus would be to bring onstream new-energy manufacturing facilities, operate them efficiently and start developing renewable energy (RE) generation projects. RIL's new-energy division will commission its first module and cell manufacturing train in the ongoing fiscal. Solar panels manufactured at its Jamnagar facility have obtained BIS certification. «Work on RE development has commenced and Reliance has been allotted land in Gujarat. We aim to become the largest RE developer in India,» RIL said in the report.

Xpheno. The employment market in the first three months of the calendar year touched a 2-year high of 340,000 open positions at end March, shows the data curated from LinkedIn, Naukri.com, Indeed, Shine.com, among others. The number of active openings in July is a 4% degrowth over July 2023 and a 10% degrowth over July 2021, according to the data of white collar vacancies for professionals with one year of experience and above.

Canadians gearing up for a run at the fall housing market and existing homeowners with a mortgage renewal looming might see interest rates heading down in the weeks ahead thanks to recent market volatility, experts tell Global News.

Narendra Modi urged the private sector to step up its efforts in job creation and investment. Earlier this year, Nirmala Sitharaman had admonished the private sector for not scaling up investment, despite a generous corporate tax cut in 2019. A similar warning was sounded in FM's latest budget speech to states when she informed them that exclusive dependence on the Centre for large infrastructure projects was untenable because of the impact on the cost of borrowing on borrowers down the line. The appeal, admonishment and warning stem from a similar concern. GoI can't be expected to run the economy single-handedly without participation by all stakeholders. It should be an 'enabler' by making contributions on the supply side through improved physical infra, investing in human capital and through better governance to improve the ease of doing business. Addition of permanent assets in a country is commonly measured as gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), typically stated as a percentage of GDP. GFCF normally rises during periods of sustained economic growth and is lower when the economy slows. In the Indian context, GFCF as a share of GDP rose between FY04 and FY08, peaking at 37.5% of GDP in FY08.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday he still believes that the odds of a «soft landing» for the U.S. economy are around 35% to 40%, making recession the most likely scenario in his mind.

The Bank of Canada is now less concerned about home prices spiking as it lowers its benchmark interest rate, minutes from the governing council’s latest meeting show.

CFP Board has issued a permanent bar against a former advisor in New Hampshire who reportedly lost clients millions by placing them in complex investments that were unsuitable for them.

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