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Records for gold, coffee, copper, cocoa: What commodity prices say about inflation

A recent string of record-high prices in commodities as different as coffee and copper may be traced back to the same underlying cause: a U.S. economy that is running hot.  The rising prices of commodities might even be a sign that the Federal Reserve is not succeeding in its efforts to drive down inflation, economists […]

London NHS hospitals revert to paper records after cyber-attack | NHS

A cyber attack believed to have been carried out by a Russian group disrupted an NHS hospital’s IT network, forcing it to reinstate a long-abandoned paper record-keeping system in which blood test results are handed over by porters. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust (GSTT) has reverted to using paper, rather than computers, to receive patients’ […]

Chinese Vaccine Giants Paid Numerous Royalties To Fauci’s Former Agency, Records Show

Two Chinese vaccine manufacturers were among the most frequent payers of royalties to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former agency during the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, documents obtained by Open The Books show. Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which Fauci once headed, collected $690 million in royalty payments for the licensing […]

New York Appeals Court judges in Trump case donated routinely to Democrats, records show

The New York State Supreme Court, which hears appeals for former President Donald Trump, includes justices who have donated to Democratic campaigns and who were elected as Democratic candidates to lower courts before being appointed to the appeals court. State election records show that some judges who served on lower courts donated to Democratic candidates […]

Massive criminal records leak exposes 70M Americans’ personal information

A group of cybercriminals leaked a database containing the criminal records of 70 million Americans, according to cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The leaked information included people’s full names, dates of birth, known aliases, postal codes, arrest dates, conviction dates and sentences. This is bad news for those with past convictions. To get security alerts and expert […]

Squatters who failed to pay NY mortgage shell out $700K for Florida home: records

Two allegedly racist squatters who missed their mortgage payments for years and then claimed poverty and refused to leave their Long Island home when it was auctioned have paid $700,000 in cash for a new Florida home, records show. Barry and Barbara Pollack, both 72, bought the two-bedroom, two-bathroom home in a Boynton Beach community […]