Month: May 2022

Flight Attendant Finds Love After Giving Up Hope, Travels 16 Countries and 14 States With Soulmate

When a flight attendant finally met her soulmate, a nuclear engineer, after years of waiting, the result was explosive. For Tatiana Wallace, 36, the constant globe-trotting her job entails poses relationship challenges. The solution? She packed up her now-husband, Travis Brent Wallace, 40, and took him along with her. “I wanted to take him everywhere…


Oil Firms on Tight Supply as US Driving Season Looms

LONDON—Oil prices gained on Monday with U.S. fuel demand, tight supply, and a slightly weaker U.S. dollar supporting the market, as Shanghai prepares to reopen after a two-month lockdown that fuelled worries about a sharp slowdown in growth. Brent crude futures rose $1.12 or 1 percent to $113.67 a barrel at 0912 GMT, while U.S….


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Kids Surprise Their Step Parent With Emotional Adoption Proposal

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World Shares Mixed as Wall Street Hovers Near Bear Market

World shares were mixed in cautious trading Monday after Wall Street dipped once again to the edge of a bear market. Benchmarks rose in Frankfurt, London, and Tokyo and fell in Paris and Hong Kong. U.S. futures and oil prices rose. Investors were awaiting minutes from the latest policy setting meeting of the Federal Reserve…


BMW Exploring Energy Investments to Reduce Dependence on Natural Gas

BERLIN—BMW is exploring new investments in solar, geothermal, and hydrogen energy to lower its dependence on natural gas, the carmaker’s production chief told Reuters on Monday, warning an embargo on Russian gas would bring the industry to a standstill. The carmaker, which relied on natural gas for 54 percent of its energy consumption in 2021,…


Gas Prices Jump 33 Cents in Past 2 Weeks, Some Analysts See $6 per Gallon by August

The average price of regular-grade gasoline spiked 33 cents over the past two weeks to $4.71 per gallon, according to the Lundberg Survey, which comes as some analysts predict prices will climb above $6 a gallon by the end of the summer. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said on May 22 that…


Hong Kong’s New Wave of Emigrants

Since July 2020, at least 300,000 people have left Hong Kong. In the first three months of 2022, the number amounted to 140,000. An opinion poll by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute in late March this year shows that 24 percent of the respondents had plans of emigration. Among supporters of the pro-democracy camp,…


White House Economic Adviser Plays Down Recession, Says Economy in ‘Period of Transition’

President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser played down the risk of recession in a recent interview, suggesting Americans be confident during what he called a “period of transition” of COVID-19 recovery. It comes amid growing warnings from banks and economists that the U.S. economy could be heading into recession in the next 12 to 24…