Stocks retreated Tuesday as growing tensions in the Middle East poured water on investor enthusiasm coming off a strong quarter.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 173.18 points, or 0.41%, to 42,156.97. The S&P 500 pulled back 0.93% to 5,708.75, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 1.53% to finish at 17,910.36.West Texas…
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See AllMost city residents are supposed to start separating compostable food and garden scraps from their trash in all five boroughs Oct. 6 — but if their recycling track record is any indication, it may be an uphill battle. The new composting measure, passed by the City Council last year, has been touted as a “key” part of the Big Apple’s war on rats, according to Gotham’s Department of Sanitation. “Curbside composting fights rats and helps…
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View MoreHanging over all of this for Charbel — as well as the relatively small contingent of Israeli critics of the escalation with Hezbollah — is the fear that history will repeat itself. Israeli invasions in both 1982 and 2006 became more expansive and deadly than how they had been initially framed.…
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View MoreThe enormous scope and scale of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in two key battleground states that could determine the election’s outcome, Georgia and North Carolina, have made the storm an instant campaign issue. The Biden-Harris administration is dealing with what is expected to be a massive – and lengthy – federal…
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View MoreWe are buying 200 shares of Coterra Energy at roughly $24.35. Following the trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 3,300 shares of CTRA, increasing its weighting to 2.34% from 2.2%. In Monday’s edition of the Homestretch , we said we were debating adding to our position in Coterra Energy…
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View MoreRev. Franklin Graham, CEO of both Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, on Monday spent time in Valdosta, Georgia, together with former president Donald Trump, to offer assistance and comfort to those impacted by Hurricane Helene’s devastation.While the official death toll as of Monday afternoon is over 125,…