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This story is honestly hard to believe. A routine daycare checkup found a large hole in a 2 year old’s heart. Doctors tested his brother. Same problem. Then they checked the other two siblings. All four children had congenital heart defects. The two brothers ended up needing surgery at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital. Here’s …
🇻🇪 Explosion and massive fire at a Venezuelan gas processing facility It's believed to have been caused by a pipeline rupturing during a routine gas depressurizing operation. The world's energy infrastructure just can't catch a break pic.twitter.com/KwAIcqKRoE — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 15, 2026
Big tech has used voluntary retirement and buyout programs during prior efficiency cycles and post boom adjustments. Translation: ‘You’re not fired, you’re ‘involuntarily retired’ with a nice package.’ AI doesn’t need pensions. Smart cost-cutting before earnings. Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce Microsoft will offer voluntary buyouts to …
The first shot couldn't have been from the confiscated gun because the bullet hit the ground next to the man while the agent was walking in the other direction. pic.twitter.com/oZmunclgfX — Lilly inLondon (@Lillyin_London) January 25, 2026
🚨BREAKING: CDC ends routine Hep B shots for newborns—restoring informed consent and common sense. 👏A major step toward evidence-based, risk-aware public health. Deeper context here: https://t.co/53BlqajRDA Respect to @HHS_Jim , @SecKennedy & @realDonaldTrump for putting… pic.twitter.com/XXLPJAucUU — Sayer Ji (@sayerjigmi) December 17, 2025 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday adopted its …
Warning to young investors margin and leverage can turn market dips into financial disasters. The composite Nasdaq volume have been screwy lately due to some heavy share volume in penny stocks, so I am leery about trusting any insights from those data. Here is the traditional (not ratio-adjusted) Volume Summation Index for the stocks in …