Bright Ideas for Your Old Holiday Lights
09 Jan
Lifestyle

Bright Ideas for Your Old Holiday Lights

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Lifestyle Lifestyle For many, twinkling holiday lights are a beautiful and anticipated seasonal feature. But what should you do with them after they stop working or when you want new ones? With these ideas, you can find a new purpose for your old festive strands of lights. The environmental problemThe holiday season can be joyous, but it also generates a lot of garbage. Americans throw away about 25 percent more this time of year, straining landfills. Wrapping paper, packaging, and food are the major culprits. But discarded lights are often mixed in...
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Spirit Airlines’ worth, Tesla’s miss, and drug hikes: Business news roundup
09 Jan
Business News

Spirit Airlines’ worth, Tesla’s miss, and drug hikes: Business news roundup

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Photo: Kevin Carter (Getty Images), Justin Sullivan (Getty Images), Vijayananda Gupta/Hindustan Times (Getty Images), Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg (Getty Images), Andrew Harnik (Getty Images), Image: Chung Seun-Jun (Getty Images), Callaghan O’Hare (Getty Images), Thomas De Wever (Getty Images), Catherine McQueen (Getty Images), Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times (Getty Images)A Spirit Airlines planePhoto: Kevin Carter (Getty Images)Spirit Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy in November, has given investors a peek into its ongoing reorganization. As part of that process, it filed a financial update with the Securities and Exchange Commission that shows its equity is worth less than the compensation paid to its executives in 2023. Read MoreA plane carrying 181 people, Jeju Air Flight 7C2216, crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea after skidding off the runway and colliding with a wall, resulting in an...
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Listen: NPR and KFF Health News Explore How Racism and Violence Hurt Health
09 Jan
Health News

Listen: NPR and KFF Health News Explore How Racism and Violence Hurt Health

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KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony and Emily Kwong, host of NPR’s podcast “Shortwave,” talk about Black families living in the aftermath of lynchings and police killings in their communities. Anthony shares her southeastern Missouri-based reporting from “Silence in Sikeston,” a documentary film, podcast, and print reporting project. She discusses the latest research on the health effects of racism and violence, including the emerging, controversial field of epigenetics. Hear the full podcast episodes Anthony and Kwong reference from “Silence in Sikeston” here. They discuss material from Episode 1, “Racism Can Make You Sick”; Episode 2, “Hush, Fix Your Face”; and Episode 3, “Trauma Lives in the Body.” In 1942, Mable Cook was a teenager. She was standing on her front porch when she witnessed the lynching of Cleo Wright. In the aftermath, Cook received advice from her...
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Seven billionaires created by India’s IPO boom in 2024
09 Jan
Business News

Seven billionaires created by India’s IPO boom in 2024

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Seven billionaires created by India’s IPO boom in 2024A blockbuster year for initial public offerings in India catapulted seven entrepreneurs into the dollar billionaires league, many of them early movers in the country’s booming renewable energy sector.Chiranjeev Singh Saluja of Premier Energies is among those who successfully rode the wave.“My father was in the business of supplying hand pumps to rural villages,” the 51-year-old said in an interview. “He saw that access to electricity was sparse in those areas, so he started Premier Solar in 1995,” Saluja said.Three decades on, the company rechristened Premier Energies is the country’s second largest integrated solar module and solar cell manufacturer behind the Adani Group. Investors bullish on the government’s investments in solar energy have bid up Premier shares nearly threefold since their debut in September, valuing it...
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