The US remains the world’s largest defense spender, outlaying $916 billion last year, a 2.3 percent annual increase, ahead of China in second place, which spent an estimated $296 billion, a 6 percent increase over the same period.
Global military spending reached a fresh record high in 2023, totaling $2.4 trillion, a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said.
The group says there were nearly 9,000 incidents of assault, harassment, and vandalism in 2023.
Cocoa Prices Hit New Record High As Talks In Ghana Suggest Delayed Deliveries Of Beans Cocoa futures jumped to a record high in New York on Thursday morning as traders confronted new supply problems in Ghana, the world's second-largest cocoa producer. Bloomberg reports that the Ghana Cocoa Board, the regulator, is speaking with major commodity traders about delaying the delivery of 150,000 to 250,000 tons of cocoa until the next growing season due to dwindling bean supplies. The...
The Asus TUF 34-inch curved gaming monitor has hit a new low price of just $299. The display has a resolution of 3,440 x 1,440 and includes a refresh rate of 165Hz, among other features.
The Asus TUF F15 Windows 11 gaming-themed notebook has a 15.6-inch display and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 GPU. It just hit a new all-time low price of $750 at Amazon for a limited time.
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claimed that Donald Trump appeared to "doze off" during his hush money criminal trial.
SALISBURY, Md – Like most Americans, Salisbury University student Anthony Marzullo has been feeling the rise in gas prices where it really hurts: his wallet. “Today, I just came from a class that I had. I came right and I was dreading it. I was like, ‘got to pay another $20, $30 to get half of what I usually get,'”
Fresh salmon prices hit an all time record in Norway last week, although there are signs the surge could be over. They soared to NOK 123.28 per kilo during week 15, an increase of NOK 3.34 per kilo or 2.2% on the previous week. The official figures from Statistics Norway are generally an average so
Prices for luxury homes in the United States have reached a record high, rising nearly nine percent in the first quarter of 2024, twice as much as the prices of non-luxury homes.
Drivers in Texas saw a 7-cent increase in gas prices with an average of $3.29/gallon of regular unleaded fuel however the increase marked a 7-cent decrease when compared to this day last year on Thursday, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch.
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