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COPENHAGEN/FRANKFURT, Aug 12 - Orsted and RWE, the world's two largest offshore wind players, both suffered from lighter winds in the first half of the year, highlighting how profits in the booming industry remain tied to weather conditions. Denmark's Orsted said wind speeds in the April-June period were "significantly lower than normal" and ranked among the worst three quarters in over more than 20 years. As a consequence, it said it would likely hit only the lower end of its guided core profit range in 2021. Orsted was however confident that it wind speeds would return to more normal levels....

I've had the great fortune of traveling the world for business and with my beloved family and close friends for over 25 years. These travels have taken us to multiple continents and cities; some similar to our Western traditions and some so old they far supersede our cultural norms. I have learned that being well-traveled leads to a more well-balanced life because it allows you to see the uniqueness of various cultures and the traditions and norms they have built over time. More so, it allows you to see the similarities that highlight just how similar humankind is, regardless of...

NEW YORK — How to cope with the higher inflation sweeping the economy? For Corporate America, the answer so far is simple: Raise prices. Companies are charging more for everything from diapers to auto parts, more than covering their own higher costs. They’ve been so successful that analysts say big U.S. companies’ profit margins have never been higher. As a result, quarterly profit reports from S&P 500 companies the last few weeks have blown past Wall Street’s expectations. That’s helping to support record high stock prices despite worries that valuations have shot too high and that the delta variant of...

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Sean Hannity announced on his Fox News show Wednesday that his lawyers are stopping him from obtaining a copy of the laptop reportedly belonging to Hunter Biden. “I have been offered the laptop, my lawyers won’t let me accept it. The reason, I’m told, is because of what is believed to be on it,” Hannity said. “I have three individual and separate sources that have told me that there are pictures on this laptop, probably the very things that alerted John Paul Mac, the computer repairman, to alert the FBI,” Hannity added. Lucky for us, others do have the laptop...

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For the past year and a half, we've been told repeatedly to rely on science. First, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told us not to wear masks; only those in medical settings needed them. Fauci then said we should wear masks. Then people were seen sporting several masks. We were told that there would be two weeks to flatten the curve; then the longer shutdowns came for what seemed like a lifetime. Scientists initially said that a vaccine could not be produced within a year; when it was, the vaccines were marketed as COVID-19 prevention by...

There are thousands of different kinds of beetles in Maine. But only one — the blister beetle — produces a toxic chemical that causes skin blisters if touched, is fatal to livestock, was once a common treatment for warts and gave us the term “Spanish Fly” for aphrodisiacs. “The big story with them is they do release a fatty material from the joints of their legs that is very toxic and causes severe blistering.” That fatty material is the chemical cantharidin. In addition to causing irritating skin blisters, it can be fatal if swallowed as it will form blisters inside...

The term itself, perhaps, is a problem. “Breakthrough” sounds bad — implying an immune-escape mutation, likely rare, and therefore alarming. The vaccines were never tested to prevent transmission, only symptomatic disease, and those who knew the science expected, from the outset, that we would see some number of such cases, and that they would be, overwhelmingly, mild.

The “Terminator” film icon and former governor of California spoke via YouTube Wednesday to urge people to follow the rules and get vaccinated. “There is a virus here — it kills people,” the Schwarzenegger said, “and the only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about ‘well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.’ No, screw your freedom.” The 74-year-old actor was part of a panel with CNN’s Alex Vindman and Bianna Golodryga to discuss misinformation and COVID-19 policy. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the...

The Coalition to Protect American Workers, led by GOP strategists including Mark Short, who served as former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, is warning members of Congress against reversing President Trump’s landmark 2017 tax reform law. “If any elected member of Congress tries to jeopardize the next American recovery in the name of higher spending, expansive social welfare programs, the green new deal and higher taxes, we will ensure that you are held accountable,” the group wrote in a letter to lawmakers.

This week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York resigned his office. It was a stunning turnabout for a man who had been proclaimed a hero of the republic by the entire media just last year, even as he presided over the worst COVID-19 spike in the United States and covered up the deaths of thousands of nursing-home patients. Trevor Noah declared himself a "Cuomosexual"; Chelsea Handler gushed about her "crush"; there was even talk about supplanting President Joe Biden with Cuomo at the top of the 2020 Democratic ticket were Biden to falter. Crown Publishing saw fit to shower $5...

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger said “you’re a schmuck” if you don’t wear a mask, just days after photos and video showed prominent Democrats — from Barack Obama to Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) — partying indoors maskless. “You cannot go and not put the mask on because when you breathe, you can infect someone else. And you can infect someone that then gets sick and may die,” the Terminator star and former governor of California said during a discussion with CNN’s Bianna Golodryga and Alexander Vindman. “So this is why I think we all have to...

Analysis: Only Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger seem to see that they can serve both the country and the Republican Party. If Republicans won't defend the Capitol, the Constitution or even themselves, it's hard to see how they can claim to stand for anyone — or anything — else. That's what Tuesday's hearing was really about — for the Democrats, for the police who testified and for the two Republicans who said serving their party and the country aren't mutually exclusive goals. McCarthy, facing a similar choice, has decided to follow Trump rather than the truth.

A South Carolina man has been arrested for alleging giving a child a face tattoo at a McDonald’s restaurant, police said. Brandon Presha, 28, of Laurens, S.C., is charged with illegal tattooing and underage tattooing after police learned that a minor received a tattoo, FOX Carolina reported. Brandon Presha, 28, of Laurens, was arrested Tuesday on charges of illegal tattooing and underage tattooing, Laurens Police Chief Chrissie Latimore said. The chief said a judge has set bond on both charges at $25,000, WYFF-TV reported.

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s name appears on four U.S patents for a key glycoprotein that seems to have been inserted into the SARS virus to create COVID-19. Justia.com, a legal portal, lists patents by inventor Anthony Fauci involving a glycoprotein in HIV-1. This same glycoprotein, identified as Glycoprotein 120, or simply as GP120, has also been found to be a key component of the current COVID-19, a disease that appears to combine a HIV-1 attack on the human immune system, with SARS CoV-1, the pathogen from the original SARS Medical scientists in India reported four intersections in the spike glycoprotein that...

Administration may have little leverage to influence prices: analysts Later, Biden, in a speech, underlined that theme, saying that gasoline prices have remained high as oil prices fell. “I want to make sure that nothing stands in the way of oil-price declines leading to lower prices for consumers,” he said. High oil prices, particularly when translated into rising gasoline prices, are always a politically sensitive issue. Biden is hardly the first president to take aim at OPEC, or to urge regulators to take a close look at gasoline prices. Retail gasoline prices averaged $3.14 a gallon in July, the highest...

WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT Hunter Biden claims Russian drug dealers stole another one of his laptops for blackmail while he was drugged out in a Vegas hotel room in 2018 Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hunter with a naked hooker in 2019 after filming a sex tape and explaining how he believed his laptop was stolen Hunter left the camera rolling as he recounted a Las Vegas bender in which he spent '18 days going round from penthouse suite to penthouse suite' The incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers, each likely to hold sensitive information on President...

Conservative California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder recently said in an interview that, “I do believe that Joe Biden won the election fairly and squarely.” Elder’s response understandably invited outrage and condemnation from countless conservatives, who maintain that the 2020 election was stolen. Catturd, an unapologetic conservative with an impressive Twitter following of more than 540,000 accounts— myself included — tweeted “Good morning - see ya later Larry Elder. He can't hold up under pressure - and yes I saw the full video, which wasn't much better. His poll numbers are about to plummet.” I understand the response from Catturd, which...

Vietnam recorded 9,653 new local Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the nation's second highest daily number ever. Thursday's infection tally came only after 9,684 cases recorded on August 8. It included 2,226 cases detected in the community. The five localities which recorded the highest numbers of infections were Ho Chi Minh City with 3,841 cases, Binh Duong with 3,028, Dong Nai 1,071, Long An 354 and Tien Giang 212, all in southern Vietnam.