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While you may think quakes are a western US problem, some of the largest temblors in US history have happened in the East.INDIO, Calif. – A magnitude 4.2 earthquake jolted Southern California’s Coachella Valley overnight, part of an ongoing earthquake swarm in the area that began with a magnitude 4.9 quake Monday night.Wednesday’s magnitude 4.2 aftershock was centered some 12 miles north-northeast of Indio, California, just after 12:30 a.m. local time, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).MAGNITUDE 4.9 EARTHQUAKE RATTLES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAEarthquake strikes Southern California.(FOX Weather) The quake was relatively shallow at approximately 2.6 miles and was felt…
Brussels/Strasbourg – On Tuesday, thousands of European farmers gathered in Strasbourg to express their dissatisfaction with the EU’s trade agreement with the Mercosur group and to put pressure on Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who are meeting in Strasbourg. The Slovak delegation at the protests is led by the president of the Slovak Chamber of Agriculture and Food Industry Andrej Gajdoš, the TASR correspondent reports. The protest in Strasbourg was initiated by the largest French farmers’ union (FNSEA). The FNSEA Secretary General Hervé Lapie stated in a message to the media that 600 to 700 tractors had arrived in…
by Calculated Risk on 1/06/2026 10:54:00 AM This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the December 2025 seasonally adjusted annual sales rate (SAAR) of 311 thousand.Note: “Heavy trucks – trucks more than 14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight.” Click on graph for larger image.Heavy truck sales were at 311 thousand SAAR in December, down from 336 thousand in November, and down 32.5% from 461 thousand SAAR in December 2024.Sales were down 15.3% in 2025 compared to annual sales in 2024.Usually, heavy truck sales decline sharply prior to a recession, and sales…
The Houston Rockets survived the late rally after coming back against the San Antonio Spurs 111-106, winning their third straight victory on Tuesday night. Alperen Sengun dropped an almost triple-double with 20 points, 13 rebounds, and nine assists, while Kevin Durant added 18 points, and Reed Sheppard scored 12 of 21 points in the fourth […] The post Rockets’ comeback dethrones Spurs 111-106 appeared first on TalkBasket.net.
FOX Weather Meteorologist Kiyana Lewis breaks down the potentially historic winter conditions looming across the U.S., with the storm spanning over 2,000 miles and reaching 30 states.Ololo City, Ok. – A major winter storm is forecast to take shape in the Southern Plains on Friday, and it’ll pump significant snow and ice into a region that rarely ever sees forecasts of such magnitudes.With Winter Storm Watches now in effect, areas from Texas through Oklahoma and Arkansas are monitoring the potentially historic winter storm expected to persist through the weekend. It could create chaotic travel conditions as dangerous levels of snow…
In a fight over President Donald Trump’s quest to acquire Greenland, the president made false and misleading statements about the Nobel Peace Prize and his own peace record. “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump wrote January 18 in a text message to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Trump added, “I have done more for…
I have a new working paper with Bart Wilson titled: “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car: Moral Intuition for Intellectual Property.” The title of this post, “everyone take copies,” comes from a conversation between the human subjects in an experiment in our lab, on which the paper is based. The experiment was studying how and when people take resources from one another. The people in the game each control a round avatar in a virtual environment, as you can see in this screenshot below. In the experiment, “seeds” represent a rivalrous resource, meaning multiple people can’t possess and use them at…
Arsenal are now sure of a place in the top two. Mikel Arteta hailed his Arsenal side for going to another level in their 3-1 Champions League win over Inter Milan at San Siro, which secured a top-two finish in the league phase. Already sure of a place in the top eight after Manchester City’s stunning loss to Bodo/Glimt earlier on Tuesday, Arsenal produced a hugely impressive performance against the Nerazzurri to make it seven wins from seven in this season’s Champions League, the club’s longest such run in the competition. Gabriel Jesus opened the scoring in the 10th minute…
Dangerous, life-threatening cold has spread over much of the Northern Plains, Midwest and parts of the Northeast, with another surge of Arctic air expected to drop wind chills close to minus 40 degrees later this week—leaving some places in the Lower 48 colder than Alaska. After a brief reprieve Wednesday for the Northeast, the season’s most bone-chilling air will race into the Northern Plains and Midwest by Thursday. Low temperatures will drop into the single digits and teens across much of the Upper Midwest on Wednesday; Detroit is expected to reach a high of only 6 degrees.PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The…
Seeking additional barrels of oil in Venezuela or digging for rare earths in ice-covered Greenland makes no sense from an economic or security point of view. And yet U.S. President Donald Trump persists, even though the costs massively outweigh the benefits. In reality, naked resource grabs explain a lot about Trump’s dizzying foreign policy, perhaps even more so than other explanations that have been proposed. It seems Trump may have reached back even further in time for his guiding light than tariff-happy William McKinley and big-stick imperialist Theodore Roosevelt to the British and Dutch quasi-state mercantilist corporations that introduced much…