Last fall, representatives from Gainbridge, an Indiana-based annuities seller, reached out to Caitlin Clark’s marketing agents at Excel Sports Management to discuss a sponsorship deal. The company was launching a new product line and its executives believed Clark could help them reach younger customers.
Minji Ro, Gainbridge’s chief strategy officer, is also a longtime WNBA fan, and she knew that the Indiana Fever had a 44.2 percent chance of winning the WNBA lottery in December. Gainbridge holds the naming rights
Hurricanes have always struck the shores of the United States.
But in recent decades, the combination of climate change and a growing coastal population has made them far more damaging — particularly in one corner of the Atlantic coast.
These two metros, known for their striking coastlines, have been regularly battered by hurricanes this century.
They also have something else in common: Both are among the fastest-growing coastal metros in the United States since 2000.
The hurricanes keep coming, and
In Phoenix, a high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit now somehow counts as a respite. On Monday, America’s hottest major city ended its ominous streak of 31 straight days in which temperatures crested past 110. The toll of this heat—a monthly average of 102.7 degrees in July—has been brutal. One woman was admitted to a hospital’s burn unit after she fell on the pavement outside her home, and towering saguaros have dropped arms and collapsed. Over the past month, hospitals filling
Brits have a right to be glum given the cost-of-living crisis, which has plunged millions into poverty. I don’t want to downplay the hardship many people face, through no fault of their own, but new figures suggest the doom has been overdone.
The country is going through a tough time but as I wrote last week, much of the criticism of our economy has been twisted and distorted for political reasons.
Ever since Brexit, a host of international bodies have
These heartrending photos of surrogate babies in a makeshift basement clinic in Kyiv shine a light on the difficult situations faced by those involved in Ukraine’s booming global surrogacy industry as the country is ravaged by war.
The 21 babies were all carried by Ukrainian surrogate mothers for couples living overseas. They were born in maternity wards across the capital and taken to the ‘clinic’ – set up in the basement of a residential block – for safety.
Normally, parents
Anlageexperten sagen, dass es eine bessere Möglichkeit gibt, für Ihre Kinder zu investieren. Eine beliebte Anlageform hat in nur 10 Jahren aus einer Investition von 10.000 £ 77.000 £ gemacht, und das alles ist steuerfrei.
Premium-Anleihen von staatlich unterstützten National Savings & Investments (NS&I) können leicht an ein Kind oder Enkelkind verschenkt werden und könnten es sogar zu einem Millionär machen.
Sie können mindestens 25 £ und höchstens 50.000 £ investieren, wobei die Anleihen
This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit investigative-news organization.
On a mid-July afternoon, when the tide was starting to come in on the Naknek River, the Bandle family’s commercial fishing nets lay stretched across the beach, waiting for the water to rise. With the fishing crew on break, Sharon Bandle emerged from a tar-paper-sided cabin that serves as kitchen and bunkhouse with a plate of tempura salmon and a bowl
