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Synchrony Bank offers several CD accounts with rates above 5.00% <img src=' alt=' Thomas Barwick / Getty Images ‘ title=”Businesswoman consulting with financial advisor in office”> Thomas Barwick / Getty Images Fact checked by Hans Daniel Jasperson Synchrony Bank CD Rates Synchrony Bank is an online bank that offers a wide variety of financial services, including certificates of deposit (CDs) …

“It’s an awfully exciting time,” says Andrew Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. “There is a bright future in which all 100,000 patients on the kidney transplant wait list, and maybe even the 500,000 Americans on dialysis, are more routinely offered a pig kidney as one of their options,” Cameron adds. All the living patients who …

From the Florentine countryside, OOH-sounds is fighting the tide of algorithmic ambient with challenging new sounds

More than 150,000 registered Republicans voted for Nikki Haley in Pennsylvania’s presidential primary Tuesday, marking a conspicuous show of defiance against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. With the vast majority of votes tallied Wednesday morning, Trump won about 83 percent of the vote. But Haley, who ended her campaign March 6, carried more than 16 percent, sparking a debate among …

Just when you thought hot inflation had finally cooled off, out jumps some indication that the Federal Reserve may not have won the fight just yet. The Consumer Price Index, a broad measure of how average consumer prices change for a variety of goods and services, rose 3.5% year over year in March, a 0.3% increase from February (when it …

Throughout the five months of troubleshooting, Voyager’s ground team continued to receive signals indicating the spacecraft was still alive. But until Saturday, they lacked insight into specific details about the status of Voyager 1. “It’s pretty much just the way we left it,” Spilker said. “We’re still in the initial phases of analyzing all of the channels and looking at …

When you’re Kim Kardashian and start your own wildly successful underwear and shapewear company, you can pretty much create any product you want, whenever you want. (After all, SKIMS was born after Kardashian noticed a gap in the shapewear market based on her own experience customizing shapewear to suit her wardrobe.) That’s why it comes as no surprise that the brand’s instantly …

(Bloomberg) — The world’s biggest bond market remained under pressure, with a jumbo-sized sale of Treasuries failing to assuage concerns on whether a turning point is in sight after this year’s selloff. Most Read from Bloomberg Treasuries stayed lower after a $70 billion auction of five-year notes “tailed slightly.” The auction was awarded at 4.659%, a bit higher than the …

Hezbollah dismisses Israeli claim that it has killed half of the group’s commanders in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military says it hit dozens of targets in southern Lebanon while the Lebabese armed group Hezbollah said it fired dozens of rockets at an Israeli border village as fighting continues to escalate. The Israeli military said the strikes in the area of …

Between the Muppets, Sesame Street, and fantasy films like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, there’s a good chance Jim Henson played a key part in your childhood. Want to know more about the man behind the puppets? Check out the first trailer for the upcoming Disney+ documentary Jim Henson Idea Man, which dives deep into Henson’s storied life and career. …

Billie Eilish can’t get enough of sex. In a new, free-wheeling interview with Rolling Stone, the pop star got incredibly candid about her sex life, talking about everything from masturbation to the sexually charged lyrics of her new song “Lunch.” It seemed clear that the singer’s sexuality would be taking front stage of her forthcoming third album, Hit Me Hard …

According to the myth, Catherine II’s courtier Grigory Potemkin recruited peasants to populate fake villages erected along the Dnipro River, so the Russian empress, passing in her barge, might get a favourable impression of conditions in newly conquered Crimea. Historians doubt that it happened, but the idea of counterfeiting progress to appease the boss was plausible enough for the name …

Elon Musk doesn’t think Tesla should be viewed as just another auto company.  Musk told investors on Tuesday that Tesla’s Optimus robots are its most valuable asset. “We should be thought of as an AI or robotics company,” Musk said. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app …

Reddit is rolling out a few new updates to its iOS and Android apps to make it easier for people to locate and take part in conversations on the platform. The company announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new unified media player, along with instant comment loading and a direct shortcut to conversations. Given that a large part of …

A well-cut suit—whether single- or double-breasted—is a forever wardrobe staple. It’s particularly a popular piece for office settings, as the clean, sleek silhouette reads as both confident and professional. That being said, suiting up doesn’t only have to be confined to a fluorescent-lit boardroom. As Kendall Jenner showed this week, a smart two-piece can also be a fresh option for …

Humana, Inc. (NYSE:HUM) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 24, 2024 9:00 AM ET Company Participants Lisa Stoner – VP, IRBruce Broussard – CEO & DirectorJames Rechtin – President & COOSusan Diamond – CFO Conference Call Participants Ann Hynes – Mizuho Securities Kevin Fischbeck – Bank of America Merrill LynchGary Taylor – TD CowenScott Fidel – StephensBenjamin Hendrix – RBC …

Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Alex Wong/Getty Images/File In today’s Supreme Court hearing on a Biden administration challenge to aspects of Idaho’s strict abortion ban, US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar put forward arguments seeking to appeal to conservative justices who just two years ago ruled that states should have the ability to prohibit the procedure. …

In the News: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates numerous times throughout 2022 and 2023 to cool high inflation. At the Fed’s most recent meeting in March, the committee decided to hold rates steady—the fifth meeting in a row it has done so—but said again that it expects to cut rates later this year. The Fed’s dot plot shows that …

Smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 Classic are some of the best on the market. Yet, at almost $400, they’re not for everybody, especially since you’ll need to be tapped into a particular operating system to make the most of either wearable. Thankfully, for everybody else, there’s the platform-agnostic Amazfit GTR 4, which …

The world’s attention has left Gaza for the moment due to the Iranian attack against Israel, a major strategic shift in Iranian policy increasing the chance for a regional war. But it is only a matter of time before the spotlight will return to Rafah, the last holdout of Hamas’ standing battalions.  With only forty hostages presumed alive, the rest, both men and women, killed and many sexually assaulted …