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...BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street have come under particular fire because their funds collectively control about 20 per cent of most large US companies....
...Charlotte is in North Carolina, not South Carolina as stated in an earlier version of this story....
..., whose Supreme Court victory over Harvard and the University of North Carolina last year effectively ended race-based affirmative action in college admissions....
...over high casualties and a deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza....
...“There were no casualties and a fire on board the tanker has been extinguished,” said a defence department spokesperson....
...the town north-east of Donetsk....
...Remarkably, the Fort McMurray conflagration caused no human casualties, unlike some recent wildfire tragedies — notably this summer’s Lahaina fire in Hawaii that killed 100....
...The US property and casualty insurance industry has suffered through a summer of devastating thunderstorms on the continent....
...Patrick McHenry, a Republican congressman from North Carolina and close McCarthy ally, has been designated “Speaker pro tempore” to lead the chamber in the absence of an elected Speaker....
...Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones was the first opera by a Black composer to be staged by the Met, in 2021....
...Because the book ends in early 2023, it tells a story of gritty defence, rising casualties and destruction, and then success as Ukraine’s forces recapture territory in the north-east and Kherson above Crimea...
...“One or two fires” in a portfolio might be containable, he says, but distress on multiple fronts could easily lead to a situation “where some of those owners say ‘I just can’t inject equity everywhere, I...
...The same plant also caught fire in June last year, just a few months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
...“Everybody waits with bated breath,” said Adam Peters, head of North America at Air Liquide, adding that the guidance will “dictate” whether the $10bn that the company planned to invest in hydrogen development...
...“That was the spark that all this needed, just adding fuel to a fire that was already there,” said Cecilia Farfán Méndez, head of research at the Center for US-Mexican studies at the University of California...
...One colonel in Kyiv recently said that drones “play a part in more than 70 per cent of Russian casualties”....
...On Friday, North Carolina treasurer Dale Folwell called for founder Larry Fink to resign or be removed as chief executive of the $8tn asset manager....
...It is one of the reasons Ukraine didn’t have the same trajectory as Russia,” says Silviya Nitsova, an expert on oligarchs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
...Many companies are feeling the pinch....
...The company is facing criticism for its handling of the event, including skipping a town-hall meeting on Wednesday. Residents have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company alleging negligence....
...They rejected the Harvard and University of North Carolina programmes that give a boost to minority students for violating the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law....
...Contending that the firm was hostile to fossil fuel, Republican states have pulled more than $3bn in funds from BlackRock and North Carolina’s treasurer has called for the ouster of founder Larry Fink from...
...North Carolina at Chapel Hill....
...It is receiving significant amounts of equipment from Iran and North Korea and others....
...Madison Cawthorn, the outgoing North Carolina congressman who lost his bid for re-election earlier this year after being ousted in the Republican primary, appeared to be the only member of Congress present...
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