Curaleaf Holdings Inc. has announced its intention to make an unsolicited takeover bid to acquire all outstanding common shares of Aurora Cannabis Inc. for an implied value of US$4.00 per share. The proposed transaction package consists of 0.3463 Curaleaf subordinate voting shares combined with US$0.75 in cash for each share...
The Pacific Northwest remains the nation's most active wildfire region, with major blazes in Washington and Oregon exhibiting what fire officials describe as “extreme fire behavior” as hot, dry, and windy conditions continue to fuel rapid growth . According to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), 101 new fires were reported...
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders issued an open letter to the chief executives of Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, demanding an immediate halt to the development of advanced artificial intelligence. The Guardian The letter, addressed directly to Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg, warned that the capabilities of frontier AI models...
Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo officially declared a state of emergency due to the rapidly spreading Bug and Fred Mountain Fires. The declaration was signed as extreme wildfire behavior forced significant expansions of mandatory evacuation zones. The state of emergency is legally set to remain in effect until at least August...
The contiguous United States experienced its hottest month in recorded history this July, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures across the Lower forty eight states averaged seventy six point nine degrees Fahrenheit, surpassing the previous historic record established during the severe Dust Bowl era...
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has dropped to its lowest water level since it was first filled nearly 90 years ago, according to federal data. The reservoir, which straddles the Arizona-Nevada border outside Las Vegas, hit 1,040.4 feet (317.1 meters) above sea level on Friday. This...
Investing.com -- Tenax Therapeutics stock plunged 84.2% in pre-open trading after the company disclosed that its Phase 3 LEVEL trial of TNX-103 -- oral levosimendan -- failed to meet its primary endpoint of a statistically significant improvement in 6-minute walk distance compared to placebo in patients with pulmonary hypertension due...
A hazardous material spill is prompting a large emergency response on Hayden Island in Portland, Oregon, early Monday morning. Portland Fire & Rescue crews responded to the incident on North Center Avenue, near the on-ramp to Interstate 5, shortly before 5:30 a.m. local time. According to fire officials, a 34,000-gallon tank...
A firefighting helicopter crashed on Friday while battling the Widemouth 2 Fire in central Utah, killing the two crew members on board, authorities confirmed Saturday. The aircraft, a Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane, went down near Richfield in Sevier County at approximately 10 a.m. local time. The helicopter was under contract with the...
The United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service issued an emergency public health alert regarding meat and poultry products containing fresh jalapeño peppers that may be contaminated with Salmonella Javiana. The public health action follows an ongoing nationwide food contamination investigation conducted jointly by the U.S. Food...
