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Exxon profit falls compared with record-setting numbers last year, but consolidation in full swing

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

Exxon Mobil’s third-quarter profit declined compared with last year when the oil giant put up record numbers as oil prices soared, but net income jumped 15% compared with the previous quarter. It also raised its quarterly dividend.Those lofty crude prices have fueled a shopping spree this year as Exxon acquired pipeline operator Denbury, the beneficiary of changes in U.S. climate policy, for $4.9 billion in July, and then a few weeks ago the company said that it would buy Pioneer for $60 billion. Exxon isn’t alone. Earlier this week, Chevron said it would spend more than $50 billion to acquire Hess. Exxon Mobil Corp. earned $9.07 billion, or $2.25 per share in the period. That compares with $19.66 billion, or $4.68 per share, a year earlier.Removing certain items, earnings were $2.27 per share.Analysts polled by Zacks Investment Research predicted higher earnings of $2.36 per share, but Exxon does not adjust its reported results based on one-time events such as asset sales as ...

A blast kills at least 4 people and injures others in a Shiite neighborhood of the Afghan capital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The death toll from an explosion in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital increased to four, with seven people critically injured, a police spokesperson said Friday . The cause of the Thursday evening blast at a boxing club in Kabul is still not known. Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the city’s police chief, said the investigation into the blast is ongoing. He initially reported that two people died and nine were injured.Video taken after the explosion shows part of a building with its windows blown out, flames billowing inside. Shattered glass and other debris are strewn across the street below. The scale of the damage was clearer Friday morning. There were craters in the ground and most of the club’s interior has been gutted. Workers picked their way through boxing gloves and gym equipment on the blood-splattered floor.Eyewitness Sultan Ali Amini said that at least six people died and more than 15 were injured. “As ...

Final Nacional de la Red Bull Batalla de Argentina: participantes, horarios y cómo ver en vivo

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

(CNN Español) — Argentina celebrará la final nacional de la Red Bull Batalla este 28 de octubre. El campeón local representará al país en la gran final internacional en diciembre.La definición argentina de una de las competencias de freestyle más importantes de habla hispana tendrá lugar por primera vez en la provincia de Córdoba. El estadio Quality Arena será el escenario en el que se medirán 16 competidores de todo el país.Este año, el jurado estará integrado por dos referentes de la escena local como Dtoke y Stuart. Los acompañará el excompetidor y cantante de rap y trap Dani.Entre los competidores se encuentran CTZ, Larriz y Jesse Pungaz, que integraron el podio nacional en 2022, además de los ganadores de las competencias regionales que tuvieron lugar en varios puntos del país.El campeón representará a Argentina en la final internacional en Colombia el próximo 2 de diciembre.También participará Mecha (campeón de la Red Bull Batalla Argentina 2022), que se aseguró un lugar...

Fearful Maine residents remain behind locked doors on day 2 of search for mass killing suspect

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes Friday as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist who authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state history.Much of Thursday’s search focused on a large property belonging to one of Card’s relatives in rural Bowdoin, where trucks and vans full of armed agents from the FBI and other agencies eventually surrounded a home on Thursday.Police officers speak with a motorist at a roadblock, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, in Lisbon, Maine, during a manhunt for the suspect of Wednesday's mass shootings. The shootings took place at a restaurant and bowling alley in nearby Lewiston, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)The Cards have lived in Bowdoin for generations, neighbors said, and various members of the Card family own hundreds of acres in the area.“This is his stomping ground," Richard Goddard, who li...

Taylor Swift releases ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ with bonus ‘Bad Blood’ remix featuring Kendrick Lamar

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

(CNN) — Straight out of your “wildest dreams,” Taylor Swift has finally released “1989 (Taylor’s Version).”The singer released the album – originally recorded and released in 2014 – at midnight on Friday, marking her fourth re-recorded offering after her former label sold the master recordings to her first six albums in 2019.“I was born in 1989, reinvented for the first time in 2014, and a part of me was reclaimed in 2023 with the re-release of this album I love so dearly,” Swift wrote on Instagram, adding, “I present to you, with gratitude and wonder, my version of 1989.”Swift also released the “Deluxe Edition” of the album that includes a re-recorded “Bad Blood” remix, featuring rapper Kendrick Lamar, who had previously been featured on the 2014 remix of the hit song.In another Instagram post on Friday, Swift shared that re-recording “Bad Blood” with Lamar was “one of the most inspiring experiences of my life.”“The reality that Kendrick would go back in and re-record Bad Blo...

Deco Studios haunted by a surprise Ghostface

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

Halloween is almost here and there’s no shortage of things going bump in the night. Even here at the Deco studios, where Shireen Sandoval and Lynn Martinez decided to stay late one eerie evening.Watch as they encounter a spine-tingling surprise when Ghostface himself makes a chilling appearance, but with a twist – it’s none other than our very own Belkys Nerey!Don’t miss this hair-raising encounter as Halloween creeps closer and closer.

MDPD respond to woman who barricaded self at home in SW Miami-Dade

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

A subject who barricaded herself at a residence in Southwest Miami-Dade prompted a swift response by officers.Miami-Dade Police officers surrounded the home in the area of 174th Street and Southwest 142nd Place, Friday morning. According to officials, on Thursday, at approximately 6:26 p.m., MDPD responded to the area of 282nd Street and Southwest 167th Avenue after receiving reports of a shooting. When officers arrived, they discovered that the subject shot at her boyfriend, but missed, and struck his vehicle instead. She then fled the scene. No injuries were reported. As officers continued to investigate, they discovered that she barricaded herself at the residence and are now attempting to coax her out of the home. A command post was established in the area by officers. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

Even without poutine and ketchup chips, 4 players from Toronto aim to get Miami back to NCAAs

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — There are some serious complaints being aired by a handful of Miami women’s basketball players. For example, finding good poutine in South Florida isn’t easy. Ketchup-flavored potato chips aren’t in most stores. And the inability to start a day with coffee from Tim Hortons is a real problem.These are key issues when almost half of a team’s roster hails from Toronto.For these Hurricanes — Lemyah Hylton, Lashae Dwyer, Shayeann Day-Wilson and Latasha Lattimore — Thanksgiving is in October, the Raptors are the hometown NBA team and what Floridians call “freezing” is nothing more than a pleasant day outside to them.Dwyer, Day-Wilson and Lattimore all hail from Toronto; Hylton is from the suburb of Mississauga, about 15 miles (25 kilometers) west of Toronto. The Hurricanes have only 11 players on the roster this season — and having four from Toronto is basically a happy coincidence.“Honestly, I have no idea how this happened,” Hylton said. “And I think a lot of p...

On Day 2 of multistate search for mass killing suspect, Maine residents shelter behind locked doors

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — Shocked and fearful Maine residents kept to their homes Friday as hundreds of heavily armed police and FBI agents searched intensely for Robert Card, an Army reservist who authorities say fatally shot 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the worst mass killing in state history.Much of Thursday’s search focused on a large property belonging to one of Card’s relatives in rural Bowdoin, where trucks and vans full of armed agents from the FBI and other agencies eventually surrounded a home on Thursday.The Cards have lived in Bowdoin for generations, neighbors said, and various members of the Card family own hundreds of acres in the area.“This is his stomping ground,” Richard Goddard, who lives on the road where the search took place, said of the suspect. “He knows every ledge to hide behind, every thicket.”Authorities repeatedly yelled for Card and anyone else inside the home to surrender. But hours later, they left, with state police saying it was uncl...

Elon Musk brands Scotland’s leader Humza Yousaf a ‘blatant racist’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:49:56 GMT

LONDON — Scotland’s Humza Yousaf laughed off claims from X and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk on Friday that he is a “blatant racist.”Musk — celebrating one year of his controversial stewardship of the platform formerly known as Twitter — attacked the Scottish first minister and SNP leader in response to a video of a Yousaf speech from 2020.“What a blatant racist!” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns. He was replying to an account named “End Wokeness,” which had tweeted out a clip of the old Yousaf speech.In the speech — which Yousaf, then justice secretary, made in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder — he said Scotland has “a problem of structural racism.” He said that in 99 percent of the meetings he attends, he is the only non-white person in the room.He then named several senior positions in the Scottish government and civil society, which he said were all filled by white people. This specific section wa...