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☆ How Hurricane Lee Is Forming Dangerous Storm Surges and Rip Currents Up the East Coast
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Eric Niiler | Adrienne Tong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: england, canada

☆ Tracking the Charges in Trump’s Indictments
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Isaac Yu | Adrienne Tong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Donald Trump is expected to surrender in Georgia on Thursday, after bond for the former president was set at $200,000 in the election-interference case. He is facing criminal charges at both the federal and state levels while seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2024. Here is a look at the status of the most prominent criminal prosecutions, investigations and lawsuits involving the former president and declared presidential candidate, and how the timing of the protracted legal processes could run up against the demands of a presidential campaign.

Persons: Donald Trump Organizations: Republican Locations: Georgia

Thanks to their ability to store large amounts of energy in a small package, lithium-ion batteries have become increasingly popular, powering such devices as laptops and vape pens as well as electric cars and bikes. While most of the batteries operate safely, a small percentage can malfunction and catch fire, sometimes with lethal results.

☆ See How Deep the Missing Titan Submersible and Wreck of the Titanic Are
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Adrienne Tong | Stephanie Stamm | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rescue efforts continue in the search for a missing submersible, known as the Titan, carrying five people who disappeared days earlier on a mission to see the remains of the Titanic shipwreck. The wreckage is about 13,000 feet beneath the surface in the North Atlantic, just over 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod.

Locations: Cape Cod

☆ What Is the Debt Ceiling and How Does It Work?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( James Benedict | Adrienne Tong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

House Republicans passed a bill proposing to raise the nation’s $31.4 trillion borrowing limit in exchange for deep cuts in government spending. But with President Biden’s reluctance to make cuts, the bill faces an uncertain future in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Congress must raise the debt ceiling before the government runs out of money to pay its bills, which could happen as soon as June. S&P reduced the U.S.’s credit rating when Congress came close to not extending the limit in 2011. This downgrade increased the Treasury’s borrowing cost by about $1.3 billion in the fiscal year, according to the Government Accountability Office.

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Companies and the U.S. government are shelling out billions of dollars to establish a supply chain for batteries in North America, a manufacturing effort that is critical to the auto industry’s long-range plans to put more electric vehicles on the road. Batteries are the most expensive component in an electric vehicle, accounting for about one-third of its cost.

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