Arizona Gas Prices Tick Up By A Penny, Now 20 Cents Above Rising National Average

The retailer developed a more refined geographical model to help visualize and refine the delivery zones around its stores. This holiday season, Walmart’s innovations in data science are enabling its stores to make deliveries to 12 million more households.

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The merchandising strategy aims to attract low-income shoppers. Retailers including Target and Walmart are stocking shelves with more toys and gifts such as Barbies that cost less than $10 this holiday season, a strategy aimed at attracting cash-strapped shoppers.

Even Americans who are careful to buy cage-free eggs typically aren’t aware that hundreds of millions of male chicks are killed each year. Every year the U. S. egg industry kills about 350 million male chicks because, while the fuzzy little animals are incredibly cute, they will never lay eggs, so have little monetary value.

The new goal calls for reducing net emissions by 61% to 66% below 2005 levels in 2035. President Joe Biden is pledging to cut U. S. greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035 as he fights to ensure his legacy on slowing global warming, even as President-elect Donald Trump vows to undo much of Biden’s climate work when he takes office next month.

Fears of rolling blackouts led Ireland’s grid operator to halt new data centers near Dublin until 2028. Dozens of massive data centers humming at the outskirts of Dublin are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.