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A crane hoists the ceremonial, signed steel beam to the top of the new Belmont Park grandstand on Oct. 15, 2025. The evergreen atop the beam is considered a good luck charm. NYRA/Adam Coglianese Belmont Park hit another milestone in its $455 million transformation on Wednesday with the ceremonial topping out of the new grandstand that will become, when opened next year, the most modern facility in American thoroughbred racing.

Cash ISAs are not idle money. They meet real and practical needs, helping people to build financial resilience, save for a house deposit or manage their finances in retirement. They also provide the foundation for future investing and supplying essential funding for mortgages and other lending. The BSA's analysis suggests that a cut in the annual Cash ISA limit from £20,000 to £5,000 could lead to 17,000 fewer mortgage loans and reduce GDP by around £7 billion over five years, undermining economic growth and tax revenues.

The Salesforce-led conference runs Tuesday through Thursday at and around Moscone Center, blocking off streets and taking over entire buildings, including the Chase Center, for keynotes, demonstrations, panels and musical performances. It's all meant to beef up the software company's clout and customer network; tickets ran from $999 to $2,299, though you can expect that most attendees' employers footed the bill. Yet more cash will pour into South of Market's local businesses, which expect their most profitable week of the year.

It's not just a piece of paper, it's a launchpad for growth. With India set to be the third biggest economy in the world by 2028, and trade with them about to become quicker and cheaper, the opportunities waiting to be seized are unparalleled. That's why I'll be flying the flag for British business alongside 125 of our biggest household names in Mumbai this week - because growth in India for them means more choice, opportunity and jobs at home for the British people.

Doctors predicted Wayne Frederick, the president of Howard University, wouldn't live past 8. Now he's 54. Frederick came to the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago with a dream of finding a cure for his disease, sickle cell anemia, but detoured into higher ed administration. At an event hosted by the American Council on Education at Howard University this week, Frederick said CRISPR gene editing, a technology developed in academia, made his dream a reality.

On Sunday, the U.S. District Court of Oregon ruled that the deployment likely violated federal law, as the protests were not significantly violent or disruptive. The coalition, which includes major cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore, argues that the federal government overstepped its authority. They contend there was no legal justification for the deployment, which occurred despite local officials' objections.

Con Edison doesn't just keep New York City plugged in; a new study indicates it generates a significant positive economic impact in the form of jobs, contracts, and tax revenues for the city. The study conducted by HR&A Advisors, along with Con Edison, sought to quantify the utility giant's spending and other economic contributions in New York City and Westchester County including a big property tax bill. Con Edison provides power to 9 million people and 350,000 businesses across the city and Westchester.

An estimated 1.4 million adults in Great Britain have a gambling problem, according to landmark figures released days after the chancellor hinted at increasing taxes on the 11.5bn industry. The Gambling Commission's annual survey found that 2.7% of adults scored 8 or above on the problem gambling severity index, a widely accepted measure analysing negative consequences of betting. In previous years, the watchdog had warned against extrapolating that percentage to the general population.

Colorado is home to 456 craft breweries down from a peak of 468 in 2023 ranking fourth nationwide in 2024, according to the Brewers Association (BA), which hosts GABF. Those breweries produced a combined 779,338 barrels of beer and generated $2.5 billion in economic impact for the state, according to BA data. Closings accelerated in 2024, when there were 41 compared to 35 in 2023.

"That it could be a private actor is extremely unlikely. These are professionals working with expensive equipment; it is highly likely to be a state actor," said Manuel Atug, an infrastructure security expert with the think tank AG Kritis. Atug surmised that the purpose of the attacks, both physical and online, could be "destabilizing society from inside so that people lose trust in institutions and the government."

I know what it feels like when our borough is left behind," said Alex Porco, a committee member appointed by state Sen. Nathalia Fernandez, who voted for the project. "This project will finally mean self-sufficiency for the Bronx.

Iran is once again facing crippling international sanctions on its weapons trade, oil exports, international banking, and much more under the snapback mechanism of the 2015 nuclear deal. The accord, concluded between Iran on one side and the US, France, Germany, the UK, Russia and China, as well as the European Union on the other, provided Tehran economic relief in exchange for curbing Iran's nuclear program.

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer. While the colossal project is impossible to miss in Richland Parish, a farming community of 20,000 residents, not everything is visible, including how much the social media giant will pay toward the more than $3 billion in new electricity infrastructure needed to power the facility.

In the scorching heat, a long line of rental cars stretching for kilometers struggles up the winding road. On this late summer morning, an army of vacationers heads for Valldemossa. The picturesque mountain village is one of the most popular destinations on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, and, as in years past, traffic jams on the narrow mountain road are once again a daily occurrence.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has confirmed that the production halt will continue until at least Wednesday, September 24, 2025. The company is dealing with the aftermath of a major cyberattack that disrupted its IT systems and paralyzed part of its production at the end of August. In an official statement, JLR explains that the extension is necessary because the forensic investigation into the attack is still ongoing.

A map has revealed how central London has been turned into a virtual train desert on the final morning of the Tube strikes. Just the Elizabeth line has been able to run through the West End Thameslink services are still open and able to whisk office workers into the City of London from the north and south of the capital.

Tube users have been urged to check before travelling this week as strikes by staff escalate, bringing services to an early finish on Sunday evening and closing the London Underground entirely for four days from Monday. The RMT union has batted back pleas to call off the industrial action, involving about 10,000 workers, as it attempts to secure a shorter working week as part of pay negotiations.

The 3.52-kilometre circuit will sit partially on the Unionville GO property and race past York University's Markham Campus. The track will feature 12 turns and a split pit road. "We have wineries 15 minutes away from here. We have venues and different things you wouldn't think Markham has and we hope guests get to see this in addition to the IndyRace and then tell other people about it," Yu said.

Peak population is coming for all of us. Sensible measures can respond to the strains imposed by smaller families, but cultural norms matter as much as policy outcomes. While Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was undoubtedly the main attraction at Jackson Hole, there were other weighty issues on the table. The role of men and societal values in declining fertility was among them. Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin told the Fed's conference in Wyoming that it's important not to overlook tradition when explaining low fertility.

This will result in more than 30,000 Alabama jobs and probably much more than that, and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment. And that's billions, because it can't be millions. It's billions and billions of dollars.

At issue was whether oil companies could be held liable for damage from future wildfires caused at least in part by climate change. The state Senate Judiciary Committee vote on the measure came just two days after a Louisiana jury held oil giant Chevron liable by for $744.6 million to restore damage to Louisiana's coastal wetlands. The case was the first of many pending against oil companies that have supposedly lied about whether their policies