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Becton Dickinson: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. (AP) — FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. (AP) — Becton Dickinson and Co. (BDX) on Thursday reported fiscal third-quarter net income of $407 million.On a per-share basis, the Franklin Lakes, New Jersey-based company said it had net income of $1.36. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were $2.96 per share.The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.89 per share.The medical device manufacturer posted revenue of $4.88 billion in the period, which also beat Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $4.83 billion.Becton Dickinson expects full-year earnings in the range of $12.10 to $12.32 per share.Becton Dickinson shares have risen nearly 9% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P’s 500 index has risen 18%. The stock has risen 14% in the last 12 months._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap...

Police investigate deadly rollover crash near South Tower Road

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Police are investigating a deadly single-car rollover crash near South Tower Road in Aurora. Around 2:41 a.m. Thursday, officers with the Aurora Police Department responded to the crash.SkyFOX flew over the scene where all north and eastbound lanes were closed at South Tower Road and East Kansas Place. Debris was scattered over the road, and the area was taped off by police. Retired Denver detective allegedly pointed gun at man at Southwest Plaza Mall A single car appeared to have rolled through a fence and landed on its side under a tree.Police are investigating a deadly single-car rollover crash in Aurora near South Tower Road. Aurora Police did not confirm how many people were in the car at the time, only that the crash was deadly.All lanes at South Tower Road and East Kansas Place will be closed for several hours. Police are asking drivers to use South Buckley Road as an alternate route northbound. At this time, police have not said what factors may have led t...

Rinse and Repeat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

South Florida light winds have been a challenge in timing the rain and storm in recent days. However, you can bet on seeing more storms developing inland with the daytime heat. The sea breezes and outflows (energy from storms) will be the focus for the wet weather from time to time. Keep in mind some of the storms could be stationary and move erratically due to the light winds, which could lead to standing water issues. On Friday… rinse and repeat! https://twitter.com/VivianGonzalez7/status/1687055081936429057?s=20Stay safe and weather aware with your Storm Station, 7 news! Vivian GonzalezMeteorologist, AMS Certified WSVN Channel 7

8,500+ Russian paratroopers wounded in Ukraine, admits Moscow commander

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

More than 8,500 Russian paratroopers have been wounded while fighting in Ukraine, a Russian general said Wednesday in a rare official admission about the number of casualties suffered by Moscow’s troops in Ukraine.“More than five thousand wounded paratroopers returned to the front after treatment, and over three and a half thousand of our wounded refused to leave the front line at all,” Mikhail Teplinsky, commander of Russia’s Airborne Forces, said Wednesday in a video message posted on state-run broadcaster Zvevda, which is run by the Russian defense ministry.Initially published in the early hours of Wednesday, the video was then taken down from Zvevda’s website and Telegram channel, according to the Moscow Times.Neither Ukraine nor Russia provide up-to-date, official counts of their own losses in the war.Western intelligence estimates put Russia’s losses between 40,000 and 60,000 deaths, and as many as 200,000 casualties in total, while a recent...

Wagner forces are trying to ‘destabilize’ NATO, Polish PM says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

Russia’s Wagner Group might carry out “sabotage actions” and their threat should not be underestimated, said Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Thursday, warning that the mercenary group’s provocations are an attempt to destabilize NATO.Morawiecki and Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda met at the Suwałki Gap to discuss the threat posed by the Wagner forces, some of whom have relocated to Belarus following the aborted mutiny in June against the Kremlin.“Our borders have been stopping various hybrid attacks for years,” Morawiecki said. “Russia and Belarus are increasing their numerous provocations and intrigues in order to destabilize the border of NATO’s eastern flank.”Nausėda echoed the sentiment, saying the presence of Wagner mercenaries in Belarus is a security risk for Lithuania, Poland and other NATO allies.“We stay vigilant and prepared for any possible scenario,” Nausėda wrote on social media. Morawiecki said that the number of Wagner mercen...

AI, nuclear ‘catastrophe’ and Putin: UK spells out deadly threats to Brits

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

LONDON — Fancy losing sleep tonight? Just read the U.K. government’s list of all the massive threats it believes are currently facing the U.K.The U.K. government’s National Risk Register, unveiled Thursday by Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, sets out key vulnerabilities and threats to the country. And it reveals previously classified information about the U.K. government’s thinking in a bid to encourage firms to up their mitigation strategies. The register details a total of 89 risks that meet the threshold of potentially having a “substantial impact on the U.K.’s safety, security and/or critical systems at a national level.”The threat posed to European gas supplies by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine is listed in the register for the first time. The cheery document states that the “reasonable worst case scenario assumes that war, political upheaval or a more benign cause would significantly disrupt global oil supply, resulting in mu...

UK set to delay post-Brexit border food checks amid inflation worries

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

LONDON — The U.K. is set to once again delay the implementation of post-Brexit border checks for EU imports amid concerns the new regime will further stoke inflation.Britain was planning to roll out the first stage of the new border model from October, with further stages implemented throughout 2024 that would see more checks on food and animal products entering the country.The Financial Times first reported the fresh delay, the fifth time these post-Brexit border checks have been put off, due to the potential inflationary effect of the new red tape.A senior government official refused to deny the story on Thursday morning on three occasions, but downplayed the effect that inflationary pressures have had on the decision-making process.The official told POLITICO that “we’ve been reflecting on the feedback we’ve had from stakeholders” and that “we’re conscious that businesses need time to prepare for checks to be introduced.”A second official, working for the Foreign Office...

Offshore Wind Project Plans Mid-October Power Delivery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

The first clean wind power generated by the Vineyard Wind 1 project is expected to flow onto the regional grid by mid-October and the first-in-the-nation offshore wind project should be fully operational by this time next year, project officials said Wednesday during a boat tour of the construction.Project developers have maintained for years that the $4 billion project they are building about 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard would start to generate cleaner energy by the end of 2023, but they told a group of state lawmakers, clean energy advocates, organized labor representatives and others Wednesday that the target is now mid-October, or just over two months from now.At first, the project will send power generated by a string of six turbines onto the grid, totaling about 78 megawatts, with plans to ramp the project up to between 200 and 300 MW by the end of the year and full commercial operations of 806 MW expected by mid-2024, according to Sy Oytan, Avangrid’s chief...

US State Department orders evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family members from Niger

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

(CNN) — The US State Department on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family members from Niger following last week’s military takeover.“On July 26, President Mohamed Bazoum was placed under house arrest amidst efforts to overthrow the democratically elected government of Niger. Subsequent events have severely limited flight options,” the State Department said in an updated travel advisory.“Given this development, on August 2, 2023, the Department ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government employees and eligible family members from Embassy Niamey,” it said. “The U.S. Embassy in Niamey has temporarily reduced its personnel, suspended routine services, and is only able to provide emergency assistance to U.S. citizens in Niger.”The travel advisory warns Americans not to travel to Niger, setting the advisory level at its highest possible: Level 4.“With the ongoing efforts to overturn constitutional order, there may be increased dem...

Barr obliterates Trump’s defense: ‘He knew well that he had lost the election’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:35:09 GMT

(CNN) — Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday undermined a key pillar of his old boss’s defense in the special counsel’s probe into 2020 election interference, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Donald Trump “knew well he lost the election.”A central premise of the special counsel’s case is that Trump knew the election claims he was making were false after being told by several close aides that he had lost the election. Trump’s lawyers have argued that his statements were protected under the First Amendment, a position that Barr, in his first interview since Trump’s third indictment, said was not a valid argument.“As the indictment says, they are not attacking his First Amendment right. He can say whatever he wants, he can even lie. He can even tell people that the election was stolen when he knew better,” Barr said on “The Source.” “But that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy.”He added: “At first I wasn’t sure, but I have come to belie...