SEC Chair Gary Gensler announces his resignation date

Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., discusses the U.S. debt deficit as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy spearhead the Department of Government Efficiency, states suing the SEC over its crypto crackdown and government’s regulatory efforts. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler on Thursday announced the timeline for his departure from the regulatory agency he’s led for … Read more

Contraceptives recalled in South Africa due to packaging mix-up

Regulators in South Africa have recalled a batch of the popular Yaz Plus contraceptive pill, after a packaging mix-up which means the contraception could be potentially ineffective. Manufacturer Bayer Ltd said women using pills from the affected batch should stop immediately and seek medical advice. A packaging mix-up led to a number of blister packs … Read more

Exxon Mobil pulls out of talks with Guyana over shallow water oil block, gov says By Reuters

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) has pulled out of negotiations with Guyana’s government on terms for exploring and developing a shallow-water block, the South American country’s vice president said on Thursday. Exxon, U.S.-based Hess Corp (NYSE:) and China’s CNOOC (NYSE:) won block S8 in a bidding round launched in late 2022. … Read more

Chemists have created the world’s thinnest spaghetti

Researchers from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they’ve made the world’s thinnest spaghetti. This culinary-sounding accomplishment, in Nanoscale Advances, has yielded strands of starch nanofibers that are just 372 nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and is even smaller than some … Read more

Cruel Intentions’ Brooke Lena Johnson Didn’t Want to Recreate Movie

Brooke Lena Johnson‘s Cruel Intentions character didn’t exist in the movie, which allowed her to build Beatrice from scratch. ‘There’s pros and cons to all of it — but for me it’s great,” Johnson exclusively told Us Weekly about the TV adaptation, which premiered on Prime Video Thursday, November 21. “Because I’m not going up … Read more

Trump’s tariff plan would put US on path to ‘crony capitalism’, Griffin says

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Ken Griffin has warned Donald Trump’s plan to raise tariffs would put the US “on a slippery slope to crony capitalism” and offered other harsh critiques of the incoming president’s agenda, in surprisingly … Read more