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Two New York City hospitals have reached a tentative contract agreement with thousands of striking nurses that ends this week’s walkout that disrupted patient care, officials announced Thursday.The nurses, represented by the New York State Nurses Association, walked out early Monday after negotiations with management ran aground at Mount Sinai Hospital, in Manhattan, and Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx. Each has over 1,000 beds and 3,500 or more union nurses.Nurses for both hospitals were to return to work Thursday morning, the union said.The union has stressed staffing levels as a key concern, saying that nurses who labored through the grueling peak of…

The cryptocurrency market has risen by a healthy 3% in the past 24 hours, teaching a total cap of $922 billion as investors optimistically await fresh US inflation data. Its current level represents a 7.5% increase in a week and a 3.5% rise in a month, as the 2022 bear market gives way to some New Year bullishness.While the market as a whole has done well today, a variety of altcoins have performed particularly well, beating averages. This articles compiles them in a list of best crypto to buy today, while also including a number of exciting new tokens holding…

The merciful end of the Carlos Correa saga — really! It’s over! He made the leap from “agreed with” to “signed with” the Twins! — is the unofficial end of baseball’s free-agent rush. There are still plenty of unsigned players, led by backbone-testing figures in Aroldis Chapman and soon-to-be-free-agent Trevor Bauer, but all the nine-digit contracts have been signed. Which means we have a pretty good idea about how each team will look to begin the 2023 season, and that makes now as good a time as any to evaluate whose offseasons stood out. The two greatest outliers shouldn’t be…

NEW DELHI: India’s army chief said on Thursday (Jan 12) the border situation with China is stable but unpredictable after a nearly two-and-a-half-year standoff between tens of thousands of soldiers from both countries in the eastern Ladakh area. General Manoj Pande told reporters the countries were continuing to talk both at the diplomatic and military levels, and that India’s military maintains a high level of preparedness. “We have adequate forces. We have adequate reserves in each of our sectors to be able to effectively deal with any situation or contingency,” Pande said. “I would say the situation is stable and…

A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. New York CNN  —  The US auto industry just posted its worst sales in more than a decade — but that’s not necessarily a bad sign for the sector. What’s happening: 2022 was the worst year in more than a decade for the auto industry, largely because manufacturers couldn’t keep up with consumer demand. Supply chain issues and a shortage of crucial semiconductor…

Planes are seen at Charlotte Douglas International Airport on December 28, 2022 in Charlotte, United States.Peter Zay | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesAmerican Airlines’ shares rose nearly 5% in premarket trading Thursday after the carrier hiked its revenue and profit estimates for the fourth quarter thanks to strong demand and high fares.American estimates revenue rose as much as 17% over 2019, up from a previous forecast of an 11% to 13% increase over the period three years earlier, before the pandemic.American said revenue per seat mile likely rose 24% in the quarter from 2019, above its prior forecast of 18%…

BioNTech announced a partnership with the British government to conduct trials on personalized mRNA cancer immunotherapies.The trials aim to treat patients with advanced cancer and prevent cancer from returning to others. Experts estimate that several years may go by before cancer vaccines become widely available. As of January 10, 2022, over 13 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered — including hundreds of millions of mRNA vaccines by companies like Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. Following the surge in mRNA vaccine research for COVID-19, researchers are now seeking to apply their experience to cancer vaccines. Recently, BioNTech announced a strategic partnership with…

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit said on Thursday it had begun “active discussions” about returning to the UK later this year for another attempt at launching satellites into orbit, despite Monday’s failed mission from Britain’s first spaceport in Cornwall.The US-based company said the next launch of its mobile launching system would be from its home base at the Mojave air and space port in California, when it had identified and corrected the causes of Monday night’s failure. But it “also anticipates returning to Spaceport Cornwall for additional launches”, Virgin Orbit said in a statement. Discussions about launch opportunities “as soon…

The Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals is an indoor midget car race that takes place each year in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and on Wednesday fans were left shellshocked due to a scary crash.Ashton Torgerson was involved in the wreck, and fans watched his car flip several times. The 16-year-old Oregon native was ejected from the car. Medical personnel rushed over to him, and he was taken to a hospital.Petersen Media, who does PR for Torgerson Racing, offered an update on Torgerson.”Ashton is awake and alert at the hospital. He has feeling in hands and feet and has passed his tests so…