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People who take public transit to work in Ottawa found part of the city’s light rail transit line closed to start the week as the repairs continue after last week’s ice storm. The storm on Wednesday evening damaged overhead lines and left a number of trains stuck on the tracks for days.OC Transpo says two of the trains have been removed as of Sunday evening but the tracks are still closed as crews work to fix the lines. Meanwhile, the city’s general manager of transit services says extra buses have been running to get people from the eastern part of…

Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com.The crypto markets are pumping with some of the top altcoins in the space making huge gains in the last seven days as investors look ahead to a bright 2023 after a dreadful 2022.Two asset classes that have seen some of the best returns is the move-to-earn and metaverse spaces and, according to CoinMarketCap, metaverse trading volume is up nearly 200% to more than $2 billion, while M2E trading volume is doing even better and is up nearly 500%.One…

The IRS building in Washington.Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesThe IRS has issued tax refunds to 12 million people eligible for a tax break on unemployment benefits received in 2020, when the pandemic caused joblessness on a scale unseen since the Great Depression.The refund payments — which totaled $14.8 billion — are the result of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The law waived federal tax on up to $10,200 of unemployment benefits per person.However, President Joe Biden signed the law in March 2021, after many households had already filed their tax returns. As a result,…

The recent surge in children’s respiratory viral illnesses may also be causing a rise in related complications, such as ear infections.For Nicole Herrador, a school-based occupational therapist in Lindenhurst, New York, that came as a surprise. When her 11-year-old son developed body aches and a high fever the week before Christmas, she took him to the doctor suspecting he had the flu. At the doctor’s office, they swabbed him for flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID-19 — and checked his ears.”They said that his ears were severely inflamed and red and full of fluid,” she tells TODAY.com. “He didn’t…

It’s only early January, but so far in 2023 the pendulum on Wall Street has swung (to paraphrase Billy Joel) from sadness to euphoria. Stocks are off to a solid start following last year’s dismal performance. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all rallied again Monday and each index is up between 2% and 3% since the start of the new year. Even the CNN Business Fear and Greed Index, which looks at seven indicators of market sentiment, is now inching closer to Greed territory — after languishing in Fear mode for the better part of the past few weeks.…

Your eggo is preggo! Juno hit theaters in 2007 — and more than 15 years later, fans are still hooked on the teenage cult classic. In the film, teen Juno MacGuff (Elliot Page) realizes that she is pregnant and decides to give the child up for adoption to the Loring family. The adoption, however, is put in jeopardy after the prospective father, Mark Loring (Jason Bateman), questions his marriage to Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) and blurs the line of his and Juno’s relationship. The pregnant high schooler, meanwhile, must also juggle a possible romance with goofy student — and baby daddy…

Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.comAfter approaching the $5,000 price peg in 2021, Ethereum struggled for most of 2022. Despite this, Ethereum remains a significant player in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), and even metaverse ecosystems.Ethereum is one of the biggest gainers in the crypto market today. The asset recently clinched another major price milestone, with the possibility of earning even more gains going forward. However, with a major upgrade to the Ethereum network on the way, how do the asset’s prospects look?ETH…

MOSCOW, Idaho — Some students at the University of Idaho will be carrying mace and heavy flashlights when they return to campus this week for a new semester, less than two weeks after a suspect was arrested in the murders of four fellow students.As they unpacked bags and boxes over the weekend, students at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in nearby Pullman, where the suspect had been enrolled, expressed relief and caution in the aftermath of the arrest following a six-week search. Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested Dec. 30 and charged with four counts of murder…

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Monday’s key moments. Look for consumer price report Trim overvalued tech stocks Watch oil as China reopens 1. Look for consumer price report Stocks climbed Monday, with the 3 major indices all up in midmorning trading following Friday’s strong rally. The market soared at the end of last week on signs inflation may be easing and the economy cooling. Investors are looking ahead to the U.S. Labor Department’s monthly consumer price index for December, to be released Thursday.…

LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne boasts a fervent fan base which has allowed her to score some lucrative name, image and likeness deals and be in the spotlight as a female athlete.On TikTok alone, Dunne has nearly 7 million followers, and it is because of the wild fan base that she had to caution them to take it down a notch after reports of incidents surfaced after a meet between LSU and Utah. Olympic gold medalist Kathy Johnson Clarke revealed she was asked several times by fans if she was Dunne’s mother while the mother of a Utah athlete took to…