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Travellers should avoid heading to parts of Turkey, UK authorities have warned – but would-be helpers can donate money instead.More than 5,000 people died after a devastating earthquake struck Turkey and Syria on Monday. The World Health Organisation has warned that the death toll could reach 20,000.The 7.8 magnitude tremor – and subsequent powerful aftershocks – wrought mass destruction across several cities, downing 4,700 buildings.As rescuers race against the clock to save survivors from the rubble, travellers have been advised to stay away. But there are plenty of ways to help from afar. Here’s everything you need to know.Where did…

Investors who believe that members of the US Congress have access to information that could give them a trading advantage can now trade two exchange traded funds that follow members’ stock transactions.Subversive Capital Advisor, an asset manager, and Unusual Whales, an option flow platform and data provider, on Tuesday launched the Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic ETF (NANC) and the Unusual Whales Subversive Republican ETF (KRUZ). The two ETFs, whose tickers are a play on the names of US politicians on opposite sides of the political spectrum — congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, and…

Biden to ask Republicans to work togetherUS President Joe Biden delivers remarks about the latest jobs report in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 03, 2023 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesPresident Biden will appeal to Republicans to work together as he enters the second half of his term, highlighting the country’s economic growth in the first two years of his administration after the coronavirus pandemic shut down large swaths of society.”The story of America is a story of progress and resilience,” reads an excerpt from Biden’s speech released by the White House…

A screen displays the Hertz logo during the Hertz Corporation IPO at the Nasdaq Market site in Times Square in New York, November 9, 2021.Brendan McDermid | ReutersCheck out the companies making headlines before the bell:Chegg — Shares dropped 22.7% following its earnings report Monday . The company gave first-quarter and full-year revenue guidance that was below analyst expectations, according to Refinitiv. Chegg noted subscriber growth challenges and concerns related to the health of the broader economy.Baidu — Shares surged more than 13% after Baidu said it would launch its own artificial intelligence chatbot that will be called “Ernie Bot”…

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati stoked the controversy over government oversight of artificial intelligence Sunday when she conceded in an interview with Time magazine that the technology needed to be regulated. “It’s important for OpenAI and companies like ours to bring this into the public consciousness in a way that’s controlled and responsible,” Murati told Time. “But we’re a small group of people, and we need a ton more input in this system and a lot more input that goes beyond the technologies — definitely regulators and governments and everyone else.” Asked if government involvement at this stage of AI’s development…

The thought of retiring might be daunting.Retirement usually entails replacing your annual salary with other income sources to keep up with your lifestyle. While Social Security may cover part of your budget, the rest of your money will most likely need to come from your savings and investments.NerdWallet crunched the numbers, and we can tell you how much you need to save now to get $65,000 every year in retirement, without taking a bite out of your principal.First, some ground rules. The numbers assume you will retire at age 65 and that you currently have no money in savings.For investing,…

Amazon (AMZN) has announced that it will help victims of the Turkey earthquake by donating food, medicine and equipment from its Istanbul warehouse. The retail giant said in a statement Monday that it had activated its “disaster relief capabilities” in response to a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit parts of southern Turkey and northern Syria earlier that day killing 5,000 people so far. Amazon, which has almost 2,000 employees in Turkey, said it was preparing to donate relief items, including blankets, tents, food, baby food and medicines. It expects the first shipments to depart from its fulfillment center in the country’s…

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Two soldiers were injured when a military helicopter was involved in a rollover accident in Talkeetna, Alaska, officials said Monday.The soldiers were taken to area hospitals, where they were treated and released, the U.S. Army said in a statement.The Army AH-64D Apache helicopter was damaged in the Sunday accident, which occurred when the helicopter was taking off. A determination should be made later this week if the helicopter can be salvaged, spokesperson John Pennell said in an email.An AH-64 Apache helicopter at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., on May 6, 2018.Capt. Katherine…

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. Here’s what investors are paying attention to this Tuesday morning: ▸ President Joe Biden is set to deliver his annual State of the Union Address at 9 p.m. ET in front of a newly fragmented Congress and to Americans confused by positive economic signs, a dismal earnings season and ongoing recession predictions. Wall Street will also be watching closely for clues about the…

Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer.A clinical trial has found that osimertinib, which is a targeted therapy for this type of cancer, improved patients’ chances of survival after surgery.Osimertinib was better than placebo at reducing the risk of the cancer spreading to the central nervous system, and appears to have outperformed older drugs in the same class tested in other trials.The trial confirmed that the drug is safe and well tolerated by patients.According to the American Cancer Society, 80–85% of all lung cancers are a type known as non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).The biggest…