This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletteryou can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. Good morning, Private equity is betting big on an unexpected place: Big Sky, Montana. In addition to the exclusive Yellowstone Club, which Forbes featured recently, Boston real estate investment firm CrossHarbor Capital made two acquisitions […]
Look inside the kitchen cabinets of influencers like Emily Mariko or chef and writer Samin Nosrat, and you’ll find East Fork Pottery’s signature thick-rimmed, contemporary wares, offered in an array of poetically named proprietary glazes (the seasonal burgundy is “wine dark sea”; a speckled earth tone is “morel”). Launched in 2009 by Alex Matisse, the […]
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Kamala Harris used an appearance Sunday before a largely Black church audience in battleground North Carolina to call out Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the government’s hurricane response. President Joe Biden visited Florida for the second time this month to survey storm damage. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, did not […]
Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the American Southeast, hospitals and health care providers in Florida are preparing for yet another destructive storm as Hurricane Milton hurtles toward the state’s west coast. The National Hurricane Center described the storm, currently a Category 5 hurricane, as “extremely dangerous” late Tuesday morning. As it […]
GREENVILLE, N.C. — GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Kamala Harris used an appearance Sunday before a largely Black church audience in battleground North Carolina to call out Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the government’s hurricane response. President Joe Biden visited Florida for the second time this month to survey storm damage. Harris, the Democratic presidential […]
In the wake of Hurricane Milton, NASA is deploying resources to support Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and state emergency management agencies to aid their response effort including satellite and aerial data collection. The agency’s Disasters Response Coordination System and Airborne Science Program are began conducting flights Friday to provide emergency responders with better insight […]
For more than a century, Tampa Bay has avoided Florida’s most destructive hurricanes. Now Hurricane Milton may end that streak of luck, as the storm is expected to make landfall just south of Tampa Bay in the early hours of Thursday morning. The low-lying shoreline, still strewn with debris from last month’s Hurricane Helene, is […]
As Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton tore through Florida, some influencers ignored evacuation orders, risking their lives to post livestreams and stunts. The content creators are keen to cash in on the exposure, but many consider their behaviour to be reckless and selfish. BBC Verify has been looking at some of the videos posted online.
On the afternoon of October 10, author and influencer Caroline Calloway texted me “I lived bitch.” She posted a screenshot of the same proof-of-life selfie and message on her Instagram story that morning after Hurricane Milton made landfall. We’d spoken one day earlier about Calloway’s decision not to evacuate for the monster of a storm, […]
Just before Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday, many people reported that the sky above them turned a sinister purple hue. A sign of the apocalypse? Well, yes, actually—the climate catastrophe we’ve made for ourselves. But it’s still a natural phenomenon with a scientific explanation. Light and Color Visible […]
