HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE: ESNT) today reported net income for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 of $171.8 million or $1.82 per diluted share, compared to $175.4 million or $1.69 per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.Essent also an...
By MATTHEW LEE, AP Diplomatic WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is not looking at imminent military action against Havana despite President Donald Trump’s repeated threats that “Cuba is next” and that American warships deployed in the Middle East for the Iran conflict could return...
The third in a series of five essays entitled the Abyss of Civilization. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”— Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History (1940)
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Investment firm Crescat Capital is sounding the alarm on the U.S. equity market, warning that “speculative complacency” has pushed valuations for top technology stocks to levels significantly higher than the 2000 dot-com bubble.The research advocates for a “great rotation” out of overvalu...
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On a recent Sunday morning, I took a bus to Williamsburg to meet Chris Kraus, the seventy-year-old writer who attained permanent literary It Girl status with her début novel, “I Love Dick.” The book, published in 1997, took the form of love letters written by Kraus and her then husband, the...
People attend a vigil for conservative political influencer Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed at a public event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on September 10.Melissa Majchrzak/AFP/Getty
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