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The Air Force needs some new bombers. The B-1B Lancer and B-2A Spirit are in the twilight of their careers, and the B-21 Raider, a new stealth bomber produced by Northrop Grumman aims to take over the role as the premier bomber for the United States.'Our adversary's defenses have increased tremendously, since the advent of the B-2," said Thomas DiNanno, adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute. "Chinese and Russian air defense systems, the S-400, the S-500, are highly capable, they're extremely dangerous. And so the…

Whenever there's a big storm in the American West, pilots are likely flying into the eye, seeding clouds with a substance called silver iodide. The goal is to increase precipitation.Cloud seeding has been around since the 1940s. It's become widespread of late as the West battles a drought of historic proportions. States, utility companies and even ski resorts are footing the bill.related investing newsWhile it was was assumed for decades to be effective, recent studies have helped prove that cloud seeding works, and…

Inflation in the United States hit a record high in June 2022. Consumer prices soared by 9.1% compared with a year prior — the largest annual increase since 1981. While wages are rising, they're not keeping up with inflation. Wage growth has been consistent with an inflation rate of about 4.5%. Meanwhile, as of November, inflation was at 7.1%.Americans are feeling the brunt at the grocery store and gas station and with rent payments, too. Two-thirds of workers said their pay isn't keeping up with these higher prices. So…

BEVERLY, Mass. — It's a gray November morning, and we're on board a long, yellow school bus.The bus bounces over this Boston suburb's patched streets in a way that would be familiar to anyone who ever rode a bus to class. But the bus is quiet – and not just because there are no kids on board.This school bus is electric.Right now, only a tiny fraction of the roughly 480,000 school buses in America are battery-powered. Most still use gasoline or diesel engines, just as they have for decades. But thanks to fast-maturing…

The United States has just about 90 million planted acres of corn, and there's a reason people refer to the crop as yellow gold.In 2021, U.S. corn was worth over $86 billion, according to calculations from FarmDoc and the United States Department of Agriculture.According to the USDA, the U.S. is largest consumer, producer and exporter of corn in the world."We're really good at ," Seth Meyer, chief economist at the USDA, told CNBC. "And that's why you see big acres, big demand, export competitiveness."It's not just what we…

Franz von Holzhausen has been Tesla's chief designer since 2008. CNBC got a rare interview with him at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, which recently opened a new Tesla exhibit.Von Holzhausen was a lead designer on the Tesla Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y as well as the Cybertruck, Tesla Semi truck and the second-generation Roadster. Prior to Tesla, he worked in design at Mazda, General Motors and Volkswagen.He spoke to CNBC about what it's like to have Elon Musk as a boss, what happened when the…

Metro Atlanta is on a hot streak.More than 6 million people now live in the region, according to recent Census Bureau estimates. Experts say that's about a 50% increase from 20 years ago. "It's a huge increase in population," said Dan Immergluck, a professor of urban studies at Georgia State University. "That has taxed the region environmentally."Financial and tech firms continue to flock toward metro Atlanta. This builds on the city's strong logistics, entertainment and film, and health services industries. Demand for…

BlackBerry was once at the top of the smartphone market in the U.S. In 2010, almost half of smartphone subscribers in the U.S. used BlackBerrys, according to Comscore. The phones were well-known for having a tactile keyboard and for BlackBerry's advanced cybersecurity — often favored among businesses and governments.But after its phones fell out of favor with users, BlackBerry altered its course, taking some of the cornerstones of the business with it."After a few years, we realized that we would never get the volume up —…

Winter is on the way, and in war-torn Ukraine the fight against Russia appears far from over.Moscow continues to target Ukrainian power plants and stations. Grain shipments out of Ukraine have been interrupted since Russia paused participation in a United Nations-brokered agreement that allowed a corridor in the Black Sea for cargo ships to transit. And there's the prospect of a tactical nuclear weapon attack or even a meltdown at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant."We're seeing this is becoming a real…

If it seems like everyone around you is getting sick, you're not imagining it. The flu season is hitting the United States unusually early and much harder than it usually does."I'm scared about what's going to happen this flu season because I don't think we've ever seen a coalition of multiple viruses kind of manifesting in this way before," said Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne, an emergency medicine doctor and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.Clayborne familyCarlos Waters | CNBCCovid…