FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s former exec is requesting no prison time
Caroline Ellison, a former top executive in FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried ‘s collapsed cryptocurrency empire and his former girlfriend, is seeking no prison time at her sentencing later this...
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The PlayStation 5 Pro is Sony’s most baffling console release
The PlayStation 5 Pro has been one of the worst-kept secrets in the video game world. Everyone knew it was coming, with rumors and leaks circulating for months. On Tuesday, Sony finally showed its...
View ArticleStarbucks CEO, Brian Niccol, promises a return to the golden age of Starbucks
It’s no longer a treat to go to Starbucks. And it hasn’t been in a long time. The coffee chain has become a sloppy, expensive utility, more eager to get you out than invite you in. As a customer, I...
View ArticleWhy James Earl Jones let AI use his Darth Vader voice—and what it means for...
Over the course of an acting career that spanned more than six decades, James Earl Jones’s voice became an indelible piece of his work as a performer. On screen, Jones, who died Monday at 93, brought...
View ArticleWhere did the ‘post-birth abortion’ claim even come from?
If you tuned into the debate last night, you likely didn’t miss the moment when former President Donald Trump asserted, in his response to a question on abortion, that babies are born then killed...
View ArticleMeet the ‘Buddha of Bourbon’—the frontman of Wild Turkey’s brand
As bourbon fans flocked to the Wild Turkey visitors’ center, sitting near the entrance was no ordinary greeter. Jimmy Russell, who has lived through so much of the distillery’s rich history, was at...
View ArticleFearless Fund shuts down its grant program for Black women
Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm, is shuttering its grant program that awarded funds to small businesses run by Black women as part of a settlement with an anti-affirmative action...
View ArticleKalshi pushes for court to allow betting on U.S. elections
Amid the explosion of legal gambling in the United States, some things have remained off-limits, including betting on the outcome of U.S. elections. But that could be about to change. A federal judge...
View ArticleHow the Mississippi River’s low-water level is impacting beans, grains, and...
The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits. It was just...
View ArticleThe debate stage wasn’t glitzy—and it was bad news for Trump
If there’s one word that could be used to describe the debate stage where Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump met on Tuesday, it’s demure. The dark blue set at the National...
View ArticleNovo Nordisk’s new weight-loss pill Amycretin beats Wegovy in early trial
There is a new chapter in Big Pharma’s billion-dollar war on obesity, as Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly battle it out over the latest blockbuster drugs. Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk’s highly anticipated...
View ArticleThe presidential debate only gave 120 seconds to climate change
It seems like climate always gets the short stick in presidential debates. It wasn’t that long ago (2012, to be exact) that we went an entire election cycle with no questions at all about the fact...
View ArticleSeniors may get smallest Social Security cost-of-living increase in years as...
For seniors on a fixed income, today’s news that inflation is continuing to cool is bittersweet. That’s because even as the rate of price increases is slowing down, the annual cost-of-living...
View ArticleStellantis to invest $406 million in Michigan factories to build EVs
Jeep and Ram maker Stellantis will spend $406 million retooling three Michigan factories so they can build electric vehicles or battery parts to support a strategy of making vehicles powered by both...
View ArticleU.S. Postal Service ends discounts for shipping consolidators
The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it is ending discounts that shipping consolidators such as UPS and DHL use to get packages to the nation’s doorsteps, in a move meant to help the Postal...
View ArticleInflation cooling streak continued in August, hitting a 3-year low
The post-pandemic spike in U.S. inflation eased further last month as year-over-year price increases reached a three-year low, clearing the way for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and likely...
View ArticleSalmonella outbreak linked to egg recall has now spread to 9 states
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a food safety alert warning consumers not to eat or buy eggs from Milo’s Poultry Farms, which have caused a salmonella outbreak in 9 states...
View ArticleCyberattacks on U.S. utilities are up 70% this year
U.S. utilities faced a near 70% jump in cyberattacks this year over the same period in 2023, according to data from Check Point Research, underlining the escalating threat to a critical...
View ArticleSouthern California wildfires burn homes and ski resort, forcing evacuations
Two Southern California wildfires torched dozens of mountain homes, tore through a ski resort, and forced thousands to evacuate in towns and cities east of Los Angeles on Wednesday. Around 40 homes...
View ArticleBoeing’s union of factory workers is set to vote on a strike
Boeing is preparing to learn Thursday whether 33,000 aircraft assembly workers, most of them in the Seattle area, are going on strike and shutting down production of the company’s best-selling...
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