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Where the regional housing market is shifting—and where it isn’t

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. When assessing home price momentum, it’s important to monitor active listings and...

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FTC can proceed with antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, judge rules

A federal judge said the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. But, he also gave the company a small victory by tossing out a few claims made by...

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Google ordered to open up Play app store to competition

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered Alphabet’s Google to overhaul its mobile app business to give Android users more options to download apps and to pay for transactions within them, following a jury...

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Amazon, Target, Macy’s, JCPenney, and other retailers are hiring for the...

Retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday shopping season. For the second consecutive year, Amazon said it is hiring 250,000 full-, part-time, and seasonal workers across the U.S., rounding out...

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This was the most disturbing part of Elon Musk’s Trump rally speech

Elon Musk achieved platinum meme status and got ridiculed on Saturday Night Live for gleefully leaping onstage at a Trump rally over the weekend. But a photo of Trump glowering as the Tesla tycoon...

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Corporate DEI may be under attack, but S&P 500 companies with diverse boards...

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts are under attack in the private and public sectors, but research has found that companies with diverse boards perform better than those with nondiverse...

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$7.6 billion Georgia plant just produced its first Hyundai electric SUV

Hyundai has begun producing electric SUVs in Georgia less than two years after breaking ground on its sprawling, $7.6 billion manufacturing plant west of Savannah.Hyundai’s factory in Georgia held an...

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U.S. judge approves FTX bankruptcy plan to repay billions

FTX received court approval of its bankruptcy plan on Monday, which will allow it to fully repay customers using up to $16.5 billion in assets recovered since the once-leading crypto exchange...

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A Tennessee nurse and his dog died trying to save a stranded man during...

As the Hurricane Helene-driven waters rose around the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, Boone McCrary, his girlfriend and his chocolate lab headed out on his fishing boat to search for a man who was...

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‘This is just horrific:’ Meteorologists get emotional describing Hurricane...

In a broadcast on NBC 6 South Florida, meteorologist John Morales became emotional while discussing Hurricane Milton, which is expected to hit Florida’s west coast on Wednesday. The storm briefly...

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Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube EU users will soon have a new way to settle...

Social media users in the European Union will be able to make complaints against Facebook, ByteDance’s TikTok and Alphabet’s YouTube over content moderation to a new independent body set up in...

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Why the ‘Fast Company’ homepage looks a little different today

Finding this article might be easier today than it was yesterday. That’s because Fast Company has just launched a brand new homepage designed to showcase more of the content that readers come to this...

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Biden requires cities to replace lead pipes and make drinking water safer...

A decade after the Flint, Michigan, water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to...

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Why 14 state attorneys general are suing TikTok

Fourteen attorneys general sued TikTok on Tuesday, alleging that the company created an intentionally addictive app that harmed young people and misrepresented the effectiveness of its safety tools....

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‘They hate you if you do not agree’: TikToker Mama Tot has come under fire...

At one point in an influencer’s career or another, controversy will seek them out. For popular feel-good TikToker Ophelia Nichol, also known as “Mama Tot,” that moment is now.  The controversy came...

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Spirit Christmas is coming: full list of locations for the iconic Halloween...

Christmas in October? Well, ready or not, here it comes. Every year, Spirit Halloween transforms hundreds of empty storefronts across the country to sell spooky costumes, decor, and candy at 1,500...

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Solar power is growing in Africa, bringing stable electricity to millions

Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some...

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Burundi farmers unite to get fair prices for avocados

Farmers in a remote part of Burundi know to look for a truck parked by a highway when it is time to sell their avocados. They materialize from villages and form a crowd around the vehicle, watching...

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Roblox stock falls after Hindenburg blasts the social gaming platform over...

On Tuesday, Roblox—the gaming platform popular with Gen Z and Gen Alpha—saw its stock take a dive. Roblox stock fell 9.4% in early trading, even as it’s already dropped by 15% this year. As of midday...

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Why Spotify is still all-in on remote work

In September, Amazon announced that it was making a drastic change to its hybrid work policy, requiring almost all employees to return to the office five days a week as of next year. Months earlier,...

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