Thanksgiving travelers: Airport strike, bad weather, and more could cause delays
Airports and highways are expected to be jam-packed during Thanksgiving week, a holiday period likely to end with another record day for air travel in the United States. AAA predicts that nearly 80...
View ArticleHow heritage brands challenge consumer identity
When Katja Vogt considers a Jaguar, she pictures a British-made car purring confidently along the Italian coastline — a vision of familiarity that conveys “that dreaming, longing feeling we all...
View ArticleFarm groups urge Trump not to deport farmworkers. Here’s why
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the...
View ArticleAmazon is testing out warehouse robots. Here’s what you need to know
Amazon has introduced a handful of robots in its warehouses that the e-commerce giant says will improve efficiency and reduce employee injuries. Two robotic arms named Robin and Cardinal can lift...
View ArticleSupreme Court won’t hear tobacco companies’ appeal for graphic cigarette...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether federally mandated warnings on cigarette packs that graphically illustrate the health risks of smoking violate the free speech rights of...
View ArticleIn rural North Carolina, dozens of water systems were knocked out by...
The most exciting part of the day at Spruce Pine Montessori School is when the truck arrives to empty the porta-johns. At that point in the afternoon, the kids abandon their toy dinosaurs and monkey...
View ArticleThis free time-zone conversion tool blows other clock apps out of the water
You’d think by this point in our lives, we’d have the whole time-zone-conversion thing figured out. It isn’t all that complicated, right?!And yet—well, trying to keep such calculations straight often...
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These 24 chef-approved kitchen gifts will improve the life of any home cook...
For its annual gift guide, Fast Company asked business leaders who know the home—and some of our staff members—for space-specific recommendations. These products will give anyone’s kitchen an upgrade,...
View ArticleA crisis within a crisis: Insurance rates skyrocket for child care centers
Early this year, a child care program in southern Maine was dinged for three minor issues during a routine inspection: A refrigerator at the school where the nonprofit operates was a couple of degrees...
View ArticleWalmart kills DEI policies impacting 1.6 million U.S. workers
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is rolling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies, joining a growing list of major corporations that have done the same after coming under attack by...
View ArticleThanksgiving travel 2024: These are the best and worst times to be on the...
The 2024 Thanksgiving travel period is here. Many Americans who are celebrating the holiday this week are expected to kick off their journeys today. According to recent data from AAA, Thanksgiving...
View ArticleThis TikTok user says a popular YouTube music channel is in fact AI
Are you really a student if you’ve not done a late night study session soundtracked to an unending lo-fi beats playlist on YouTube? According to Google Trends, searches for the term “lo-fi” on YouTube...
View ArticleEgg prices stay high as holiday baking season approaches its peak
Egg prices are rising once more as a lingering outbreak of bird flu coincides with the high demand of the holiday baking season.But prices are still far from the recent peak they reached almost two...
View ArticleTeslas, Hondas, and VWs may get price hikes if Trump’s tariffs extend to Mexico
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged tariffs on the United States’s three largest trading partners—Canada, Mexico, and China—detailing how he will implement campaign promises that could...
View ArticleDisney agrees to pay $43 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
Walt Disney has agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an eight-year period, the...
View ArticleTraveling for Thanksgiving? Here’s your survival guide to record-breaking crowds
If you thought last year’s holiday travel was insane, well, buckle your seatbelt. AAA projects 79.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from their home over Thanksgiving, an increase of 1.7...
View ArticleEnd of an era: the last tenant that gave this NYC ‘hood its name is moving out
When John Jobbagy’s grandfather immigrated from Budapest in 1900, he joined a throng of European butchers chopping up and shipping off meat in a loud, smelly corner of Manhattan that New Yorkers...
View Article‘We are not satisfied’: Kohl’s stock tumbles amid slumping sales and gloomy...
In the days before Thanksgiving, retail investors want reasons to be hopeful—after all, we’re about to enter the busiest shopping period of the year. But for Kohl’s investors today, that hope seems to...
View ArticleRivian secures $6.6 billion loan from the Biden administration to build a...
President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Energy will make a $6.6 billion loan to Rivian Automotive to build a factory in Georgia that had stalled as the...
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Housing market shift: Where home prices are actually falling
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Some regional housing markets in states, such as Texas, Florida, and Louisiana,...
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