Journalists brace for renewned fury from the Trump administration
For the press heading into a second Trump administration, there’s a balancing act between being prepared and being fearful. The return to power of Donald Trump, who has called journalists enemies and...
View ArticleGift won’t arrive in time for the holidays? Psychologists say your friends...
It’s gift-giving season, which means making long shopping lists, wondering if anyone will care about receiving scented candles two years in a row, and panicking about long lines at the post office....
View ArticleWhat is Fartcoin? And why is it soaring right now?
Cryptocurrency enthusiasts have frequently expressed frustration with the lack of respect digital currency gets from many traditional investors. But when the hottest crypto of the moment is called...
View ArticleGen Z TikTok users have taken holiday wish lists to a new level
Do you still make a holiday wish list? For those past the Santa Claus phase but still spending the holidays in their childhood bedroom, this debate divides families. Some swear by detailed lists with...
View ArticleApple under fire for using conflict minerals in its supply chain
The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain, lawyers for the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Census Bureau is adding refugees to its immigrant count. Here’s why
The U.S. Census Bureau is changing how it counts immigrants in annual estimates by including more people who were admitted for humanitarian, and often temporary, reasons.The change is being made in an...
View ArticleThe first female Cabinet secretary is granted a national monument, thanks to...
President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind...
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NYC is getting rid of the best seats on the Subway
This week, the MTA announced plans to order 435 more of the high-tech R211 trains—the ones with security cameras, brighter lights, more standing room, and those station-responsive digital maps over...
View ArticleMiami’s luxury beachfront properties are sinking much faster than scientists...
High rises are heavy, and that can cause the ground below them to slowly sink and settle, especially right after they’re constructed. But in Miami, dozens of buildings along the coast are sinking at...
View ArticleQuantum computing stocks are having a great 2024: QUBT, D-Wave, Rigetti soar...
This year has been pretty good for tech stocks, including well-known tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon. However, 2024 has also been a good year for many companies that operate in...
View Article‘Psychological terror’: Influencer Matilda Djerf has been accused of creating...
Swedish influencer Matilda Djerf has been embroiled in a string of recent controversies. Djerf is facing backlash following an investigative documentary by Swedish outlet Aftonbladet, which alleges a...
View ArticleWhy great design has always been sustainable
With 2024 tracking to set a new global temperature record—surpassing the high reached just last year—and with an obvious uptick in human suffering due to war, social upheaval, political strife, and...
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Housing market outlook: 14 forecasts for mortgage rates in 2025
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Economic forecasting has never been easy, and it becomes even more challenging when...
View ArticleLNG export study urges caution on new permits over risks to climate and...
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden released a long-awaited study on the economic and environmental impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports on Tuesday, saying the results underscored...
View ArticleThe latest twist in the embarrassing WordPress saga involves pineapple pizza
The drama at WordPress has taken a number of twists and turns in the months since Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of for-profit WordPress host Automattic, shut off access to WP Engine, a third-party...
View ArticleGrubhub to pay $25 million for deceptive practices against customers,...
Grubhub settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Tuesday for allegedly misleading customers about order fees, adding restaurants to its...
View ArticleWhy AI company Databricks just scored one of the biggest funding rounds in...
The San Francisco-based data analytics company Databricks has raised a stunning $10 billion funding round, which values the company at $62 billion and likely puts it on a path toward an IPO. The $10...
View ArticlePG&E offered $15 billion loan from the Biden administration for climate...
The U.S. Department of Energy said on Tuesday it had offered a conditional loan of up to $15 billion to California-based electric utility PG&E to support climate resilience projects and strengthen...
View ArticleClimate tech firms get $80 million for carbon removal
Google, H&M, Stripe, and other members of the climate-focused Frontier coalition will buy $80 million of carbon credits from a firm using oil industry technology to capture paper mill emissions...
View ArticleVW and unions may reach a deal soon or they’ll adjourn until next year
Volkswagen and German unions will most likely either reach a deal in the early hours of Wednesday or adjourn until the new year, a source familiar with discussions said on Tuesday, as the two sides...
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