Mississippi sides with Big Tech reducing online protection for kids
A federal judge on Monday blocked Mississippi from enforcing a new law that requires users of social media platforms to verify their ages and restricts access by minors to their sites if they lack...
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Hurricane Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 on record. Here’s why its...
Hurricane Beryl hit the island of Carriacou, Grenada, on July 1, 2024, with 150 mph sustained winds. NOAA Hurricane Beryl was the latest Atlantic storm to rapidly intensify, growing quickly from a...
View ArticleUnder pressure, oil industry drops referendum to permit drilling in...
Environmental justice communities across California rejoiced last week when the oil industry, at the eleventh hour, withdrew its controversial effort to overturn a historic law aimed at curbing the...
View ArticleU.S. approves offshore wind farm in New Jersey
The U.S. Interior Department approved the proposed Atlantic Shores offshore wind farm in New Jersey on Tuesday, giving a major boost to a project that would be the state’s first. The project still...
View ArticleGoogle is nowhere near its climate target. AI is partly to blame
Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. But a report...
View ArticleHurricane Beryl tracker: Live maps and real-time tools show path of historic...
Hurricane Beryl is picking up speed as it moves west on its path of destruction. Late Monday night, the storm made landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island, then continued its path west in the...
View ArticleNike to introduce $100 sneaker line after shares fell to worst-ever drop. Is...
Nike will roll out new $100-and-under sneakers in countries around the world, its chief financial officer said Thursday, as the sportswear giant tweaks its product lineup in a plan aimed at getting...
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Starbucks just sued this weed business for copying its logo
On the outside of its repurposed food truck, the NYC-based mobile marijuana retailer Starbuds Flowers features a logo that’s hard to miss. The familiar graphic shows a woman with a pointy crown and...
View ArticleFDA approves a second Alzheimer’s drug shown to delay cognitive decline
U.S. officials have approved another Alzheimer’s drug that can modestly slow the disease, providing a new option for patients in the early stages of the incurable, memory-destroying ailment. The Food...
View ArticleSkyrocketing rent and home prices are key issues for Congress this election
From suburban New York to rural Montana, candidates for U.S. Congress are getting an earful from voters stressed by stratospheric housing costs, interviews with Democratic and Republican campaigns and...
View ArticleBiden administration urges E.R. doctors to provide emergency abortions after...
The Biden administration told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health, following last week’s Supreme Court ruling that failed to...
View ArticleUnion sues Philadelphia over return to offices full-time mandate
A union that represents thousands of Philadelphia city employees asked a judge Tuesday to block Mayor Cherelle Parker’s requirement that they return to their offices full time as of July 15. The...
View ArticleSkydance-Paramount merger is reportedly back on after Barry Diller expresses...
Roughly 50 years ago, Barry Diller was head of Paramount Pictures. A little more than 30 years ago, he tried to purchase the company, only to be outbid by media mogul Sumner Redstone. And on Tuesday,...
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U.K. company says its electric car battery charges in just 5 minutes
One of the most common complaints from electric vehicle owners is the time it takes to recharge their cars. In some instances, such as “level 1” EV battery chargers in residential homes, that can take...
View Article8 reasons leaders self-sabotage
History confirms that a high-level of achievement can often come with a fairly hefty price tag. It is often at the very height of their careers that leaders become the most vulnerable to ethical,...
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Google’s self-driving cars might finally change my life
Not to humblebrag—okay, maybe just a little—but I first rode in a Google self-driving car in 2013, back when hardly anyone had. The opportunity came as I was researching a Time magazine cover story...
View ArticleTractor Supply cuts diversity efforts and Black farmers association fights back
The National Black Farmers Association called on Tractor Supply’s president and CEO Tuesday to step down after the rural retailer announced that it would drop most of its corporate diversity and...
View ArticleFrom ‘Her’ to ChatGPT, here’s how sci-fi and tech feed off each other
In May 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked a firestorm by referencing the 2013 movie “Her” to highlight the novelty of the latest iteration of ChatGPT. Within days, actor Scarlett Johansson, who...
View ArticleWhat’s open and closed on the 4th of July 2024? Banks, stock markets, USPS,...
July 4th is one of the most widely celebrated federal holidays, full of food and fireworks. And Independence Day 2024 is set to be one of the busiest. According to the American Automobile Association...
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Panda Express is bringing back its beloved Beyond orange chicken—for a...
After nearly two years, lots of public outcry, and a petition that garnered more than 7,000 signatures, Panda Express has heard its vegetarian and vegan customers: It’s bringing back Beyond orange...
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