Venture Global stock sinks on IPO day, indicating lack of investor interest...
Update Friday, 3:30 p.m. Shares of Venture Global sank below their IPO price of $25 after debuting on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, indicating a lack of interest in one of the first...
View ArticleCalifornia Gov. Newsom signs $2.5 billion relief package for L.A. wildfires
California will spend $2.5 billion to help the Los Angeles area recover from recent deadly wildfires under a relief package signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.Newsom signed the laws after...
View ArticleHow New Orleans and Atlanta are dealing with the aftermath of a rare winter...
Days after a winter storm dropped ice and record-breaking snow, cleanup efforts were underway Thursday in several major Southern cities such as New Orleans, where crews were removing snow the same way...
View ArticleIRS stimulus check 2025 update: Final payments are trickling in this month,...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced last month that automatic payments are being sent to roughly one million taxpayers who did not claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit on their tax returns....
View ArticleUNICEF reveals nearly 250 million kids missed school in 2024. Here’s why
At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heat waves, cyclones, flooding, and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in...
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Giant panda cam livestream: Watch Bao Li and Qing Bao make their National Zoo...
There’s panda-monium in Washington, D.C., and we aren’t talking politics. Two giant pandas are making their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Friday, January 24, giving the nation’s...
View ArticleHow Mark Zuckerberg’s call for more masculine workplaces could stifle innovation
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a January 10, 2025, episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, he lamented that corporate culture had become too “feminine,” suppressing its “masculine energy” and...
View ArticleHow the broligarchy is imitating Trump in more ways than one
Sooner or later, the politicians who most admire Donald Trump begin to emulate him. They adopt his populist rhetoric, specific diction, or aggressive tone. If they happen to be men, they might stuff...
View ArticleRetail apocalypse: 15,000 stores could close in 2025, with Party City, Big...
It’s no secret that 2024 was a tough year for many retailers. From home goods stores like LL Flooring, to pharmacy chains like Walgreens, to automotive parts providers like Advance Auto Parts,...
View ArticleCostco shareholders defended DEI hiring against anti-woke attacks and won—for...
With a swath of anti-DEI and other executive orders spilling out of the White House during the first week of Trump’s second term, many companies are likewise changing or rolling back their own DEI...
View ArticleMeta’s Threads is finally getting ads
Threads, Meta’s rival to X and Bluesky, is testing ads with certain brands in the United States and Japan, the company said Friday. “We know there will be plenty of feedback about how we should...
View ArticleHow engineers are creating oxygen for future moon missions from material...
Space engineers now know how to make oxygen on the moon, and they’re working on perfecting the science so that astronauts can live off the lunar base more easily.Lunar soil, or regolith, is filled...
View ArticleHow an AI-generated ‘expert’ sank into media deadlines
Ashley Abramson first came across Sophie Cress in a cold pitch to her work email. Cress was asking to be an expert source for any stories Abramson was working on as a freelance reporter. “I’ve got...
View ArticleDid you show ‘negative sentiment’ for insurance companies after the UHC CEO...
When news broke that the United Healthcare CEO was shot in broad daylight early last month, outrage erupted online. But it wasn’t aimed at the assassin. Instead, it was directed at the broken U.S....
View ArticleWhat embracing climate data in your marketing will do
Business thrives on data. We know that data drives strategy, innovation, and decision making, yet many businesses fail to unlock its full potential. While budgets are allocated and data is gathered...
View ArticleAgeism at work affects everyone
If you’re under 40, ageism probably hasn’t crossed your mind much—yet. And that’s okay. When I was in my 20s and 30s, I wasn’t thinking about it, either. But there’s something about entering that...
View ArticleStressed about your budget? Here’s 5 things you need to know
Dana Miranda is a financial educator, journalist, and creator of the Healthy Rich newsletter, where she writes about money for misfits. She has contributed to Forbes, Business Insider, The New York...
View ArticleHow this anime-inspired mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee...
Luce, the anime-inspired official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee, whose name means “light” in Italian, has been getting a lot of attention on social media. Some people love the cartoon...
View ArticleWant to boost your status? Show up as a likable badass
Alison Fragale is an organizational psychologist and a business school professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington...
View ArticleThis pickup basketball game has been going since 1975. What’s the secret to...
Donald Trump’s polarizing political rise in the past decade has driven many groups—and some families—apart. But a long-running pickup basketball game that I play in, made up of people with various...
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