A recent analysis from advocacy organization Consumer Reports is the latest to highlight the potential threat of pesticides in our produce. It suggests that around 20% of commonly sold fruits and vegetables in the U.S. could contain unsafe levels of pesticides. Given that
It’s not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol have reason to fret, too. Read more...
Former President Donald Trump pocketed more than $1 billion in paper wealth. Trump stood to earn 36 million earnout shares of Trump Media & Technology Group if its dollar volume-weighted average price (DVWAP) — the average share price for a period of time, weighted by volume of
President Joe Biden signed the TikTok bill into law, officially starting the 270-day clock for TikTok’s owner, China-based Bytedance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in American app stores. Read more...
When it comes to buying a new car , agreeing on a price you’re happy with is really only the first step. Even after you learn what your monthly payment will be , you’ll have more expenses to consider, like insurance, gasoline, and maintenance. Odds are, you could run the
Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in California released a ruling that concluded state highway police were acting lawfully when they forcibly unlocked a suspect’s phone using their fingerprint. You probably didn’t hear about it. The case didn’t get a lot of coverage,
Some cars are just total pains to own. They could break down all the time, be impractical for daily life or any number of other headaches , but sometimes it’s worth it. Sometimes a car is so good to drive or nice to look at or historically significant that owners will look past
The regional lender, which operated as Republic Bank, was reeling with higher costs and inability to improve profitability that prompted it to cut jobs and exit its mortgage origination business in early 2023.
Paramount Global is reportedly considering dumping longtime CEO Bob Bakish and replacing him with a group of executives as the entertainment giant inches closer to a deal with Skydance Media. Bakish, who has been privately critical of the company’s talks to merge with Skydance,
The Atacama Desert — an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth — is actually teeming with life beneath the ground, according to a team of researchers that recently scrutinized its soils. Read more...
NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope isn’t doing so well. The observatory has been suffering from a pesky glitch affecting its gyroscope, causing it to suspend its science operations for a second time in less than six months. Read more...
Jurisdictions around the world are imposing EV mandates , regulating ICE vehicles out of production and sale . This is probably a necessary step to prevent us all from drowning in our homes , but the folks who sell ICE vehicles aren’t happy about it. Case in point: Stellantis
There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing an enormous cruise ship out of water. A skyscraper-sized vessel propped up by a few planks of wood in a barren dry dock is definitely strange to see, but it gets even odder when you watch workers slowly cut a ship in half in
We learned last month that despite Fisker beginning production on its Ocean SUV, the startup automaker lost nearly half a billion dollars last year and desperately needed a bailout. Nissan was reportedly in negotiations to give Fisker $400 million, but that apparently fell
Tesla cut 10 percent of its workforce a few weeks ago, and now we’re getting a better look at what sort of severance package its recently laid-off workers are getting. CEO Elon Musk sent an email to impacted employees late at night on April 14 letting them know they were
If there’s one thing that all Americans — divided they may be — can agree on, it’s that taxes are a pain. Centuries of that philosophy is what’s employed many of the more than 1.65 million accountants and auditors in the U.S. and allowed services like TurboTax and H&R Block to
It was a strong day for all three major U.S. stock indexes after a big selloff the day before . Google parent Alphabet crossed the $2 trillion threshold for market capitalization on Friday. Read more...
Former Tesla executive Andrew Baglino is looking to pocket some cash wealth on his way out the electric vehicle-maker’s door. Baglino, who resigned last week as the company’s senior vice president for energy engineering and powertrain, sold 1.14 million of his shares in Tesla
Apple and Google have removed apps that promised deepfake nudes from the App Store and Google Play, according to a report from 404 Media . Read more...
Google parent Alphabet crossed the $2-trillion threshold for market capitalization on Friday, thanks to a stock surge powered partly by its work with generative artificial intelligence . Read more...
Online fast-fashion retailer Shein will soon face stricter digital regulations from the European Union , the world’s largest trading bloc said in a statement on Friday. Read more...
Starbucks and the union representing its workers ended a two-day contract bargaining session over a variety of issues on a positive note, having made “significant progress.” Read more...