Mood in Russia turns bleak as war in Ukraine drags and economy suffers
President Vladimir Putin is facing rising discontent across Russian society as the war against Ukraine drags on, the economy flounders ...
US embassy in London warns to ‘exercise increased caution’ near Jewish sites in UK, Europe after antisemitic attacks
The US Embassy in London on Friday warned Americans to “exercise increased caution” while visiting Jewish and American areas in ...
First-of-its-kind data shows Americans’ electricity was shut off 13 million times
Utility companies shut off Americans’ power 13.4 million times and gas 1.7 million times in 2024, a federal report said ...
I drive for a ride-hailing cooperative for extra cash instead of Uber or Lyft
Daniel Mondragon drives for a ride-hailing cooperative in Colorado. Matthew DeFeo for BISome ride-hailing drivers are creating their own apps ...
40 years after Chernobyl, war brings new rounds of disaster and displacement
CHORNOBYL, Ukraine — After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 40 years ago Sunday, more than 300,000 people fled the towns surrounding ...
Two-faced Republicans are letting these corrupt clowns fleece America
The GOP’s first-family “grift” obsession about Hunter Biden is like a dirty joke gone wrong, one with a punchline more ...
‘I Moved Away, Yet She Continued to Call on My Birthday Every Year’
For a Dancer Dear Diary: Fresh out of college in 1990, I moved to the Upper West Side. I became ...
Trump, allies use dinner shooting to press case for White House ballroom
President Donald Trump said Saturday night that the shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner hours earlier highlighted the need ...
Meet the founder who started over at 50 and worked 20-hour days to build a multimillion dollar cookie dough empire—and still won’t take a day off
At 50, most people are thinking about winding down; Kathryn Bricken decided to start again. The Miami-born founder turned a ...
See What Happened After We Found a Cartel Mine on a Military Base
It was during my third visit to La Mandinga, a gold mine controlled by a Colombian drug cartel, when I ...
The Podcast Where You Can Eavesdrop on the A.I. Elite
As Dwarkesh Patel entered a small sushi restaurant in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood on a recent Monday evening, a ripple ...
U.S. Sanctions Zigzag in New World of Economic Warfare
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared in mid-April that the United States would not extend a waiver allowing the sale of ...
These Couples Wanted to Have Children. Rising Costs Are Stopping Them.
Growing up in Utah, where big families are part of the culture, Rilee Stewart and Brock Goodwin always imagined having ...
I thought I’d retire from Intel. Then I got laid off in my 60s — and I’m still struggling to find a job.
Brad Jenkins is job hunting in his 60s after being laid off from Intel last year. Brad JenkinsBrad Jenkins was ...
New Historical Fiction, Lush and Lavishly Detailed
The Shock of the Light by Lori Inglis Hall In her impressive debut, THE SHOCK OF THE LIGHT (Pamela Dorman ...
