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The new GOP platform, expected to be approved at next week’s Republican National Convention, reads like a combination of Trump speeches and social media posts.

Rudy Giuliani’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case could be thrown out entirely, after a judge said Wednesday that he is inclined to dismiss it.

In 2015, CNN's Gary Tuchman visited a Fort Worth woman named Elizabeth Sullivan, age 104, to uncover her secret to longevity. Sullivan was happy to tell him: three cans of Dr Pepper a day. "Doctors told me that if I drink it, I will die--but they died first," she said. Sullivan's health advice is open...

Zendaya reportedly spent three months training for romantic drama Challengers, learning how to mimic tennis prodigies like Serena Williams and Coco Gauff. But does that mean she's ready to take on 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer? In the world of advertising, it does--plus this is air tennis, which isn't really a thing, but now...

Since the presidential debate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign has heavily leaned into X and TikTok as part of its strategy to get the third-party candidate into the national conversation. It’s working.

The American workforce is aging. According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median age of the American labor force was nearly 42 years old in 2022, up from 40 years old in 2002. Nineteen percent of adults ages 65 and older are currently employed, compared to 11 percent in 1987. Further, […]

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The foundation is seeking an individual to lead the newly approved “Green Chemistry Initiative... Читать дальше...

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Look on the bottom of a plastic water bottle or takeout container, and you might find a logo there made up of three arrows forming a closed loop shaped like a triangle.…

A Utah tech firm has redesigned planetarium display technology to create big ticket VIP viewing at a fraction of the cost.

A new book from Stanford design professors explores the radical potential of design to reshape our world for the better.

PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Unilever are leading the charge.

In the opening vignette of a recent advertisement campaign by Liquid I.V., a woman weighed down by several hefty bags of groceries is struggling to walk up a steep hill in sweltering heat.

IPOs from Reddit, Ibotta, and Aster Labs helped pull up the market this quarter.

THE HEAVENS—Saying He had no choice but to target the painful, itching sensation directly at the source, God Almighty, Creator of the Universe, was reportedly forced to shave his head Thursday after contracting a biblical plague of lice. “Yesterday, a misdirected divine commandment resulted in all the dust of the…

Peak summer temperatures in some parts of Europe are threatening the normal operation of refineries, Bloomberg has reported, citing the situation in Greece and Poland. Temperatures in Greece look set to top 40 degrees Celsius next week, which would make normal operations for refiners challenging and in Poland the hot weather is also jeopardizing the normal operation of refineries. “European refineries were designed in the sixties and the seventies,” Alan Gelder, vice president of refining, chemicals... Читать дальше...

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An advocacy group that opposes environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing launched a broad public relations effort to shape negotiations around a new farm bill. Consumers’ Research, a leading anti-ESG group, wrote to top lawmakers on agricultural issues in a letter obtained first by The Hill and launched billboards and television ads warning against the...

It’s two weeks since the June 27 debate between President Biden and former President Trump in Atlanta sent the political world into tumult. Biden’s disastrous performance in that clash has led to calls for him to quit the race, speculation over who might replace him, and Democratic worries that their national convention, set for Chicago...

President Biden on Thursday will enter another high-stakes moment in his re-election campaign when, under heavy scrutiny, he will face the media in a rare solo press conference where he is sure to be met with a barrage of questions over whether he can stay in the race. The press conference will close out the...

The House Freedom Caucus, long known for being at the center of strife in the House GOP, is at a crossroads that leaves the hard-right group’s influence in question. Its ouster of Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), just the latest to face retribution in this Congress after being seen as insufficiently loyal, is exposing bitter division,...

Democratic lawmakers and donors are expressing uncertainty about whether President Biden will be able to pass several key tests over the next few days to remain the party’s likely nominee for president.  And while they acknowledge that it’s ultimately up to Biden to decide whether to continue his bid for a second term, some are...

A Republican effort to target a Washington, D.C., law aimed at protecting employees’ reproductive rights is endangering a spending bill GOP leadership hopes to pass later this month. House GOP moderates are taking issue with a policy rider within the annual financial services and general government (FSGG) funding bill, which contains funding for the district...

Senate Democrats worry that the turmoil over President Biden will haunt them until the convention in August, making for a painful 40 days and weakening the party going into the fall. Even as they've resigned themselves to the reality that Biden will likely remain atop the ticket, they fear a slow drip of polls, possible...

President Biden is facing calls to undergo cognitive testing and release the results after his disastrous debate last month, and amid a series of reports about his apparent decline in recent months. Concerns were only fanned further when public records brought to attention that a neurologist who specializes in Parkinson's disease had visited the White...

Heather Slavkin Corzo, most recently a policy director at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is joining Mindset as a principal. She was previously director of capital markets policy at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), head of U.S. policy at the Principles for Responsible Investment and a senior fellow...

The Reserve Bank of India issued a notification, widening the scope of remittances to International Financial Services Centres (IFSCs) under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS). At present, remittances under LRS to IFSCs can be made only for making investments in IFSCs in securities except those issued by entities/ companies resident in India (outside IFSC); and payment of fees for education to foreign universities or foreign institutions in IFSCs for pursuing specific courses. However, on a review... Читать дальше...