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Spray-on trainers, a water-filtering bottle cap and inflatable self-defence devices for protestors feature in our roundup of the most impactful product designs from 2024. This year saw designers tackle urgent topics from decarbonisation and water scarcity to the right to protest. Meanwhile, companies focused on breaking records, with the world's thinnest watch and the first

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates are up ahead of the coming Fed meeting, and they could fluctuate later this week.

On a night out in Tokyo, the cult fashion brand Freak City styled the rap duo Yurufuwa Gang and discovered they spoke "the same language."

How do you get into the holiday spirit without a bubbly glass of champagne? We consulted the experts

Narratives around fame are dated. Harmony Holiday and Nicole Miller propose alternatives.

President Bola Tinubu is presiding over the 21st meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the State House, Abuja. Monday’s meeting began at 01:20 pm. when Tinubu arrived at the Council Chamber. It is arguably the last for 2024. Seated are the Government of the Federation, George Akume, the President’s Chief of Staff, Mr Femi

The founders of eFishery, Gibran Huzaifah and Chrisna Aditya, are reported to have been suspended by the startup’s board, following an investigation into alleged financial irregularities.

Known as a pragmatic moderate before arriving at the Fed, Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr is now synonymous with an aggressive and divisive approach to bank regulation. Can he still accomplish his goals under President Trump?

Destroyed building after the cyclone Chido hit France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on December 14, 2024 in the capital Mamoudzou. Photo: AFP

America is a nation still at war with her mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems, in which a teeming desire for some kind of break from the economic status quo continued to ring out in the exit polls, there was a blank space. While it seems to have been missed by most of the pundits, I’ve regarded it as a serious omission: an enveloping misunderstanding among the electorate about what American capitalism actually is. 

That Donald Trump managed to win both the electoral vote and the popular vote has finally provided Democrats and liberals with the chance to correct a deeply ingrained misconception: the reflexive meme that the Electoral College is a structural barrier that systematically stacks the national electoral playing field against them. Factually, that grievance may have seemed correct in 2016, but historically, it is very wrong. Functionally, the Electoral College bugaboo serves as a self-serving excuse... Читать дальше...

One of the most common comedic arcs in twenty-first-century TV is the journey from cynicism to hope. Mockumentaries like The Office, Parks and Recreation, and even Abbott Elementary often begin as pinched indictments of the failing institutions they represent. Characters are moronic villains, lifeless cogs, right-angle bureaucrats, dissociated bystanders, wizened elders, or naïve strivers. But as the show wears on, and as the systems either bend to the will of the optimists or are transformed internally by them, hope enters the screen. Читать дальше...

Bill Sharman drives on the Minneapolis Lakers in

A great player, coach and executive. How many people ever do that hat trick?

For brands sponsoring college bowl games, it's no longer enough to turn your cheese cracker into a mascot or burn your toaster-pastry mascot alive and have teams eat it in front of fans: You need to be the Snoop Dogg of postseason play. There are 47 bowl games that comprise college football bowl season in...

The Acting Secretary of the Tanzania Baseball and Softball Association, Abubakary Nachiwa, said: “These championships not only highlighted the exceptional talent we have but also opened doors for players to gain international exposure."

As the vice president of data science at Thorn, Portnoff spearheaded the Safety by Design initiative that companies like Meta and OpenAI pledged to uphold.

Employees at its warehouses across the U.S. have alleged unsafe working conditions, and they fret over job security in the age of artificial intelligence. Amazon’s chief technologist, Tye Brady, disputes both counts.

Two Saskatchewan men are hoping to recoup thousands of dollars they say were lost in an online hockey card deal.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Drawings from the December 23, 2024, magazine.

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Fill in the letters to finish decorating this wintry dessert.

A puzzle that takes things too far.

“ ‘Unrest’ suggests the sleeplessness that turns / A burning saint upon a brazier bed.”