Amazon Prime Day is actually a bummer for these sellers
Amazon Prime Day is typically one of the best days of the year for Keababies, which sells baby care and maternity products on its web site. Last…
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Key indicators that the United States is recovering from the pandemic
America hit a milestone Friday: 300 million people in the country have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. And as the number of…
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The US economy is never going back to ‘normal’
The US economy has come a long way since last year’s devastating downturn. But a return to “normal” may not be possible. The…
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Storage facility fire in west El Paso causes $10k damage
EL PASO, Texas — A small fire at a west El Paso storage facility business on Saturday afternoon caused about $10,000 damage to property being stored…
Continue Reading Business upticks show how Americans are recovering from the pandemic
America hit a milestone Friday: 300 million people in the country have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. And as the number of…
Continue Reading A judge ruled that Florida would be harmed by the CDC stopping most cruise ships from sailing
A federal judge ruled Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s conditional sailing orders on the cruise industry…
Continue Reading The housing market is on fire. The Fed keeps adding gasoline
Bidding wars. All-cash offers. Homes selling for $1 million over asking. The housing boom has officially reached the ridiculous stage. Despite…
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Governor to lift all New Mexico pandemic restrictions on July 1
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The state of New Mexico’s pandemic-related public health restrictions will be completely lifted as of July 1, Gov. Michelle…
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Truckers passing through Santa Teresa port get vaccinated without residency proof
SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — A vaccination event held this week at the New Mexico state facility at the Santa Teresa Port of Entry provided the…
Continue Reading Stocks plummet as Dow closes down more than 530 points
NEW YORK, NY — Are the Wild West days of intense market volatility back on Wall Street? Stocks were sliding Friday after St. Louis Federal…
Continue Reading Oat milk is everywhere. Here’s why
It’s been a big year for America’s oat milk fans — and the companies serving them. In March, Starbucks rolled out the option only to…
Continue Reading 3.5 million Black American households have a negative net worth, new study finds
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story and headline misstated the findings of the McKinsey study on wealth. It has been updated and…
Continue Reading Dow plummets more than 400 points as volatility returns to stock market
Are the Wild West days of intense market volatility back on Wall Street? Stocks were sliding Friday morning after St. Louis Federal Reserve President…
Continue Reading 3.5 million Black Americans have a negative net worth, new study finds
An estimated 19% of Black Americans, roughly 3.5 million people, have a negative net worth because of a history of discriminatory policies from the…
Continue Reading Dow plummets nearly 400 points as volatility returns to stock market
Are the Wild West days of intense market volatility back on Wall Street? Stocks were sliding Friday morning after St. Louis Federal Reserve President…
Continue Reading Grocery stores are excited to charge you higher prices
You might not be excited about paying higher prices for meat and vegetables, but your grocery store is thrilled. The rising prices for staples like…
Continue Reading Market volatility is back as stocks slide on Fed rate hike fears
Are the Wild West days of intense market volatility back on Wall Street? Stocks were sliding Friday morning after St. Louis Federal Reserve President…
Continue Reading Why Wall Street is in such a rush to get workers back to the office
Wall Street is wasting no time getting its employees back into the office — whether they want to be there or not. Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman…
Continue Reading The oat milk wars are just beginning
It’s been a big year for America’s oat milk fans — and the companies serving them. In March, Starbucks rolled out the option only to…
Continue Reading Vaccine-maker AstraZeneca claims victory in court tussle with EU over slow deliveries
BRUSSELS (AP) — AstraZeneca and the European Union have both claimed victory in a court tussle over allegations that the coronavirus vaccine-maker…
Continue Reading Real estate market madness is everywhere
Low inventory and surging demand have sent house prices soaring around the world, raising concerns about how long the red-hot market can be…
Continue Reading Pornhub sued for allegedly serving nonconsensual sex videos
Dozens of women sued Pornhub and its parent company Thursday, alleging that the site knowingly profited from videos depicting rape, child sexual…
Continue Reading A huge backlog at China’s ports could spoil your holiday shopping this year
A coronavirus outbreak in southern China has clogged ports critical to global trade, causing a shipping backlog that could take months to clear and…
Continue Reading How Russian threats in the 2000s turned this country into the go-to expert on cyber defense
When people like the German Chancellor Angela Merkel or the King of Belgium want to learn more about cybersecurity, they go to Estonia. The Baltic…
Continue Reading Estonia is a global leader on all things cyber. Now it’s offering to teach other countries
When people like the German Chancellor Angela Merkel or the King of Belgium want to learn more about cybersecurity, they go to Estonia. The Baltic…
Continue Reading New Nielsen data shows that cable TV reigns supreme, but streaming is gaining fast
A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Take a wild guess:…
Continue Reading Lordstown Motors backtracks, says it has no binding orders for electric truck
Lordstown Motors, the struggling electric truck startup, said that it has no firm orders for its vehicles, backtracking on assurances it made earlier…
Continue Reading Bank of America gives WFH employees a Labor Day deadline to return to the office
Bank of America is encouraging its vaccinated employees to return to the office after Labor Day in September, the company’s CEO Brian Moynihan…
Continue Reading Two obscure service providers briefly broke the internet. It could happen again
For the second time in 10 days, a giant chunk of the internet briefly broke because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard…
Continue Reading Banks and airline websites get hit by another major internet outage
Airlines, banks, stock exchanges and trading platforms suffered brief website outages, sparking the second major interruption in the past 10 days.…
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