Americaâs vanishing cattle herd drives 15% price hikes for beef
While US inflation has cooled from its pandemic-era peak, prices at grocery store meat counters are skyrocketing with no relief in sight. Beef costs have risen faster than most other…
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Trumpâs Caribbean surge nears $3 billion price tag so far
When US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, early in the new year, the Trump administration heralded the operation as concise and deliberate: with overhead…
Golfers sue over Trumpâs overhaul of 100-year-old public course so it doesnât become âanother private playground for the privileged and powerfulâ
Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration…
Our K-12 school system is sending us a message: AI tools are for the rich kids
Chicago Public Schools comprise a vast, labyrinthine system boasting over 316,000 students across 630 locations. Many rank among Americaâs best. Many others are chronically underperforming Title 1 schools, with high…
The Epstein files reveal an alarming truth about corporate America
Two weeks after the U.S. Justice Departmentâs latest batch of 3 million Jeffrey Epstein files revealed the business eliteâfrom Hollywood to New York to Dubaiâwho were friendly with the late,…
OpenAIâs Codex and Anthropicâs Claude spark coding revolution as developers say theyâve abandoned traditional programming
Is traditional coding dead? Thatâs the question many developers have been asking themselves this week following the launch of powerful new coding models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Last week, OpenAI…
Trump says regime change in Iran that ousts Islamic clerics âwould be the best thing that could happenâ as another carrier heads to Mideast
President Donald Trump said Friday that a change in power in Iran âwould be the best thing that could happenâ as the U.S. administration weighs whether to take military action…
Marc Andreessen made a dire software prediction 15 years ago. Now itâs happening in a way nobody imagined
On Aug. 20, 2011, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a blog postâand an accompanying essay in the Wall Street Journalâthat would become the sacred texts of the Silicon Valley…
Exclusive: Â The Walton familyâfunded PE firm that owns Rapha Cycling Club presses pause on all new investments
RZC Investments, the private equity firm of Walmart heirs Tom and Steuart Walton, has paused new investments and is reconsidering the future structure of the fund, according to two people…
Exclusive: Binance fires top investigators who claim to have uncovered evidence of Iranian sanctions violations
In 2023 the crypto exchange Binance pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer laws as well as sanctions violations. The company agreed to pay $4.3 billion, one of the largest…