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A love letter to the A380, the retiring behemoth that takes Qantas travellers back in time | Nick Visser
Quiet cabins, spacious configurations and those hallowed stairs: the Airbus superjumbo has become a favourite of many travellers – and will be missedGet our breaking news email, f…
Tennessee governor says he backs airport name change to honor Dolly Parton
Bill Lee says he favors proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singerBill Lee, the Tennessee governor, on Friday said he favored a proposal t…
Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules, saying speech and press freedoms are ‘foundational to America’s enduring democracy’
“Freedom of speech is illusory if we are only ‘free’ to express complementary views about the government and its leaders,” the judge wrote.
‘Long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario’ — Premier Doug Ford fires back at ‘Lake America’ decree with giant sign
Wearing a Team Canada soccer jersey, Ford unveiled the sign near Grimsby, Ontario.
Wall Street used to worry that too much U.S. debt would crowd out the private sector. But AI hyperscalers are ‘reverse crowding’ the Treasury
"Capital flowing into corporate bonds is capital not flowing into Treasuries, and Treasury yields have had to rise to clear the market."
The U.S. doesn’t have a state-owned oil giant. But in Venezuela, the federal government will control a company with the world’s 2nd largest reserves
The federal government will control 55% of the company's effective output via equity ownership and oil production.
Casey’s quietly became America’s fifth-largest pizza chain. Meet the Fortune 500 gas station Gen Z can’t stop posting about
Have you heard of the fifth-largest pizza chain in the U.S., famous for its red roof, its taco pizza and its sausage gravy-base, breakfast slices?
ICE explores purchasing robot dogs in enforcement tech push
The government is looking to spend at least $2 million on the robots.
Trump backlash adds new risks to the stocks the government owns
Market strategists see rising risks of the administration’s equity positions facing scrutiny in Washington and the courts.
Forget GLP-1 stocks, baldness drugs are Wall Street’s next goldmine
Pattern hair loss affects an estimated 50 million men and 30 million women in the US, but there have been no new approved drugs since the late 1990s.
Russia is teaching its children to fight the wars of the future
Students will also study mines and explosive hazards, first aid for combat injuries, chemical and radiation exposure and acute stress, as well as survival training and procedures …
For his latest tariffs, Trump used a statute so obscure many lawyers didn’t even know it still existed. ‘This law is literally a blank canvas’
Trump invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to slap a 50% tax on $20 billion worth of Canadian imports.
‘What is that saying about the applicant pool?’ The FBI will no longer treat experience with prostitution as an automatic bar against hiring
The shift is being made at a time when current and former officials worry that the FBI, and the Justice Department more generally, have eased recruitment requirements.
After 6 months of war, hardliners consolidate power in Iran, but there are ‘serious differences over the future path of the country’
President Masoud Pezeshkian is one of the most prominent voices still calling for a negotiated solution.
Former White House teleprompter operator must turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 fine in insider trading settlement
The settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, announced Friday, also dealt Gabriel Perez a three-year trading ban.
IBM’s CEO disagrees with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s disdain for texting in meetings: ‘Telling people they can’t use their technology would be weird’
Jamie Dimon calls checking your email during a meeting disrespectful—but IBM’s CEO says he doesn’t care, depending on the number of people in the room.
Dolly Parton once turned down a song request from Elvis Presley. That was just one business decision that helped build her $650 million empire
Parton established her own publishing company in 1966, which helped her hold on to nearly all of her publishing rights.
Tech billionaires and executives like Evan Spiegel and Peter Thiel are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich
As governments race to restrict minors’ social media use, the tech billionaires who built the platforms are imposing strict screen limits at home.
The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing
“The technology that was supposed to shrink the industry is fueling its expansion,” said Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok.
‘It gives Shein’: how did polyester become the world’s most-hated material?
Due to its ubiquity in fast fashion, gen Z are pushing back against the synthetic material and using it as an insultIn 2015, Kate Moss called an easyJet pilot a “basic bitch” and …
American Girl once captured U.S. history’s complexity. Why not now?
This year isn’t just the 250th anniversary of America’s independence — it is also the 40th anniversary of American Girl.
Remaking the biscuit: from Doritos to digestives, why the UK’s snacks are being ‘reformulated’
Healthy eating rules are forcing brands to recook their recipes. Are consumers noticing the difference?Bite into a Ritz cracker today and you’re eating 80% less saturated fat than…
Richard Branson double-booked his own job interview. The candidate stuck in traffic with him for 2.5 hours is now Virgin’s CEO
Josh Bayliss joined Virgin as a lawyer in 2005 and rose to CEO, drawing on lessons from Richard Branson’s unconventional approach to business.
College sports and ‘amateurism’ become the new ‘professional’ as an NFL player fights to return to school
Pros going back to amateur sports? It’s not amateur in the first place, according to a sports historian.