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Labor Day Weekend Food Deals at McDonald’s, Denny’s and More
The three-day Labor Day weekend is an occasion for many restaurants to have deals for dining out – it’s your day off, why cook, right? McDonald’s $2 breakfast sandwich deal can be redeemed over the holiday, but the fast-food giant also has travelers covered with a discount on gas at Shell stations…
A veteran chief engineer building a flying taxi shared the one piece of advice he’d give his 25-year-old self
David King is the chief engineer at Vertical Aerospace, a British company developing an eVTOL — an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft — intended to work like a flying taxi. If he could give his 25-year-old self one piece of advice, King said, it would be: “Don’t be afraid of the…
Influencers are infiltrating this year’s US Open. It’s not stopping tennis lovers.
More than tennis 🎾 The US Open has long morphed from a simple tennis tournament into a two-week experience in one of the best boroughs in New York. With merch drops, celebrities in the stands, and viral food items on-site with eye-popping price tags, it’s become the social event of September in New…
Toyota spent years moving slowly on EVs. I drove its new, affordable C-HR to see whether the wait paid off.
Let’s go back to 2023. GM is rolling out a dozen EVs, Ford has borrowed the iconic F-150 and Mustang nameplates for all-electric vehicles, Polestar looks like a potential up-and-comer… And Toyota — long heralded as one of the more environmentally conscious automakers after the runaway success of…
Uber says it can replace car ownership. My used Toyota Yaris proved its point.
No one had ever been this excited about a used Toyota Yaris. That was my thought as my wife and I picked up the keys to the car we found on Facebook Marketplace one morning in August 2025. For the first time in seven years of living in the Washington, DC area, we were car
Hikers ‘relied too much’ on AI and had to be rescued. A ranger says it wasn’t the first AI-related mishap he’s seen.
Nick Meyers, lead climbing ranger for the US Forest Service on Mount Shasta in California, has seen people make plenty of mistakes in the mountains over the past 20-plus years. But he’s seeing a new trend in 2026: hikers erring with AI’s help. Meyers, who is also the director of the Mount Shasta…
Rents are falling in some hotspot cities due to a ‘timing mistake’ by homebuilders
Rents have moved in opposite directions across major US cities since mid-2023, and changes in where Americans are moving and how much those cities built in response could explain why. Cities like New York and Chicago have seen their rents rise, while others, like Austin, have seen them fall by…
After visiting all 50 states, there are 5 small towns I can’t stop thinking about
Homer, Alaska, is a beautiful four-and-a-half-hour drive from Anchorage. Although it’s easy enough to travel to, visiting feels like being worlds away. I love wandering the harbor and the “Homer Spit,” a long, thin stretch of land reaching into Kachemak Bay. Here, I enjoy watching the fishing boats…
Nvidia has built a $99 billion equity portfolio from almost scratch in 2 years
Nvidia has built a nearly $100 billion equity portfolio from virtually scratch in just two years by investing in other tech companies. The AI chipmaker, led by CEO Jensen Huang, held $99 billion in equity investments as of July 26, according to its latest earnings report. That included roughly $48…
This will be the most expensive Labor Day ever for gas. Here are the 10 states with the highest fuel prices — and 10 with the lowest.
Since the beginning of the Iran war in late February and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, Americans have been feeling the effects at the gas pump. After the conflict started, prices rose sharply across the US. AAA data show the national average peaked in May at roughly $4.56 per…