Is your average airport security experience a quick walk through the screening area, or does the line often snake around multiple stanchions? The answer depends on where you’re flying out…
Here’s a confession: I hate paying full price. Always have. And after 45 years around money, I’ve learned that full price is usually just an opening offer — one most…
Mark Spitznagel says the AI boom likely has further to run, but a monumental crash is coming.The founder and chief of Universa Investments, a “Black Swan” fund that aims to win big from catastrophes, shared his stock-market outlook and reflected…
OpenAI has pulled back the curtain on how much its researchers spend on AI coding agents.In a blog post on Sunday, the startup said the most prolific users of AI coding agents among its researchers now consume more than $7,000…
Finding an affordable family SUV that delivers long-term value can be tough in today’s market. Rising new car prices and frequent recalls can make choosing the right SUV for your family complicated. At USA TODAY Cars, we test new vehicles…
Zohran Mamdani is celebrating Labor Day in a fitting way: Setting up a new city office to work more closely with unions and workers across NYC.The New York City mayor is launching an Office of Worker Power, which the administration says will be a resource for labor unions and local…
City governments have felt the heat to drop their contracts with Flock Safety. Now, retail giants are feeling it too.As the backlash against Flock’s security products continues, critics are targeting retail stores that have known partnerships with the company.”There is simply no need for Ulta Beauty to be one of…
As Artie T. Demoulas addressed a crowd of hundreds of workers on the lawn of the Market Basket headquarters, he sounded more like a left-wing union organizer than the centimillionaire…
Astana is more than 6,000 miles from Silicon Valley, but some of tech’s biggest names are bullish on the Kazakh capital.On Sunday, former Coinbase tech chief and Andreessen Horowitz partner…
Norah O’Donnell is returning to “CBS Mornings” seven years after leaving the program, and career experts say her comeback offers lessons for anyone considering a return to an old job.O’Donnell coanchored the morning program from 2012 to 2019 before taking…
Serena Williams, 44, said she doesn’t start her training days with breakfast.”I’m not really a breakfast person, so my first meal is usually around lunchtime. I’ll start with protein, have something lighter before I train, and then make sure I…
Amazon said it is cooperating with authorities after a cargo plane operating on behalf of Amazon Air crashed while attempting to land at Miami International Airport on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring five others. The company confirmed…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Luciana Pereyra, a 25-year-old Peruvian national who moved to the US at 17 on a tennis scholarship, lost her H-1B-sponsored job in 2025, and had to return to Peru. It has…
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View MoreAs the summer crowds slowly begin to fade and the trees turn fiery shades of red, orange, and yellow, fall in New England has officially begun. It’s time for sweater weather, pumpkin spice, and apple orchards.Being from Rhode Island myself,…
When Lukas Jannick’s parents heard how much he was spending on coffee in New York City, they bought and sent a coffee machine straight to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ken Polk, 53, who is based in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the founder of Arlington Family…
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This as-told-to-essay is based on a conversation with Becca Scott, 50, who is based in Berkshire, UK. She is the author of “Bloom Through Life: How to Thrive Through Difficult Relationships and Create Lasting Change in Your Health.” It has…
Two AI agents walk into a bar. One says to the other: “OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board.”Despite sounding like a bad…
At our first dinner on Hurtigruten’s MS Trollfjord, my parents and I spent most of the meal imagining what my 3-year-old son would have thought.Aksel…
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View MoreRegistered nurses, data scientists, and accountants and auditors are high-paying roles that are projected to add many jobs over the next decade.The Bureau of Labor Statistics released new job projections on Thursday, showing how hundreds of occupations may evolve between…
I’m a registered dietitian, a career I chose after becoming a mom.I thought for sure when it came time to start packing school lunches, I would be the one all the other moms looked to for inspiration. I’d have all…
Your insurance company has a product for you. It protects you against a rate increase — from your own insurance company. That’s accident forgiveness in a sentence. You pay your insurer extra money now so it promises not to punish…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Abhinav Bohra, a senior applied scientist at Amazon. He’s in his 30s and lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.For most of my career, everything I…
“I have a plan,” the text to my friend began, “would you meet us for dinner so we can talk about the greatness of Louisville?”My plan was simple: Reassure my husband that leaving Los Angeles and moving to Kentucky was…
This as-told-to essay is based on three conversations with Brett Schreiber, a California-based lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Miami Autopilot case involving Naibel Benavides Leon. In 2025, a federal jury found Tesla partially responsible for the crash that…
After months of delays, fast fashion behemoth Shein went public on Tuesday at a fraction of its peak valuation.On Monday, the Singapore-headquartered retailer priced its IPO at 48.56 Hong Kong dollars, or $6.19, per share, offering about 280 million shares.…
TAIPEI — Gunshots rang out at midnight as Taiwanese infantry, hidden on rooftops and in alleyways, opened fire with blanks along the streets of northern Taipei. They weren’t fighting for the beaches; instead, they were defending a six-lane road, split…
China’s consumer spending remains sluggish, but the arrival of a new American fried-chicken chain shows there’s still an appetite for an affordable indulgence.Church’s Texas Chicken opened its first mainland China location in Shanghai on Friday, drawing customers who waited in…
Russia attacked Ukraine in July with five times as many jet-powered Shahed loitering munitions as it did in June, according to Ukraine’s air force.The monthly surge points to how Moscow has sharply increased mass production of the advanced attack drones,…
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American motorists are buying $4 gas on Labor Day weekend for the first time in history, a fuel analyst reports. A gallon of regular unleaded gas cost an average of…
Employers have a new message for workers using AI to write: Stop the slop.Fed up with bloated and confusing content, from project proposals to status updates, bosses are instituting policies…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tim Allen, whose family opened Holy Tacos in Rayville, Louisiana, in April 2025. Construction for Meta’s largest-ever AI data center is…
On a warm August morning, a team of Marines watched the sky, waiting for a hostile drone to buzz by. Their task was to stop it if it did.The team…
Hate paying taxes? What if you have to pay twice? Usually, rules prevent Americans from doing that, but occasionally, it can still happen. The potential for double taxation typically occurs…
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