Ken Griffin’s latest bet? South Florida’s higher education.The billionaire hedge fund manager gifted $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, with $2 billion earmarked to develop a Miami campus for the…
America may finally have a plan to survive without pennies. The Treasury Department stopped minting pennies in 2025, under orders from President Donald Trump. Pennies cost more to mint than…
Imagine opening your mailbox and finding a letter that says the company you worked for all those years no longer pays your pension. An insurance company you’ve never heard of does. You didn’t agree to it. You didn’t get a…
Ask most people to name the best deal at Costco, and you’ll hear about the rotisserie chicken or the food-court hot dog. Costco would point you somewhere else: the gas station out in the parking lot. On the company’s Sept.…
For years, I checked my son’s grades as if they held a hidden message about my parenting.A missing assignment meant I should have been paying closer attention. A bad grade meant I needed to step in. If he wanted to…
Mac Liu isn’t a lawyer, but he knows how to build a tech startup. The two-time founder is betting that edge will separate his new law firm from a crowded field of neofirms.Liu’s startup, Arceus, combines a law firm staffed by attorneys with software built to speed up contract review.…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Britt McAlister, 56, who left the US to retire in the Philippines. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I realized I wasn’t happy with my life in the US.After my divorce, I was working 12 to 15 hours a day as…
If I’m going to England, I’m going to make every effort to hop on a train to Bath. Walking around blocks filled with honey-colored limestone buildings really does feel like…
Drummond’s recipe calls for 12 lasagna noodles, but I used the entire box. I have a strict No Noodle Left Behind policy.I filled a pot with salted water and brought…
Many AI leaders have turned their ire to effective altruism. Peter Thiel isn’t a fan himself, but he thinks the movement got “one big thing” right.Thiel spoke to Walter Isaacson on his forthcoming podcast, “The Builders.” In a clip shared…
When Heena Patel first moved to the Bay Area in California, she started selling her homemade Gujarati food at the local farmers market. She’d often come home without making a profit, but she refused to give up on her dream…
President Donald Trump is sending $500 checks to nearly a million Americans this week, along with a letter promoting his record on healthcare.The US Treasury is releasing the checks to over 950,000 Americans across 30 states who were enrolled in…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was the chief architect of the “morally binding” AI accords that emerged from Tuesday’s White House lunch with President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and more than a dozen tech executives, according to five people familiar…
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Twenty years ago, I accepted a short-term teaching job at a university in Los Angeles. As a born-and-raised Midwesterner, I hadn’t considered West Coast living, but I was open to the experience.Though I was there for only four years, I…
For nearly four and a half hours, Ben Shelton battled Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in a quarterfinals marathon.More than a million viewers tuned in to the…
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She was photographed in Tribeca this June while wearing a red jumpsuit from the New York fashion label Ashlyn.The long-sleeved piece had a peplum waist, flowing capris, and a scoop neckline. Vogue later reported that Hathaway had worn the outfit…
Rebecca Yarros’ next “Fourth Wing” book is out, but it’s not the fourth novel in the “Empyrean” series.It’s been over a year since Yarros released…
Ted Kaczynski’s decades-long acts of domestic terrorism that led to him being known as the Unabomber have been chronicled in books, documentaries, plays, and movies…
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Some of the richest people on Earth live in the United States. In fact, the US has the largest share of the world’s billionaires, home to nearly one-third of them.But the bar for reaching the upper echelons of American wealth…
Even with the title in a drawer and nothing owed, the average American driver spends $5,851 a year just to keep a vehicle on the road, according to an Insurify analysis. In addition, insurers count on you being too busy…
I have always known how to get an idea off the ground.As the founder of East End Taste, a Hamptons-based events company, I had built my career through relationships, creativity, instinct, and determination.For a long time, I believed those strengths…
As the sun rises across the world, it’s casting light on long queues outside Apple stores.Friday is launch day for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. That’s left a trail of fans gathered outside Apple stores, hoping…
Disney unveiled a major leadership shake-up, and a pair of memos to employees shed some light on the company’s thinking.Product and tech chief Adam Smith has been promoted to the head of Disney’s direct-to-consumer business, after previously sharing the role…
Last year, when my dad told me that he and my aunt were planning our first extended family vacation in decades, my stomach sank. Not because I didn’t want to see my relatives, but because I knew I’d be the…
Whenever I visit Warmond, I feel like I'm traveling to a different era.Dana MarinI’ve lived in the Netherlands for 15 years and traveled all over the country.As much as I love Amsterdam, the smaller towns here have really stolen my…
When temperatures start to drop, few things quite hit the spot like an easy pasta dinner, especially on busy workweek nights or during the back-to-school rush.Ree Drummond, better known as The Pioneer Woman, and Ina Garten are both beloved for…
Traveling to a new place is an adventure, especially if there’s a different language and currency involved. We no longer need to pack travel dictionaries or folded-up maps, since our phones can translate spoken and written words in seconds, and…
And the Oscar for best airline goes to…The aviation rating company Skytrax announced the winners of its annual 2026 World Airline Awards, known as “the Oscars of the aviation industry,” on Friday.To determine the winners, Skytrax conducted the world’s largest…
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