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An endless stream of opinion pieces and social media content has given communication degrees and students majoring in communication a bad rap.Communication often ranks lower on “Return on Investment” charts. The field is also often labeled as a “useless” degree.But I have a bachelor’s in communication and digital studies from…
Fewer diners visited Taco Bell and lettuce-heavy restaurants, including Panera, as a cyclospora outbreak grew late last week.Early data from location intelligence firm Placer.ai shows that US foot traffic at some of these chains began to decline in the second half of the week as reports of the diarrhea-causing parasite…
The 2004 movie “Mean Girls” taught us that high school girl world is just as cutthroat as the animal kingdom. It turns out, the world of AI leaders isn’t that different, either.Sam Altman and Elon Musk have been beefing like the movie’s teenage characters this week — so much so…
Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart has made a major bet on Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to more than just a financial return.Rinehart — Australia’s richest person with a fortune estimated at $38.4 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — invested through Hancock Prospecting, her privately held mining and…
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Pentagon’s policy to kick out transgender troops was illegal, halting the administration from removing more than two dozen transgender service members who have sued the Pentagon.A majority of the three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia…
Student-loan borrowers, get ready: big changes are coming.For nearly a year, President Donald Trump’s Department of Education has been preparing to implement the sweeping student-loan changes signed into law in the administration’s ” big beautiful” spending legislation.After negotiation, public comment, and ongoing litigation, those changes will take effect on July…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Andrew Schnipper, cofounder of multiple restaurants, including Schnipper’s and Hamburger America. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.When my brother and I opened Schnipper’s in 2009, we thought having a broad menu made sense. We were focused on burgers,…
