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Sonya Moore decided that if Trump won in 2016, she would leave the US.She followed through and has been living abroad for seven years.Moore is a yoga teacher, writer, and photographer. “If Trump wins this election, I’m moving out of the country.”I said those words in November 2016. So did…
Kamala Harris is projected to have won a potentially critical Electoral College vote in Nebraska.Thanks to Nebraska’s unusual way of awarding votes, she has carried a district containing Omaha.Democrats have now won an electoral vote in Nebraska in three elections since 2008. Vice President Kamala Harris’ increasingly perilous path to…
A 5-year-old Taiwanese boy dressed up as Nvidia’s Jensen Huang for Halloween.The boy sported Huang’s signature black leather jacket and carried a GPU.”He just knows that he is dressed as a very remarkable person,” the boy’s mom told BI. This Halloween, CEO costumes are in.At least, that’s the case for…
Amazon won partial dismissal of an FTC lawsuit alleging illegal monopoly practices.The FTC accused Amazon of stifling competition by coercing sellers to use its service.The ruling is part of broader government scrutiny of Big Tech under the Biden administration. Amazon just won a partial dismissal of a Federal Trade Commission…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Blake Haxton. It has been edited for length and clarity.This Friday — five days after smiling on the podium at the Paris Paralympics — I’ll be back at work, crunching numbers behind a desk in Ohio.It hasn’t really sunk in yet.…
George Cheng thinks a lot about flooding.In his home state North Carolina, hurricanes and tropical storms cause annual flooding that damages homes, farms, and crop fields. Cheng is also close to people from India whose families were affected by the heavy 2023 floods.In the not-so-distant future, the 18-year-old MIT freshman…
On Saturday, Chidimma Adetshina was crowned Miss Universe Nigeria. But less than a month before the pageant, she thought she would be competing for a completely different crown.Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student, was originally a contestant in the Miss South Africa pageant, which was documented on the reality series “Crown…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Angela Santiago, a 33-year-old single mom who won an apartment with below-market-rate rent in Montville, a township about 30 miles west of Midtown Manhattan, through an affordable housing lottery program run by Piazza and Associates. She shared her experience in a…
After months of negotiations that nearly led to a strike, thousands of Disneyland workers agreed to accept a new contract.The deal mandates an increase in the park’s minimum wage from a previous $19.90 to a final $26 after three years, an increase of 31%.The new contract grants most of that…
The usual orders battle between Airbus and Boeing played second fiddle to supply-chain issues at last week’s Farnborough Airshow.Airbus announced 164 orders compared to Boeing’s 96 — a lower tally than previous airshows. There were over 500 orders at Farnborough in 2022, over 1,000 orders in Paris last year, and…
