Michigan college survey says ‘6-7’ is lowkey cooked, put in on the ‘Banished Words List’
Those are among the top 10 words on the 50th annual “Banished Words List,” released Thursday by Lake Superior State University. The tongue-in-cheek roundup of overused slang started in 1976…
Tesla is officially smaller than China’s BYD in EV sales as it reports second-straight year of falling sales
The shift in rankings lands at a politically sensitive moment, with Washington and Brussels already scrutinizing Chinese EV imports and raising tariffs over concerns about overcapacity and state support. Any…
Farmers see a ‘Band-Aid on a deep wound’ as White House reveals the size of their soybean tariff bailout
Soybean farmers will get $30.88 per acre while corn farmers will receive $44.36 per acre. Another crop hit hard when China stopped buying was sorghum, and those farmers will get…
Runaway boulder on Indiana Jones set rolls over Disney World worker
The worker at the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular” at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios park was knocked to the ground by the 400-pound (181-kilogram) prop boulder after it moved off…
Privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the wrong way risks a second Great Recession
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises that play a central role in America’s housing market. They buy qualifying mortgages from lenders, bundle them into mortgage-backed securities, and sell…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy flirts again with the danger threshold at which his company is worth less than his Bitcoin
Already, the market cap of the company is worth less than its Bitcoin. Its market cap was $47 billion today; the Bitcoin held by the company is worth just under…
Trump retreats on tariffs again, now on furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities
Trump’s order signed Wednesday keeps in place a 25% tariff he imposed in September on those goods, but delays for another year a 30% tariff on upholstered furniture and 50%…
Trump backs down on sending National Guard into Chicago, LA and Portland
President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal…
Mamdani vows to ‘govern as a democratic socialist’ for every construction worker, halal cart vendor and spice-wielding cook in New York City
After working part of the night in his new office, Mamdani returned to City Hall in a taxi cab around midday Thursday for a grander public inauguration where U.S. Sen.…
Quran used to swear in New York City’s mayor for the first time in history as Zohran Mamdani takes office
Most of Mamdani’s predecessors were sworn in on a Bible, although the oath to uphold the federal, state and city constitutions does not require the use of any religious text.Two…
