After fighting for legalization, weed smokers face a harsh reality: Symptoms earlier generations didn’t experience make wake-and-bake a new kind of addiction
For the past several years, 75-year-old Miguel Laboy has smoked a joint with his coffee every morning. He tells himself he won’t start tomorrow the same way, but he usually…
Supreme Court to hear Texas landlord’s lawsuit against the Post Office for failing to deliver mail for 2 years
The case focuses on whether the special postal exemption to the Federal Tort Claims Act applies when postal employees intentionally fail to deliver letters and packages.“We’re going to be faced…
Why an ASEAN power grid is key to tapping Southeast Asia’s green potential
That creates a problem.The ASEAN nations enjoy vast but as yet largely untapped potential for renewable energy, especially PV solar, and onshore and offshore wind. The IEA puts potential supply…
‘Low-hire, low-fire’ economy grinds on as lower-than-expected jobless claims suggests layoffs aren’t spiking
The four-week average of claims, which softens some of the week-to-week volatility, dropped 1,000 to 223,750.The total number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the week ending Nov. 15…
Meet the world’s 29 ‘super-billionaires’ fueling the wealth gap and boasting a collective fortune of $4 trillion
“This ‘superbillionaire’ class has experienced the most dynamic wealth generation by far over the past decade, underlining the hyperconcentration of global wealth at the very top,” the Altrata report noted. There…
These Fortune 500 companies are laying off thousands of workers and fueling economic anxiety
Here are some of the largest job cuts announced recently:In November, Paramount also announced plans to eliminate 1,600 positions as part of divestitures of Televisión Federal in Argentina and Chilevision…
Storms sweep from Houston to Minneapolis, complicating Thanksgiving travel for millions
“Half my roof on the back is gone,” Beck, 46, said as workers cleared large tree branches and other debris from around nearby houses in the suburb of Cypress. “We’ve…
Longtime Trump advisor Kevin Hassett emerges as favorite for Fed chair, Bloomberg reports
Hassett also aligns with Trump’s aims to cut interest rates. He told Fox News that he would “be cutting rates right now” if he were the chair of the Fed because…
Families struggle to catch up after the shutdown hit SNAP, with some hitting up food banks and skipping Thanksgiving
After living with her parents for more than two years, Williams and her two children were finally moving into an apartment of their own in her hometown of Reeds Spring,…
Mexico reveals ‘Coatlicue,’ Latin America’s most powerful supercomputer, named for the Mexica earth mother goddess
Dubbed “Coatlicue” for the Mexica goddess considered the earth mother, the supercomputer would be seven times more powerful than the region’s current leader in Brazil, José Merino, head of the…
