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Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: @slowbuyclub/TikTok It’s official: Shein has purchased Everlane, one of the pioneers of what was once called “sustainable fashion.” (On May 17, Puck reported the going price was $100 million.) In its heyday, Everlane won over millennial shoppers with its affordable basics and commitment to what it referred to as “radical…
A United Airlines flight was forced to divert Thursday after a passenger allegedly tried to open a door at 36,000 feet, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and air traffic control audio. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Flight 1551, a Boeing 737 Max 8 carrying…
The Texas Attorney General has sued Meta over allegations that the company’s WhatsApp messenger, used by more than 3 billion people, doesn’t provide the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) it has long claimed. Since at least 2016, Meta (then named Facebook) has said WhatsApp provides robust end-to-end encryption, meaning that messages are encrypted on a sender’s device…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior officials in the Food and Drug Administration’s tobacco center were blindsided by a recent decision that opens the door to allowing more unauthorized electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches onto the U.S. market, The Associated Press has learned. The guidelines, posted days before former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned, will allow companies…
Mission Station police Capt. Sean Perdomo, center, chats with a man who was selling various items at the BART plaza at Mission and 24th streets. Gabrielle Lurie/S.F. Chronicle The scene that played out at the Mission District’s BART plaza on 24th Street has become all too familiar in San Francisco. A crowd of about three dozen…
EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Crews worked Friday to clean up a large oil spill in East Los Angeles after a construction project ruptured an underground pipeline, sending thousands of gallons of crude oil into streets, storm drains and the L.A. River. The area near Cesar Chavez and Eastern avenues was closed and remained shut…
This column originally appeared in On The Way, a weekly newsletter covering everything you need to know about NYC-area transportation. Sign up to get the full version, which includes answers to reader questions, trivia, service changes and more, in your inbox every Thursday. Long Island can’t function without the railroad. If all the riders on…
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce injected massive momentum into the quantum computing sector, announcing over $2.0 billion in federal incentives under the CHIPS and Science Act across nine quantum computing companies. D-Wave (QBTS) secured a $100 million letter of intent to accelerate domestic system fabrication, granting the federal government an equity stake. The stock…
In this article SONY IMAX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Moviegoers watch the film Ne Zha 2 at an IMAX GT Cinema on February 23, 2025 in Guiyang, Guizhou Province of China. China News Service | China News Service | Getty Images Wall Street is buzzing following reports that IMAX is exploring a sale….
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, May 22 (Reuters) – Oil prices climbed on Friday, as investors worried that the U.S. and Iran would be unable to reach a peace agreement that would allow shipping traffic to return to normal in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent crude futures settled at $103.54 a barrel, up 96 cents, or…
As has been the case all week, bitcoin (BTC) is trading in a tight range around the $77,000 level in U.S. morning action. There was some economic news on Friday morning, and it wasn’t pretty. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index for May fell to a record low 44.8 from 48.2 previously and versus…
Risks to oil prices are firmly skewed higher amid plunging global oil inventories in the worst supply disruption in history, according to Barclays. The investment bank on Friday kept its $100 per barrel Brent forecast for 2026, but warned that the risks are skewed to the upside as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz…
But the deal may still be a win for Samsung, with smaller payouts than at local rival SK Hynix. But the deal may still be a win for Samsung, with smaller payouts than at local rival SK Hynix. May 22, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC Dominic Preston is a news editor with over a decade’s experience…
Track your investments for FREE with Simply Wall St, the portfolio command center trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. D-Wave Quantum (NYSE:QBTS) received a $100 million equity investment from the U.S. government under the CHIPS and Science Act. The funding comes through the U.S. Department of Commerce as part of a broader $2…
Volatility Spikes as Iran Diplomacy Collides With Hormuz Fears | OilPrice.com Trending Discussions Premium Content By Editorial Dept – May 22, 2026, 6:30 AM CDT July WTI crude oil delivered a volatile week as traders aggressively repriced geopolitical risk and then rapidly removed part of that premium on hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough between the…
By Caroline Valetkevitch and Stefano Rebaudo NEW YORK/MILAN, May 22 (Reuters) – Major stock indexes rose and Treasury yields eased on Friday as investors weighed the likelihood of a near-term deal to end the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Oil prices gained, with uncertainty surrounding the Iran talks still a concern. U.S. Secretary of State Marco…
Americans just loathe this economy. A closely watched measurement of US consumer sentiment fell to a fresh, all-time low in May, according to the latest survey from the University of Michigan. The May consumer sentiment index dropped for the third consecutive month, falling to 44.2 and landing below the previous record low of 49.8 set…
Customers shop for eggs at an H-E-B grocery store on May 11, 2026 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Egg prices are finally cooling in a welcome shift for consumers. But now a new challenge is sending producers scrambling: they have too many eggs at a time when their input costs are rising….
Refresh Get notified of updates 2026-05-22T23:43:49.013Z Starship V3 Ship makes fiery splashdown in Indian Ocean as planned Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: SpaceX) (Image credit: SpaceX) (Image credit: SpaceX) (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX’s Starship V3 lands in Indian Ocean on 2 engines. It fell over and exploded as expected to massive cheers from SpaceX’s…
NEW YORK — After more than a decade of mixing and kneading dough in his family’s Brooklyn pizzeria, Salvatore Lo Duca recently made a distressing discovery: A key component of their thin-crust pies, bromated flour, contained a suspected carcinogen already banned in much of the world. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access…
In this article STLA STLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa listens as U.S. President Donald Trump announces new fuel economy standards, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 3, 2025. Brian Snyder | Reuters AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said he…
A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stocks rose Friday as Treasury yields eased, resulting in a winning week for Wall Street despite heightened volatility. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 294.04 points, or 0.58%, to end at 50,579.70. The 30-stock index hit an intraday all-time high and posted another record close….
Jim Cramer has an opinion on nearly everything. But on Monday, for the first time in recent memory, he didn’t. On CNBC’s Squawk on the Street (1), co-host Carl Quintanilla noted President Donald Trump had been personally trading Intel stock in the first quarter — the same company the U.S. government took a 10% stake…
How are you spending your Memorial Day weekend? Grilling in the backyard, hitting the beach, maybe a picnic in the park? Well, we hope you’ve set aside some time to shop, because holiday sales are in full swing. Amazon’s deals in particular are more than worth browsing, with major discounts across big brands like Apple,…
Imax isn’t talking about speculation over a possible takeover after stock in the film technologies company spiked in after-hour market trading on Thursday. Shares in Imax rose $3.62, or nearly 11 percent, to $37.50 after The Wall Street Journal report the company was in the early stages of fielding possible buyers for the company as premium…
LinkedIn wants to host thousands of events a year as part of its bet on creators LinkedIn’s layoffs will come with operational changes, memo shows Kevin O’Leary says his huge data center will create 10,000 construction jobs. We looked at the numbers. Mira Murati’s AI dream team got their stock options. Now many are out….
In this article AVB EQR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The AvalonBay Communities Inc. Park Loggia condominium, center, is reflected in a building in New York, U.S. Mark Abramson | Bloomberg | Getty Images The biggest ever merger of real estate investment trusts — the combination of Equity Residential and AvalonBay, announced Thursday —…
(Photo illustration by The Bulwark / Photos: Getty, Shutterstock) Donald J. Trump has used his position as president of the United States of America to enrich himself in a variety of ways. From accepting luxurious gifts and suing his own government for billions of dollars to pooling revenues from the sale of seized Venezuelan oil…
Leah Feiger: Yeah, definitely. Brian Barrett: Delightful. OpenClaw, a little agent that can just run autonomously, has access to all your stuff. Gemini Spark is Google’s answer to OpenClaw. It’s the same sort of autonomous assistant that can do all the things, but because it’s Google, it has access to everything that you do on…
The Donald Trump administration announced $1 billion in grants to IBM to support its quantum foundry venture, and smaller grants to companies operating in the space, such as Rigetti Computing, D-Wave Quantum, and Infleqtion. IBM announced the launch of Anderon, a standalone quantum chip foundry headquartered in Albany, New York. IBM said it would invest…
WASHINGTON, DC (May 21, 2026) – As holiday travelers start hitting the road today in record numbers, Memorial Day weekend gas prices are the highest they’ve been in four years. The national average for a gallon of regular is at $4.56, up 3 cents over last week and $1.38 higher than this time last year. Current prices are close to what drivers were paying 4 years ago, when the national average on Memorial Day was…