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Crypto won’t fix America’s affordability crisis
Economists increasingly describe today’s economy as “K-shaped”: Households with higher incomes and assets are pulling ahead, while many…
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“The Beauty” Is a Hot Mess
In the new Ryan Murphy horror thriller “The Beauty,” a virus turns its hosts into perfect physical specimens overnight. Men wake up with…
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Trump Has Made Pregnancy in America Harder Than Ever
This is happening within the larger context of state attacks on reproductive rights and the right’s focus on creating the perfect…
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What Margaret Atwood Would Like You to Know
Maybe the Munro scandal is still too painful for Atwood to discuss at length, and too many people caught up in it are still alive. But she…
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The Key to Minneapolis’s Successful ICE Resistance
You can dismiss it as a joke until someone at a café gives you a spare scarf because you can’t find yours. People offer assistance without…
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The Supreme Court Isn’t Joining Trump’s War on the Fed
Even Justice Samuel Alito, who otherwise seemed to lean toward the administration’s view, seemed to take issue with how it had handled the…
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Why 2026 is a hot year for lithium
But lithium is worthy of a close look right now. The metal is crucial for lithium-ion batteries used in phones and laptops, electric…
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S-Reits to shine in Q4 as lower interest rates fuel returns
Some market watchers believe Singapore-listed real estate investment trusts (S-Reits) could have a strong run, potentially outshining the…
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Austria's biggest spy trial for decades puts ex-intelligence officer in the dock
Bethany BellVienna correspondent Former intelligence official Egisto Ott has gone on trial in Vienna on Thursday, accused of spying for…
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Australia watchdog orders audit of Airwallex on suspected compliance miss
The former has concerns that the fintech’s transaction monitoring programme is not attuned to the full range of risks it faces Australia’s…
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Why your electric bill is so high—and what could bring down rates
Electric bills are climbing almost everywhere—and in some states, the increases have been staggering. If you live in the Bay Area, your…
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Trump Press Sec. Goes Full Cult as Reviews of Davos Fiasco Turn Brutal
By now you’ve seen President Trump’s big speech at Davos. The slurring, the confusing of Greenland and Iceland, the nonsense about wind…
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Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
You were working on AI long before LLMs became a mainstream approach. But since ChatGPT broke out, LLMs have become almost synonymous with…
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Singapore stocks rise as Trump softens Greenland stance; STI up 0.4%
The iEdge Singapore Next 50 Index, meanwhile, is down 0.1% or 1.02 points at 1,483.97 Singapore stocks ended higher on Thursday (Jan 22),…
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Sharp fall in government borrowing in December, figures show
UK government borrowing fell sharplylast month, due to more income from taxes and higher National Insurance Contributions outweighing…
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Alibaba plans IPO for AI chipmaking unit T-Head: sources
As a first step, Alibaba plans to restructure the unit as a business partly owned by employees Alibaba Group Holding is preparing to list…
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Bluemarble Men’s Fall 2026: Feeling Groovy
Anthony Alvarez sharpened up his collection – and then blurred it around the edges. The designer did appointments in an intimate space…
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Netflix Unveils Turkish Slate, Headlined by Series Adaptation of Nobel Prize-Winning Author Orhan Pamuk’s ‘The Museum of Innocence’
Netflix has unveiled its Turkish production slate for 2026, which is headlined by a hotly anticipated series adaptation of Turkish Nobel…
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How to craft a recipe for creative breakthroughs
Below, Melissa Bernstein shares five key insights from her new book, The Heart of Entrepreneurship: Crafting Your Authentic Recipe for…
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H&M and E.l.f. Team Up on Limited-edition Fragrance Line
After more than two decades of operation, E.l.f. is making its first foray into fragrance with H&M. In a new collaboration titled “Make It…
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Temasek-backed fizzy drinks maker Chi Forest considers Hong Kong IPO: sources
The drinks manufacturer has held early talks with potential advisers about the share sale Chi Forest, a maker of low-calorie sparkling…
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We were lied to and smeared, say hospital inquiry families
Families of patients who suffered or died after they caught infections while being treated at Scotland's largest hospital say they were…
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Op-Ed: Can Europe’s Digital Networks Act deliver for AI and Startups?
As Europe races into the AI era, its policymakers are laying new pipes for the continent’s digital future. The European Commission’s…
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Hong Kong’s Sogo Mall operator seeks HK$8 billion loan refinancing
Lenders have paused earnings checks for Lifestyle International as it seeks to refinance Hong Kong mall operator Lifestyle International…