The COVID-19 pandemic is in the rearview mirror for many people, despite the fact that the virus still kills hundreds every week and could surge again if another mutated strain comes alongas witnessed multiple times in the last five years. Still, infections are at relative lows lately thanks in part to acquired immunity from infections […]
(Reuters) – Retailer Costco Wholesale will increase pay for most of its hourly U.S. store workers to more than $30, according to a memo sent to employees this week. The company will increase hourly pay for its top of the scale employees over the next three years, with the pay rising by $1 to $30.20 […]
Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and chief executive officer of 23andme Inc., during the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, US, on Friday, March 10, 2023. Jordan Vonderhaar | Bloomberg | Getty Images Embattled genetic testing company 23andMe said on Tuesday that it’s started exploring strategic alternatives for a second time, which could include a […]
Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters, who believed his promise to “Make America Great Again,” are about to face an inconvenient truth: tariffs will hurt them more than they anticipated. New data from Global Strategist Group show that three in five Americans view tariffs unfavorably, oppose Trump’s tariffs, and believe that they’ll increase costs. This […]
WASHINGTON — National defense would see a 1% increase in spending this fiscal year under a Pentagon policy bill that also gives a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military. The measure is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but not this year as some Democratic lawmakers protest the inclusion of […]
Juan Soto has reached his much-anticipated free-agent decision, agreeing to terms with the New York Mets on a 15-year contract worth $765 million. Soto’s contract becomes the largest in Major League Baseball history, dethroning the agreement Shohei Ohtani signed just a year ago with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The rise of interest in sports business […]
The global probiotic market is now worth billions of dollars.Credit: d3sign/Getty Images When she had her daughter in 2008, microbiologist Deanna Gibson rarely saw probiotics in the baby formula on supermarket shelves. “Then when I had my son in 2012, it was pretty much in every formula,” recalls Gibson, who is at the University of […]
Trump has made some unconventional and surprising choices when it comes to his foreign policy and defense team, like his plan to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense.
Low-income countries need at least $1 trillion a year to manage climate change. Donald Trump’s victory just made that more difficult, but options exist.
Photo By Sam Barnes/Sportsfile via Getty Images Actor Colin Farrell paired with his friend, Emma Fogarty—who lives with the rare genetic skin condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB)—to run the 2024 Dublin marathon on Sunday. Farrell pushed Fogarty for the final four kilometers of the race, representing the number of decades she has lived with EB, a […]
