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6m

Aug 30, 2026

Major fruit grower lays off nearly 1,000 workers

The news hit hard for nearly 1,000 workers: a major fruit grower has laid off a significant portion of its workforce. For families who depend on these jobs, the...

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7m

Aug 30, 2026

Gen Zer washed his college basketball team’s dirty clothes and mopped floors to prove his passion—now he’s one of the youngest interns ever at the NBA

At 19, most college students are worried about grades, social life, or landing any job at all. One Gen Zer decided to bet on something far less glamorous: a yea...

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7m

Aug 30, 2026

Singapore has overhauled its baby bonus scheme. Will it work to boost birth rates this time?

The numbers are stark, and they have finally forced a policy reset. Singapore, a city-state that has long prided itself on forward planning, watched its births...

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8m

Aug 29, 2026

Wall Street used to worry that too much U.S. debt would crowd out the private sector. But AI hyperscalers are ‘reverse crowding’ the Treasury

For decades, the doomsday scenario was simple: if the US government borrowed too much, it would suck up all available capital, leaving nothing for businesses. T...

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8m

Aug 29, 2026

IBM’s CEO disagrees with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s disdain for texting in meetings: ‘Telling people they can’t use their technology would be weird’

The modern workplace has a new fault line, and it runs straight through the middle of the conference table. On one side sits Jamie Dimon, the veteran CEO of JPM...

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7m

Aug 29, 2026

Offshore nuclear barges could power ports and data centers—starting with California, where nuclear is banned

California banned new nuclear power plants nearly 50 years ago. Now, the Port of Long Beach is exploring a workaround that could sit just offshore—floating nucl...

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6m

Aug 29, 2026

The Strait of Hormuz crisis threatened Asia’s oil and gas lifeline. Here’s how the region is rewriting its energy playbook

The world's most important oil passageway — a narrow 20-mile-wide stretch of water between Iran and Oman — became the flashpoint of a war that nearly choked Asi...

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5m

Aug 28, 2026

New York City sends 11,000 more pied-à-terre tax letters as it apologizes to the 1,200 wrongly targeted because it didn’t check 2025 tax returns

Thousands of New York City property owners are opening their mail to find a second round of pied-à-terre tax letters — even as the city tells more than a thousa...

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6m

Aug 28, 2026

‘I don’t have to announce everything, do I?’ Trump bristles at questions over blocked Hormuz, sanction-free China

Six months ago, Americans were told this would be a "little excursion" — a matter of weeks. Today, the US-Iran war grinds on, and President Donald Trump is fiel...

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7m

Aug 27, 2026

Anthropic makes first move into physical AI with new way for scientists, manufacturers to bring equipment to life

Picture a factory where robotic arms and assembly lines don't just follow pre-programmed steps but "talk" to each other in a shared digital language. Now imagin...

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7m

Aug 27, 2026

The Apollo missions brought us rechargeable hearing-aid batteries and quakeproof buildings. The European defense industry is now looking for its own ‘NASA moment’

The Apollo missions did more than put humans on the Moon. They gave the world rechargeable hearing-aid batteries, quakeproof buildings, fly-by-wire flight contr...

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