For decades, the standard advice handed to prospective homebuyers was simple: save aggressively, put 20% down, and avoid the added cost of private mortgage insurance. It was a rule built for a different era — one in which wages tracked…
The Republic Is Sick. The Diagnosis Is Contested. The Stakes Could Not Be Higher. Two hundred and fifty years in, the United States is celebrating its birthday — but the party feels forced. Beneath the fireworks and the flags, a…
The Supreme Court’s two Black justices stared across an ideological chasm on Tuesday — and one of them blinked first in putting her disagreement on the record. In a 20-page concurring opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not merely join…
The Supreme Court handed down the final opinions of its 2025–2026 term on Tuesday, June 30, resolving four remaining cases out of 58 argued this term — decisions carrying profound consequences for the boundaries of executive authority, the constitutional guarantee…
What actually happened on Friday’s episode of Real Time? Vice President J.D. Vance appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO programme Real Time on Friday, partly to promote his new spiritual memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. The exchange was…
$110 Billion Paramount-WBD Merger Hits EU Regulatory Wall as Deadline Looms The proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery — valued at $110 billion and poised to reshape global media — faces a critical regulatory test in Brussels,…
Air Quality Crisis Grips Los Angeles as Warehouse Fire Enters Second Week A massive warehouse fire in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles has blanketed surrounding communities in toxic smoke for more than six days, triggering a state of…
More than 30,000 workers were denied pay for mandatory pre-shift health checks, lawsuit alleged Amazon has agreed to a $3 million class-action settlement in Pennsylvania after more than 30,000 hourly workers alleged the company failed to pay them for time…
The Microsoft CEO urged tech leaders to stop treating AI as a job-cutting tool and start proving the technology benefits workers and society Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a stark warning to the AI industry this week: tech giants cannot…
G7 Leaders and AI Executives Push for International Oversight as Trump’s Anthropic Crackdown Alarms Allies French President Emmanuel Macron called on wealthy democracies to jointly regulate advanced artificial intelligence Wednesday at a high-level G7 summit in France, as the Trump…