The Environmental Protection Agency says revoking the “endangerment finding” will save taxpayers over $1 trillion, but environmental policy experts disagree. Plus: concierge medicine and AI weather forecasts
This week, the EPA revoked what’s called the “endangerment finding,” which found that fossil fuel emissions can endanger human health. The agency says the U.S. will save money, but there are other costs, human and financial.
On top of the infamous “K shape” between high- and low-income households, economists also see a widening spending gap between high- and middle-income consumers.
From the BBC World Service: The app has more than 100 million users in Russia, and the Kremlin is pushing users toward a state-owned messaging platform.
The volume of illicit crypto activity hit a new high in 2025, according to the blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs. But that activity, as a share of overall crypto use, went down as legitimate use cases rose.
“At a certain point, we were like, ‘Well, if I were to buy the house, you'd live with me. If you were to buy the house, I would live with you. What if we just buy the house together?’” said Ashley Ayala, a new homeowner in Texas.
Around 20% of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Iran. Oil prices are higher today because of how a potential U.S. intervention could limit oil supply.
A new law doesn’t require schools to offer whole milk, it just gives them the option. Whether or not schools will make the switch now could depend on if they can afford to.
The U.S. is facing an affordable housing shortage. It’s also facing increased climate disaster. So how do we build resilient homes at scale? Here are a couple solutions.
Saadia Pekkanen, a professor of space law and policy at the University of Washington, says nobody can own land on the moon, but that hasn't stopped countries from wanting to exploit its resources.
The data from the Census Bureau could mean that consumers are pulling back — or it could just mean that they did more of their holiday shopping in November.
In late December, Colorado’s largest utility shut off power to thousands of customers. Xcel Energy said a downed power line could have ignited a wildfire. Instead, the shut-off sparked a backlash.
The company’s borrowing tens of billions of dollars to build out data centers. Some of those bonds, in the United Kingdom, have a 100-year maturity date.
Americans were less worried about the short-term trajectory of inflation and hiring in January, according to a survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Christopher Miller, author of "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology," says Google's TPU is designed especially for machine learning, while GPUs can take on a wider variety of AI-related tasks.
Inflation and job creation are expected to hold steady, but revisions to the 2025 jobs numbers are expected to be large enough to show a net loss for all of last year.
Many of the key issues are the same as they were during the 2023 talks and strike: the rise of artificial intelligence and how streaming has changed the business.
Professor Carly Urban at the University of Montana says respondents who use smartphones in online surveys are more likely to answer questions incorrectly compared to those who answer surveys on computers or tablets.
