Local government roles were down 57,000, leisure and hospitality positions decreased by 40,000, finance jobs declined 14,000, and the retail sector lost more than 19,000.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that Cook could remain in her position — but did not block Trump from continuing to legally challenge her for alleged mortgage fraud.
The first U.S. women’s pro baseball league kicked off its inaugural season last weekend. Hear from the CEO about what it takes to launch a pro sports league from the ground up.
Trump hasn’t signaled he wants to ban oil exports. But Big Oil is being proactive. Plus: CEO sentiment, the FIRE movement, AI-focused higher education, and Fed phraseology.
As AI brings challenges to higher education, USC is embracing the tech with a new school dedicated to researching innovations and applying AI across disciplines.
CEOs are slightly more confident now than they were right after the Iran war started, but not by much, according to the latest survey from The Conference Board and The Business Council.
According to a report from credit bureau TransUnion, the number of credit cards issued increased nearly 12% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to a year before.
Because the advanced chatbots are trained on global data, it may choose to spew a word relating to a conversation in a different language. This could mean the large language model decided to cue up the next relevant token erroneously, says Janelle Shane, who writes the AI Weirdness blog.
New data shows Gen Z is spending on travel, coffee, cosmetics and jewelry — bucking the K-shaped pattern where higher earners recovered from the pandemic much faster than lower earners.
Advances in the technology could soon enable "personalized" legal help that adapts explanations and legal guidance to individuals, according to Benjamin Alarie, author of the new book "Superjustice: Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence."
From WBUR, “The Midnight Rebellion” is a pick-your-own-path podcast set 100 years in the future, where the stakes are nothing less than the planet itself.
“We're tracking 37 deals since January 2025 involving equity or quasi-equity stakes,” said Jonathan Hillman, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “We're doing the best we can in terms of collecting what's out there, but it's a little bit like investigative work.”
After the Strait of Hormuz closed, China slashed its oil imports, seemingly without reducing energy demand or tapping into reserves. How China is doing it — and why — remains a mystery.
McDonald's reported second-quarter U.S. sales growth of just 0.8%, about a third of what it posted a year ago. The fast-food giant also replaced the head of its U.S. operations.
After Maryland was hit hard by federal layoffs last year, one Baltimore resident created a club where members with higher incomes send cash to those who make less.
Over the past couple of months, China’s influence over the global AI industry has grown. Adam Segal at the Council of Foreign Relations says much of that growth is thanks to China’s adoption of the open-weighted model.
Oil firms drilling in the Permian Basin are cautiously optimistic as the ongoing war props up West Texas Intermediate. Plus: The Japanese yen, the bond market, Colorado peaches, and a part-time court reporter.
Oil companies that drill in West Texas are seeing big wartime profits, but many are holding back on aggressive capital spending, wary of repeating the boom-bust cycles that followed the pandemic when prices collapsed after a drilling surge.
One of Colorado’s most productive peach farmers is preparing for the possibility that irrigation water may be turned off before the harvest is finished.
Over the summer, the yen fell sharply against the dollar, at some points hitting a 40-year low. This weekend, the Trump administration intervened to stop the fall.
The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate edged up to 6.66% last week, the highest in a year, reversing a decline that had briefly pushed rates below 6% in February
