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  • The $35,000 Model 3 is on track for production this week.

  • As of today, Qatar, tiny in population but swimming in vast natural gas reserves, has until Wednesday to meet the demands of angry neighbors in the region. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain all cut ties with Qatar last month, accusing it of supporting terrorism. The countries have issued 13 demands they […]

  • Students line up to leave lunch at the Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School in the Grant Park neighborhood recently.
    Grant Blankenship

    In Georgia, the name of a child eligible for the weighted school lottery can be entered up to five times.

  • Elevated propane prices are making cookouts less affordable and might do the same to home heating when the winter comes.
    Johannes Simon/Getty Images

    Weber's 'brand godfather' spent his career building 'barbecue culture around the world.'

  • U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks at a press conference after the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., on June 14.
    ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images

    The mid-point of the year is kind of an artificial time to reflect, but here we are.

  • Do imports of foreign steel and aluminum compromise national security? President Trump told the Commerce Department to speed up its investigation of that question and come back with some answers today. It didn’t happen. Officials said that was due to “unanticipated complexities.” But China, the European Union and other steel-exporting nations, fearing the U.S. could  […]

  • Many investors focus on the stock market. But the bond market’s been doing some interesting things lately, things that are getting investors’ and economists’ attention. Since the beginning of this year, there’s been a decided flattening of the yield curve on Treasuries — the difference between the interest rates on short-term bonds and those that […]

  • An electric bus pulls up to the Pomona, California transit center. Proterra sold its first electric buses on the west coast to Foothill Transit, the group in charge of running Pomona's buses.
    Andy Uhler/Marketplace

    It sounds like a thing of the future, but many cities and counties are trading in their diesel mass transit vehicles for electric ones.

  • “Sometimes my husband jokes that I’m running a gelato non-profit, and it certainly does feel that way,” said Uli Nasibova, owner of Uli’s Gelato.
    David Paul Morris/Getty Images

    Journalist Amy Ettinger writes about the history of the frozen treat in her book 'Sweet Spot.'

  • The nation’s biggest banks all passed their annual stress tests and bank stocks today took off. Earlier in the week, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen offered additional reassurance about the financial sector, saying she doesn’t think there will be another massive financial crisis in her lifetime. But traditional banks are only part of the picture […]