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Tesla and 113 other companies paid no current federal income tax, but they still aren’t the biggest threats to the federal deficit, think tank warns

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found more than 700 profitable companies paid less than half of the 21% statutory corporate tax rate,...

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The U.S. and EU could break their tariff truce over a record-breaking $3.4 billion Airbus loan and a reignited 17-year dispute between aviation giants

The Trump administration’s top trade official has pressured the EU to disclose more information about a loan its lending arm made to Airbus earlier...

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Atlanta Dream says it warned the WNBA 2 months ago about scheduling conflict concerns. The league is hosting a finals game at lunchtime anyway

The potentially title-deciding Game 6 was moved from an 8 p.m. ET start time to 12:30 p.m. ET as a result of scheduling conflicts at the...

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The Trump admin said energy costs were a small price to pay in Iran war, but U.S. consumers are paying nearly 8x more than anyone else in fuel costs

America’s continued reliance on gas-powered cars has made it vulnerable to energy shocks both in the Middle East and in the future, a new report...

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Trump promised 300,000 tons of beef imports at lower tariff rates to reduce grocery costs. Instead, shipments have lagged and prices haven’t budged

“The simple assumption there was that if we can just increase supply of beef in the U.S., that should lower prices. Unfortunately, the beef industry...

26.10.2026 9

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Cloud gaming was once billed as cheaper than buying titles. But new pricing from Microsoft’s Xbox is eroding that argument, gamers say

The rise of digital video games has coincided with less ownership and more fees for gamers.

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Looters hit 3,000 French businesses. Within hours, the haul was trending on Vinted under the riot’s date

“Since this weekend, our teams have taken immediate action to identify and remove listings linked to the looting,” secondhand marketplace Vinted said.

23.10.2026 6

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Judge: Federal government lawyers ‘barely defend’ giving Elon Musk’s DOGE illegal access to government data

The Office of Personnel Management infringed on the Privacy Act by allowing access to millions of people’s information, according to a federal judge.

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‘You’re no longer an influencer…you’re a cofounder’: MrBeast’s business resembles a Fortune 500 holding company, investor Steven Bartlett says

MrBeast creator Jimmy Donaldson has evolved from uploading Minecraft walkthroughs on YouTube to growing his net worth to an estimated $2.6 billion.

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Political campaigns have poured $137 million on AI-made ads ahead of a crucial midterm—after spending virtually nothing last election cycle

More than 70% of AI campaign videos did not contain a disclaimer or disclosure that they were generated by or contain AI, a new report found.

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Prediction markets are now ‘bespoke insurance’ for businesses, and a Los Angeles restaurant group’s $60,000 hedge on Kalshi is the latest example

One unnamed hospitality group placed a $60,000 trade on Kalshi to offset missed revenue from the Dodgers’ failure to advance to the World Series,...

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10 million Americans are using advance loan apps to get their paychecks in advance—and it’s costing them hundreds of dollars more, report finds

More than 95% of payday loans through direct-to-consumer apps included fees or voluntary “tips,” and these extra charges are piling up.

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Players are experiencing safety threats from ‘vitriol’ of prediction market users, 11x WNBA All-Star Nneka Ogwumike warns

“It’s not a safe place for athletes,” Ogwumike, the president of the WNBA Players Association, told Fortune.

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Boardrooms are no longer rewarded for being right, Lumen CEO says, and it means executive partnerships are more important than ever

“We had to come in with a strong opinion. We had to have all the facts we had to master, and that is just not possible in today's market,” Kate...

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ServiceNow CFO says leaders working 14 hours and getting 4 hours of sleep set a ‘terrible example’ for their employees

“Recovery is part of the performance,” ServiceNow president and CFO Gina Mastantuono said.

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Yum! Brands executive pushes back against AI hate: Taco Bell drive-thru bot has helped increase employee retention by making jobs easier

“I'm seeing all the data center noise and all the things that people worry about with AI, and there's that constant tension,” Yum! Brands Chief...

14.10.2026 10

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‘We talk ourselves out of it’: Entrepreneur Emma Grede never second-guesses herself

Grede is the cofounder of $5 billion shapewear brand Skims alongside Kim Kardashian and husband Jens Grede.

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Tech companies are overhauling company structures to justify AI spending, and it means AI agents could start appearing on org charts, Block CFO says

"I do think we're headed into a new frontier as to what the organization looks like," said Amrita Ahuja, Block's chief financial officer and chief...

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Unexpected blockbuster ‘Backrooms’ originated from a 4chan thread—and it’s one reason why legacy media sees advantages to the death of monoculture

“We're helping elevate and support and make these worlds bigger for these creative people,” said Kathleen Grace, chief AI officer of Lionsgate.

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‘If you take your foot off the pedal at all, you will start to stall’: Women in C-suite roles have stagnated, and the reasons go beyond the pipeline

Women’s share of roles in both the C-suite and at the board level has stalled at about 30%, marking the first decline in women’s board...

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‘Never seen anything quite like it’: How rural Pennsylvania’s $165 million data center fight became representative of the bipartisan battle against AI

NorthPoint Development’s $10,000 offer to Hazle Township residents in exchange for data center approval has become the latest flashpoint around AI...

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‘A very leaky pipeline’: 1.7 million trade jobs will open each year through 2035—and experts are scrambling to figure out how to fill them

A new report finds a greying workforce and Gen Z retention problems are making it harder to fill ever-expanding skilled trade roles.

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‘Lipstick on a pig’: Trump’s red-dyed diesel plan is more midterms appeal than gas price solution, experts say—and even truckers are calling his bluff

As the Iran war keeps diesel prices above $6 per gallon, analysts say the only way to lower costs is to ease geopolitical tensions.

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Trump’s tariffs were meant to shrink the trade deficit—but the $106 billion gap just reached its widest since before ‘Liberation Day’

The Trump administration has called the trade deficit a “national emergency,” but economists say it’s actually a sign of a resilient American economy.

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Citi shortens its analyst program to two years as Wall Street fights private equity for young talent

“The reality that private equity is interviewing so early in a banker’s career is very unfortunate, and to some extent, disappointing,” one Citi...

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Meet the ‘mini Erin Brockoviches’ fighting off eminent domain—and the shadow of Amazon—as a data center hands out $10,000 to their neighbors

Rural Pennsylvanians are protesting a proposed 1,300-acre data center called Project Hazelnut — not Amazon, as documents suggest.

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

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Thieves stole an Nvidia-branded truck filled with just 20,000 pounds of sand—and it points to Big Tech’s $150 million AI hardware theft headache

While the thieves left the sand-filled trailer unscathed, other freighters have faced real threats from organized criminals in search of high-value...

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Trump removes chairs for TSA agents, saying they ‘must meet fitness for duty requirements’

The White House has given the Office of Personnel Management more power to hire and fire federal workers on the basis of fitness.

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Vaping was supposed to get people off smoking. Now e-cig users are switching to cigarettes to try to quit

“This is not just a trivial misunderstanding. It’s misinformation to the point of significant harm.”

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property

Cladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.”

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‘Unsettling to American partners’: Trump’s offer to sell arms to China is an admission he doesn’t take its security threats seriously, experts warn

While the White House denied there are plans for one, an arms sale would completely undermine U.S. efforts to keep China from becoming a superpower,...

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The $40 trillion U.S. national debt is smaller than Japan’s relative to its economy—but economist warns America is still ‘the world’s largest debtor’

“Japan’s debt dynamics are fundamentally different from those of the United States … Japan is the world’s largest creditor nation. The U.S. is...

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Nearly half of home sellers are now offering incentives to unload their properties—even $20,000 in concessions and all-expenses-paid cruises

“If we were to quantify all these concessions…we would see that home prices are down, and people are getting better deals,” Redfin Chief...

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‘U.S. trade policy is damaging the U.S. auto industry’: Canada’s purchase of American cars hits new low as Trump’s tariffs backfire on U.S. automakers

In one year, the U.S. share of new vehicles in Canada shrunk from 35.4% to 28.4%, new data shows.

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‘I can’t believe it’s already broken’: Samsung customers are complaining to the company over spoiled food after an update bricked AI smart fridges

Dozens of online posts claim a firmware malfunction resulted in a malfunction of the appliances, risking spoiling food.

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China now makes up a record 40% of all global container exports—and it’s a sign Trump’s tariffs meant to punish Chinese firms have fallen flat

“The tariff policies of the last two years have been an unmitigated disaster. They have made exactly what we're talking about worse for the United...

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DOGE’s push to shrink the federal workforce cost the Trump administration $6.7 billion for employees not to work

Elon Musk’s ‘Fork in the Road’ initiative was responsible for most of a 435% increase in administrative leave between 2023 and 2035, a...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE swiped $329 million in humanitarian funding from Nepal, leaving a Gen Z tech revolution to transform the budding country’s economy

After the Trump administration gutted USAID, Nepal’s private sector has stepped up to energize its young workforce and strengthen its financial...

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Lyft CEO David Risher is still a driver for the company: It made him realize being even one minute late could cost the customer their job

Being a driver has carried Risher through his entire career: His first job was delivering the Washington Post. He worked under Jeff Bezos at Amazon...

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The Iran war is minting new one-day millionaires: oil tankers brave enough to sail across the Strait of Hormuz

For the first time, hiring an oil tanker costs more than $1 million per day as rocketing insurance premiums and a consolidating market drive up...

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Americans’ data center fears are coming true—a New Jersey location just leaked 5,000 gallons of diesel

The oil and gas sector isn't the (only) face of oil spills anymore.

17.09.2026 20

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Americans are so concerned about autonomous vehicles that Minneapolis is considering requiring drivers to sit inside Waymos

A proposed ordinance would require human “safety monitors” to be paid at least a minimum wage to sit in these self-driving cars.

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Trump’s tariffs slashed jobs and wage growth. Now companies are funneling their chunk of the $100 billion in refunds to supplement workers’ retirement

Williams Sonoma and TJX plan to give millions of dollars in tariff refunds back to employees through 401(k) payments and bonuses.

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DOGE cancelled a $349,000 grant to replace a museum’s HVAC after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI, court documents show

Elon Musk’s cost-saving agency uploaded more than 1,000 grant proposals into the chatbot, which determined whether or not they pertained to DEI,...

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‘All of us are going to pay’: 30% of Americans are taking out BNPL loans to pay for groceries, and it’s probably going to cost you

A Washington University study found that as more consumers finance their purchases, the cost of goods goes up for all.

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‘They’re likely to get squeezed’: AI slop books are flooding online marketplaces—and it’s coming at the expense of paychecks for human authors

A recent study found thousands of self-published books on Amazon that were at least 50% generated by AI.

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Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares

“These are families that are really barely able to make ends meet,” one policy expert said. “And yet they are working, and they are working a lot.”

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American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting

Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Zers less cognitively capable than their...

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‘The global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt’: Shipping authorities from 18 countries warn of a ‘two-tier’ system imperiling trade

The Consultative Shipping Group said the emergence of shadow fleets have created a split in maritime systems: “one governed by rules, the other by...

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