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With most Americans still feeling the pinch of persistent inflation, President Trump wants to make one pricey grocery staple cheaper. "Today, I concluded a deal to substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families," Trump ...

Prediction markets already get a bad rap online from some social media users, and now a new app that blends livestreaming and live betting is unleashing a new wave of social media outrage. In a poll earlier this year, 29% of Americans said they ...

Spirit Airlines hasn't flown since May, when the discount carrier announced an "orderly wind-down of operations" as part of bankruptcy proceedings. But the grounded airline might be set for a multimillion-dollar payout from a newly valuable asset:

For a long time, the biggest hurdle for a small business was simply finding capital. Today, the challenge is choosing the right kind. Tech vendors, payment processors, and e-commerce platforms have stepped up to meet the demand for rapid funding. By ...

They arrived in a kaleidoscope of colors, but one won. For decades, the American school bus has maintained such a standard look that "school bus yellow" is national shorthand for its deep, glossy hue. No act of Congress mandated the color, with its ...

Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the algorithms supplying your feeds may be ...

When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that "Woke 1.0 was crazy" on ABC News, she introduced a long-used internet term to a much wider audience. Ocasio-Cortez was joking about how democratic socialist Francesca Hong, then still in the ...

As families settle into the fall sports season, the American youth sports landscape feels like a thriving industry. Parents monitor league standings. Coaches talk about getting players exposure. Children juggle travel schedules that would challenge ...

After a few years of monitoring and studying corporate AI implementations, I'm still puzzled by one thing: most of them begin with a discussion of the model being used. Should we go ahead with Copilot, considering that Microsoft is so firmly ...

Apple Pay is one of the most popular mobile payment methods in the world. You can use it nearly anywhere where there is a mobile payment terminal. But for well over a decade, one major retailer--Walmart--would not support Apple Pay. Now that's ...