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In the world of convenience stores, 7-Eleven is undoubtedly the cool kid. Phoebe Bridgers named-dropped the c-store in a song, Lana del Rey has posed in front of its parking lot, and, in Asia, the stores have become a must-visit spot. But is the ...

The airport is chaos. Lines snake beyond the designated barriers and out the doors as frazzled travelers tug their luggage and scowl at their phones, their grimaced faces even more dramatic in the harsh lighting. I stand in the security queue,

Over the past few days, new billboards have slowly been popping up along a 130-mile stretch of desert into Indio, California. One features a giant image of a crying face emoji; another is a picture of an unexplained blob; a third shows an edit of the ...

The American job market is now filled with so-called ghost jobs --listings for positions that don't actually exist, from companies that have no intent to hire--wasting not only hours of your time, but also your money, too. According to a ...

David Gamage was out to dinner with his wife and was already a few drinks deep late last year when his phone buzzed. According to the name on the screen, the call was coming from California congressman Ro Khanna. Gamage, a tax law professor at The ...

Facing stagnant sales, Panera Bread is aiming to become one of the restaurant industry's rare comeback stories. The fast-casual chain's latest move is the introduction of new "Salad Stuffers," a fresh spin on one of Panera Bread's most iconic menu ...

Loredana Crisan says her relationship with creativity started when she was 7 years old, sitting with her mother in her family's kitchen in Bucharest, Romania. "The question she posed was, 'Do you want to learn piano,' and as a kid I was like, 'Yes!'

The cutting board may be the most used object in your kitchen, but its design hasn't changed considerably since 3,000 BCE, when the ancient Egyptians began using slabs of wood for food preparation. The cutting board has to do a lot of work: It needs ...

Entrepreneurs displaying narcissistic behavior are better able to convince investors to give them money when their grandiosity comes across as confidence as opposed to defensiveness or arrogance. That's what we learned from watching 12 seasons of the ...

The National Capital Planning Commission has voted to approve President Donald Trump's controversial White House ballroom plans, greenlighting the demolition of the historic East Wing to make way for a new neoclassical structure. But the ballroom is ...