When union workers and their families gather this Labor Day, some may ponder Ronald Reagan’s memorable refrain, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” All workers – unionized or not – are dealing with higher prices for food and gasoline. For America’s unionized workforce, the overall state of the economy is
Every year, the question returns: Has Burning Man lost its edge? First tech billionaires turned the desert oasis into their playground. Then the festival’s younger crowd began to thin. Burning Man has been deemed uncool by Gen Z: In 2025, 10% of surveyed attendees were in their 20s, down from more than 30% in 2015.
Come Sept. 8, some $20 billion’s worth of U.S. goods will be subject to Canadian counter-tariffs of up to 50%. They follow the 50% duties imposed by Washington on Canadian goods on Aug. 22. Yet U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed focus on Canada should be no surprise, after Washington declined to extend the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade
Labor Day is winding down, but it’s not too late to save big across every major shopping category. I’ve been tracking all the holiday sales for weeks, gathering the best Labor Day sales for your perusal below. You might be surprised by what you can find discounted for this holiday. Washable Halloween rugs at Ruggable,
OpenAI failed to disclose an incident in which a swarm of its AI agents hijacked a German wiki site earlier this year in events that closely paralleled the sequence of events that in July resulted in another group of OpenAI’s agents launching cyberattacks against the company Hugging Face. OpenAI only confirmed the incident after Reuters
I’ve been covering deals for a hot minute now. Jaw-dropping discounts, overall price hikes, short-lived Lightning Deals — I’ve seen it all. It’s no secret that deals aren’t as good as they were pre-2020, but that doesn’t stop shoppers from needing things. Even as brands increase prices and inflation continues upward, people still need vacuums,
