In the check-out line of your local grocery store, there’s a nearly one-in-three chance someone there has used an app like Klarna or Affirm to finance their purchase of produce, milk, and eggs at some point. Their use of buy now, pay later could mean your groceries are about to cost more, economists have found.
Donald Trump has a message for voters: they’re wrong. And he has a solution for the AI doomsday panic: just trust him, bro. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, calling out Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei by name while warning of
American airports dramatically changed in the wake of 9/11, but new policy changes are restoring some previously banned travel practices after 25 years. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that it will soon allow individuals without tickets to pass through security and go to airport gates with loved ones. TSA is also considering allowing some
On Tuesday 11 September 2001, hijackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people. A third plane destroyed the western face of the Pentagon – the giant headquarters of the US military just outside the nation’s capital, Washington DC. The fourth plane crashed in a field in
US President Donald Trump has promised to send $500 (£370) to nearly one million Americans, as refunds for what he described as “Obamacare overcharges” collected during the Biden administration. The refunds, to be sent out starting in October, will go to people in 30 states who buy health insurance through the federal marketplace and do
President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would most likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion
