Soaring Treasury yields are raising concerns in Congress as their precipitous rise in recent months further darkens the outlook for U.S. debt. The 10-year yield shot up to 5.23% on Friday, the highest level since 2007 and more than a full percentage point since right before the Iran war started. Meanwhile, the 30-year yield hit
Lena Dunham is all business in first look images from upcoming Channel 4/A24 drama “It Gets Worse.” Dunham guest stars as Greta in the series, which was written, created by and stars Leo Reich. In the first look at the actor in character she is pictured sitting at a wooden desk with a CEO nameplate
With U.S. diesel prices rising to an all-time high this week, President Donald Trump added support to the calls from farm-state Republicans to implement a temporary ban on diesel exports. “I’ve said let’s not send out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel. I’ve called for it,” Trump said late Tuesday at the U.N.
WASHINGTON — It could be much worse. When President Donald Trump launched his war against Iran in late February, energy analysts issued dire warnings that oil prices could more than double during a protracted conflict and urged investors and motorists to buckle up for a bumpy ride. The war grinds on and oil prices certainly
You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it. This week on The Vergecast, we dive right into the big week of Apple news. First, it’s the refreshed Mac Mini and Mac Studio, as
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret “message board,” and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to
