Twitter restores blue tick to high profile accounts
Twitter restores the verified blue badge to accounts that insist they did not pay for a subscription.
Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy
Bed Bath & Beyond came out of the 2008 downturn a winner. Competitors like Sharper Image and Linens ‘n Things filed for bankruptcy, but Bed Bath & Beyond actually expanded…
Amex Customers – Above-Average-Income Consumers – Are Spending like Drunken Sailors, incl. on Travel & Restaurants | naked capitalism
Lambert here: Carpe diem…. By Wolf Richter, editor of Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. They’re the Big Spenders, they can move the needle. Millennials and Gen Z-ers are…
Russia Pounds Cities Across the Country, Ukraine Says
Russian forces pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, mortars, artillery fire and airstrikes over the weekend, killing at least one person and taking out homes and critical infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said…
The Sunday Read: ‘Why Are These Italians Massacring Each Other With Oranges?’
Listen and follow The DailyApple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher One Sunday in February, in a northern Italian town called Ivrea, the facades of historic buildings were covered with plastic…
Opinion | Gun Idolatry Is Destroying the Case for Guns
I was born in Alabama and grew up in Tennessee and Kentucky. As a son of the South, I was no stranger to firearms. We had a gun in our…
Opinion | The Violence in Sudan Is Partly Our Fault
Khartoum has been wracked with violence for nearly a week. At least 413 people have been killed and millions trapped without food, water or electricity, while a former Janjaweed militia…
Chinese Censorship Is Quietly Rewriting the Covid-19 Story
Early in 2020, on the same day that a frightening new illness officially got the name Covid-19, a team of scientists from the United States and China released critical data…
After Front Door Shooting, Kansas City Grapples With Race
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — From one vantage point, a post-pandemic boom seemed to be taking hold in Kansas City. It was the only Midwestern city selected to host World Cup…
Losing Ballot Issues on Abortion, G.O.P. Now Tries to Keep Them Off the Ballot
Voters pushed back decisively after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, approving ballot measures that established or upheld abortion rights in all six states where they appeared.…