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When the confetti settles and the ball has dropped, many Americans will wake up on New Year’s Day—Thursday, January 1, 2026—with errands to run,...






The year 2025 was one in which political and government design broke through to the mainstream. That’s thanks in large part to the new U.S....

Every January, millions of people set ambitious New Year’s resolutions. They do this with genuine enthusiasm, hoping to transform their lives. Yet...



Auckland rang in 2026 with a downtown fireworks display launched from New Zealand’s tallest structure, Sky Tower, making it the first major city to...

Chinese factory activity expanded for the first time in eight months in December, as orders picked up ahead of holidays and builders rushed to...

Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer...

Zohran Mamdani was a trailblazing candidate whom many in his city of 8 million — some with hope, some with trepidation — expect to be a disruptive...

It’s the sort of thing you might not notice until it really matters, but the U.S. Postal Service recently changed how it defines the “postmark”...

Americans filed the fewest new jobless claims in a month last week, and while the number of unemployed workers collecting relief payments has eased...




Below, Ben Swire shares five key insights from his new book, Safe Danger: An Unexpected Method for Sparking Connection, Finding Purpose, and...


As employers have wrested back control of the job market, it has been a sharp contrast to the post-pandemic years when workers seemed to hold the...


The irony of modern work life hits you somewhere between your third consecutive hybrid meeting and the moment you realize you’ve been holding your...

There’s bad news for those using digital surveys to try to understand people’s online behavior: We may no longer be able to determine whether a...

The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days...


The U.S. Federal Reserve agreed to cut interest rates at its December meeting only after a deeply nuanced debate about the risks facing the U.S....

A wild winter storm was expected to bring strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday, a day after...

Shares opened mixed in Europe on Tuesday after slipping in Asia as some regional markets wrapped up trading for the year. Crude oil prices edged...

When Bianca Jones, a 33-year-old special education teacher in Memphis, Tennessee, decided a couple of years ago that she wanted to buy a house, she...

A veteran jazz ensemble announced on Monday it was canceling its New Year’s Eve performances at the Kennedy Center, the latest group to withdraw...

In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools....

My bus rolls into Port Authority. I’ve got 10 minutes to get across town for my first meeting. I sprint down the escalator, run through droves of...


Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores...

I’ve done it, you’ve done it, we’ve all done it. With the best of intentions, we set big goals for our future: get a work promotion, lose 20...


When internet services platform Cloudflare suffered an outage in November, it took a big chunk of the online world down with it. Major platforms...

I started building Simple in 2019 with a vision that one day, a digital product could help people fix their health as effectively as a human. Five...


Packages of grass fed ground beef are being recalled over possible E. coli contamination. The affected packages were distributed in at least six...


Throughout 2025, we’ve watched companies treat employees with a stunning disregard: rolling layoffs (with thousands let go at a time), unchecked...

