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The new partnership between Affirm and Experian means the impulse-buying economy will be running headlong into America’s data-mining ecosystem

Buy-now-pay-later is a juggernaut that’s long been absent from consumers’ credit reports. A recent deal with Affirm means that’s no longer the case.

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Hundreds of federal buildings, some of them historic, are on the auction block as part of DOGE’s effort to privatize everything  

DOGE staff are pushing the private-equity playbook of selling government buildings just to pay to lease them back.

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Airbnb founder Joe Gebbia says DOGE is pushing to create an ‘Apple-Store like experience’ in government

Gebbia joined Elon Musk and six other DOGE members to share details of their planned federal overhaul in an interview with Fox News.

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How to survive and prosper in the Trump tariff era

Trump's threatened tariffs would bring U.S. import duties to 1940s levels—before we had social media, online shopping, or the interstate highway...

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Job applications from federal workers surge 50% as staff targeted by DOGE run for the exits

An analysis from job site Indeed found that highly educated workers were the most affected—and are searching for work just as the white-collar job...

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The White House Easter Egg Roll is seeking corporate sponsors—and the $200,000 tier gets you brunch hosted by Melania Trump

Companies can choose from three tiers of sponsorship, which come with branded snacks, onsite booths, and social-media callouts.

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Elon Musk tells foreigners not to use Amtrak, saying it’s ‘kind of embarrassing’

“If you’re coming from another country, please don’t use our national rail,” the Tesla CEO and White House official said at a conference.

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Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak says Tesla ‘is the worst in the world’ at improving its technology for drivers

The Tesla owner says every update makes the car worse. 

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Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak lays into Elon Musk’s ‘mass firings’: ‘I don’t know what got into his head’

The tech founder described Musk’s management style as “bullying.”

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Elon Musk’s DOGE slapped a $1 limit on government credit cards and now workers say they can’t do their jobs

The cost-cutting spree has hampered workers’ ability to buy office or lab supplies, access legal filings, or travel for work.

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Trudeau accuses Trump of sidling up to Russia and blasts new tariffs: ‘Donald, this is a very dumb thing to do’

Canada's outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed retaliatory tariffs on more than $100 billion of American goods in response to Trump's 25%...

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A veteran of the only successful government reduction effort in 30 years has a warning for Elon Musk: ‘All hell is going to break loose’

Clinton’s ‘reinventing government’ effort cut 400,000 federal workers and made bureaucracy more efficient—by doing the opposite of DOGE.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp made nearly $2 billion from selling company stock last year—mostly in the leadup to the presidential election

The controversial defense contractor saw a sixfold surge in the value of its stock last year.

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Japan has the world’s second strongest passport. Just 1 in 6 citizens hold it

The weak yen—which has shed a third of its value in the past five years—is one factor deterring Japanese travelers from going overseas.

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DOGE and efficiency czar Elon Musk are less popular with Americans than the programs they’re slashing, poll reveals

In court, the administration says Musk isn’t in charge. Donald Trump just said the opposite.

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Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government

Musk’s task force wants to cut tens of thousands of federal workers, and now it’s aiming at people he thinks are too rich.

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Some Jeep owners are being hit with pop-up ads inside their cars—and it’s all part of Stellantis’ plan to make an extra $20 billion a year

Drivers online are furious about a seemingly unkillable pop-up ad that offers motorists an extended warranty mid-drive.

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Donald Trump’s penny proposal would eliminate 1 in 2 coins minted in the U.S.—but nickels are the real villains

The president says he’s killed off production of money-losing pennies, but nickels cost even more money to make—and we'd need more of them without...

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A Super Bowl ad featuring Google’s Gemini AI contained a whopper of a mistake about cheese 

Google quietly corrected an ad featuring its chatbot that claimed Gouda made up 60% of the world’s cheese consumption.

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Hordes of rats are infesting cities and the $27 billion a year problem is only getting worse

The rodents' numbers are rising because of conditions that humans have created.

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The next banking crisis could come from climate change

A first-of-its-kind analysis suggests 1 in 4 banks are at risk of a wipeout from unchecked climate change.

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Wegovy is finally more widely available—and it’s bad news for Novo Nordisk’s profits

Wegovy is increasingly available through Medicaid and insurance programs, some of which push the drugmaker to offer discounts.

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Labor leader behind Amazon’s only unionized U.S. warehouse is toppled from the union he helped launch

Members of the Amazon Labor Union voted out Chris Smalls in favor of a reformist slate as they bargain with the retail giant for a contract.

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Airlines, still reeling from an outage, now face potential strike by 8,000 workers

Catering workers are threatening to strike as soon as next week.

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Health officials yank Boar’s Head meats from shelves amid listeria outbreak that sickened dozens

A sample of Boar's Head liverwurst tested positive for listeria.

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