
Mexico approves reduction of work week from 48 to 40 hours—eventually
The change will bring Mexico in line with various countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia, where some are also experimenting with four-day work weeks.
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The change will bring Mexico in line with various countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia, where some are also experimenting with four-day work weeks.

Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration would “temporarily halt” some Medicaid funding to the state of Minnesota over fraud concerns, as part of what he described as an aggressive crackdown on misuse of public funds. Vance, who made the announcement with Dr. Mehmet
Software stocks have sunk. Defensive names, including consumer-staples stocks like Walmart and Costco, have rallied. Yet, despite all of the chaotic moves seen in the U.S. equity market over the past few months, the S&P 500 has remained remarkably steady.

Svetlana Dali was detained in Milan after she boarded a United flight without a ticket at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to two people familiar with incident. She was convicted last year of doing the same thing.

Changing attitudes around menopause treatment have driven up demand for hormone therapy.

“This was not just a ‘snowball fight.’ This was an assault,” the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.

Photos and mentions of Gates in the Epstein files have attracted increased attention since the DOJ released millions of documents last month.

More than 55,000 pounds of frozen blueberries have been recalled due to the risk for a potentially fatal Listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to a Food and Drug Administration update
Salesforce is looking to buy the dip with a $50 billion share-repurchase program as the software selloff continues to send its stock falling, but Wall Street is wondering if the money would be better spent investing in more artificial-intelligence capabilities.

Home insurance rates may be going through the roof, but State Farm has some good news for its auto insurance customers.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm Mutual) today announced it is paying $5 billion cash back to auto customers through a dividend, in addition to recent auto insurance rate reductions in many states already saving customers $4.6 billion annually.This summer, State Farm Mutual

The Washington Post lost more than $100 million last year, its largest loss in years and one that precipitated the paper laying off a third of the company earlier this month.

The founders of HateAid, a German human-rights group that helps victims of online attacks, were accused by the Trump administration of being part of a “global censorship-industrial complex.”

Move over, Great Wealth Transfer. The McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility sees the next decade as make or break for the Great Ownership Transfer.

Its old, slow and sits at the center of both the midAtlantic and Midwestern regional grids. What could go wrong?

Top Japanese officials are backing a tech and entrepreneurship initiative led by Joichi Ito, whose involvement with Jeffrey Epstein may endanger efforts to get the project off the ground.
So far in 2026, a number of index funds that follow alternative strategies to track subsets of the S&P 500 or change the index’s weighting have performed quite well.

Tourette syndrome remains a deeply misunderstood condition, especially when it comes to obscene language tics, called coprolalia.

Shares of enterprise artificial intelligence company C3 AI sunk after widely missing earnings and announcing layoffs under new CEO Ehikian's restructuring plan.
Blockbuster earnings were perhaps anticipated as Nvidia’s big customers have already indicated how much they’ve hiked their spending on hardware.
With Warner Bros. Discovery deep in negotiations to be acquired, its earnings show it is a company struggling in a fast-changing industry.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers is working to limit advanced chip exports to China.

"This is not business as usual. This is risk," Burry said of Nvidia's surge in purchase obligations.

The job cuts are occurring across the company, and are a result of its push to focus on "strategic priorities," eBay said.