Florida Sex Scandal Shakes Moms for Liberty, as Group’s Influence Wanes
Moms for Liberty, a national right-wing advocacy group, was born in Florida as a response to Covid-19 school closures and mask mandates. But it quickly became just as well known for pushing policies branded as anti-L.G.B.T.Q. by opponents. So when one of its founders, Bridget Ziegler, recently told the police that she and her husband, […]
Why It’s Taking So Long for Americans to Get Payments Instantly
Dec. 16, 2023 10:00 am ET WASHINGTON—There is a joke in banking circles that few things have moved as slowly as the adoption of instant payments in the U.S. FedNow? More like FedLater. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link
Tesla’s Self-Driving Tech Has Competition
Dec. 16, 2023 10:00 am ET A mass recall of Tesla’s Autopilot feature and crisis at General Motors’ autonomous-taxi business might give the impression that self-driving cars have hit a roadblock. In fact, the technology is on the cusp of much wider adoption. Just don’t expect it to change your life immediately—or the economics of […]
Robinhood Woos Wealthier Clients From Bigger Brokerages
Robinhood Markets, known for a clientele of first-time investors, is attracting customers with fatter wallets from other brokerages. Through Wednesday, the trading app received about $1.1 billion in account transfers since Oct. 23, when it began offering a 1% match on transferred brokerage accounts, the company said. In the second and third quarters of this […]
The Toxic Truth About Your Christmas Tree
This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Perhaps no single Christmas custom is more ubiquitous than putting up the Christmas tree. It originated in eastern Europe more than 500 years ago, when people decorated evergreen trees with roses or apples as symbols of Eve and the […]
How to save for a house without the Bank of Mom and Dad – National
This article is part of Global News’ Home School series, which provides Canadians the basics they need to know about the housing market that were not taught in school. The Bank of Mom and Dad — an informal financial institution open to some but not all prospective homebuyers — has become a major factor in whether […]
Opinion | Supreme Contempt for Women
The Irish expect the worst to happen at any moment. And they have what my colleague Dan Barry calls “a wry acceptance of mortality.” Still, Ireland was shaken to its core in 2012 by the death of Savita Halappanavar, a beautiful, sparkling 31-year-old Indian immigrant, a dentist married to an Indian engineer. Savita was expecting […]
Boys Think Schools Favor Girls. Schools Are Trying New Tricks to Change That.
All-male middle schools show what boys need to develop skills—and these lessons would work in coed schools, too. Source link The way boys are educated in school has become an increasingly controversial issue in recent years. A growing body of literature suggests that boys are not flourishing in school as girls, and that schools may […]
AI Is Ravenous for Energy. Can It Be Satisfied?
Every company betting that artificial intelligence will transform how we work and live has a big—and growing—problem: AI is inherently ravenous for electricity. Some experts project that global electricity consumption for AI systems could soon require adding the equivalent of a small country’s worth of power generation to our planet. That demand comes as the […]
Avoidable 111 calls may risk lives over Christmas, service head warns
The north-west of England service says repeat medication orders on bank holidays add unnecessary pressure. Source link NHS emergency services face a potentially devastating Christmas, as a head of the service has warned that unnecessary 111 calls could put lives at risk. In an interview following his warnings, John Healey Leader of the NHS 111 […]