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The NFL Players Assn. says DraftKings reneged on a bet on player NFTs, something the company would never allow its own customers to do.
After Boeing became a company run by finance executives instead of engineers, its planes began falling out of the sky. Will its new commitment to engineering and machinist workers change its trajectory?
Trump remembers, dimly, that Marco Rubio and Ivanka Trump wanted to take your Social Security to pay for family leave, and he thinks that was a good idea.
Shares in AI companies have powered a huge runup in the stock market this year, but users are beginning to question whether the craze will fall flat.
Donald Trump claims that schools are subjecting pupils to gender-changing surgery without their consent, which is his exclusive fantasy.
Trump and Vance claim that tariffs are paid by foreign companies and that economists are divided on the topic. They’re wrong on both counts
A Stanford symposium will feature purveyors of some of the most dangerous and widely debunked claims about anti-pandemic policies. Doesn’t the university have a responsibility to fight misinformation, not spread it?
Political pundits have called America a ‘polarized’ country. But it was never true — we agree on most issues.
Those new weight-loss drugs will slash spending on obesity-related illness, so why is it so hard to get insurers to cover them?
Conservatives fabricated a claim that Harris would tax everyone’s unrealized capital gains, but she would do so for those with more than $100 million in wealth. Is that bad?
