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Only one U.S. university ranks in the world’s top 10 in STEM. Pfizer’s CEO is calling for change

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla warns U.S. and European universities are falling behind as Chinese institutions surge ahead in research output: “We need to become better.”

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How AI and ‘experience creep’ are making it harder for new graduates to find jobs
How AI and ‘experience creep’ are making it harder for new graduates to find jobs
By Claire ZillmanApril 3, 2026
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Trump wants to add nearly $7 trillion to the $39 trillion national debt with his new military budget, watchdog warns
By Nick LichtenbergApril 2, 2026
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Trump insists $1.5 trillion military budget for a war Congress didn’t approve ranks above day care, Medicare, Medicaid
By Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking and The Associated PressApril 3, 2026
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U.S. jobs report bounces back from dismal February with surprisingly strong 178,000 payrolls
By Paul Wiseman and The Associated PressApril 3, 2026
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Microsoft’s spending billions on AI—but even NASA astronauts can’t escape Outlook headaches
LawMicrosoft’s spending billions on AI—but even NASA astronauts can’t escape Outlook headaches
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezApril 3, 2026
Starbucks baristas working in store
SuccessStarbucks is offering $1,200 bonuses, expanded tipping, and weekly payouts to boost the pay of its U.S. baristas
By Emma BurleighApril 3, 2026
Red Lobster is reportedly bringing back Endless Shrimp 2 years after the CEO vowed it would never return
RetailRed Lobster is reportedly bringing back Endless Shrimp 2 years after the CEO vowed it would never return
By Sydney LakeApril 3, 2026
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PoliticsA $10 billion ‘slush fund’ to pay TSA agents: Trump’s latest unilateral loophole, explained
By Jake AngeloApril 3, 2026
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EnvironmentNewt Gingrich wants to drop a nuke on the Strait of Hormuz. America actually looked at the same thing in 1977 in Latin America
By The Conversation and Christine KeinerApril 3, 2026
The short, uneasy tenure of Pam Bondi
NewslettersThe short, uneasy tenure of Pam Bondi
By Emma HinchliffeApril 3, 2026
The Wells Fargo logo on a green layered background.
Personal FinanceWells Fargo CD rates 2026: How to qualify for the best returns
By Joseph HostetlerApril 3, 2026
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CommentaryAI adoption isn’t the hard part, it’s building employee agency
By Teuila Hanson and Mohak ShroffApril 3, 2026
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Donald Trump
EconomyThis ‘economic sugar high’ won’t last, CRFB warns, touting analysis predicting long-term stagnation and $600 billion in annual borrowing through 2028
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 27, 2025
  • Jerome Powell
    EconomyPowell says ‘shifting balance of risks’ may warrant a sooner rate cut
    By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressAugust 22, 2025
Watching TV
EconomyStreaming has Americans more glued to their screens than ever, but it could all come crashing down in the case of a ‘content recession,’ BofA says
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 27, 2025
India
EconomyFormer Indian trade official sees 50% Trump tariff as ‘strategic shock that threatens to wipe out India’s long-established presence in the U.S.’
By Rajesh Roy and The Associated PressAugust 27, 2025
Investors are ignoring the coming wave of tariff-driven inflation, Deutsche Bank warns
EconomyInvestors are ignoring the coming wave of tariff-driven inflation, Deutsche Bank warns
By Jim EdwardsAugust 27, 2025
Empty boxes are stacked for reuse at A Sight For Sport Eyes, a brick-and-mortar and e-commerce store for sport goggles, Aug. 20, 2025, in West Linn, Ore.
Retail‘Consumers are going to be shocked’: An expiring tariff exemption for goods under $800 is about to throttle the world of e-commerce
By Mae Anderson and The Associated PressAugust 26, 2025
President Donald Trump displays the GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act), US after signing it in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 18, 2025.
InvestingTrump Media’s latest crypto venture borrows a page from the MicroStrategy playbook: hoard a specific cryptocurrency and dress it up as a business
By Alan Suderman and The Associated PressAugust 26, 2025
  • China’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics
    EconomyChina’s economic data is famously unreliable—and could be a warning if Trump meddles with the Bureau of Labor Statistics
    By Nicholas GordonAugust 22, 2025
Donald Trump
EconomyThe markets’ reaction to Trump hides a darker truth that puts the American economy at risk, Piper Sandler warns
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 26, 2025
Lisa Cook, member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, attends a Federal Reserve Board meeting and sits with pursed lips in a black suit.
EconomyInvestors are salivating over rate cuts as Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook opens the door for a GOP Fed majority: ‘This is very positive’
By Eva RoytburgAugust 26, 2025
Photo of Mark Carney (right) with Donald Trump
FinanceDespite snubbing U.S. tourism and boycotting American goods, Canadians are pouring more into U.S. stocks than they have in over 35 years
By Sasha RogelbergAugust 26, 2025
Investors got a look at a world where the dollar isn’t a reliable reserve currency and decided they didn’t like it
EconomyInvestors got a look at a world where the dollar isn’t a reliable reserve currency and decided they didn’t like it
By Jim EdwardsAugust 26, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office August 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.
EconomyTrump’s threat to fire another Fed member has Wall Street weighing the price of ‘wrecking institutions’ with ‘scapegoat economics’
By Eleanor PringleAugust 26, 2025
  • Friedrich Merz
    EconomyThe German economy actually shrank more than thought in the second quarter
    By The Associated PressAugust 22, 2025
Jerome Powell, Lisa Cook
EconomyTrump says he’s firing Fed governor Lisa Cook, she vows she ‘will not resign’
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressAugust 26, 2025
Man in red shirt charges his BYD car while wearing earbuds.
EnergyIn China, EVs are now cheaper than gas cars. In the U.S., the Big Three still haven’t closed a premium that’s $14,000 per vehicle
By Eva RoytburgAugust 26, 2025
Trump declares war on the Fed, setting up a titanic struggle for world’s most important central bank
PoliticsTrump declares war on the Fed, setting up a titanic struggle for world’s most important central bank
By Jason MaAugust 25, 2025
President Donald Trump
EconomyTrump is bringing in enough revenue from tariffs to cut deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade, CBO says
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 25, 2025
A third of the U.S. economy is already in a recession or at high risk, and another third is stagnating, Zandi warns
EconomyA third of the U.S. economy is already in a recession or at high risk, and another third is stagnating, Zandi warns
By Jason MaAugust 25, 2025
The Federal Reserve could start resembling the Supreme Court
EconomyThe Federal Reserve could start resembling the Supreme Court
By Jason MaAugust 24, 2025
Lagarde
EconomyLagarde says Europe’s economy would be even worse without the immigrants who moved in after the pandemic
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressAugust 24, 2025
Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
EnergyChevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
By Jordan BlumAugust 24, 2025
The rendering of Meta's planned data center complex in Richland Parish shows a massive arrive of facilities to power the AI boom.
FeaturesMeta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout
By Delaney NolanAugust 24, 2025
Europe’s $64.6 billion postal pipeline of ‘de minimis’ goods comes to screeching halt
EconomyEurope’s $64.6 billion postal pipeline of ‘de minimis’ goods comes to screeching halt
By Demetris Nellas, Mae Anderson and The Associated PressAugust 23, 2025
Russia is ‘teetering on the brink of a recession’ and headed for a disastrous harvest, while Putin’s other top source of cash plunges
EconomyRussia is ‘teetering on the brink of a recession’ and headed for a disastrous harvest, while Putin’s other top source of cash plunges
By Jason MaAugust 23, 2025
The Fed is starting to worry about the housing market now
EconomyThe Fed is starting to worry about the housing market now
By Jason MaAugust 23, 2025
Powell ‘holds the key’ to the next Fed rate move as divided policymakers will likely fail to reach a consensus again, JPMorgan says
EconomyPowell ‘holds the key’ to the next Fed rate move as divided policymakers will likely fail to reach a consensus again, JPMorgan says
By Jason MaAugust 23, 2025
Mark Carney
Economy‘Canada currently has the best trade deal with the United States’: Mark Carney backs down on many retaliatory tariffs
By Rob Gillies and The Associated PressAugust 23, 2025
Jerome Powell
EconomyPowell’s next independence challenge: How to do what Trump has been asking for while preserving credibility
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressAugust 23, 2025
Machines
EconomyBofA sees the replacement of people with process solving the ‘productivity paradox,’ because ‘a process is almost free and it’s replicable for eternity’
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 23, 2025
Reagan and Volcker
EconomyWhy does an independent Fed matter? Just look at Ronald Reagan’s economy with Paul Volcker hiking rates to nearly 20%
By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated PressAugust 22, 2025
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell walks next to a few other people as he enters the Jackson Hole conference.
EconomyPowell’s ‘unusual’ Jackson Hole remarks reveal he’s boxed in by Trump’s tariffs and deportations, risking a 1970s-style mistake, economist Slok says
By Eva RoytburgAugust 22, 2025
Donald Trump
BankingMoments after Jerome Powell’s latest speech, Trump threatens to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook if she doesn’t resign
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 22, 2025
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