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Singapore has overhauled its baby bonus scheme. Will it work to boost birth rates this time?The mayor of this desert city likens the U.S. West’s water crisis to planning for a meteor. ‘You can see it coming, but you can’t get out of the way’With ‘virtual speed bumps,’ these cities have reduced crashes by rewarding slower drivers with fewer red lightsEurope’s summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threatThe Earth is sizzling, but ‘climate hushing’ is hot right now among Democrats. ‘People are increasingly freaked out about other issues’New U.S. sanctions will hit ordinary Iranians hard. That may be the whole point as the crashing economy stirs fresh protestsKey takeaways from the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole conferenceTrump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules, saying speech and press freedoms are ‘foundational to America’s enduring democracy’‘Long after President Trump is gone, it will still be called Lake Ontario’ — Premier Doug Ford fires back at ‘Lake America’ decree with giant signWall Street used to worry that too much U.S. debt would crowd out the private sector. But AI hyperscalers are ‘reverse crowding’ the TreasuryThe U.S. doesn’t have a state-owned oil giant. But in Venezuela, the federal government will control a company with the world’s 2nd largest reservesCasey’s quietly became America’s fifth-largest pizza chain. Meet the Fortune 500 gas station Gen Z can’t stop posting aboutICE explores purchasing robot dogs in enforcement tech pushTrump backlash adds new risks to the stocks the government ownsForget GLP-1 stocks, baldness drugs are Wall Street’s next goldmineRussia is teaching its children to fight the wars of the futureFor his latest tariffs, Trump used a statute so obscure many lawyers didn’t even know it still existed. ‘This law is literally a blank canvas’‘What is that saying about the applicant pool?’ The FBI will no longer treat experience with prostitution as an automatic bar against hiringAfter 6 months of war, hardliners consolidate power in Iran, but there are ‘serious differences over the future path of the country’Former White House teleprompter operator must turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 fine in insider trading settlementIBM’s CEO disagrees with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s disdain for texting in meetings: ‘Telling people they can’t use their technology would be weird’Dolly Parton once turned down a song request from Elvis Presley. That was just one business decision that helped build her $650 million empireTech billionaires and executives like Evan Spiegel and Peter Thiel are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them richThe AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketingAmerican Girl once captured U.S. history’s complexity. Why not now? Richard Branson double-booked his own job interview. The candidate stuck in traffic with him for 2.5 hours is now Virgin’s CEOCollege sports and ‘amateurism’ become the new ‘professional’ as an NFL player fights to return to schoolChatGPT said you’d lose your jobs right now — it’s more like 3% of workersAt 55, I became a rookie teacher after 3 decades in tech PR. Gen Z is teaching me a lot — and reminding me how to trust myselfScientists are using AI to track permafrost thaw as Arctic lakes vanish in hoursWhy the Fed is often slow, late … and wrong in reading inflationOffshore nuclear barges could power ports and data centers—starting with California, where nuclear is bannedAt the ‘Super Bowl of trucking,’ a driver who trained 14 years wins the golden belt buckle
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