So far, 530A tax-advantaged investment accounts for kids, also known as “Trump accounts,” have had a successful debut.

Jif just rebranded for the first time in 30 years, and it’s a (rare) example of how to modernize a beloved brand without killing its quirk.

Ask people which app they use most frequently on their phones, and they’re likely to pick one of five types: a messaging app, a maps app, a web browser, a clock app, or a weather app. If they go with a weather app, it could be one of many. 

Below, Owen Fitzpatrick shares five key insights from his new book, Inner Propaganda: Leading Hearts and Minds Through Turbulent Times.

A Baylor College of Medicine pediatrician just told Texas lawmakers that “high school seniors are legally walking around with Vegas in their pockets.” Lindy McGee was describing prediction-market apps such as Kalshi and Polymarket, where users as young as 18 bet real money on soccer games, elections, and pop-culture outcomes. The Texas Medical Association wants the minimum age raised to 21.

Employees today are stressed, angry and sad, and they’re experiencing these emotions more than even before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gallup. A big reason for stress is a sense of job insecurity, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

“I don’t understand. The deal was moving forward. My team’s reports said we were on track. I had lunch with their CEO last month, and everything felt solid.”

After President Donald Trump’s plan to build a lavish ballroom next to the White House hit a major roadblock, his administration is asking the highest court in the land to green-light construction.

Between companies ghosting job applicants and companies advertising ghost jobs that don’t exist, it can feel harder than ever to find a job. And so job seekers trying to land a new role will sometimes do just about anything to try to grab an employer’s attention.

Elon Musk is reportedly going to launch a “flying car.” Not a flying taxi like those oversize drones that want to take rich people from Manhattan to JFK Airport, laughing at us peasants traveling in regular cabs. Not another old Tesla Roadster mounted atop a Falcon 9. No. This will be a next-generation Tesla Roadster that can fly on its own using cold gas thrusters developed by SpaceX. Like Nick Fury’s flying car.

Trump’s new savings accounts for kids just went live last month, but they’re not the only interesting investment change in the mix this year.

Elon Musk does not shy away from bizarre conflict: He dared Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight that never materialized, publicly feuded with President Trump after a monthslong public friendship, and even challenged Vladimir Putin to “single combat.”

This week, Tyson Foods announced that it is restructuring its beef business, closing or selling three of its facilities as it deals with “one of the most historic cattle shortages the country has ever experienced.”

It flies. It heals all wounds. It can be of the essence, and it can be money. We thrill in the best of it, lament the worst. We’re warned not to waste it, since we can’t turn it back — even as we try to make up for when it’s lost.

And probably more than anything when it comes to time, most of us try to manage it — in our everyday lives and on a global scale, from the biology of our circadian rhythms to what constitutes a work day. Clocks. Calendars. Pendulums. Hourglasses. Sundials. Time zones.

For something that’s been a pretty universal impulse to mark the shift of light and dark, the movement of the stars and the rhythms of the tides, the cycles of summer heat and winter cold, one might assume there’s been a universal way of measuring time. That assumption would be wrong.

Take the shifting of the clock twice a year in most of the United States, once forward and then back again, a system that “moves” the time to let people enjoy daylight hours later into the evening.

While people love the light, a lot of them loathe having to make the change. So much so that the House of Representatives last month overwhelmingly passed legislation calling for the shift to become permanent year-round. Its prospects for passage in the Senate aren’t high, and when the country tried it in the 1970s it was wildly unpopular and short-lived. But it continues to be brought up, an indication that the way we keep the clock counts.

The methods different peoples and communities have used to track their lives haven’t existed in a vacuum. They’ve been impacted by culture, by religion, by economics and technology, by the governing principles both within nations and among them.

Turns out, like pretty much anything where people are involved, there’s a politics to time.

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-of-factly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference in 2024 and gunned him down on a New York City street.

Some five months after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariffs, one question remains: How—and when—will the government return the refunds?

D23, Disney’s official fan club, has been around for 17 years, and it’s stronger than ever.

As traumatic injuries and deaths surge among children involved in crashes on e-bikes and other electrified vehicles, one California prosecutor is cracking down by pursuing criminal charges against some of the young riders’ parents.

It is just one way officials across the country are trying to tackle the growing issue, while families navigate a patchwork of local laws and guidance on what kind of souped-up cycles and scooters are safe or even legal for their kids to ride.

New York City’s mayor recently sent cease-and-desist notices to dozens of online retailers for selling products marketed as “e-bikes” that aren’t street legal after a 17-year-old died in a crash on an illicit vehicle. In neighboring New Jersey, new regulations require e-bike riders to be at least 15 and obtain a license and vehicle registration.

But do the measures hit the mark? Cycling advocates worry regulations might be too broad — demonizing low-powered e-bikes instead of speedier motos — while some parents question whether localized, piecemeal strategies are enough.

Monica Stafford, a San Francisco-area mother whose teen daughter fractured her skull falling off an e-bike, said officials are “missing the mark” if they’re seeking to lay the blame solely on parents. The San Rafael resident said a unified, national set of rules is needed.

“We’re in a total Wild West of laws,” Stafford said. “Being for common sense laws doesn’t mean that you’re against e-bikes, just like you can be for cars but not think that it’s safe to put keys in the hands of a 10-year-old.”

In recent weeks, Russia’s Wildberries has been in the news. Though little known in the West, Wildberries is the country’s largest e-commerce platform, with many likening it to Amazon.

The surveillance state has crept up around us, but in at least one instance, its integration into society has prompted a backlash. Flock Safety has managed to make automated license plate readers (ALPRs), cameras that record the license plate and other characteristics of every vehicle that passes them, a hot-button issue across the United States.