Business

An exterior shot of a Carl's Jr. restaurant building under an overcast sky.

A major fast-food operator is collapsing under 65 restaurants, and the real warning is how quickly a familiar burger network can start breaking apart

Adrian Villellas
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April 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM

Friendly Franchisees Corporation, a major Carl’s Jr. operator in California, has filed for Chapter 11…..

An Amazon Prime delivery van parked directly behind a familiar white postal truck on a suburban street.

Amazon just avoided a logistics rupture with the US mail system, and the new deal keeps a huge package pipeline alive when both sides needed it most

Kevin Montien
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April 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) have reached a new delivery agreement that keeps…..

A massive ice-breaking LNG carrier ship transporting Russian natural gas through frozen Arctic waters.

Russia is running into a bigger energy problem than it wants to admit, and the real bottleneck is starting to look like its own system

Techy44
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April 12, 2026 at 10:35 AM

Europe has now put a hard clock on Russian gas, including liquefied natural gas. The…..

An architectural rendering of TerraPower's advanced Natrium nuclear reactor facility in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

Bill Gates is pushing a nuclear project the US had not dared to greenlight in years, and the real bet is much bigger than one power plant

Techy44
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April 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM

A next-generation nuclear plant backed by Bill Gates just cleared a major regulatory hurdle in…..

An Arrow 3 interceptor missile launching into the sky from a military defense facility in Israel.

Israel is turning its Arrow shield into a faster war machine, and the real message is that missile pressure from Iran is not expected to ease soon

Adrian Villellas
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April 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM

Israel’s Ministry of Defense says it is moving to dramatically ramp up production of Arrow…..

Shoppers using automated self-checkout kiosks inside a brightly lit Target retail store.

Target may be about to face one of retail’s biggest labor shocks in one US state, as a new $24/hour wage push threatens to rewrite the cost equation

Kevin Montien
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April 11, 2026 at 7:45 AM

Rhode Island lawmakers are weighing a sharp minimum wage jump that would ripple through every…..

Economy

A close-up of a frustrated person reviewing federal student loan documents and calculating repayment plans on a laptop.

What looked like a final path out of student debt is starting to get steeper, and public-service borrowers may be the first to feel the hit

Adrian Villellas
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April 13, 2026 at 7:45 AM

Public Service Loan Forgiveness was built on a simple tradeoff: you take a lower-paying job…..

Spools of ultra-high-strength carbon fiber thread being processed in a modern Chinese manufacturing facility.

What China just scaled up looks like a science fiction material: thinner than it should be, stronger than steel, and suddenly ready for industry

Techy44
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April 12, 2026 at 12:30 PM

A thread thinner than a human hair is suddenly at the center of a much…..

A close-up view of a pharmacist's hand counting prescription pills on a tray next to an open pill bottle.

An official prescription discount is now slashing the sticker shock on major drugs, and the new price gap is bigger than most patients would expect

Kevin Montien
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April 12, 2026 at 9:30 AM

AbbVie and Genentech are the latest big drugmakers set to sell discounted prescriptions through TrumpRx,…..

An expansive, dusty open-pit copper mining operation nestled high within the snow-capped peaks of the Andes mountains.

The treasure no one saw coming in the Andes may help power the energy transition, but digging it up could open a much darker chapter

Kevin Montien
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April 9, 2026 at 7:45 AM

BHP and Lundin Mining say the Vicuña district on the Argentina-Chile border now ranks among…..

A wide view of the United Downs deep geothermal energy facility in Cornwall, featuring metal pipelines and vapor cooling systems against an overcast sky.

Goodbye to oil as the only answer: the U.K. is pushing a water-based energy path just as fossil prices start biting harder

Techy44
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April 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM

The UK’s first deep geothermal electricity plant has switched on in Cornwall, not Iceland. On…..

Researchers in a lab testing Harvard’s dual-mode solar device that can switch between heating and electricity generation

For the first time, a Harvard solar device is turning winter into heating and summer into electricity without sensors, switches or smart controls

Kevin Montien
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April 6, 2026 at 7:02 PM

Solar power is everywhere, but it still has a timing problem. A Harvard engineering team…..