DreamWorks Animation’s “Forgotten Island” lifted its review embargo on September 21 to a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, positioning the studio’s 50th animated feature film and
The Environmental Protection Agency formally rescinded carbon pollution standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants on Monday, September 14, 2026, eliminating mandates that required existing coal-fired
U.S. employers had 7.1 million job openings at the end of August 2026, down 256,000 from July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on September 29. The openings rate slipped to 4.3%. Hiring, quits, and layoffs held roughly steady, so labor demand is cooling without a rise in job losses. Key Takeaways Businesses with 1 to 9 employees cut openings from 1.39 million in July to 1.05 million in August, a drop of 335,000. That is larger than the entire private-sector decline of 214,000. Hires rose slightly to 5.19 million, and the hires rate edged up to 3.3%. Layoffs
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has reached late September without producing a single hurricane, the first time that has happened since 1914. Six named storms
Diesel fuel prices in the United States have surpassed their all-time high, reaching a national average of more than $6.51 per gallon according to AAA,
The U.S. Department of Education has published nonpayment-rate data identifying 500 colleges and universities where at least 40% of recent federal student loan borrowers are
The 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks will be commemorated on September 11, 2026, across the United States, with the annual name-reading ceremony
American employers announced 52,881 planned layoffs in August 2026, a 38% decline from the same month a year ago and the lowest August total since 2022, according to the monthly
An NPR analysis published on August 19 found that 15 U.S. states still have laws permitting public school employees to use corporal punishment on students,
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration upgraded a nationwide egg recall to Class I this week, its highest-risk classification, after linking nearly 19 million recalled
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company behind the Claude model family, is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for approximately $6 billion,
The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July, the Labor Department’s Friday jobs report showed, a contraction economists had not expected after months of modest
The nor’easter that hit the Northeast from September 25 to 28, 2026, wiped out one of the fall’s busiest live music weekends. Organizers canceled the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, the three-day All Things Go NYC festival in Queens, and both of Ed Sheeran’s concerts at Gillette Stadium, shutting out tens of thousands of ticketholders across two states. Key Takeaways The Global Citizen Festival cancellation was the event’s first in 14 years. Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean had been set to headline Global Citizen with a 30th-anniversary celebration of the Fugees’ album The Score. All Things Go
Gene-modified pancreatic islet cells transplanted into a patient with long-standing type 1 diabetes have survived and continued producing insulin for more than 14 months without any immunosuppressive drugs, according to peer-reviewed data published on July 13, 2026, in The New England Journal of Medicine. The follow-on publication, authored by clinicians at Uppsala University Hospital in
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a multistate infant botulism outbreak linked to Nara Organics Whole Milk Organic Powdered Infant Formula, which was sold at Target stores nationwide. Three infants in California, Washington, and Pennsylvania were hospitalized, and Nara Organics issued a voluntary recall of
A team of researchers at Stanford Medicine has identified a single protein that, when blocked, reverses age-related cartilage loss in joints and prevents osteoarthritis from developing after injury. The discovery, published in the journal Science, could fundamentally change how arthritis is treated and may one day make knee and hip replacements unnecessary for many patients.
The generation gap. It’s a phrase tossed around like a worn frisbee, but what does it really mean? Why do Baby Boomers and Gen Z seem to speak different languages (even if they’re technically texting each other)? This article dives into the generational divide, exploring the stereotypes, the social shifts that shaped these age groups,
Moving your body regularly is one of the ways to protect your long-term health. It is not just about aesthetics or fitting into a certain clothing size. Staying active directly influences your longevity and your daily quality of life. Whether it is a brisk walk, a session at the gym, or playing with your family,
The 2026 NFL regular season opens Wednesday, September 9, with the defending Super Bowl LX champion Seattle Seahawks hosting the New England Patriots at Lumen
A study published August 25, 2026, in The BMJ by researchers at Harvard University and Boston University found that at least one in four former
USA Baseball announced a 36-player roster on June 21, 2026, for the 12U National Team Training Camp set to begin June 22 in Cary, North
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup looms, many are wondering what’s next for Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the most iconic footballers in history. With the
An executive order published in the Federal Register on Monday, August 31, declares a national emergency over foreign-produced equipment operating within the United States bulk-power
The unemployment rate for recent college graduates ages 22 to 27 held at approximately 5.6% through the second quarter of 2026, above the national unemployment
Emergency dispatch centers across the United States are deploying artificial intelligence systems that move beyond answering calls to predicting where emergencies will occur before they
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is calling on the United States to establish a federally overseen standards body that would test frontier artificial intelligence models
NTT DATA and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling announced on July 7 that they have deployed a physical AI system directly into the assembly workflow at Hyster-Yale’s
NASA opened its checkbook this week for what the agency is calling the foundation of a permanent American presence on the Moon. At a Tuesday
Delta Air Lines handles more than 100,000 bags on a busy day at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest airport by passenger volume. Three-quarters
The AI industry’s talent war reached a new inflection point on Tuesday. Andrej Karpathy, one of the most prominent researchers in artificial intelligence and a
