The New Jersey legislature passed the New Jersey Kids Code Act on June 30, sending one of the most comprehensive state-level online child safety frameworks in the country to the desk of Governor Mikie Sherrill. Assembly Bill 4015 cleared the Assembly 73-5 and the Senate 36-4, establishing an Age-Appropriate Design
Working remotely across state lines creates tax filing obligations in multiple states, and the rules determining where someone owes income tax differ sharply depending on residence, physical location, and employer headquarters. A software developer living in Florida while working for a New York company faces different liabilities than a consultant
Labor shortages, supply chain gaps, and policy uncertainty block American manufacturers from relocating production despite tariffs and government incentives pushing them to reshore from China. Manufacturing reshoring barriers have stopped the wave of factory relocations cold, leaving many firms stuck in overseas supply chains they once hoped to abandon. Policy
A new round of U.S. tariffs covering imports from 60 economies — accounting for 99.4 percent of all goods entering the country — took effect at 12:01 a.m. on July 24, 2026, imposing duties of 10 to 12.5 percent on products from virtually every significant American trading partner. The action,
The House of Representatives voted 220-205 on Tuesday to pass a continuing resolution that would fund federal agencies at existing levels through December 4, a move designed to prevent a third government shutdown ahead of the November midterm elections. The measure now heads to the Senate, where its future is
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed on April 30, 2026, to permanently exclude semaglutide, tirzepatide, and liraglutide from the list of bulk drug substances that large-scale compounding facilities are legally permitted to use, finding no clinical need for outsourcing facilities to compound these drugs now that brand-name versions are
The White House has served as the residence and workplace of every United States president since John Adams moved into the still-unfinished building in November 1800. What stands at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today is the product of more than 230 years of construction, destruction, rebuilding, and reinvention — a structure
The Great Fire of 1835 was a devastating event that forever altered the landscape of New York City. In just one night, a significant portion of Manhattan’s commercial district was reduced to ashes, leaving the city in shock. But from the ashes rose a new and improved New York, shaped
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 for national security risks before public release. The proposal, published July 14 in a Substack essay titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning
The National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning effective 10 a.m. Tuesday for much of Los Angeles County, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 110 degrees during the peak of the event on Wednesday and Thursday. The warning remains in place through 8 p.m. Thursday and covers
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
U.S. initial jobless claims dropped to 215,000 for the week ending July 4, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, falling below the 220,000 forecast by FactSet analysts and extending a months-long pattern of historically low layoff activity. The figure declined by 2,000 from the prior week’s revised 217,000, but the
Meta Platforms introduced Muse Image on July 7, the company’s first AI image-generation model built under its Superintelligence Labs division, embedding the tool directly into the Meta AI chatbot, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp direct chats. The launch represents Meta’s clearest move yet to close the gap between consumer social features
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 manufacturing facility in Berea, Kentucky. The co-developed approach represents a first-of-its-kind use case of how physical AI can be applied in an industrial assembly environment
The U.S. trade deficit widened to $77.6 billion in May 2026, a 42.2% jump from April, as capital goods imports climbed to a record $128.0 billion. The surge was propelled largely by an artificial intelligence buildout that depends heavily on imported computing hardware, while exports slipped over the same month.
The domestic box office held steady over the Fourth of July weekend as Toy Story 5 climbed to roughly $764 million worldwide and Illumination’s Minions & Monsters opened in first place with $36.4 million across the holiday frame. The two family titles gave U.S. theater owners a busy holiday, even
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
Federal student loan rules changed on July 1, 2026, ending the SAVE repayment plan and replacing a tangle of income-driven options with two new plans for the roughly 43 million Americans carrying federal student debt. The Department of Education is directing about 7.5 million SAVE borrowers to choose a new
New York City is bracing for the most logistically complex week in its modern history as three unprecedented events converge on the same metropolitan footprint. The Semiquincentennial celebrations, Macy’s 50th anniversary fireworks, and the Sail 4th 250 tall ship parade are expected to draw 8 to 10 million visitors during
The First Widespread Heat Wave of 2026 Arrives as Millions Prepare for Outdoor Independence Day Celebrations, World Cup Matches, and America 250 Events A sprawling heat dome is settling over the eastern two-thirds of the United States this week, bringing the kind of sustained, dangerous heat that transforms a holiday
The University of Michigan’s final consumer sentiment reading for June delivered a signal that had been absent from the U.S. economic landscape for months — a measurable decline in the inflation fears that have dominated household psychology since early spring. The survey’s five-year inflation outlook fell to 3.3%, retreating sharply