A pile of US pennies is seen in this photo illustration in Washington, DC, February 10, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images The beleaguered U.S. penny is living on borrowed time. With the cost of making the cent coin rising and President Donald Trump looking for ways to reduce unnecessary spending, the U.S….
Former Buffalo Bills cornerback Kaiir Elam was one of a handful of players whom the Dallas Cowboys added in trades this offseason (wide receiver George Pickens and quarterback Joe Milton were among the team’s other acquisitions), and the 2022 first-round draft pick feels “blessed” to be in Dallas. “I feel like the energy here [in…
Sarah Jo Marcotte, an educator from Vermont, holds a sign that reads “Here for my students!! Cuts Hurt.” outside of the U.S. Department of Education on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images ‘Good news for students’ In the injunction on Thursday, the judge pointed out that the staff cuts led…
Meet the new Old West Nevada became a state in 1864 — months before a saloon in a town called Genoa posted a wanted sign for Abraham Lincoln’s then-unknown assassin, four years before the transcontinental railroad stitched the state to the rest of the country, and five years before the first major silver strike in…
Several people are dead after a small aircraft crashed in a neighborhood in San Diego, California, early on Thursday morning, the San Diego police department confirmed, clipping one home and damaging several vehicles. The crash killed the plane’s passengers, Dan Eddy, the assistant San Diego fire chief, said at a Thursday morning news conference. The…
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images Sir Jony Ive, the hugely influential British designer responsible for the look of Apple’s most iconic and successful products, is joining OpenAI. Boss Sam Altman said he was “thrilled” to be partnering with the man he called the “greatest designer in the world”. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is…
It has finally happened: College basketball star Hunter Dickinson has graduated from school. The Kansas Jayhawks and former Michigan Wolverines big man graduated from Kansas with a master’s degree in sports management last weekend. Dickinson, 24, ended up getting seven years of eligibility throughout his career, leading to jokes that he’d play college basketball indefinitely….
House Republicans have passed a sweeping multi-trillion dollar tax breaks package, a narrow victory for President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson after weeks of negotiations with conservative hold-outs. Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” passed with a vote of 215 votes to 214, with two Republicans joining Democrats to oppose it and one voting present….
Ministers are to delay the ban on junk food adverts targeting children until 2026, sparking outrage among health campaigners. Labour had vowed to implement new rules prohibiting unhealthy food ads online and before 9pm on television in a key election manifesto pledge. After winning power, it promised the ban would come into force across the…
Technology giants OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia and Cisco are joining forces to help build a sweeping Stargate artificial intelligence campus in the United Arab Emirates. “AI is the most transformative force of our time,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a release Thursday. “With Stargate UAE, we are building the AI infrastructure to power the country’s…
