Turo, a car rental start-up in San Francisco, has been trying to go public since 2021. But a volatile stock market in early 2022 delayed its listing. Since then, the company has waited for the right moment. Last week, Turo pulled its listing entirely. “Now is not the right time,” Andre Haddad, the company’s chief […]
Southwest Airlines on Monday announced plans to cut 1,750 jobs, the first broad layoffs in the airline’s 53-year history. The company said the cuts would mostly focus on corporate positions, accounting to about 15 percent of that work force. The layoffs will include 11 senior leaders with titles of vice president or higher, the airline […]
Feb 18, 2025, 04:00 AM ET Manchester City and Real Madrid look set to go head-to-head in the race to sign Florian Wirtz, while Manchester United are considering a move for former Manchester City full-back João Cancelo. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors, and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done […]
The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the Latin “optimus,” or “best,” as in “make the best of things.” Alessio Figalli, a mathematician at the university ETH Zurich, studies optimal transport: the most efficient allocation of starting points to end points. The scope of investigation is wide, including clouds, crystals, bubbles and chatbots. Dr. Figalli, […]
Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, one of the strangest head-to-heads in tennis got stranger still; Amanda Anisimova and Joao Fonseca achieved tennis milestones; Diego Schwartzman retired from the sport and Chile’s tennis federation challenged the ITF […]
The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to give a team member working with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to sensitive taxpayer data, people familiar with the matter said. The systems at the I.R.S. contain the private financial data tied to millions of Americans, including their tax returns, Social Security numbers, addresses, banking […]
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — William Byron became the first back-to-back Daytona 500 winner in five years after sneaking by a huge crash on the final lap of the race. Byron was in seventh place with a half-lap to go, but all of the cars in front of him suddenly wrecked and Byron sailed through when […]
Hannah Karpel BBC News, health reporter BBC Sophie says her anxiety peaks if she is in a loud environment and not wearing her headphones to limit the noise Whether it’s the echo of beeping tills in a supermarket or the hissing of a coffee machine in your local café, the brain is constantly working to […]
AFP An orca leaping out of the water while performing at Marineland Antibes on 2 January The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo’s managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen to the orca whales with the […]
Here in the frozen north country, we feel more February heat from our toaster than from the sun. But that isn’t the kind of heat this column cares about right now. The kind of heat that really matters in baseball these days is the heat being felt by the teams, front offices and managers that […]