In 2013, Jessica Lessin, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, left the paper to start a competing publication, The Information. A few years later, her fledgling newsroom had grown to nearly two dozen reporters and editors and booked more than $20 million in sales, as she revealed in a profile I wrote for The […]
Each Friday, a selection of reporters and editors from The Athletic will offer recommendations of games, events and shows to watch over the weekend. Saturday 🏀 Men’s College BasketballDuke at UNC6:30 p.m. ET on ESPN The final weekend of the regular season for high-major men’s basketball conferences is loaded with marquee matchups, but you don’t […]
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Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News University of Cambridge The gene the researchers identified interferes with a brain signalling pathway that helps regulate our appetite Dogs that are constantly hungry and prone to being overweight share a common bit of biology with some obesity-prone humans. This is what UK scientists have discovered – identifying a […]
At the end of February, the House of Representatives passed a budget calling for up to $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years. Now, the haggling begins. Many of the tax cuts from the 2017 tax bill, which passed during President Trump’s first term, are set to expire at the end of this year. […]
House prices are stubbornly high, and mortgage rates remain substantially above their prepandemic level. Now, with the spring home buying season looming, shoppers have a new worry: A major federal consumer watchdog has been hobbled. Without the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency responsible for overseeing most aspects of the home buying process, consumer advocates […]
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) and Vice President JD Vance, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump (C) and Vice President JD Vance, […]
President Trump signed an executive order instructing administration officials to alter a student loan forgiveness program for public servants to exclude nonprofit organizations that engage in activities that have what he called a “substantial illegal purpose.” His order to restrict the program appears to target groups supporting undocumented immigrants, diversity initiatives or gender-affirming care for […]
It might be a moment of hush before chaos ensues, or it may be business as usual. U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in February, the first full month under the new Trump administration, the Labor Department reported on Friday. The gain extended a streak of job growth to 50 months. The unemployment rate ticked up […]
Syrian security forces are alleged to have executed dozens of people belonging to the Alawite minority in the coastal province of Latakia, according to a war monitoring group. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 162 civilians have been killed in “field executions” in the region – a heartland of deposed president Bashir […]