Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent testifies during a during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing on the Treasury Department’s 2027 budget request in Washington, DC on April 22, 2026. Nathan Posner | Anadolu | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday defended the possibility of the U.S. participating in…
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystemthan the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App Store’s 30% cut is under pressure, the behind-the-scenes power Apple once…
25 April 2026 Lisa Kudrow says rewatching Friends after the death of Matthew Perry led her to newly appreciate the show and her late co-star – who she described as a “genius”. Lisa Kudrow says rewatching Friends after the death of Matthew Perry led her to newly appreciate the show and her late co-star –…
The law of one price is in retreat — with major consequences for profits, inflation and innovation
April 24, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically different from anything known to have ever formed around our sun By Lee Billings & Joseph Howlett edited…
The 2026 NFL Draft is underway. Months of scouting, planning and — for some teams — aggressive trading led to these three days. All 32 franchises are now adding rookies to their rosters throughout the seven-round event, and every selection is ripe for scrutiny. Each of Thursday’s picks fell under our watchful eye as we…
The Federal Trade Commission appears to be targeting transgender rights, going beyond its usual ways of operating to do so, according to experts and federal employees who spoke to WIRED. Since July 2025, the agency has been gearing up to frame gender-affirming care for minors as a consumer-protection issue, in a move that a former…
US life insurers have shifted more of their general account risk to entities abroad than in the US as of year-end, the first time that offshore reinsurance hubs have overtaken domestic ones for that business.
EXCLUSIVE: In 2024, almost 80,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S., according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. North of the border, the situation is just as alarming. In Canada in the past decade, more than 50,000 people have died of overdoses – a striking number given the much smaller size…
President Trump has outsourced much of his diplomacy to others, while Mr. Rubio focuses on his second job as national security adviser.
