First Look Should Musk step down as Twitter chief? Users say yes. Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted the results of a Twitter poll and of the 17.5 million users who responded, a majority said he should step down. Mr. Musk has been using controversial, unscientific polls to shape policies and chart the future of the…
Promised delays of federal tax refunds have delayed filing, too February 15 was the first day those who claim either the EITC or the ACTC could have received their 2016 tax refunds. This is several weeks later than in past years. | View caption Hide caption February 15 could have been a big day for…
This is a story you’ve heard before: No one won the Mega Millions jackpot. The estimated prize for the multi-state lottery was $1.1 billion for Tuesday’s drawing, which is so large because no one has won since April 18. The Mega Millions website showed no jackpot winners and an estimated prize of $1.25 billion for…
Tesla announced on Sunday that its worldwide deliveries rose 83% from April to June. This was a record quarter with more than 466,000 vehicles delivered, and the boost was likely due to steep price cuts, The Wall Street Journal reported, with one example being the Model Y SUV, which started at $65,990 in early January…
Rolls of razor wire Texas installed along the U.S. side of the Rio Grande have ensnared several migrants, including a pregnant woman “in obvious pain” while having a miscarriage and a father trying to free his child “stuck on a trap” of razor wire–covered barrels in the water, a Texas state trooper wrote in July…
Alabama lawmakers on Friday approved a redrawn map that carved out just one majority-Black congressional district in the state, defying a Supreme Court ruling that said Alabama had to create at least two majority-Black districts. The new map, helmed by the Alabama Legislature’s Republican supermajority, increased the percentage of Black voters to around 50% in…
Our prayers have been answered. Apple’s upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will include a new tweak that stops the phone’s autocorrect function from changing a certain curse word (you know the one) to “ducking,” the company announced this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The change is made possible by “a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: A $100 piece of a $55 million painting A 1963 portrait by British artist Francis Bacon is about to make its stock market debut, said Carol Ryan in The Wall Street Journal. Next month, “a company named Artex is…
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in…