SefWashington D.C. Malls are dying. The thriving ones are spending millions to reinvent themselves.The Washington Post - By Abha BhattaraiAbdul Mannan was perched on a stool, scrolling through his phone, on a recent afternoon at Lakeforest Mall in suburban Washington. He was two hours into his shift at a jewelry kiosk and had yet to exchange
SefApple No, Apple isn’t opening a new manufacturing plant in TexasArs Technica - Timothy B. Lee "I opened a major Apple manufacturing plant in Texas," Trump wrote Wednesday. President Donald Trump toured Apple's Mac Pro manufacturing facility in …
SefNews Hundreds Of Women Just Won A Landmark Case Against Johnson & Johnson Over Pelvic Mesh ImplantsBuzzFeed - Gina RushtonThe class action was launched seven years ago and now involves more than 1,350 members. Julie Davis speaks on behalf of victims outside the Federal Court in Sydney, Nov. 21, 2019. Hundreds of women living
SefTech Industry Robinhood Expands Across the Pond, With Plans to Launch Fee-Free Stock Trading in the U.K.Fortune Robinhood’s no-fee trading app, launched in 2015, has proved popular with millennials in the United States, where it has grown rapidly to six million …
SefNews Boeing to fix engines on 7,000 jets after fatal accident probeCNN - By Chris Isidore, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — Investigators of a fatal accident on a Southwest Airlines plane last year recommend that Boeing retrofit the engines of nearly 7,000 jets to prevent a repeat of the accident.
SefBusiness The US economy is losing billions of dollars because foreign students aren't enrollingCNN - By Evelina Nedlund, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — Fewer international students are coming to the United States. That's hurting American universities and the economy. The continued decline in international student enrollment the
SefClimate A Massive Coal Plant That Asked for Trump’s Help Has Gone DarkBloomberg - Will Wade In the end, the unraveling economics of coal proved too much for even a giant among power generators to handle. At 12:09 p.m. local time on Monday -- …
SefBusiness Wine Moguls Destroy Land And Pay Small Fines As Cost Of Business, Say ActivistsNPR - Alastair BlandAfter California wine industry mogul Hugh Reimers illegally destroyed at least 140 acres of forest, meadow and stream in part to make way for new vineyards sometime last winter, according to a report state
SefClimate Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate deal is bad for US business. Here's why.weforum.org - Jennifer Austin Earlier this month, the Trump administration decided to once again ignore increasingly urgent calls from businesses and investors to act on climate …
SefLong-form Journalism I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on AirbnbVICE - Allie ContiThe call came about 10 minutes before we were set to check into the Airbnb. I was sitting at a brewery just around the corner from the rental on North Wood Street in Chicago when the man on the other of
SefLong-form Journalism Juul disregarded early evidence it was hooking teensReuters - By CHRIS KIRKHAMJuul executives knew young people were flocking to its breakthrough e-cigarette shortly after it went on sale in 2015, a former manager tells Reuters. Its nicotine blend was so potent, engineers devised
SefLong-form Journalism The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South DakotaThe Guardian - Oliver BulloughLate last year, as the Chinese government prepared to enact tough new tax rules, the billionaire Sun Hongbin quietly transferred $4.5bn worth of shares in his Chinese real estate firm to a company on street
SefBusiness Nissan recalls nearly 400,000 cars in US over potential fire hazardThe Guardian - ReutersNissan will recall 394,025 cars in the US over a braking system defect that has caused concerns that a brake fluid leak could potentially lead to a fire. The leak into internal circuit boards will trigger
SefTechnology Lyft pulls scooters out of six major citiesAxios - Fadel Allassan Lyft is removing its electric scooters out of San Antonio, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Columbus and Nashville, as the company explained it will shift …
SefBusiness A restaurant called 'Immigrant Food' just opened a block from the White HouseCNN - Story by Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN; Video by Mackenzie Happe, CNN(CNN) — As salsa and merengue beats pulse in the background, diners are lining up at one of the newest restaurants in the nation's capital . It's called "Immigrant Food," and it's just a block from the
SefBusiness New Jersey hits Uber with $640 million tax bill for misclassifying workersNBC News - By The Associated PressThe state says the ride hail giant wrongly labeled employees as independent contractors. TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is seeking more than $640 million from Uber in taxes and penalties, saying the ride-hailing
SefOil Saudi Arabia is 'gradually running out of money' and needs IPO to fund reforms, ex-CIA chief saysCNBC - Holly Ellyatt Saudi Arabia needs the initial public offering (IPO) of its state oil company to be successful as it needs to attract outside investment and, …
Sef A Trump Tax Break To Help The Poor Went To a Rich GOP Donor’s Superyacht Marinapropublica.org - ProPublica Wealthy donors Wayne Huizenga Jr. and Jeff Vinik lobbied then-Gov. Rick Scott for the lucrative tax break — and won it. Poorer communities lost …
SefHealth Care 'I live on the street now': how Americans fall into medical bankruptcyGuardian US - Michael SainatoIt’s been over a dozen years since Susanne LeClair of West Palm Beach, Florida was first diagnosed with cancer and she’s been fighting ever since. Now she, like many other Americans facing life-threatening
SefHealth Care Welcome to Molar City, Mexico, The Dental Mecca America’s Health Care Costs BuiltHuffPost - Jeffrey YoungA tiny border town is home to hundreds of dentists and is a major destination for Americans seeking big savings on dental care. LOS ALGODONES, Mexico ― The billboards that line the stretch of California’s
SefLaw Southwest pilots union says Boeing may be trying to hasten 737 MAX...Reuters - David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Southwest Airlines Co pilot union Wednesday sharply criticized Boeing Co and questioned whether the manufacturer was trying to speed up the timeline for the 737 return
SefCulture What Happens To Your Used Stuff? 'Secondhand' Tells Of A Billion-Dollar IndustryNPR - Gabino IglesiasThe first thing I learned about shopping after moving to Texas from the Caribbean was this: Go to Goodwill. When I needed my first hoodie, I went to Goodwill. When the carpet in my tiny studio got dirty,
SefBusiness Adidas to end robotic shoe production in Germany and the USThe Verge - Jon PorterAdidas will halt production at its two robotic “Speedfactories” in the US and Germany, the company has announced. The Ansbach and Atlanta factories, which opened in 2016 and 2017 respectively, will end
SefBusiness Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi faces #boycottUber for calling Jamal Khashoggi murder a 'mistake'FOX Business - Evie FordhamUber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is taking heat for calling the murder of Saudi Arabian writer and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi a "mistake" on the part of the Saudi government. "I think that government said
SefPolitics The Education Department is cancelling $10.8 million in student loan debt for students at two shuttered schoolsMarketWatch - By Andrew Keshner More than 1,500 former students at two shuttered schools will get a fresh start on their finances after the U.S. Department of Education said it will …
SefPesticides Thailand wants to ban these three pesticides. The US government says noThe Guardian - Carey GillamIt’s certainly not surprising that the Trump administration is working to protect glyphosate and other pesticides that bring profits to big corporations You know it’s a dark day for America when foreign
SefAsia At US$145,000, Malaysian homes get cheaper for foreign buyers. Will locals pay the price?South China Morning Post Foreign buyers are in for a bargain as Malaysia slashes the minimum price threshold for property sales. Locals, though, may end up paying dearly.
SefNews Italy makes alarms for baby car seats mandatoryCNN - By Steve Almasy, CNN(CNN) — Italian law now requires vehicles to have a safety device that alerts drivers if a child has been left behind in the rear seat or a car seat. The law went into effect Thursday and is designed prevent
SefBusiness Car loans are dragging Americans underwaterAxios - Orion Rummler More people buying new cars with trade-ins have negative equity than in previous years, the Wall Street Journal reports, and those borrowers already …
