For Griffin Williams, the absurdity of our culture’s tipping mania hit him when he was buying a charging cable at an electronics store. “They had a tip option at checkout,” he said. “Am I going to pay 20% extra for a $40 cable? They probably have somebody in their warehouse who stocked the p...
Walgreens will not distribute the abortion pill mifepristone in nearly two dozen conservative states after Republican attorneys general threatened the largest US pharmacy companies with legal consequences for sending abortion pills by mail.The decision, first reported by Politico, came weeks after t...
Allianz Partners USA has announced that it has added three directors to support its rapidly growing client support team. Bernie Verwiel has joined the company as district director for the Midwest and Paul Corrigan has joined as district director for the Southeast. Verwiel and Corrigan are travel ind...
Snow-stranded Californians in mountain communities are desperately digging out after a “once-in-a-generation” winter storm, even as more snow was forecast for the weekend. In the latest US wild weather, twisters touched down at the other end of the country, in Texas and Louisiana. Foreca...
The US has largely dominated these areas of innovation since the early days of computing. But academics who study advances in computer science say in a new report that by many measures, the US lead in advanced computing has declined significantly over the past five years—especially when measured a...