Deadly human smuggling through Mexico thrives in ‘perfect cycle of impunity’ A new collaboration from ICIJ and media partners in Latin America, Europe and the United States documents nearly 19,000 migrants’ journeys to the U.S. border under dangerous conditions. 04/30/2024 - 11:03 am | View Link
What is behind US college protests over Israel-Gaza war? Student protests in the U.S. over the war in Gaza have intensified and expanded over the past week, with a number of encampments now in place at colleges including Columbia, Yale, and New York ... 04/25/2024 - 6:47 am | View Link
Republicans Have Outrageous Response to Columbia University Protest Republicans have started commenting on the Columbia University protests staged in support of Gaza—and unsurprisingly, the comments have been lackluster, punitive, and completely beside the point. 04/23/2024 - 10:49 am | View Link
Hush-Money Witness Unmasks Team Trump’s Shady Inner Workings Trump is accused of using Cohen to sweep an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels under the rug ahead of the 2016 presidential election. He faces 34 felony charges in this case for allegedly falsifying ... 04/23/2024 - 10:22 am | View Link
Tensions rise on college campuses; CDC unveils new heat risk tool; Supreme Court weighs sleeping bans | Hot off the Wire podcast Columbia University’s main campus will switch to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester amid protests over Israel’s war with Hamas that have roiled colleges across the U.S. University officials ... 04/23/2024 - 2:15 am | View Link
The packaging for Walmart’s Bettergoods line looks like something you might find in Target. That’s intentional.
Walmart’s new private label brand, Bettergoods, doesn’t look like what you might expect a Walmart private-label brand to look like. And that’s entirely the point. The discount retailer is pitching the new brand to shoppers looking for “elevated culinary experiences,” according to the company.
Cannabis advocates in Colorado cheered the Biden Administration’s reported move to reclassify marijuana and said the decision likely would reduce businesses’ tax burden significantly.
Industry leaders cautioned that such a move — if finalized — would not resolve some major challenges facing the industry, such as limited access to banking. But they pointed to the symbolic importance of preparations by the U.
Invent Analytics, a Philadelphia-based artificial intelligence retail startup, raised $17 million with plans to hire in the region after doubling revenue in 2023.
In this guest column, a graduate of Local First Arizona's accelerator program designed to help minority startup owners launch their business, writes about the positive effect of the program, and how it helped her find a financial services partner she could rely on.