Real 'Fault in Our Stars' couple reunited by hope Katie and Dalton Prager, a young couple who both have cystic fibrosis, celebrated happy news when they reunited Tuesday afternoon after nearly five months apart: Katie is on her way to getting a lifesaving lung transplant. More
US home sales rebound slightly in February U.S. home sales picked up slightly in February but remain sluggish due to tight inventories, affordability problems and nasty winter weather. More
Dollar rises above 100 yen for 1st time in 4 years The dollar has risen above 100 yen for the first time in more than four years as currency traders persist in selling the Japanese currency in reaction to Tokyo's aggressive credit-easing moves. More
Obama to open middle-class jobs, opportunity tour Aiming to show he's still focused on creating jobs, President Barack Obama is beginning a series of quick trips around the country to resurrect ideas from his State of the Union address that became overshadowed by the intense debates over gun control, immigration and automatic spending cuts. More
Retailers report modest gains for April Americans spent briskly during the early spring months in the latest sign that they’re encouraged by the economic recovery. Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans’ shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to buy spring fashions. More
Park County jobless rate falls to 3.5% in March Park County’s unemployment rate has been decreasing since January and was lower than a year ago as of the most recent figures, which are for March. 04/23/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Hiring Fair & Career Exploration event in Great Falls GREAT FALLS — On Wednesday the Great Falls Area Chamber of Commerce is partnering with Job Service Great Falls, United Way of Cascade County, and Great Falls Development Alliance for the Hiring Fair ... 04/23/2024 - 10:54 am | View Link
Over 15,000 jobs added in PA as unemployment rate remains unchanged More than 15,000 nonfarm jobs were added to the Commonwealth over the course of March 2024 according to the PA Department of Labor and Industry’s (L&I) preliminary employment situation report. L&I ... 04/19/2024 - 8:22 am | View Link
As the U.S. adds jobs, Illinois continues to lag in unemployment numbers Illinois and the rest of the country added jobs in March, but the state’s unemployment rate is not improving. The economy added 303,000 jobs in March, ne ... 04/19/2024 - 7:21 am | View Link
Here’s what would happen to the US economy if there are no rate cuts this year Markets, businesses and the White House have been laser-focused on the timing and number of rate cuts this year, yet the prospect seems to be slipping away. How would the US economy handle more ... 04/16/2024 - 9:57 am | View Link
Surprise: Despite the ByteDance app’s bad day, its competitors aren’t rallying like you might expect.
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the TikTok ban into law, finally giving owner ByteDance its Choose Your Own American Adventure: It must either sell the immensely popular video-sharing platform or see it get banned in the U.
The social media company said it had a ‘good start to the year,’ but investors seem to think it wasn’t good enough.
Meta announced its first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. The company’s stock plunged 12% in after-hours trading, due to the company’s increased expenses and mediocre revenue projections.
Techno-optimism pervades governments and nongovernmental organizations, and influences the thinking of billionaires.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manifesto in 2023 that gave a full-throated call for unrestricted technological progress to boost markets, broaden energy production, improve education and strengthen liberal democracy.
AI-generated images draw in users—and Facebook’s recommendation algorithm may be organically promoting these posts.
If you’ve spent time on Facebook over the past six months, you may have noticed photorealistic images that are too good to be true: children holding paintings that look like the work of professional artists, or majestic log cabin interiors that are the stuff of Airbnb dreams.
Remember, anything can happen with summer movies.
“Barbenheimer” is a hard act to follow. But as Hollywood enters another summer movie season, armed with fewer superheroes and a landscape vastly altered by the strikes, it’s worth remembering the classic William Goldman quote about what works: “Nobody knows anything.”
A year into the job, the rideshare CEO shares how he turned the company cash-flow positive and why he may pull out from Minneapolis.
When Lyft CEO David Risher took the helm of the rideshare company from cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer a year ago, his mandate was clear: create a sustainable business by getting the perennial second-place rideshare company to stop bleeding money.