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The Women’s National Basketball Player’s Association ratified the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement Monday, calling it “transformational” and “bigger than basketball.”The new CBA begins this season and runs through 2032. When asked her opinion of the most important outcome from the deal, WNBPA President Nneka Ogwumike had two words: “Bank accounts.” “Being able to have your worth tied mostly in your salary is all that we’ve been fighting for, and it’s what we were able to achieve,” Ogwumike told CNBC Sport in an interview. The deal increases the average player salary to $583,000 in 2026 with the potential…

Americans who have flown recently have likely encountered airports defined by hourslong lines and general chaos. Loading audio narration… President Donald Trump has a new solution: Call in paid Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to help staff airports full of unpaid Transportation Security Administration workers.Currently, TSA workers are working without pay or calling out entirely as a result of a partial government shutdown that started on February 14. The shutdown closed off funding for most of the Department of Homeland Security, leading to delays for travelers trying to navigate security.In January, lawmakers squabbled over the funding package for DHS, as…

For my husband and me, the decision to sell our home in Walnut Creek, California, was years in the making. Loading audio narration… In our 25 years there, we had raised two daughters, rescued two dogs, hosted neighborhood gatherings, and oversaw three renovations.In 2022, we took our first step toward letting go by renting out our house when we both got jobs in Los Angeles. After a year in LA followed by a few months of travel, the pull of family and friends brought us back to Walnut Creek. With our girls launching their own lives across the bay in…

I have been very fortunate to work full-time as a freelance writer for the past decade, but since last fall, my paid work has slowly been drying up. A client lost here, a job no longer needed there, and before I knew it, my life’s work had disappeared. Loading audio narration… As a freelancer, I am somewhat accustomed to fluctuating income, but this time, something is different: my emails go unanswered, people I had relationships with have been laid off, and job after job I apply for is a dead end. I now find myself unemployed at the brink of…

Production of the Toyota Camry at the automaker’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky.Courtesy ToyotaToyota Motor on Monday announced it would spend $1 billion at two U.S. plants as part of a plan to invest up to $10 billion domestically over the next five years.The new investments include $800 million at a plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, to increase production capacity of the automaker’s Camry sedan and RAV4 crossover. The remaining $200 million is to increase capacity for the Toyota Grand Highlander SUV at a plant in Princeton, Indiana.”Toyota’s investment in the U.S. is for the long-term, tied to our philosophy of building…

Gas prices have gotten so high that DoorDash is offering some delivery workers a subsidy. Loading audio narration… Gig workers who drive at least 125 miles a week for the delivery service will get “relief payments,” DoorDash said on Monday. The payments start at $5 a week, which DoorDash said equates to about $1 off each gallon of gas that its delivery workers purchase.The relief payments increase as workers drive more miles. DoorDash will pay $15 to drivers who cover at least 250 miles a week, for example. It’s the first time since the US and Israel started a war…

The US Supreme Court Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case testing a Texas law allowing law enforcement to arrest reporters who obtain information from government employees.  Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the decision not to hear the case. “This case implicates one of the most basic journalistic practices of them all: asking sources within the government for information. Each day, countless journalists follow this practice, seeking comment, confirmation, or even ‘scoops’ from governmental sources,” she wrote. “Reasonably so.” In 2017, Laredo, Texas, journalist Priscilla Villarreal,…

The CEO of the world’s largest asset manager unsurprisingly wants more people to invest in capital markets. Loading audio narration… Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of $14 trillion BlackRock, wrote in his annual letter to shareholders that putting money to work in capital markets — including public stocks and private credit — is the best way to long-term financial security.But he’s also clear about the risk for those who do not or cannot invest in things such as the growth of artificial intelligence.”The old model of global capitalism is fracturing,” he wrote, and “the vast majority of wealth has flowed…

A tick (Ixodida) – carrier for several diseases of humans and animals, for exampel the dangerous Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, Powassan virus disease and many more. Fhm | Moment | Getty ImagesPfizer on Monday said it will seek regulatory approval for a Lyme disease vaccine candidate despite the shot failing a late-stage trial. Pfizer said the vaccine missed the trial’s statistical goal because not enough people in the study contracted Lyme disease to be confident in the results. Still, the company said the shot reduced the rate of infection by more than 70% in people who received the vaccine versus…

Three years ago, my partner and I packed everything we owned into a bright yellow campervan and decided to live on the road full-time.Since then, we’ve been to 49 states and nine Canadian provinces and territories, and have experienced once-in-a-lifetime moments along the way.The experience has been overwhelmingly positive so far, but we’ve found that this lifestyle comes with unique challenges, too. Here’s what van life is really like.Living in a van comes with a ton of unique perks We’ve enjoyed traveling around the US and Canada.  Haley Young For us, one of the most surprising things about van life…