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House Republicans unveiled a stopgap spending bill to keep the U.S. government open past an Oct. 1 shutdown deadline, daring Democrats to vote against the measure, which does not contain health-care policies they have demanded.The short-term legislation would keep agencies operating through Nov. 21 and provide new funding for lawmaker, judicial and administration official security in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week.It would need the votes of at least seven Senate Democrats to meet a 60-vote threshold to overcome procedural obstacles.Republicans could also have trouble passing the bill in the House against Democratic opposition,…

President and CEO of Frontier Airlines, Barry Biffle attends The Future of Everything presented by the Wall Street Journal at Spring Studios on May 17, 2022, in New York City.Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesFrontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle fired back at his counterpart at United Airlines who said the deep discount model in the U.S. is dead.”That’s cute,” Biffle said Wednesday at the Skift Global Forum, a travel conference in New York. “If he’s good at math he would understand that we have a [flight] oversupply issue in the United States.”Biffle’s comments were a response to…

There won’t be a Jerry at Ben & Jerry’s anymore.Jerry Greenfield, one of the ice cream brand’s co-founders, said late Tuesday that he was leaving the company after 47 years.Greenfield criticized the ice-cream brand’s parent company, Unilever, in his announcement, saying that it had silenced Ben & Jerry’s activism on social and political issues. “It’s with a broken heart that I’ve decided I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee at Ben & Jerry’s,” Greenfield wrote in a statement shared by his cofounder, Ben Cohen, on X. “I am resigning from the company Ben…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Stephanie Essenfeld, a psychotherapist who also hosts conferences helping businesses learn assertiveness and boundaries. It has been edited for length and clarity.Back in November of 2024, my team and I were excitedly talking about plans for the year ahead — new retreats and conferences we would host in 2025.As the year ended, I felt a lump in my breast. Days later, the doctor told me I had an aggressive type of cancer.Suddenly, I was filled with uncertainty and fearFor years, I had been teaching people about radical acceptance — not rejecting…

A sign with the company logo sits outside of the headquarters of Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 17, 2024.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesEli Lilly on Wednesday said its experimental pill outperformed Novo Nordisk’s own oral drug in the first head-to-head study comparing the two medicines in patients with Type 2 diabetes. The late-stage study comes as Eli Lilly’s pill inches closer to becoming another needle-free alternative in the blockbuster market for GLP-1s, without dietary restrictions. But it may be too soon to establish a clear winner in the pill space, as there is no data comparing Eli Lilly’s drug with…

Cathy Harris was a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent, quasi-judicial agency that works to ensure federal employees are protected against abuses by agency management, until she was fired earlier this year by the Trump administration. Maansi Srivastava/NPR hide caption toggle caption Maansi Srivastava/NPR It was past Cathy Harris’ bedtime when an email arrived in her inbox on February 10 from someone in the presidential personnel office. She opened it the following morning. It was brief and to the point. “Thank you for your service. You know, you’re fired, basically,” Harris said, summarizing the missive. President Trump…

Gold has been on a record-setting blitz this year. But Chinese investors are increasingly turning their backs on the precious metal in favor of a surging domestic stock market.In August, China’s wholesale gold demand fell to just 85 metric tons — nine tons lower than in July. It was also the weakest August since 2010, according to the World Gold Council in a Tuesday report.”The August wholesale gold demand weakness mainly came from subdued bar and coin sales, as investors directed their attention to rallying equities,” wrote Ray Jia, the research head for China at World Gold Council.The retreat came…

Costco is recalling bottles of bubbly in 12 states, saying they could explode unexpectedly.The retailer issued a letter to customers who purchased the Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene between April 25 and August 26.The letter said that unopened bottles of the house brand prosecco could shatter, even when not handled or in use.”If you have an unopened bottle, do not open it,” the letter said. “Dispose of the bottle immediately by wrapping the unopened bottle in paper towels and placing it in a plastic bag before placing it in the garbage to avoid risk from shattered glass.”It urged customers not to…

Neel Nanda did not expect to be leading a team at Google DeepMind at the age of 26.A self-described perfectionist, the lead for Google DeepMind’s mechanistic interpretability team said he often hesitates before starting projects, afraid they might flop.”I often don’t want to do things. I’m like, ‘This seems risky. This could go wrong,'” Nanda said on an episode of “The 80,000 Hours Podcast” published Tuesday.To break that perfectionist streak, the senior research scientist said he challenged himself to write one blog post a day for a month.Nanda said this routine helped him build visibility in the AI community, produce…

Erika McEntarfer, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, raised the alarm on political meddling in economic data collection.”Economic data must be free from partisan influence,” McEntarfer said in her first public remarks since her sudden ousting by President Donald Trump last month. McEntarfer made the comments at an event on Tuesday at her alma mater, Bard College.She compared BLS data to “traffic lights” and said that any manipulation of these reports could hurt people. This is because policymakers, investors, and businesses depend on this data to make decisions.”Markets have to trust the data are not manipulated,” McEntarfer…