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When I was 21, I fell in love for the first time. Loading audio narration… Tim and I met online before it was cool. An avid fisherman, sports fanatic, and gifted salesman, he wasn’t my usual type — but he was charming, funny, awkward, and sweet. I fell for him, hook, line, and sinker.There was only one problem. Tim lived in Minneapolis, and I lived in Chicago.We made long-distance work for as long as we could. On the rare weekends I wasn’t waitressing, I traveled to Minnesota for ice fishing and bar hopping. When Tim’s schedule allowed, he visited me…

Oil futures climbed in early trading on Sunday as the US and Israel’s war with Iran entered its third week, disrupting the global supply chain. Loading audio narration… Brent oil reached $106.33, up nearly $3 from when the market closed on Friday. West Texas Intermediate hit $101.19 on Sunday.For Americans, surging oil prices mean spending more at the pump. The national average price for gasoline hit $3.69 on Sunday. Gas prices have surpassed $3 in all 50 US states for the first time since 2023.The International Energy Agency said last week the war has caused the largest oil market disruption…

Jimmy Kimmel took several digs at CBS and President Donald Trump while presenting two awards at the Oscars on Sunday. Loading audio narration… While announcing the nominees for best documentary short film, Kimmel took a swipe at CBS over free speech.”As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which. Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS,” Kimmel said.His remark appeared to allude to several recent controversies at CBS, including the network’s decision to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” a move some lawmakers have questioned as…

We spent New Year’s Eve wearing paper crowns at a cozy New England restaurant that felt like a living room. The owner stopped by our corner booth while he worked the room; our friends, who run their own bakery, slipped away to say hi to some regulars. Loading audio narration… My husband leaned over and said, “I love this.”The year before, we had been wall-to-wall at a roller-rink club in Brooklyn. Although we had a good time, sitting in that small-town restaurant — watching fireworks over the river — felt like exactly where we were meant to be.There was no…

Kalshi’s legal battle with states is heating up. Loading audio narration… Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed criminal charges against the online gambling company — a first for the company that lets people bet on real-world events, from who will win a pro sports game to the weather.Mayes’s 20-count filing against the prediction market platform includes 16 charges of operating an unlicensed gambling business and four charges of election wagering.”Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate…

A Gilded Age Manhattan townhouse, the subject of a contentious and lengthy bankruptcy battle by two sisters in their 80s, has been sold for $34.5 million. Loading audio narration… The sale, to an LLC whose owner has remained anonymous, closed Tuesday, according to court documents.Fashion heiress Marianne Nestor and her sister, Peggy Nestor, both self-represented, had fought against foreclosure for six years and in at least three courthouses, most recently in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan.”Miserably difficult,” their main opponent, bankruptcy trustee Albert Togut, said during a hearing last week, in describing his war with the litigious siblings — including…

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Amit Jain and Raghav Saraf, cofounders of Bengaluru-based agentic AI startup Zamp. It has been edited for length and clarity.Raghav Saraf: I joined Zamp four days after my last high school exam ended in 2022. I met Amit at a blockchain hackathon I had participated in, where I built a payment gateway. My product was really similar to what Amit was trying to build at Zamp, and the hackathon organizer introduced us.Amit Jain: Before I founded Zamp, I was a managing director at Sequoia India and Southeast Asia based in Singapore, and…

Today, federal funding that states receive is under constant scrutiny. The Trump administration has repeatedly threatened to cut federal funding to Democratic-led states over issues like immigration, while also pursuing Medicaid reductions under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Ultimately, the amount of federal aid states receive varies widely by size and region, and across party lines.A WalletHub study, released earlier this month, determined how “federally dependent” each US state is, based on two categories: state residents’ dependency on federal funding and state governments’ dependency.They determined the first category by calculating each state’s return on federal taxes paid, a metric WalletHub…

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The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s tariff plans, ruling the federal government illegally collected over $133 billion in taxes from American businesses.Now comes the battle over refunds for tariffs paid, which Trump on Friday predicted could take years.”I guess it has to get litigated for the next two years,” he said at a White House press conference, while blasting the ruling as “terrible” and “defective.”US Secretary of the Treasury went a step further, saying about refunds: “I’ve got a feeling the American people won’t see it.”One reason: Over 1,000 companies have filed lawsuits to…