Texas Judges No Longer Required to Marry Same-Sex Couples
Marriage equality is collapsing across this country, even without the Supreme Court’s help. Source link
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Estee Lauder beats quarterly estimates on robust growth in fragrances
It posted quarterly sales of US$3.48 billion, compared with analysts’ estimate of US$3.38 billion Estee Lauder beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter sales and profit on Thursday…
Trump Is Bringing Back Nuclear Weapons Testing. What Could Go Wrong?
“Yesterday I was with Mr. Toyoda in Japan, and he’s just announced he’s gonna spend, uh, they’re gonna spend $10 billion, and they’re gonna build new car plants,” Trump said Tuesday,…
Trump Brags About New Deal With China. Did He Actually Get Anything?
“Yesterday I was with Mr. Toyoda in Japan, and he’s just announced he’s gonna spend, uh, they’re gonna spend $10 billion, and they’re gonna build new car plants,” Trump said Tuesday,…
The Download: Introducing: the new conspiracy age
—Greg Linden, a former data scientist at Microsoft, pokes fun at Meta’s beleaguered Reality Labs’ earnings in a post on Bluesky. One more thing How scientists want to make you young again…
Nissan forecasts US$1.8 billion annual operating loss as US tariffs weigh
Its outlook for net income for the fiscal year to end-March 2026 remained undetermined Nissan Motor said on Thursday (Oct 30) it expects to book a US$1.82 billion operating loss in the…
How the Fed’s rate cut will impact your finances
The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the second time since September. Before that, it had gone nine months without a cut. The federal funds…
Yangzijiang Financial receives conditional approval to list YZJ Maritime
It also discloses that it has further capitalised some US$1.5 billion of receivables from its maritime investment segment Yangzijiang (YZJ) Financial has received a conditional…
Chipotle stock price crashes as Gen Z and millennials burdened by student debt and unemployment stay away
Fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) is seeing its stock price plummet this morning after reporting third-quarter 2025 earnings and a sales forecast that alarmed…
Leveraging the clinician’s expertise with agentic AI
Letting doctors be doctorsbe doctors Current ambient AI assistants, which gained mainstream traction in 2023, are already able to record, structure, and summarize patient encounters in…
BYD reports biggest quarterly profit fall in over four years
The consecutive quarterly profit fall comes amid intensifying competition at home market — Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD’s third-quarter…
AirAsia plans up to US$600 million bond to cut borrowing cost: sources
The Malaysian budget carrier operator is targeting a coupon rate of below 10% for the proposed note AirAsia Aviation Group plans to raise as much as US$600 million, replacing a private…
Transcript: Trump Ballroom Fiasco Worsens as Economic Data Gets Brutal
Sargent: Yeah. You brought up these numbers—Gallup numbers—showing that Democrats kind of have this advantage on the economy in a sense, over Republicans, in a way that we’ve never seen…
Singapore’s gold buying spree fuels 47% sales jump in gold bars, coins as global demand hits record
Local demand for gold bars and coins rises 47%, but jewellery consumption slumps 8% Strong investor appetite in Singapore, which resulted in a 47 per cent year-on-year jump in demand to…
Wilmar posts US$347.7 million Q3 loss on 11.9 trillion rupiah graft penalty; core profit jumps 71%
Revenue is up 7.4% at US$19.1 billion; all sectors enjoy stronger operational results Singapore-based agribusiness group Wilmar International posted a net loss of US$347.7 million for the…
AI made her a billionaire. Now she’s using it to help creators maximize their earnings
In April 2025, Lucy Guo became the youngest female self-made billionaire after Meta paid $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in Scale AI, the company she cofounded with Alexandr Wang in 2016.…
Four thoughts from Bill Gates on climate tech
Gates buys offsets to cancel out his own personal emissions, to the tune of about $9 million a year, he said at the roundtable, but doesn’t expect many of those offsets to make a…
A Fight Over Big Tech’s Emissions Has the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Caught in the Crossfire
Last week’s request for public comment from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) doesn’t look like a major win for a tech giant to the naked eye. In fact, it seems almost clerical. But for…
A Time for Choosing on Antisemitism
Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with Nick Fuentes makes it impossible to ignore the right’s festering antisemitism problem. Source link
The Big Nothing
A House of Dynamite succeeds as a piece of exploratory journalism but fails as a drama. Source link
China’s ‘Fortress Without Isolation’
Beijing’s latest Five-Year Plan, while couched in familiar bureaucratic language, marks a significant evolution in the regime’s grand strategy. Source link
No, Gambling Isn’t Ruining Sports
Having betting out in the open is uncovering the wrongdoing that has likely been going on forever. Source link
A Case Study in Economic Self-Harm
When steel tariffs weaken America’s backbone. Source link
The Louvre Robbed, the 2026 Color of the Year, and Yet More Yattering About Race
Plus, an update on the TEFAF art fair, and a rare Tudor gold bauble found by a metal detector. Source link