What Market Basket’s labor tension reveals about Gen Z
“Honestly, I don’t even remember the 2014 situation. It just seems like it’s asking a lot of the employees. Why’s it on us?” — Gen Z Market Basket employee, June 2025 Ten years ago, Market…
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Transcript: Why Trump-Musk Feud Has White House in “Full Panic Mode”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and…
State Regulation Should Not Be Allowed to Strangle Federal AI Progress
Half-measures guarantee full failure. Source link
The Week: Trump vs. Musk
Plus: The French ban outdoor smoking to protect the children. Source link
CBS’s Tony Awards Spectacle: Showbiz Brainwashing
Behind the artsy façade, a community of media radicals. Source link
Enhancing Scrutiny of Chinese Foreign Students Is Essential for National Security
It’s not normal to have hundreds of thousands of students from an adversary nation able to commit acts of surveillance, sabotage, and subversion at our universities. Source link
Procter & Gamble’s job cuts raise questions over possible impact on Singapore operations, new facility plans
Procter & Gamble (P&G) has so far stayed silent about how its planned reduction of about 15 per cent of its global non-manufacturing workforce over the next two years will affect its…
The Quest to Bring Young Men Back to the Democrats
Ross Morales Rocketto, a Democratic strategist who served as lead organizer of White Dudes for Harris ahead of the 2024 election, believes that, after an electoral loss, Democrats tend to…
The Real Reason Trump Has Created This Autopen Scandal
It is worth noting that the original autopen controversy stemmed largely around the president’s use of it to sign legislation, where the Constitution explicitly requires a signature. For…
Trump’s Odious New Demand of the Civil Service: Loyalty Oaths
As I say, that’s how it works under a normal president. Under the aberration that is Donald Trump, executive orders often have no role other than to express Trump’s crotchets, partisan or…
Singapore stocks rise post Trump-Xi talks; STI up 0.4%
Across the broader market, gainers beat losers 266 to 205 as 849.5 million securities worth S$1.1 billion change hands. The local bourse ended Friday (Jun 6) in a positive territory after…
Tom Brady explains how the best entrepreneurs make things look simple
Tom Brady’s post-football career has been as methodical as his two-minute drill, and arguably more lucrative. The seven-time Super Bowl champion has systematically built a business empire…
Why Trump-Musk Feud Suddenly Has White House In “Full Panic Mode”
As you’ve surely heard, the feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has erupted, with the two men trading attacks on each other for hours. As of this recording, the last big things to…
Inside the race to find GPS alternatives
“Just because of this shorter distance, we will put down signals that will be approximately a hundred times stronger than the GPS signal,” says Tyler Reid, chief technology officer and…
Why doctors should look for ways to prescribe hope
Researchers are still trying to understand the connection between body and mind, and how our thoughts can influence our physiology. In the meantime, many are developing ways to harness it…
Digital token service providers to mainly serve Singapore-based customers: MAS
The bar for licensing is high and it will generally not issue one, the regulator notes Digital token service providers (DTSP) will not be able to serve only overseas customers, said the…
Digital token service providers need licence to solely serve overseas customers: MAS
Digital token service providers (DTSP) will need a licence to serve overseas customers only, said the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Friday (Jun 6). The regulator has clarified…
Supreme Court rewrites NEPA rules—changing the game for environmental reviews
Getting federal approval for permits to build bridges, wind farms, highways, and other major infrastructure projects has long been a complicated and time-consuming process. Despite growing…
India focuses on growth with larger-than-expected 50 bps cut in key rate; slashes reserve ratio
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its key repo rate by a larger-than-expected 50 basis points on Friday, a third consecutive reduction, and slashed the reserve ratio for banks as muted…
Teo Chee Hean to succeed Lim Boon Heng as Temasek chairman in October
Former senior minister Teo Chee Hean will become chairman of Temasek Holdings in October, taking over from Lim Boon Heng, Temasek said in a statement on Friday (Jun 6). The 70-year-old Teo…
Cordlife collection rates still under pre-incident levels, but resumed Singapore operations are ‘encouraging’
Cordlife said that the full resumption of its Singapore operations is an “encouraging step” in restoring client confidence and regaining operational momentum, even though collection rates…
Indonesia sovereign wealth fund interested in Grab-GoTo deal: Bloomberg
Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund Danantara is considering a stake in the Grab acquisition of GoTo for US$7 billion, reported Bloomberg. The sovereign wealth fund is said to be in…
Musk threatens to decommission SpaceX capsule, a key space station link, after Trump attack
As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world's richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the…
Judge halts Trump's order blocking foreign students from Harvard
A federal judge late Thursday issued a restraining order halting President Trump's latest attempt to shut down Harvard University's pipeline of foreign students. Source link