Democrat Renee Hardman won the Iowa State Senate election on December 30, 2025, defeating Republican Lucas Loftin by a large margin and preventing Republicans from gaining a two-thirds supermajority in the state Senate. Her victory maintains Democratic representation in a district that includes sections of the Des Moines suburbs, and also indicates the continuation of…
Tatiana Schlossberg died at age 35 following a battle with acute myeloid leukemia, her family announced Tuesday. She was an environmentalist and the granddaughter of JFK. Her death was shared in a message from The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation on social media. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in…
Do you know what a K-shaped economy means? On paper, the U.S. economy looked pretty solid in 2025. Gross domestic product grew at a healthy pace. Stock markets hit new highs. Headlines talked about growth and resilience.But out in the real world, it didn’t feel like a boom for most people. Wages still lagged rising…
Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who shocked the nation by winning New York City’s mayoral race on November 4, 2025 with 50.78% of the vote against Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa has put his pledges front and center. Zohran Mamdani’s promises include universal free child care, free transportation, and a rent freeze for rent-stabilized…
The Hammonton, NJ Helicopter crash seems to be all the rage this week as officials try to uncover all the details. In Hammonton, New Jersey, on Sunday morning, two helicopters collided midair over Hammonton Municipal Airport, leaving one pilot dead and another fighting for life, officials say. This was not a routine flight. It was…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed conditional willingness to a Demilitarized Free Economic Zone in the disputed Donbas Region as part of a US-mediated peace plan, insisting on mutual troop withdrawals, international monitoring, and national vote approval to end Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine. A similar demilitarized approach is being considered for the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia…
Who knew we’d see BP selling Castrol for 6 billion before 2026? And 65% of it! The British energy giant BP is to sell Castrol in a 65 % stake to U.S. investment firm Stonepeak for roughly $6 billion in net proceeds, valuing Castrol at about $10.1 billion. This move is about more than selling…
The US economy grows and has reached 4.3% growth in Q3. A 4.3 percent growth rate sounds like a clear win. It is bigger than economists expected, faster than the economy has moved in nearly two years, and easy to read as proof that things are finally turning a corner. But economic headlines rarely tell…
The United States Postal Service is moving away from its traditional government-agency mindset. It is launching a bold Postal Service plan to raise cash to transform its operations. This initiative aims to generate between $5 billion and $10 billion. The agency wants to modernize its aging infrastructure. This is a fundamental change for the national…
Alphabet’s AI acquisition apparently is quite a shocker. But why? Alphabet is buying Intersect Power in a $4.75 billion acquisition and it’s not just another AI-era headline to skim past, and it is not really about clean energy, either. It is about a quieter constraint that is starting to shape the future of artificial intelligence:…