Bill Holland achieved what many people spend their entire careers chasing: by age 32, he had made enough money to retire for good. But over three decades later, the now-67-year-old still hasn’t hung up his hat. The former CEO of…
Dozens of European lawmakers are gathering support to launch an investigation in the European Parliament of FIFA boss Gianni Infantino over his involvement in the decision to permit U.S. striker Folarin Balogun to play despite an earlier red card. Balogun…
South Korea began enforcing a law Tuesday that allows steep punitive damages against news outlets and social media influencers for spreading false information as journalist groups warned it could chill public discourse and invite censorship. Journalists and civil liberties groups…
President Donald Trump said Monday that he’s building a granite helipad on the White House lawn, insisting that the landing area is needed to accommodate new, more powerful presidential choppers. Confirmation of the project came as construction crews had already begun working…
As of 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil is trading at $73.29 per barrel, based on the Brent benchmark we’ll explain in a bit. That’s 93 cents above yesterday morning’s level and about $2.80 higher than where it stood a…
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has gotten off to a very hot start. Europe has baked under record-breaking temperatures, while a “heat dome” blankets much of the United States. Many countries have reported heat-related deaths, roads melted in Germany, and…
In 2022, Hussein Fazal flew 200 of his employees to Las Vegas to cash a $200 check at a payday loan shop. He then asked them to buy a week of groceries for a family on what was left so…
OPEC+ has agreed to raise oil production by a further 188,000 barrels per day from August, marking the fifth consecutive monthly increase in output quotas as the group continues to unwind its earlier production cuts. That brings the total increase in…
Good morning. So far, the 2026 FIFA World Cup is a win: record-breaking TV audiences, sellout crowds, exuberant tourists, and solid performances from the three host countries despite them all losing in the round of 16. The games are a…
When I told my parents that I was skipping college to start my own company instead, they saw it as a somewhat reckless decision. Instead of rites of passage usually associated with your late teens, I spent my Friday nights…