Where to hide right now as tariffs hit market
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China during his first term in 2018. Tariffs are rocking the stock market, and investors can’t say they weren’t tipped off. US equities approached correction territory this week as trade disputes escalated. The S&P 500 fell 6% from its mid-February high,…
Cruises are booming. One cruise line has been the biggest winner.
Carnival Corporation., Norwegian Cruise Lines, and Royal Caribbean Group all had a great 2024, but Royal Caribbean saw the most growth. Every cruise line has benefited from booming demand for vacations at sea, but one company is standing — or floating — above the rest of its competitors: Royal Caribbean Group. Royal Caribbean isn’t the…
Baby boomers love booze While Gen Z and millennials are sobering up, older Americans are drinking more than ever.
The kids these days aren’t drinking as much as they used to. They’re doing sober dating and alcohol-free game nights and whatever zebra striping is. But you know who is still boozing it up? Their parents and grandparents. While the media (including this publication) has been chattering about Gen Z and millennials scaling back on…
Struggling to build muscle? The reigning Mr. Olympia shares diet and workout hacks that transformed his body
Bodybuilder Samsom Dauda (shown here at a 2022 competition) won the Mr. Olympia, and said he builds muscle by eating lots of home-cooked meals and high-rep workouts. Looking at Samson Dauda, you’d never guess he used to be a skinny kid. But the winner of the 2024 Mr. Olympia — the most prestigious award in…
RFK Jr. says vitamin A could help treat measles. Here’s what doctors think.
In his response to the US measles outbreak, the new secretary of health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has raised eyebrows by touting vitamin A as a possible treatment. At least 146 people have been sickened and one child has died from the disease, which is spreading in West Texas and New Mexico. Kennedy, who has…
I live far away from my mom. When I had my own kids, she was a call away whenever I needed her.
The author (not pictured) talks to her mom regularly. When I became a new mom, I didn’t have daily help with childcare or plan weekly get-togethers with my mom or in-laws. Instead, I had my mother’s voice on the phone. My mom lived five hours away near Syracuse, New York. Although she visited me in…
A new DOGE staffer at the Department of Labor has helped run a fertility clinic and has pronatalist ties
Staff at the US Department of Labor in Washington have identified new faces in their offices in recent weeks: three people associated with the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency office. The new arrivals are Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins. Elez and Moghaddassi have worked for Elon Musk at X, xAI and…
The Big 3 automakers wanted a tariff exemption. Trump has given them one month.
President Donald Trump spoke to representatives of the Big Three automakers on Wednesday. ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images The White House has granted car companies a one-month reprieve on tariffs after President Donald Trump spoke with representatives of the Big Three automakers. “At the request of the companies associated with USMCA, the president is giving them…
Social Security workers aren’t allowed to read news sites at work anymore
The Social Security Administration is blocking its workers from accessing certain websites. As the Trump administration continues to restructure the Social Security Administration, employees at the agency learned on Thursday that they’re now prohibited from reading the news on their work computers. SSA sent an agencywide email informing employees of new restrictions on internet browsing.…
