This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. I have good news and bad news for the holiday shoppers in the audience. The good news is that the US and China announced this morning — in the wake of…
A layoff, medical bills, a divorce, or damage to your home can disrupt your finances and leave marks on your credit reports. Credit can be rebuilt, but protecting your basic needs comes first. A credit score shouldn’t take priority over housing, food, or necessary care. This guide gives U.S. borrowers a 90-day reset and a…
By Lionel Barber In a radio address in December 1940, one year before the US entered World War II, Franklin D Roosevelt described America as “the arsenal of democracy”. Today, the guns are falling silent across the western front. Independent journalism, the lifeblood of an informed democracy, faces existential challenges, particularly in the US. The…
Lighter regulation and excess capital are setting up the biggest U.S. banking wave since the 2008 crisis. The U.S. banking industry is bracing for its most significant wave of consolidation since the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new Bain & Co. analysis. The firm expects the number of trillion-dollar U.S. banks to grow from…
By David Walmsley, President, World Editors Forum, Editor in Chief, Globe and Mail | Mariya Gabriel, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO | Liz Corbin, Director of News, European Broadcasting Union. We are not short of information. We have never had more of it. Yet across the world, people struggle to answer the…
Tesla earnings can turn an ordinary trading session into a highly volatile one because investors are not simply evaluating what the company has already achieved. They are also trying to determine what those results mean for Tesla’s future growth, profitability, cash generation, and ambitious technology plans. A quarterly report is more like a dashboard: revenue,…
By Michael Miller Executive Chairman, News Corp Australasia Today, 28 September, marks World News Day, when newsrooms worldwide make the same point in unison: that trustworthy reporting isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeline. This year, that point needs making more urgently than most. Democracies run on a shared set of facts. Courts, elections, markets, even…
The private equity industry likes to talk about patient capital, but the numbers tell a more specific story than the phrase suggests. The typical holding period investors expect when they commit to a fund is three to seven years. Recent data puts the actual median closer to six, the longest since research firms began tracking…
Plus, how to style skeleton UIs, how to enable diagonal scrolling, how images can overflow themselves, and yet, still more. Basically, how to do a lot of really cool (CSS) stuff. How to use the CSS Custom Highlight API Sunkanmi Fafowora demonstrated how to use the CSS Custom Highlight API, which is now supported by…
World News Day 2026 is here. From today, 25 September, until 1 October, more than 1,000 news organisations and support agencies in over 100 countries will run a joint campaign for fact-based journalism. The main day is Monday 28 September, which is also the United Nations’ International Day for Universal Access to Information. What it’s…