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Oil and gas production shutdowns in Iraq and Kuwait widen the Iran war’s impact on energy prices

The cycle started this week with Qatar ceasing most of its liquefied natural gas output. Then Iraq and Kuwait began

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Trump promised lower drug prices. Here’s how Congress virtually guaranteed the opposite

President Trump has repeatedly promised to bring down prescription drug prices. His Republican Congress says it shares that goal. But

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Your utility bills keep going up. Here’s everyone you can blame—AI data centers included

President Donald Trump announced a “Rate Payer Protection Pledge” for hyperscalers during his State of the Union address, and utility

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‘No way I would go to university only to leave with huge debts and poor job prospects,’ says analyst

As artificial intelligence (AI) threatens the white-collar job market and the cost of living continues to skyrocket, and while doomsday

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Why Trump’s ‘greatest economy’ boasts could hurt him with voters

“I inherited a mess,” President Trump told an audience of supporters in Georgia last Thursday, referring to the U.S. economy. The

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As Gates’ Epstein connection unnerves staff, his foundation looks for a way forward

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates pulled out of the AI summit in New Delhi on Thursday, just hours before the billionaire

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AI could spark a new age of learning—but only if governments, tech firms and educators work together

The way we teach students, from classroom structures to teaching methods and standardized instruction, has not changed much over human

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OpenAI and Anthropic spark coding revolution as developers abandoned traditional programming

Is traditional coding dead? That’s the question many developers have been asking themselves this week following the launch of powerful

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Robinhood launches testnet version of ‘Robinhood Chain’

Robinhood announced on Tuesday evening that a developers’ version of its custom built blockchain, known as Robinhood Chain, is now

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Housing affordability crisis: Higher earners drive home prices, not lack of supply, researchers say

Economists, lawmakers, and Wall Street have long preached the need to increase housing supply to improve affordability, but it may